Pros
Many Brother employees are trying to implement the "change" strategies of Top Management (read the Board). However, as you'll see below, this is still an impossible task. Change is inevitable, but when being requested to be a lemming and the company can't even get the tools in place to set up the jump off the cliff, even the best employees get frustrated. There are lots of good people here. Just no way to display their talents. Benefits remain strong. However, the company isn't the "family" atmosphere of the past and is now churning through employees at an ever increasing rate.
Cons
To the surprise of only a few top people, things have gotten progressively worse as the older, long term employees take early retirement. There is a major "brain drain" under way with many years of experience evaporating into thin air. Few retirees are being replaced in time to train their replacements. Most of the replacements are floundering as they have little or no guidance (and what they get is usually convoluted at best). Major cracks are developing as many, many tasks are being either handed to overburdened existing employees or being ignored. Add to this the continued HR insanity (3 times the staff of two years ago with cronyism and very little understanding of the employees and/or processes they are putting into place). Add a Board woefully out of touch, and you get a very unstable environment.