Management needs to change. Employees should be more respected. - IB2 Emerson Employee Review

2.0
Sep 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the best coworkers I have ever worked with.

Cons

Management is terrible as well as HR. There is a lot of favoritism and discrimination. Employees are treated poorly and management is treated like royalty. For the employee appreciation day management gets good food and beer and everyone else gets hot dogs. Absolutely ridiculous. They are on a hiring freeze and wont hire temps to full time even though they say you can apply after 4 months.

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2.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
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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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