Taking Care of Business, If THAT'S What You Call It - Supply Chain Analyst Office Depot Employee Review

2.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Corporate HQ is a mere five minutes from the beach and the weather is great ten months out of the year. There is an amazing cafeteria located on the campus with a wide variety of food to choose from. Half of the employees are solid people to know in and out of the work environment and I personally made many good friends in my time with the company.

Cons

If you desire a career, stay away from Office Depot. The systems are completely outdated and don't have the technology to effectively run a Fortune 500 company. Each department is poorly run due to lack of communication and resources, no one knows what anyone else is doing. Four VP's will make five different plans for a rollout of product or end of quarter strategy. Each dept. is given poorly developed goals that when strived for end up conflicting with other departments causing each group to not help the other for fear they will hurt their own numbers. Afterwards, the executive team gets together for their quarterly "blamestorming" session where they fix blame on a dept. for missing their arbitrary, baseless numbers then fire that manager. New quarter begins, rinse and repeat. Because of this there is a lot of cloak and dagger operation among the professionals. One dept. may have the resources to help another but won't. Management from that dept. will watch the other fail and then step in afterwards with an "improvement" plan in order to come off as the new guy who can turn things around. Can you work your way up in this environment? Yes. But would you want to?

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5.0
Mar 10, 2026
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Pros

Store never get overwhelmingly busy - mix of light/busy days Management does a good job at listening to employees

Cons

Have to push selling product on people that don't want it Schedule may be inflexible

1.0
Jul 8, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are no pros to working for this company.

Cons

Low pay, grueling hours, unsafe and toxic work environment. The company does not offer opportunities for its sore employees to advance to the corporate sector; especially if you have a college degree. As a store employee neither you, your expertise and skill set, nor your ideas on how to improve workflow and company culture matter.

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