Analyst - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

3.0
Sep 13, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Solid history and established company. Decent benefits. Very process-oriented management and management style. Continued eye toward growth internationally with opportunities for career growth if you look for it and are flexible. Company wide and practiced communication process is generally superior to many other companies out there.

Cons

Too much emphasis on "Managing" and not enough on "Leadership" from many of the top levels. Recent spin off of a major segment of the business increases swings in how well or how poorly the company does from year to year, creating feelings of insecurity in workforce. Recent layoffs don't help either. Typical "what's your budget for next year" followed by "cut your budget" mandates by second fiscal quarter.

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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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