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
1.0
Sep 14, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Nice product offering. That’s pretty much it.

Cons

The “leadership” is a disaster. They bring in micromanagers to push the most talented, high producing salespeople out. HR and executive leadership likes to demean and turn a blind eye. They say they consider each employee a family “member.” Fortunately this was a “family” I was able to get out of. In the meantime, they will continue to circle the drain while their major competitors continue to gain marketshare.

1.0
Sep 9, 2018

Poor place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The building and office is modern and appealing

Cons

The pay is significantly lower than industry standards, the people back stab and do not work as team players, if you lie and cheat you will be promoted, people gossip non stop and make up rumors about others, management is very unprofessional and this is just a horrible place to work. The leadership team needs to make a lot of changes in order to retain good talent. The turnover rate is also very high. They put way too much value on specific certifications for example, if you do not have X degree or X certification but are an excellent employee with the experience you will not succeed here. They are very hierarchical and are status driven. Entry level people are not valued and they are expected to remain silent and have no voice in meetings. Haworth does not value it's number 1 asset, the employees.

2.0
May 23, 2016

Ok company, poor leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work hours, good pay, a lot of opportunity for career development, as long as you are willing to work for it. Some managers actually do care about their employees.

Cons

Pros are very dependent on your individual manager, so if you're lucky and report to someone decent you're in good shape. If not... Salary can be good, but only if you come in with a good starting salary as raises are pretty low and HR fights against significant changes. So if you start at the low end of the scale for your pay grade, you'll likely always be at the low end. And raises scale based on where you are in your pay grade, so if you do manage to get bumped higher in your grade range, they start cutting your end of year raises. Weak management team, from top to bottom. Executives make a lot of noise, but do not seem capable of managing their departments. Middle managers mostly do what middle managers do: Get in the way, try to prove that they are relevant, fail to add value. Direct supervisors don't want to hold people accountable because they don't want to deal with any sort of conflict. Lots of management, but very little leadership. Company Values feel like lip service to a marketing campaign. Actions speak louder than words.

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