Epic reviews

Management refers to us as a "software factory"; it's all about productivity. Extreme inflexibility when it comes to working from home. The response to Covid-19 has been abysmal - Epic dragged its feet allowing people to work from home when recommended by local authorities. Now they are trying to push people back into the office as soon as possible. Response to local school districts starting the school year virtual was that parents should make sure to find childcare so they can return to the office at their scheduled time. Took an email from a parent resource group with 400 survey responses to allow either working part-time or taking a leave of absence, rather than just allowing working from home.

Work-life balance can be terrible sometimes. The customer always comes first. Like many other people who have posted recently, I've been very disappointed with management's response to Covid. The issue is not their lack of plan, but rather their reasoning behind forcing everyone to come back to work. You will hear from management the same things over and over: It's part of our culture, we need to be able to communicate with each other, (as if people won't just sit in their offices once forced back and continue communicating virtually), and we're losing out on chance encounters. They will never mention a single quantifiable metric and the feeling that I get from management is that they are afraid that if they allow this continue then employees will expect some form of work-from-home in the post-Covid era. Sometimes it feels difficult to take vacation because of the workload.