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      SC Johnson

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      SC Johnson reviews

      3.8

      72% would recommend to a friend

      (1,512 total reviews)
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      H. Fisk Johnson

      78% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      SC Johnson has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,512 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SC Johnson 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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      2K reviews
      1.0
      Sep 3, 2021

      Do not work here

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      some lower level people are nice

      Cons

      I feel very unsafe working here. They treat COVID as a joke, but use the excuse that the situation is ever changing and that they’ve invested lots of money into the office to make a safe workspace. However the reality of it is that they did rent out an additional floor in the building to “spread out”, yet not a SINGLE employee sits on that floor. The floor is empty. We used to have town halls where an employee could anonymously ask questions, but when employees started asking about COVID workplace safety policies, upper management took away the anonymous option leading to employees being frightened of losing their jobs, so therefore no more COVID questions were being asked. In town halls where employees did have the courage to write in a question related to COVID, questions related to workplace safety and RTO were blatantly skipped. It was an on your honor system of not wearing a mask in the office if you were vaccinated. Now everyone has to wear a mask due to increasing rates, yet I have since heard of employees who were NOT vaccinated and not wearing masks. SCJ doesn’t seem to care. Not a family company culture at all. Only expect to get a respectable promotion if you kiss up to management. Otherwise, expect pennies. Morale is terribly low around the office. Not a fun place to work.

      2.0
      Sep 1, 2022

      Depressing

      Anonymous employee
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits are good. renovated office building, nice cafeteria.

      Cons

      - Pay is not that great - work from home policy sucks, you only get to work from home 1 day a week and need to live 20 miles or more away. Stupid WFH policy, especially for having to commute to the Racine downtown location. Nobody lives in Racine, it's a sketchy city with too many bad neighborhoods. Why would I need to commute everyday to do a job I can do at home and be more efficient at it than doing it at the office?? - After COVID, all the talent left the company, and a huge number of the workforce is new to SCJ. Nobody sticks around for more than 2 years, everyone leaves because of the WFH policy. It gets really depressing when you work and see all these ppl leaving. - Onboarding is not smooth, and you just get left there to "figure it out" because the talents that were supposed to train you left the company. - the open concept office environment sucks. You can't focus doing your own work and it seems that everyone can see your monitor, making it hard to work on confidential work. Or if you decide to take a 5 minute break, it will seem that you are not working.

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      SC Johnson Response
      3y
      Thank you for the review. At SC Johnson, our Total Rewards team consistently benchmarks our salary and benefits packages to ensure we’re aligned with markets and industry. We strive to create a positive, inclusive and unique workplace. Core to our efforts to be a best place to work are the contributions of SCJ people. We strongly believe SCJ people are able to achieve their best when they can collaborate and work together in person. We recognize this may not be the preference of some and appreciate that may be the case, but we are committed to maintaining our unique culture by attracting and retaining SCJ people who are aligned with our common values and purpose of working for a better world. We acknowledge there are always opportunities for improvement that should be considered. We welcome and encourage you to connect with your manager or local HR for a deeper discussion.
      2.0
      Oct 8, 2021

      A Relic of the Past

      Project manager
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      Pros

      Many great people, globally and in Racine, at functional and manager level 401K (You will not find better) Opportunities for global projects and travel Holiday Shutdown

      Cons

      Leadership (meaning Sr Director, VP, and up) that has no vision, no strategy, no idea what it means to manage a brand and company in 2021. In my time with the company, every new launch has been in response to a competitor, never being the innovator. Worst of all, I think the leadership are okay with being that way. WFH policy is an embarrassment. If you live 25 miles away, you are 'given the opportunity' to work remotely on a Friday. If you are 24 miles away, you are not given that opportunity. WFH doesn't really matter though: expect Friday in-person meetings because it is the only time people are free, and are scheduled by people who live within the 25 mile radius. 'Butts in seats' was always SCJ's core principles, as seen in their rabid desire to prevent working from home; the 'family' and the uppermost leadership love nothing more than seeing their ants working away in the office to 'pop in on'. However, COVID and 2020 took this to a new level. The upper leadership attempted to bring people back in June 2020, and continued to prove their ineptitude in this regard by pushing it back a month at a time until April. Joining the #blessed Leadership at SCJ mandates that you become a steamroller who rudely disregards everyone else. Common phrases to practice yelling at others are "that is not acceptable", "why was this not done in the first place", and "why can [competitor] do it and we can't" (the answer to that last one is Con #1 above minus 1 year of timeline. Yearly holiday vacation must be used by July, and renews in June. This means people dump a significant amount of vacation in the early summer, which shuts the company down. Move it to the end of year holiday time.

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      SC Johnson Response
      4y
      Thank you for your comments. We are proud to offer SCJ people the benefits and opportunities you mentioned in addition to many other offerings. Because we make decisions with careful consideration for the environment and the families who use our products, we recognize that at times, it may feel as though we aren’t moving fast enough. We believe in committing the necessary time and effort to collaborate cross-functionally to ensure we’re meeting customers’ needs and delivering the appropriate strategies, programs and solutions for our business. We strongly believe SCJ people are able to achieve their best when they can collaborate and work together in person. We recognize this may not be the preference of some and appreciate that may be the case. But we are committed to maintaining our unique culture by attracting and retaining SCJ people who are aligned with our common values and purpose of working for a better world.
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