Pros
The lower level employees that work at the company are amazing. Considered them to be family and because of them made it very hard to leave the company. UL EHS Sustainability in Franklin, is attempting to fix their culture. They have installed a shuffle board in the kitchen to encourage lunchtime activities, they have a ping pong table in an office room.
Cons
Higher up executives prefers people to be in the office always and walk around to see who is on time or who is working late. Upper management prefers people who fall in line. New ideas are not encouraged. Direct manager did not encourage development and felt threatened by the relationships formed. Specifically UL EHS Sustainability, NOT UL in Chicago, does not know who they want to be. After acquiring a company in England to stay afloat they additional solutions. This changed how the company operated and they are still figuring it out. Because it is an international company there is little work life balance. One typically wakes up to emails and goes to bed with emails. It can be very stressful.