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Touch Bionics

Acquired by Össur

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Has potential but unfair employment practices and poor leadership threatens competitive advantage for future success. - Anonymous employee Touch Bionics Employee Review

3.0
27 Jun 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

TB's products are innovative and change lives for the better. The people who work there ( all offices) are friendly and pleasant though the cultures feel very different between the clinical center in Ohio versus the corporate HQ in mansfield ( Ohio is more open, energetic, more comraderie and kinship among staff; mansfield is a very quiet environment and feels less open with less comraderie/kinship except at the top). The company offers work- life balance in the sense that you work 9-5 and aren't expected to work beyond that as long as you are keeping up to par with your responsibilities. 4 weeks PTO and good health insurance, dental and flex pay benis.

Cons

The leadership in Mansfield is positioning the company for failure while Scotland based CEO is blind to this problem. Undocumented "policies" allow the office leadership team (a clique of women who have worked together at other companies) to take advantage of special perks while the rest of the office is treated with stark difference. For example, they work from home any time they please while all other staff has little to no flexibility in this regard. Oftentimes the office is void of leadership, especially on Fridays. Bureaucracy, red tape and closed doors make communication and getting work done very challenging so projects drag on and eventually fall off the map.

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5.0
14 Jun 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Management is responsive and approachable. This is a unique way to use artistic skills. Employees are hard working and care about the product. Benefits and paid time off are generous. Facilities are clean and organized.

Cons

I have no cons about working at Touch.

1.0
14 Jul 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Benefits are ok. Not -It's nice to know you are doing a job that helps people. -The work has a cool factor to it

Cons

-This is a small company (~50 employees). I worked in the Newburgh office (<20 employees). Even with the few amount of people, we were flying blind. The inter-company, inter-departmental communication was terrible. -No incentives. No upward movement, wages do not reflect amount of skill needed for job, and raises are non existent. $15/hr does not cut it. -Employees are veiwed as expendables rather then investments. -Rampant micromanagement, manipulation, bullying, nepotism and emotionally abusive management which facilitates a stress filled, highly dysfunctional work environment. -HR ignores complaints and does not respect confidentiality. -Mandatory overtime without notice. -Very high turn over rate In my 5+ years ~20 Employees were hired and left (most due to the stress/ bullying from management) the Newburgh office. This does not include the cleaning house layoffs in the Ohio and UK. Summery: Imagine having your dream job where you get to work with all your friends doing something really interesting that helps people who need it. Now imagine this dream job is being run by the worst high school bully, pushing you to the edge every day. To the point where you having nervous breakdowns on the way to work. At some point the stress out weighs all the positives and you leave. Years later, you still have nightmares about the place. So much so, that after one of the stressful dreams you go on-line, find glassdoor and write a review about what you experienced. It's like that.

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