Vantaggi
The Open University is a great organisation which I used to love working in. It does genuinely inspirational work and is full of really good people. A particular benefit is that staff can study the university courses for free.
Svantaggi
Unfortunately my university unit is not in a good place. People are anxious and fearful and mostly just keeping their heads down in survival mode. This is due to a senior manager with an appalling leadership style. People are belittled and humiliated on a daily basis. The first question you learn to ask when you get in is 'what mood is he in today'. People are shouted at and threatened with losing their jobs on a regular basis. If you have an idea then you had better make sure it is one which will be approved of before voicing it. The people who were prepared to try and change things have all left - mostly not of their own accord.