Ingersoll Rand FAQ

Pros

The transition of employees from the old company to IR has been smooth with the exception of their 401K plans. IR has a competitive benefit package but could do better if they want to change with the times.

Cons

I am a spouse of an employee that now works for Ingersoll Rand. My husband's company was just acquired by IR and are requiring the PROFESSIONAL employees that were previously working from home, to now be required to come back into the office 3 days a week, minimum. These employees have been working from home for 3 YEARS, have been productive, work well autonomously or in teams, and are functioning as a professional employee should. I worked in HR Management for 18 years and I predicted this was coming for years, even expressed it to former owners. If these businesses don't get a handle on HOW TO PROPERLY treat the employees (especially the ones that bust a hump CONSTANTLY), they will continue to lose employees. We CAN'T put the genie back in the bottle, it has been proven that these professionals that get paid well to do their jobs, are functioning higher or on par with where they were when they were forced to sit in an office. I have always asked employers, if they don't need to physically sit in office space, why force them to??? The employer is saving on electricity, water, coffee (or whatever you offer employees at your expense), basically overhead expenses, so what am I missing??? Not to mention that you don't have the same amount of HR issues between other employees, complaining about office conditions, just employee relations issues in general. Most companies I have been employed as an HR PROFESSIONAL do NOT know how to handle employee relations which leads to lawsuits! These employees are getting smarter and NO longer wish to operate under the same rules and regulations that OUR GRANDPARENTS did. Learn to grow and evolve as a company where your employees are concerned or you will not succeed. meeting.

Advice to Management

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE READ ABOVE I completed this on my husband's behalf because of my experience in HR. I believe the way you are currently handling your employees will not succeed in the long term growth plan, of any kind. We cannot continue to treat our employees as our parents and grandparents were treated. In some ways they were better off because of the pension plans that were offered, BEFORE the insurance industry took it away. Please get some HR Professionals that are able to have a mindset that can evolve with the changes. There are WAY too many "old school" HR's still in the workforce! Get additional training, keep an open mind, be flexible and LISTEN, or I would encourage them to seek a different field. THE EMPLOYEES DESERVE BETTER! I also would like to ask how ANY of your professionals get work done successfully with the high rate of meetings? I have not been able to experience personally or through other employees when they are bogged down with meeting after meeting. If you want to have meetings, they should be to improve morale!

Pros

Great place and location to work

Cons

Certain benefits like dental are mediocre and optical is nin existence.

Pros

Great people, good benefits, good pay.

Cons

Lots of management turnover, some poor choices on senior positions.

Pros

-Vacation -Some benefits (insurance isn't as great anymore) -401k -Decent pay

Cons

IR got bought out by Gardner Denver. Total change in company culture. Bunch of fake/fluff corporate reviews on here. If you are at Customer Center level, you don't matter. Be smart if you are looking at this company/ career advancement, you will only be a tech, inside sales, area specialist (admin), service coordinator, service manager or outside sales. You trade your soul to get promoted in this company. Not worth it. You will be micromanaged to death, IR fundamentally doesn't trust it's employees, hence strict micromanaging and metrics to death. "Act and think like owners" is the biggest joke ever, you can do almost anything but be allowed to make a decision, everything goes to approval hierarchy. IR lost its way, doesn't know how to run a business. Long-time employees of 20 plus years are leaving. You take care of employees, they take care of your business. You won't be appreciated, period. If you want all of this, go ahead. If you are used to being micromanaged and want the same role till you retire, go for it. They dangle carrots badly. Was in sales development program but they only want to keep you where you are, hold you back.

Advice to Management

You are going to keep hurting if you continue current path, you better start learning how to appreciate techs/employees before it's too late. More than just lip service too. Your employee engagement is worthless if you don't listen to what your people tell you, nothing changed every single year. You continue to look at the short game and your competitors are looking at long game, Get your eyes off shareholders, your biggest and best customer is your employees first if you are in management. How can you expect customers to "lean on us to make life better" if employees can't even lean on their own managers?

Pros

good insurance, good benefits, good training

Cons

high turnover, difficulty filling vacant positions which puts more responsibilities on others in the department/