Impact Networking is a huge company made up multiple managed service divisions including: Impact Managed Marketing (IMM), IT & Cloud Services, Cybersecurity (DOT Security), and Printing Equipment Services. This massive company is unguided and running at full speed, so it is no surprise that people constantly jump ship. If there was ever a depressing satire of a pre-millennium corporate workplace, it would tell the story of Impact Networking. Case in point: sales and the CEO are popping champagne on the slopes of Aspen on a company sponsored trip, while constantly saying there is no money for raises. Nepotism runs rampart across the company, at all levels, despite basic experience or expertise, solidifying the type of culture and business practices Impact Networking is built upon.
Impact Managed Marketing (IMM) is its most unethically run division and if you are a creative, avoid at all costs. It was a design agency (ES99) that was restructured to deliver managed marketing services, yet no one is trained in marketing, this includes some management. Basic marketing practices are overlooked and even ignored to cut costs, while still charging clients for faux deliverables. The saving grace of this organization is the great people in the trenches. The creative department has the staff worthy of any major agency with the work to match, but they are the most under appreciated and overlooked group in the company. They are often doing the work of other departments, including account management and research, but only given credit for that work when assigning blame if something goes wrong, yet never acknowledging them when it goes right, as it often does.
Finally, it is important to mention that all positions are on-site, 5 days a week, from 8am-5pm. This was the policy even through the height of the pandemic, while people were getting sick, and it is still actively enforced with absolutely no flexibility. This policy sums up unadaptable nature of the company and its leaders. They do reiterate that this is important for culture, while their employees are constantly burning out beyond reason. But it’s okay because they have espresso machines, a keg, happy hours, and a cool office, right?
