Vantaggi
- Free food and coffee was introduced in September 2021. It was a pre cursor to the mandatory on site attendance (see below) and whilst the food is pretty sub standard...most it is free - Loads of car parking space for those that drive. If you dont, there is a coach from Bristol or Swindon that leaves as the sun rises - Helipad at the back if you own a helicopter too - The engineers working on new products are smart girls and guys and it can be a great experience to see a product from inception to delivery
Svantaggi
- Dyson is falling apart from the top downwards. The decisions/statements from James regarding flexibility for employees is well documented. Roland as CEO has been an awful appointment. Zero personal skills or charisma and speaks like he has little to no care for employees. Outside of having an exceptionally white shirt all the time, he has nothing impressive or inspiring about him. - No strategy just relying on the good old Dyson name. Those in the know are aware of new product delays, issues with logistics and increasing competition. Things that most employees cant control but are blamed regardless - Leadership is layered with people who have been at Dyson for 10+ years and literally following a set type. White, middle aged men who often believe their job title because it has 'Director' in it they know everything and wont mind bullying and suppressing people along the way. Unless you are a graduate... - Graduates are seen are the saviour to everything despite coming into Dyson with minimal experience. Flocks of experienced employees are leaving, arent being replaced and Grads are promoted into levels they cant manage, have no experience and only know the 'Dyson way'. Which for the record isnt a good 'way' to follow. - Zero flexibility despite what Dyson will say. All of the return to campus stuff has been documented but working from home does not exist here - Employees are quite literally leaving in their hundreds. The main catalyst has been the lack of flexibility and the forced attendance on campus. What Dyson ignore/forget/dont realise or appreciate is many people had pre-existing arrangements to flexibility when they joined Dyson, pre-COVID. These were removed which has added so much disruption to peoples lives at a time when we are going through a global pandemic. The decisioning and communications from HR and Leadership have been unforgivably bad - HR is getting strangled by management/James over employee retention, flexibility and are being forced to quite literally monitor people who do or do not swipe their access badges on site. I cant really blame HR as they are following orders, but the impact on employee morale due to this has been crushing - Huge blame culture across some teams. And those teams are often led by the aforementioned Director level types who only really know how to survive and stand on others at Dyson to get promoted to lead a team - Too much focus on shiny stuff and forgetting the important things that will drive Dyon forward. Communications from James have been limited to him talking about his new book (employees had the option to buy that for slightly more than you could on a big ecommerce retailer). Website is buggy, terrible to buy from but James announces a new virtual reality experience to save the day...which it wont of course as the number of people who use VR is only marginally more than those that use the helipad at Dyson. Waste of time and effort