The management conferences are a complete waste of time and money, particularly in light of the current state of affairs of the company. They are meant to be morale boosters but morale would be boosted better by giving a meager pay increase each year. I have never worked for a company on a pay freeze for 3+ years. 1, 2, 3%... Come on and throw us a bone.
This, a thousand times this, @Qiwgd2f-tqz. The cost of living keeps going up each year, and yet we are stuck at the same pay. You can't do this to your workers and not expect to see morale plummet.