Its flexibility its trust on what we do its vision

- International atmosphere - a big platform to open my eyes - very valued projects & revolution

teamwork, diversity of domains and projects, new experience

- Working from home - Salary is good - Liberty at work (not 100% supervised by our immediate superior)

The flexibility of my working time and place Ease of balancing between my work and my family People I work with

1. Working at FIWARE Foundation has allowed me to take on many different tasks that perhaps at other companies wouldn't fall within the scope of my job title. That isn't always easy but thanks to this I have been able to dip my toes into various other related fields of work and step out of my comfort zone. 2. No day is the same. There is always a different mix of tasks to be done and I don't do the same thing every day, which makes working more enjoyable for me. 3. Though (imo) the company itself doesn't actively encourage a healthy work-life balance (ie. quite a lot of overtime, emails that are sent at all hours of the day, colleagues mentioning they worked on weekends), I have noticed that once you figure out that you have to set your own boundaries, the company is surprisingly accommodating. I am, therefore, satisfied with the level of flexibility, and that includes the ability to work from home when I want/need to post-Covid.

Community Global approach Strategic partnerships

Possibility of remote work, the possibility of workstations, impactful projects

Ability to split work from home and work in the office. Camaraderie and team spirit The knowledge, professionalism and commitment of my colleagues is very impressive.

Great colleagues & team spirit Great "product" / business area / business model Offers me flexibility I am part of a great community

- The ability to take on lots of different tasks and to try new things or gain new skills on the job. - The flexibility offered to work from home as well as at the office. -

Potencial imparct of my work, remote work, meeting new people.

team spirit vision impact

Flexibility Community sense Challenge to grow

Working at an organization specializing in cutting-edge technologies Global perspective

Vision & Mission, Management, colleagues

Flexible personal time management and place to work Discussion with supervisors on equal footing Nice atmosphere

- room for innovation and creative ideas - flexibility - never boring

Strong community around FIWARE Possibility for self planning Team involvement when it‘s needed

salary scale professional growth stress management from team members that lead to angry communication in email or text and uncomfortable situations with team and outside partners

- sometimes too random management - lack of mentorship (especially for new techs) - mkt and tech are isolated to each other

* The workload is extremely high. Pretty much everybody agrees on that * With 10% of inflation, the salaries should be guaranteed to rise at least 10% (salary is good, but in a few years, we'll see ...)

Unreal matching between the work and the people allocation to projects

1. Animosity and disrespectful behaviour between colleagues. Though I have rarely been on the receiving end of this, it happens quite a lot (out in the open, during calls, via emails, in chat messages) and it has a detrimental effect on the team and the willingness of some to work together in an harmonious and respectful manner. 2. Though this is improving, I believe there is still too much work for the size of the team(s). It would be great to move further away from stretching the team(s) to meet the growing task list and instead adapt (grow) the size of the team(s) to meet the list of tasks. 3. The amount of events. Again, this is improving little by little but there was a time when I truly felt we were prioritising quantity over quality and just hopping from 1 event to the next. Considering there is also a lot of other work to be done, it leaves the team very thinly stretched, especially when traveling is also involved. On that note, traveling on weekends is also not great.

Ambiguous priorities - Revisit discussions again and again Lack of transparency that drives confusion In some cases, avoidance of accountability

Unbalanced work - a lot of overtime and too many overlapping tasks, tasks and fields of work assigned to the person is random not complying with experience and personal zones of development, lack of respect and healthy communication in the team

Lack of clarity in assigning priorities when working across multiple projects. Lack of focused training and growth High pressure

Hard to get started, understanding how things work Missunderstandings Takes time to get the full FIWARE picture

- Events and over hours: traveling on weekends, event days that last from 8am to late in the evening without compensation (time or money). - Toxic work culture (between colleagues and within teams). Colleagues who shout at each other (verbally or in written form). Little patience for people with a different opinion (especially when there is already friction between certain people in the team). Though I am rarely at the receiving end of this, it doesn't make for a pleasant working environment and it makes working as a team that much more difficult when person a doesn't want to interact with person b and so on. Passive aggressive behaviour that could be done without if people were structurally called out for their (bad) behaviour. - No official feedback system. No one-on-ones, no review cycle, no "real" way of knowing whether management is satisfied with your work and to highlight areas where you could improve.

sometimes excessively high workloads, some last minute "meetings or tasks" that make me to stress, lack of personal/professional develop in terms of courses.

Resource planning Missing focus of FF

collaboration between teams balance of Smart City and other domains ability to win Platinum members

Lack of team sense Internal conflicts Higher engagement of/with the community of members

Lack of personnel management Inadequate allocation of resources Timesheet fraud

salary

No trainings/schoolings offered for personal development Way too much meetings stealing time for actual working, sometimes meetings are really not necessary but being held just for the sake of having a meeting Flat hierarchies are nice, but there is no way to rise/getting promoted (on professionality, responsibility and salary)

- "team work" -> always good if we work together in a team, but (at least CTO team) there are few connection points between the members, little visibility of the work between the team members - reluctance to learn new technology, "modern craftsmanship" -> for a Foundation with "Future Internet" in the name, we rely quite a lot on outdated technology and do not spend enough time to stay up-to-date with the developments inside the software industry - Public Research Projects that do not really research anything new, but just rewarm old stuff without any visible benefit for the public(f.e. Token, Impress, AI-Marketplace)

