Eastman reviews

As a 30+ year employee I have seen lots of changes. The first 20 years was great. Great pay, great working conditions, wonderful benefits and a real place to set your roots for career. The last 8-10 years it has quickly spiraled downward under the leadership of the current CEO and top management. Pay, promotions, benefits have all decreased. A woke work environment is forced upon everyone. Eastman used to havethe best work environment, everyone I worked with in my first 20 years, worked together, no matter the race, religion, sexual preferences, etc...Since the management push to woke extremes, the environment has become fearful, self centered and not about teamwork, promotions are not based on merit and the pay and benefits have become woefully lagging. It is sad to see a company in which you work your entire career to make the environment better actual destroy itself because of poor management. I am not a disgruntled employee, just an observation of my years at Eastman. My suggestion - lf you are looking at Eastman as a possible employer - keep looking, there are a lot of good people leaving Eastman to go to greener, friendlier and better paying pastures.

The current CEO has prioritized a project that is sucking resources from other businesses to subsidize it's takeoff. The priority has become short term financial results that run counter to our stated long term strategy to meet the quarterly target and externally we wordsmith a positive story about the pet project to give the impression we are making progress. Internally, the executive leadership attempts to misrepresent our company performance as on par or better than our peers by changing which peers and which metrics it compares us against each year. The Board which elected our CEO is still made up of most of the same people who seem unwilling to hold our leadership accountable. Finally, the worst sin is that the CEO is willing to accept $20,000,000 a year in total compensation while cutting more than 10% of the workforce and reducing and even completely eliminating their bonuses.