Great place to work - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

5.0
26 Jan 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

*Competent people all around you - they hire competent people and it is a pleasure to work with people who seriously know what they're doing *Strong Leadership with a well-developed road-map *Industry leader selling high quality products *Strong business ethics core *Part of a large corporation (Emerson Electric in St. Louis), but at division-level still has a small-company feel

Cons

*Still working to become a high-tech workplace and paper-free --IT and HRIS systems are somewhat behind the times. --Company intranet not well laid out or maintained. --Many Human Resource-related transactions still paper-driven (ie: direct deposit, time sheets, insurance beneficiaries, etc.)

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Pros

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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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