Avery Dennison Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Avery Dennison full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Op3 machine operators have it easy. Half is of what they do is working and the other half is just standing around, and or just talking..
Coater operator team is even easier. One quarter is working and the other 75% is talking and standing around.
Hours of paid wages per week are somewhere between 60 to 70.

Cons – If your wife works a normal week, you will only get 1 weekend together, every 7 weeks, if you work on the coater.. Your work schedule changes weekly. Monday/Saturday off the first week...........Tuesday/Saturday off the second week, etc. They want to eliminate any overtime, so they stick it to you to set aside a 6 day work week, and only pay you for 5..

Anyone starting at this facility will be starting at the upender. It is a fast paced job, because the 2 slitters associated with it are running at full tilt. Besides upending and wrapping the skids, you have to jump on a forklift, look at the 8 or so sheets to see where they go, and waste time putting in locations or trucks. Demanding, frustrating, and most times impossible. Get your own skids, and no relief person when you take a break.

Last years raises ranged from 5 cents to 50 cents.
The only other easy job is the rewinder operator.

All machines are rated, and if you have areas in your chart that are red, they call you in for an explanation.
This facility is a military compound, with all supervisors being ex military people.

They can't find maintenance people that want to stay. I have seen maintenance people work 21 day straight, without any days off. I have also seen 2 of them get divorces.

Benefits were changed to eliminate retirement benefits.

Everyone snitches on each other.

Advice to Senior Management – You have made a statement the you want to have an increase of $500,000,000 in this years production.
Personally, if I am still working there, I would love to see your stock drop down to about $10 a share. If the CEO took a bonus payment of 4.5 million dollars, even though he admitted that he did a lousy job..........then I am within my rights to expect this satisfaction.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Avery Dennison

Pros – Labels and Packaging Division - best one to work in. Decent benefits.

Cons – RBIS - Worst division to work in. It's a circus.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Avery Dennison full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Senior Leadership takes care to develop and deploy well thought out improvement strategies. Solid efforts are made to develop key personnel.

Cons – Deteriorating business has resulted in high turnover.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Avery Dennison full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Independent roles assigned wherein we are free to do the work the way it should be done. No fear of failure and extensive support by peers/managers.

Cons – Timelines to achieve targets stringent and policies to be reviewed.

Advice to Senior Management – Make it a more linear organization.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Avery Dennison full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Awesome people here; very easy to work with, good team work, low stress

Cons – It's a large corporation. You see where all your works goes and why it matters, but at the same time it seems that the company does not know where it is going, or you don't know where you are moving.

Advice to Senior Management – Personal Reviews of status of projects, better idea where team members fit in.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Avery Dennison as an intern for less than a year

Pros – A company culture with equality and flat structure

Cons – Chance to stay at Avery Dennison after internship is very small, since it requires more experienced personnel.

Advice to Senior Management – Not yet.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Avery Dennison full-time for more than a year

Pros – The fast moving environment will challenge capacity and improve the adaptability of employees.

Cons – sometimes people are after the agressive environment so the other values are not considered

Advice to Senior Management – concern more about employee engagement activities

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Avery Dennison full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good benefits and bonus program.

Cons – Upper management does not have a grasp of what is happening on the day to day levels of the organization. Low levels of severance when employees are rif'ed.

Advice to Senior Management – Make sound business and cost based decisions, even if they are difficult. Doing what is easiest for management on a daily basis is not the way to conduct business.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Avery Dennison full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Very good training ground. Thisis a good job as your first one out of biz school. Very focused on cross functional teams. Will help you become a general manager or entrepreneur at some point in your career.

Cons – After about 5 years it tends to be "up or out" and for 90% it means out. It gets snarky and political as the pyramid gets very narrow very quickly. Pay is lower than 1st tier marketing firms like Pepsi.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Avery Dennison full-time for more than a year

Pros – Team spirit, improvement opportunities and people engagement

Cons – High turnover rate and not much training in term of professional skills

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company