Haworth reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(515 total reviews)
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Franco Bianchi

70% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Haworth has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 515 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Haworth employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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515 reviews
2.0
Nov 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Acceptable payment, beautiful office, most employees are hard-working.

Cons

Terrible management, low-level teamplay, ancient process-handling and tools. Despite the size and past of the company the management is very old-fashioned, overpaid and has no clue about how to lead a company in the XXI. century. Maybe Haworth US is a powerful and modern company, but Haworth EU works like a mid-age farm: leaders are just pulling the milk from the cows (current market position and employees) and they don't care if they kill the sources of their success. In the other hand the company is still able to make growth and big money - I don't know how because products are not outstanding, just "simply good". Employees are unmotivated, devaluated. Some of them are silo-thinkers. Internal processes are very bad. Teams in different departments and locations don't really talk to each other, often don't even know how the company structure looks like. Managers don't make efforts to change it, they rather do the "divide and conquer" tactics (or rather they don't even know that someting is missing). No good plans, no workflows, no development. It's very typical that Haworth has money to buy really expensive and powerful computers for the employees but the operation system's security settings are so strict that these computers works like a low- or middle-level one. Not even the software engineers has the authorization to simply install things on their computers. Motivating is also a weak side of the company. Managers are well-paid, but outstanding employees don't receive an extra bonus or a pay raise, they just get a mumbo jumbo like a trip or an extra 50$ per month.

2.0
Aug 30, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Global diversity, outstanding blend of cultures, passion to serve its customers with superior architectural solutions.

Cons

This company does not respect work/life balance. Because of its self-announced global presence, you will be forced to take conference calls either very late at night or at 6:00 am in the morning as a token of committment. Lack of integrated systems demands several routines to be performed in word or excel forms. Swing ERP system installed in Asia Pacific is a major setback to agility in internal processes.Co-existence of manufacturing and catalogue codes requires huge amount of time from dealers to decipher an invoice.

2.0
Sep 29, 2010

Haworth

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Incredible potential to bring greater value to customers and real innovation to the market. Great changes made since 2004. Enormous opportunity to be a true leader.

Cons

Bureaucratic. Unable to reinvent itself, break free of past and really shift old paradigms. A lot is said that is good but the actions do not seem to go far enough.

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