Rio Tinto Reviews

Siloed and political SLT - encouraged and rewarded by CIO (just look at recent turn over - just where did all the females go?), people bullied until they leave or go in stress leave, inflated egos, so much red tape/ /multiple approvers/regret work/change in direction, burnt out employees, no prioritisation, unrealistic timeframes and expectations with no leadership on how we can get there or support to move things forward, artificial harmony at all levels, patronising employee communications that are don’t communicate anything we need to know or that matters to us, weak strategy with no plan on how to achieve, Brisbane-centric SLT with no connection to operations, customers or people on the ground, inauthentic SLT (spend more than one meeting with them and witness the change in story depending on who they are speaking to next), leadership scared to speak up - even with the $$$$ they burn “investing” in multiple coaches to build trust, team members who have completely given up - overpaid so continue to stay, but zero trust that things will get better or they will be heard so don’t give feedback in surveys.

Where to start. It's a toxic place to work, where the incentive scheme is designed to pit co-workers against each other. 25% of the work force MUST lose 25% of their bonus each year, it's mandated. So in a small team people literally set each other up to avoid being in the bottom 25%. Constant restructures, you never know who or what is going to happen. All people can do is suck up to whoever they think will protect their job. It's also a DEI workplace, they're gone full potato on it. There's just no hope if you aren't a minority of some kind. All of this of course is why they've ended up as one of the worst performing miners, unable to manage costs or deliver projects. So to sum it up, they are the kind of company that make statements like "people are at the heart of what we do" while sacking experienced staff who didn't kiss the right backside and cutting bonuses