A business in an industry in severe decline - IT Specialist Quad Employee Review

2.0
Nov 30, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Challenging work assignments to further professional growth (aside from career at QG growth.) Decent working conditions and environments. If you are in HR, you'll be busy and fully employed handling all the layoffs.

Cons

Acquisitions since going public continue to require lots of closings and layoffs, impacting many locations. With cost-cutting initiatives driving many business decisions, realistically no person's job is safe. The long-standing 'family oriented' culture is waning, and basically there is no consideration for loyalty over time. The 'bean counter culture' has taken over QG leadership, and the primary founder, Harry V. Quadracci, God bless him, has likely rolled over in his grave countless times. Wages are generally less than competitive, although in the past they sold their benefit package to compensate. Today, their benefits have dwindled to be so so, no longer as compelling. Older workers, generally higher wage earners, are likely to be layoff targets.

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