Management is a buddy-buddy system - Anonymous employee Family Features Employee Review

Thank you—we appreciate your feedback. As you noted, we put a great deal of emphasis on maintaining a work culture that puts people and their families first—that comes from having the same family ownership and guiding principles since 1974. Our work/life balance objective hasn’t changed--it’s a permanent and important part of our company’s DNA. Without knowing the specifics of the experience you had here, I want to assure you that we hold managers to a well-defined standard of leadership, and have quarterly/annual appraisals in place for all employees to monitor achievement toward their established goals. Ultimately, a manager’s or an employee’s success here is based on their ability to work collaboratively, demonstrate leadership and achieve their goals—it’s an objective appraisal not based on favoritism. From an HR perspective, our turnover rate is pretty similar to most companies of our type and size. We are proud of the fact that nearly 50% of our staff has been here longer than 5 years, including several that have been here over 20 years.