3M reviews

3M's top leadership and BOD's commitment to their strategy, initiatives, and people has suffered greatly since about 2015. The company has fallen on hard times financially and has replaced much of its highly talented leadership with outsiders who do not understand how to make the company successful. They have come to rely on consultants to come in and sell them a bill of goods on what needs to be done only to discover that the recommendations are infeasible to actually carry out within the time and budget allocated. Instead of retooling and working it out, leadership rather conducts yet another reorganization and lays off thousands of good and talented people. They've lost the reigns and do not know how to operate a large, diversified company whose strong suit of product and technology innnovations has been lost. Very sad to see a previously great company falter as 3M has.

A lot of radical changes are taking place too fast. In general most of the changes make sense in strategical terms, but there is the feeling the company is rushing to get them done, and then new changes come that conflict with changes that haven't finalized. There have been restructuring measures essentially once a year over the last 5 years, all of them obeying to distinct strategies and situations and impacting different areas of the company, but overall sentiment from people I know is that there is no longer any sense that your job is secure. Many of these changes are announced with so little detail that people can't even start to understand them; this feels like lack of transparency and that leaders would rather not let employees know what is happening to have them under their control.