GOJO Reviews

Intentional ambiguity. They tell you upfront how ambiguous everything is, but never do anything to make it better. Leadership uses it as an excuse for bad behavior. They used to really care about employees. But that changed once their new leadership team took over a couple years ago. If you can pull off creating the perception that you care, but deep down you ruthlessly don’t, you’re a good candidate for leadership at GOJO. GOJO has become very cut throat and political. I worked there for many years and loved that the culture was authentic, caring and non-political, but that drastically changed in the past couple years. This is a family-owned business on its 3rd generation of owners. This generation is the first to be born into extreme wealth. They don’t understand, appreciate, or relate well to the common people breaking their backs to sustain their lavish lifestyle. GOJO discriminates against older workers. You reach a certain age there and they either move you into a lame role or let you go.

Upper management makes terrible business decisions, and then places the blame on the workforce, especially sales. Obviously they had a record breaking year in 2020, but sales can't always be through the roof like this. Buying up more warehouse space, ethenol plants, and the desire to continually go green set the company back so far, they did workforce reductions multiple times per year beginning in 2021 to make up for it. When the workforce is cut, remaining employees are expected to "pitch in" and "do your part" for the better of the company, but that means added stress and being overworked. People aren't feeling like part of the family when they aren't getting competitive raises, bonuses are cut due to "low sales" and poor business decisions. Ultimately, the company has either cut a lot of good folks or many of us have left due to the current conditions. Their new "transparent pay" grades are ridiculous, as they basically tell you they're only paying you 75-85% of the midpoint for that role, when the midpoint is questionable compared to that of similar roles at other companies. I would not recommend working here.