Big company with small company feel along - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

4.0
Jan 6, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone know everyones name and management has an open door policy Profit sharing is GREAT - depends on company performance but it has been above 11% for the last few years and top at 15% Supportive when it comes to continual education Global company - alot of exposure

Cons

Will not fired people who are not able to do below minimum work Has to be an engineer to be in upper management Pay is about 18% below market value - they say profit sharing make it equal Can work all hours of the day depending on project since there is a lot of collaboration globally

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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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