Top Heavy Again - Manager Univar Solutions Employee Review

1.0
1 May 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good Benefits - but you have to finish the calendar year to get some of them.

Cons

Former CEO spent all of his time flattening the organization. Current CEO has completely reversed it. Way too many VP's with no real job function. It's the good old buddy system again. Continues to strip down the Operations functions at the expense of commercial and sales. Just let go 2% of the workforce instead of making pay cuts or furloughs. The Nexeo merger will be a disaster just like every other M&A attempt they have made.

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Univar Solutions Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. Keeping our employees and our company healthy is our top priority and we recognize that sometimes means making decisions that are difficult. Thank you for your years of service and we hope that your experience overall was positive.

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