Family oriented, but no personal time or sick time - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

3.0
6 Nov 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Laid back environment. No sense of urgency during the month. Managers respect workers. Suggestion box put in for management review

Cons

The end of the month crunch is sometimes impossible because of bad planning and the inability of the company to work with a good planner. Hourly employees have to contend with a point system that doesn't allow them to have sick time or personal time. All and any time taken off comes out of the employees hourly vacation. To many points counts as reason for dismissal. Employees have a suggestion box but mostly the ideas are looked over and given a reason why they can't be done.

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Pros

Great work - life balance

Cons

limited growth opportunities unless willing to relocate

2.0
25 Jun 2026
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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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