KQED Reviews

There's a lot of office politics, and KQED seems to be stuck in an old PBS model of fundraising and recycling content. They do things the way they've always done them and lack strong new leadership to take them into new non-profit models that move the company forward while valuing their employees. They've had opportunities to enhance their original television content and bring exciting new shows to live, but have not taken those opportunities and instead fall back on their tried and true radio and news shows.

As the title suggests, management has lost touch with what makes KQED great: It's CREATIVE and hardworking PEOPLE. More emphasis seems to be focused on replacing people with automation, and allowing care-less middle management to make decisions for which they are not qualified. I realize technology can - in some cases - replace expensive people, but the KQED workplace is beginning to feel as if upper management would like to remove EVERYONE. There are no employee reviews, no repercussions for incompetent middle management (or upper management) no recognition of a hard working employee and if you happen to be union, the goal of upper management is to find some way to minimize you, although non-union employees have been noting the same disregard from management. Management does not consult it's employees about the best way to execute a task or what would be the best equipment for a specific production. Consequently, expensive mistakes are being made and as mentioned, there have been no repercussions.