Overall fantastic company with a few kinks that need ironing out... - Anonymous employee Fossil Group Employee Review

5.0
Aug 30, 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Working in a Fossil store, there are not many staff compared to larger retailers. This leads to your colleagues becoming some of your best friends, which is unusual working in a shop. The salary is higher than most establishments, which is obviously a plus! Fossil are very picky in who they employ, and choose to employ staff not for their selling abilities alone, but how likely they are to get on with staff and interact with the team, which I think is great! Having worked in other retail shops I can safely say Fossil is up there with the best!

Cons

There can be a huge lack of communication from senior management. It takes forever to get a response from them and even longer for them to actually get something done. This is one of the only things that reduces morale amongst the staff. There is a bit of a lack of praise also. When staff have rallied around and worked their behinds off in times of need, there is not so much as a thank you when things go back to normal. This is mainly due to senior management not fully recognising the time and effort those working in the stores put in.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Company events are always fun. (Halloween is insane in the best way.) On-site gym, Starbucks, cafeteria with pretty good food. The employee sales and deep-discounts are really nice. Central Station is a really nice, pretty building with a parking garage.

Cons

Lots of micromanagement and unnecessary approval steps before anything can move forward; resulting in any changes moving at a glacial pace and often stalling for months and even years. Fossil manages and designs by committee and the HiPPO in the room always wins with little regard to facts and data. There's little communication at all levels of the company. Teams are extremely siloed and there's a complete lack of direction. It's also not unusual for leadership or stakeholders to flip-flop on their decisions. One meeting, they'll approve something; then turn around and claim they never saw or approved it. Then suddenly they liked the way it was, which they had been claiming never to have seen before. It's frustrating and defeating. Advancement and growth opportunities are very limited and often based on favoritism. There's almost zero recognition or metrics to demonstrate your worth. "Restructuring" and staff reductions happen regularly throughout the year and always in small batches to fly under the WARN act. They usually don't even acknowledge or comment on the layoffs internally either. It's as if they hope they did it quietly enough that no one will notice. Meanwhile, morale is practically nonexistent as everyone is always waiting for the next layoff and spends most of their time with their heads down. If they acknowledge the layoffs at all, they'll assure the company that they're "right-sized now" or that they're "done with layoffs" and then do it again.

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