A good company to work for but the paid is awful! - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

3.0
Sep 18, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

A friendly place to work. Sales oriented company. The culture is relaxed for salaried employees and stressful for the hourly employees.

Cons

Lacks a competitive salary for both salaried and hourly employees. The sales department is the ruling class, all other departments will take a back seat to them. Upper management seems to be somewhat disconnected from the rest of the employees.

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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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