A great family company that people USED to love to work at.... not so much now - Anonymous employee SC Johnson Employee Review

2.0
Nov 19, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The pay and profit sharing is about all that remains at this company that is good. Staff that works days and management get unlimited sick time. If you enjoy being constantly hounded to do more everyday and be put on projects that need to be completed in an amount of time that is not really feasible, love paperwork and forms, like to spend time in meetings, this is the place for you.

Cons

New "Lean" program is killing this company. Moral is at its lowest in 20 years. Since the lean "transformation" this company is losing excellent, experienced people because of all the extra, and senseless work they are demanding from its employees. Slow to hire people in key positions so constantly running short is a big problem causing big time burn out. Management does not care about its employees anymore. Since Sam died, the company has been on a downward spiral. Work life balance may exist if you are a day staff person, or management but if you are in manufacturing plant, forget it. Between all the "lean" tools that are supposed to make our job easier, you have loaded your staff with so much "garbage" to do and paperwork that we have no time to concentrate on the job we were hired to do. Unless you have a degree, forget moving up in this company. They won't even look at you for a promotion to even the most menial day position unless you have a degree.

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