Office Depot reviews

There is no transparency on our attainment for bonus. It is obviously manipulated at upper managements discretion. From the VP down they have the attitude of "If you don't like it, find another job". It is ridiculous how they expect morale and energy from the sales force yet everything they do kills morale. They allow almost no SPIFF's and offer virtually no monetary motivation to sell more, they seem to prefer to threaten and demand rather than create a results oriented culture. I find it humorous that they post the OD "values" on the walls but all they do is make a mockery of them. Integrity, laughable. Accountability, only for the sales people. Innovation, well we do have Salesprism.... LOL. Teamwork, sales people work together because the managers are worthless. Respect, yes, a total lack of it.

There are many so here we go.. I'll first start off with the re-orgs. I was with the company for 3+ years and saw 5 re-orgs (4 at corporate). 2 of those were large layoffs (100+ cut). The most recent just affected my dept (marketing). The instability at OD is at such a high level, so think about that when considering taking a job there. No one knows really when the next one will be, despite leadership saying that was the last one. I've seen the same repeated mistakes with each layoff: Get rid of high paid Directors, Sr Directors, VPs and anyone making a salary at the threshold the management consulting firm determines, shrink down the groups, bring in outside execs. The problem with that is by getting rid of these Directors, etc you're getting rid of institutional knowledge which set us waaaay back and left us worker-bees to pick up the pieces and figure things out which was totally unfair. There have also been a large number of talented people leaving on their own given the instability. I saw very little positive sales weeks/months/quarters in my time there, so that says something. The new senior leadership brought on across the org isn't anything to write home about. I can only really speak directly about new sr. leadership within marketing which I can say is unimpressive. The new vision and strategy was to nearly ax half the marketing department and farm out those duties to the new agency of record. The new CMO and the SVP's she brought in are not the right cultural fit, just really more of the same that we've had. The CMO and new SVPs/VPs took 0 time to get to know the dept and what everyone did. I can see this being difficult when the marketing org was 200 people but we were down to way less than that. The $1 billion acquisition of CompuCom was questionable given their own financial issues so hopefully it works out. BizBox is a joke and I don't see going anywhere. If I run a small business, why would I pay $100/month to have consultants set up and maintain a website when I could spend $100 for the year to set up my own site via Wordpress, Wix, SquareSpace, etc + domain myself? The only plus I see to BizBox is the remodeled "BizBox" stores. They are sharp and the co-working space is cool. That's about the only positive. While strides were made over the years with eComm more needs to be done. Not enough emphasis is being made on digital solutions. They say they can compete with Amazon mainly because OD has brick and mortar but that's a pipe dream and really wished Gerry would stop harping on that. Unless OD gets better in the eComm space they are going to keep declining. The town halls...ugh the town halls. They were bad when Roland was CEO and didn't get much better when he left. Recently they became way to self centered and political with leadership. Another reviewer here described it as to Me Too which is fairly accurate.