Vantaggi
The Center conducts good and rigorous work. Excellent research in a time when polling is under fire from different directions and angles.
Svantaggi
Don’t feel that leadership cares about its employees. Generally don’t seem want to engage employee concerns— and just do what they want to do anyway when they do engage employees. For example, they used to do a yearly all staff survey of satisfaction. Last year, they nixed the Center wide meeting to discuss the results. This year they just skipped the survey altogether— at a time where I’d personally guess employee dissatisfaction to be at a 5+ year high.Think this is particularly bad now that the center shares a space with the Trust, leading to both institutional creep. There’s also been an ongoing rollback of remote/hybrid work— keep getting told there’s “no slippery slope” but keep moving to more time in the office for reasons that are inconsistent — despite the fact that, at this point in time, anyone hired in the past 5 years was hired with the expectation of only 2 days in-office and has never known anything more (and that is the culture they’re familiar with at this point). There’s also a career hierarchy in theory but less so in practice, meaning few opportunities for internal upward growth.