Good work environment, slow to change - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

4.0
26 Aug 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good work-environment generally, nice company to lie low, do your work and get on with life. financially well-managed, so you can think of staying until you retire. There are growth opportunities, if you are smart and/or have a sponsor in higher management.

Cons

If you are ambitious but don't have a sponsor, you will get frustrated. Difficult to make your mark if you are not in sales or marketing. Salary is below average.

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Cons

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Pros

Great immediate supervisor and their boss. Made top-down communications tolerable. Great co-workers and great collaboration that lifted the entire team.

Cons

(1) RIF based on tenure, not performance. HR is too powerful a department, and everyone fears it. (2) Tenure made you lazy, killed creativity, initiative, and promoted a "yes" culture. (3) During COVID layoffs, CEO pay went from $3.7 million to $15.x million, while employees endured 25% furloughs for 3 months, and management 10% reduction in pay for 6 months - explain how that is reasonable. (4) CEO declared DEI as the way forward for career mobility, and a lot of young, promising talent walked out the door, including DEI-qualified minorities. (5) I was one of those minorities.

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