Poor culture (was there for 2 years) - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

2.0
Feb 23, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Despite all the cons, I did have a great boss who was very supportive of me.

Cons

Very disconnected organization. They acquire new businesses so rapidly and don’t spend enough time on boarding and integrating their acquisitions. I was hired as an Emerson employee at a location that had only been part of Emerson for one year before I joined. It was nearly impossible to integrate into the Emerson culture and I was stuck working in the toxic culture left over from the former company. Within the business I was working, it was almost celebrated to work around the clock and to work during your time off (very unhealthy). Also, when I tried exploring career advancement opportunities, I was accused of trying to jump ship. As a person who is goal and development oriented, this was very discouraging.

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Cons

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Pros

Great immediate supervisor and their boss. Made top-down communications tolerable. Great co-workers and great collaboration that lifted the entire team.

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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