Senior leadership only cares about chasing profits and making promises to clients that aren't possible to implement in time without straining operational departments.
"Brave/Strategic/Business decisions" are just buzzwords from the top which result in exhausting the resources of the already over-capacity operation teams. This has been going on for years and the teams have barely managed to scrape by to meet the increasingly ridiculous requirements that are pushed on us. The higher ups can pin a fancy achievement under their name and they continue to create crisis after crisis because they receive no repercussions if any of these projects fall flat on their face. In that case the blame falls on the lowest departments.
Hierarchical departments, certain departments treat other departments more like slaves rather than coworkers working together. Complete a project well and some favoured departments will get all the credit. Fail a project due to unrealistic timelines from the top and guess who gets all the blame? Those of us on the bottom of the food chain. The workload of some of these departments are also laughably low considering how extremely well they are paid compared to the other departments.
Told mixed messages from global team and local leadership teams. One minute no payrises for all workers due to the whole company being in difficult times, and the next minute there's an announcement that we've had the best year on record?
What is the point of the older staff staying if new starters are going to be paid so much more than them?