The burnout is real.... - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

1.0
Apr 27, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fellow co-workers are great. If you are a hard worker, then job security shouldn't be an issue.

Cons

Re-org after re-org after re-org. Feels like you can come into work any day with a good chance of finding out you are in a new department with a new boss. Executive leadership is either out of touch or doesn't care about employee morale. It is at the lowest I've seen in my tenure. Burnout is a real concern and salary is not competitive. And it feels like complaints or suggestions fall on deaf ears. The main building is straight from the 70s and is embarrassing compared to other facilities I've been to. The whole culture is misaligned and come across as penny pinching and corporate greed.

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Cons

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Pros

Great immediate supervisor and their boss. Made top-down communications tolerable. Great co-workers and great collaboration that lifted the entire team.

Cons

(1) RIF based on tenure, not performance. HR is too powerful a department, and everyone fears it. (2) Tenure made you lazy, killed creativity, initiative, and promoted a "yes" culture. (3) During COVID layoffs, CEO pay went from $3.7 million to $15.x million, while employees endured 25% furloughs for 3 months, and management 10% reduction in pay for 6 months - explain how that is reasonable. (4) CEO declared DEI as the way forward for career mobility, and a lot of young, promising talent walked out the door, including DEI-qualified minorities. (5) I was one of those minorities.

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