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Should we move from a big organization to a small organization?
What reasons can influence your decision when you move from a large to a small organization?
How does it feel when you transition from a big company to a small company?
What qualifies as a big organization and a small organization?
Recently, I switched from a big company to a small company, this is what it looked like from the outside and in my first introduction. Here in this blog I share some of my experiences.
Chandigarh University is a big company, and I dared to call it a company and not an educational institution because these private firms are in-fact selling education.
There is little of actual value underneath the glitz and glamour that one sees from the outside of these organizations.
I managed to spend two years at Chandigarh University in one of its core management departments.
When things started becoming difficult and analyzing the dim chances of promotion, I decided to make the move to some other company.
Unfortunately, the onslaught of artificial intelligence and its interference with the writing world, made it really difficult to find a suitable job.
Salary package and the size of the company were the two factors that I was considering while searching for a new company.
In Chandigarh Tri-city region it is difficult to find a content writing job that can pay you 6 lakhs per annum, unless you have a technical background or have tremendous academics.
The silver lining among the dark clouds came in the form of ESS Global.
In the initial analysis this company looked much smaller than the one I was working at presently.
They offered me a salary package much closer to what I asked, but the size of the company did not click, so I kept the decision to make the switch on hold for the time being.
I hope that conditions at Chandigarh University may become less favorable for work so I can continue here. I waited for almost 15 days to come to a decision.
A new manager was hired above my team leader and she was being forced by her senior to fire me or my colleague. With a job offer in hand I decided to make the switch instead of fighting here to save my job here at Chandigarh University.
Finally on January 4th 2024 I decided to resign from my position at Chandigarh University asking them to relieve me by January 8th 2024.
The first big distinguishing change in switching from Chandigarh University to ESS Global was the reduction in travel distance to and from the job and home.
CU was nearly 20 kilometers from my home, involving a travel of at least 30 minutes one way, which can go up to 40 minutes.
The new company was hardly 5 kilometers from my home and it takes around 10 minutes to travel, and 15 minutes if there is too much traffic.
As I am getting to know my present company, I realize that its physical size and employees strength may not be as big as that of CU, but annual turnover of both the firms are almost the same.
As I was updated with this fact and that there are a number of other ventures or sister concerns of this company gave me the relief that my switch is not as bad as I had initially thought of.
A sense of security arises in me as I learn about this fact.
One of the biggest drawbacks of working in a large organization such as Chandigarh University is that the credit of your hard work is eaten by someone else.
In the two years of my working at CU, I never got the chance to interact with the owner of this firm, Satnam Singh Sandhu. Showing my work to him directly was a far fetched call.
Now, this factor has its both positives and negatives.
Since you are way down in the hierarchy, you are also far away from the firing range of the owner, meaning if something goes wrong, then that blame will come to you after filtering through a number of levels.
On the other hand, this factor works completely against you when something is appreciated by the owner of the company. This owner will never ever get to know as to who has actually done this good work.
In the majority of the cases, the manager facing the bullets directly will try to take the entire credit of the good work. This is exactly what happened to me here.
Above me, there was a team leader, a brand manager and the department head, who reported directly to the CU owner. I was not on point in many tasks, but there were tasks which were fulfilled by me with perfection.
Unfortunately, these efforts went down the drain as CU Chancellor never got to know that it was me who created this content, which was approved by him.
I had heard that a number of times the department head had complained that he does not have a good enough team and because of this the performance is hampered.
So the biggest drawback of working in a large organization is that base level employees are almost non-existent. It hardly makes any difference if one or two among them quits.
This fact gives an edge to the department head to exploit us in any way possible. We may be asked to work beyond normal working hours or may be shown a wrong picture as to what is expected by the owner of the company.
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