Antiquated culture, slow moving production, good benefits - Anonymous employee Georgia-Pacific Employee Review

3.0
Jun 30, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits and pay Good structure--Roles. Responsibilities & Expectations helpful

Cons

The culture is old school. Pay your dues, I need to see you to believe you're working, etc. Very little diversity-- age, race and especially gender The company is too large to be agile in their commitment to innovation and progress Approval process moves bottom up. Makes it very difficult for things to get done because if someone in upper management doesn't approve, the process starts over Older employees adopt the mentality of making fun of millennial/gen z employees. Love to complain of laziness, entitlement, etc. and then wonder why they have trouble attracting and retaining young, fresh talent I was consistently told to "keep my head down" and don't work too hard. There is a culture of "everybody play nice, do the bare minimum and collect your paycheck"

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Georgia-Pacific Response
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Hello- this is Molly from GP. Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review and I am sorry you feel this way. Diversity is important not only to our culture and work environment- but for our business as a whole. We are committed to diversity and take concerns of discrimination very seriously. I will be passing your feedback on to our teams. If you wish to share further information around this, please reach out to us at hrresponseteam@gapac.com . Thank you.

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