Fortune Brands Innovations reviews

Just an ok place to work

The decision to gut the company and force everyone to move to Chicago was garbage. The 'corporate' employees of the former holding company were based in Chicago along with the CEO. All of the people that actually ran the brands and made them successful (design, marketing, innovation, testing, operations) were based in their historic headquarters offices around the country that are now closing. With the move to Chicago, they are replacing all of these tenured people with nearly all new employees all at the same time. The turnover rate is terrible and the company is intentionally getting rid of those that made it successful. In addition, there's the now-typical corporate America quarterly org restructures and big yearly layoffs so there's no job security. If you are a legacy employee and move to Chicago, you have to train all the new people and see your former coworkers leave + pick up the slack. If you are new, you have no one left to train you so you are starting from scratch. Also, hard to get promoted; a lot of the legacy women leaders have been replaced by men.