Great Profit Sharing, Painful Layoffs - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

3.0
5 Jan 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Profit sharing is nice and you get full money after 5 years if you last that long without being laid off. In the good years it cna be 15% of pay. Somewhat flexable with schedule.

Cons

No 401k match but profit sharing. Temporary workers recieve no benefits. Pay is barely at market rates. Lots of internal politics and favoritism within management. Outsource work to 3rd world countries such as Costa Rica and the Phillipines while laying off people in the U.S.

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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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