Chemonics is a sweatshop - Recensione dipendente - Senior Manager presso Chemonics International

Chemonics' business model is built on exploiting employees, the majority of whom are under 35 on the project management side. Timesheets do not reflect the real hours employees must put into their regular tasks; it's even worse when working on proposal development, a requirement for all Chemonics employees. If timesheets truly reflected the time worked, the government would have shut Chemonics down long ago. They rest on their 100% employee-owned structure to create shared responsibility for company development outcomes without equally distributing the benefits. Indirect rates are high, yet the salaries do not reflect employee workload or indirect costs billed to USAID. Their recent salary review is a sham that has reduced the number of yearly opportunities for an increase from two to one. That supposed review was supposed to compare and shore up salaries to market rates while ensuring pay equity across the company. Instead, the 'data' collected was used to create salary floors and caps well under market rate and certainly not proportional to the workload assigned to each employee. The drive for excellence comes at the expense of employees' mental and physical health. PMU managers bear the brunt of the workload and responsibility as they are simultaneously expected to manage up and down, develop proposals, and deepen technical or corporate involvement. Their new business development staffing is weak considering their strategy of bidding on everything. In short, they will squeeze all they can out of you and pay as little as possible. It's a sweatshop that pretends to be a success-driven employee-owned company.