My observation at my employment was the separation w the IT people and the scientists. Also grouped apart from IT was the procurement, operations, etc.
But the key observation I had was for social functions, such as a hike at the ocean, a BBQ, riding bikes at lunch, etc, the attendance ratios always demonstrated a very low turnout of IT people but high attendance from the others. The IT people always had too much work to do, too many deadlines, and broken things to address. The scientists and others could flex a lot more and it was much harder to pin them down to the potential improvements not made due to not aggressively working their issues.
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My observation at my employment was the separation w the IT people and the scientists. Also grouped apart from IT was the procurement, operations, etc. But the key observation I had was for social functions, such as a hike at the ocean, a BBQ, riding bikes at lunch, etc, the attendance ratios always demonstrated a very low turnout of IT people but high attendance from the others. The IT people always had too much work to do, too many deadlines, and broken things to address. The scientists and others could flex a lot more and it was much harder to pin them down to the potential improvements not made due to not aggressively working their issues.