Barely the bare minimum - Employee ABM Industries Employee Review

2.0
May 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Some salaried employees are wonderful and a few have even been promoted up internally from employee

Cons

- All talk and no action - Unless forced by a union they will do the bare minimum, including compensation and benefits - complains they can't hire on the ground teams while most interactions with people in the office show there is a lot of fat that could be cut there which makes them accompany you only work for until you find something better - HR specifically seems to hire people under qualified or keep people who have reached the point in their employment that they're simply waiting until retirement - communication between management and leads is abysmal which leads employees to getting jerked around and then also overextended because they can't keep people on but they don't understand it's because of their own actions

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5.0
Apr 17, 2026
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Pros

Great team and culture. People oriented.

Cons

Minimum 4 days in office

2.0
Jul 5, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people who don’t INTEND to cause harm. The company tries to do right by its frontline team members.

Cons

Everybody wants to outwork their co-workers to prove they should stay with the company. The company’s focus is completely muddled and confusing—when I was interviewed and hired, we were focused on facilities services. How did we end up with 98% of our focus on semiconductors, AI, and Data Centers? Eight months into my first year in the job, they did company-wide layoffs, increased our in-office days from 3 to 4, and gave me another person’s job (which I was barely trained for). For the next 7 months, the job became agonizing and torturous. I was expected to act as a director or executive, while being paid the salary and given the permission and ability of the lowest-paid on the team (which is what I was hired to be). The company has shady ways of getting rid of people and expecting everyone to act as if nothing happened. The culture has completely changed, as DEI is not the focus anymore, and it has become increasingly apparent. Finally, always remember, that for ABM, company margins are more important than the talent and people you hire!

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