Brady reviews

I could write an essay length review here, many many other commentators have accurately described this company's faults so i will try not to be repetitive. Of course, it can't be stated enough times that upper management is incompetent & arrogant (the worst combination for leadership). They are only focused on numbers and have a myopic business vision. They are not in touch with a global economy, they continue to charge premium prices for average (at best) products. As a result, many of Brady's longtime customers (with large accounts) have fled to the company's smaller, less expensive competitors. They also commit one of the worst errors of customer service - they over promise and under deliver. They have outsourced much of their manufacturing, and dismantled their smaller subsidiary companies along the way. As for the work culture - the rank and file employees (i.e. the people who do the actual WORK) are undervalued and treated as disposable. Middle management is comprised of sycophants who refuse to take proactive initiative when problems arise and simply tell upper management what they want to hear (and blame the workers when the precious daily numbers aren't met). There is no positive momentum in the workplace in Milwaukee, just a feeling of impending doom.

It very much is a culture with dated, tenured leadership and it shows. This leads me to believe that Brady will struggle to compete with market from a growth standpoint and from a talent standpoint as new trends occur in the workforce. Headquarters is not a desirable location of Milwaukee and facilities themselves are dated which makes it tough to get on board with the anti-work from home attitude from leadership. In general, people aren't excited to be here, it's not an exciting, flashy place to be. Lot's of grey cubicles everywhere, it's very 90's. My general sense is that leadership is unwilling to adjust their response to this feedback as well, so in general, this isn't a place younger or highly motivated/highly talented people are going to want to stay at for long, this is proven by higher turnover in many different departments and the general culture of "meh, it's a job".