Unbalanced workflow Low level of payment compared to the market and the tasks performed Bad financial coverage of trips, most expenses we cover by ourselves

Management responsiveness Lack of proactivity

- have a conversation about professional growth with each employee - communication of what we achieve can be better acknowledged and compensated by management - Board decisions regarding personnel rotation should not be taken lightly , if team members are reporting bad behaviour from a team member , and if the behaviour continues , this can be read as if the board is also giving consent to recurrent bad behaviour. That is detrimental to the mental health of other team members and punishing good people instead.

sort of basic tech training for marketing team, it would help to understand the topics better. perhaps daily meetings but it's appliable to selected projects only.

o Better administrative tools, for vacations, work sheets, travel expenses, etc. One single "interconnected" tool. We'd save a lot of time!

matching between the work and the people allocation to projects should be more realistic

1. Hold people accountable for their (bad) behaviour and call them out on it (in a respectful manner). I feel like Management doesn't step in often enough when people start being disrespectful to one another or when a complaint is received. 2. Enable more autonomy in the workplace. 3. Better introduction to the world of funded projects for (new) employees.

Buy in and alignment on common objectives Clear direction and priorities Management and accountability of staff performance and behaviour at work (same standard applied to everyone)

Travel policy - usually in a working trip allowance does not cover expenses for food and there is a need to spend personal funds, as well it is common practice to be paid extra for working trips as you spend there more than 8 hours a day working. Logistics. The team should work as loaders at the events and load and unload heavy things. It is not in the scope of work and is well bad for health. To establish employee development programs and performance reviews - for studying and clear process of possibilities to increase salary.

Need for more structure/ advance warning of up coming events or commitments. Clear delegation and backfill - who covers for me and when? Need to work on breaking out of the Tech/Marketing silos - Who is learning what I know? How to better spread knowledge?

Mentoring program or company buddy program: having a mentor for the start & later Employer benefit program (fitness, travel etc.)

- Hire more people to match the workload instead of stretching the current group of employees to meet the ever-growing workload. This has recently been improving but it has been a long time coming. - Introduce some kind of feedback system, both in terms of work performance as well as a way in which people can voice their concerns and complaints (in a respectful, constructive manner). -

More flexibility, less meetings!!!, budget for personal/cultural and professional improvement

More focus, not trying to be everywhere

gender balance in technical team efficency in proposal writing work life balance

Clear strategy towards the mission and the positioning in technology landscape Better balance in projects between non-technical and technical staff Reinforce the technical team with programers who can aleviate the technical leaders to work in high level tasks

Incorporating marketing in proposal development Inadequate/limited engagement of technical experts from members Streamlining inter-departmental collaboration.

Career paths and training programs for personal development Less talking, more working ;-)

- room and encouragement to learn and stay up-to-date with technology - more team-interaction/communication -> find a way to communicate the various topics and projects in the team - less "short-time" traveling - in-person meetings for a 1-1,5 days are highly inefficient(due to travel times) and counterproductive from an environmental perspective, rely even more on remote meetings, carefully decide when to travel (as a fourth: camera on in meetings - keeps people more active and invested)

Better task delegation inside team Easy communication with superior level for better working conditions Tool for project management and more automatisation in processes as task assignment, etc.

why is people leaving FIWARE Foundation? interesting for the board to have an assessment and improve retaining valuable people for the institution

Advantages & disadvantages working in an international team that rarely seas each other

Yes, change meetings for off line communications please! Sometimes, 3hs meetings are not necessary and a lot of thing can be communicated by emails and / or presentations.

Focus in content Focus in activities

no

More team building activities Onboarding session with new people to explain them well the strategy, mindset and processes

Feedback from members about our activities Lack of transparency from managers regarding their actions and objectives Absence of individual goal setting.

- Better explanation on the pay-rise policies. It was told in general that it is oriented at inflation, yet the last one was far from the actual inflation rate without an explanation.

1. Internal communication and respect in the team Some of our colleagues make the work process difficult and full of unnecessary bureaucracy, which takes time that could be spent on other tasks. Also there‘s no respect for others sometimes or even rude behaviour with offensive messages and stress that you could avoid in respectful surrounding. 2. Business trips issues. We have financial coverage only for food and no extra payments for business trips. Which usually could be paid additionally, because you work out of regular work hours. And most of trips we paying more for our needs that it‘s covered. 2.1 Local/home-base events When we have local events and don‘t travel for it, we don‘t have any food coverage or extra money for the event, but our colleagues who travel to these events from other countries have some financial coverage. 3. Dinners with business partners during business trips. Often during events we have meetings with our colleagues and partners at the dinner. For other teams, the company covers it, we pay for ourselves. And it‘s always a question if it‘ll be covered by FIWARE. Of course you can decide not to go, but by default it‘s part of business processes and networking. 4. Obligation to load/unload stuff for fairs It's a strange tradition that we need not only to prepare things that we need for fairs, but participate as loaders in its transportation. First of all it can be traumatic, also it usually goes in conflict with our main tasks and affects our schedule. 5. Unbalanced workflow. We have an unbalanced workflow with a lot of tasks for one person, sometimes deadlines overlapping and making success impossible without overworking hours.