Great Intentions - Terrible Execution - Anonymous employee SC Johnson Employee Review

2.0
Jan 2, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Private family held company. Fisk. Gene, and the rest of the family truly seem to care about the company and the employees.

Cons

* Externally hired executive level managers are complete hypocrites. Ridiculous demands, no respect for employees or work/life balance. Current view of working level employees - with very little understanding of the business and regulations, they made promises to Fisk they cannot keep. Every day is a new fire drill - complete with a firing squad to bury today's scapegoat. * No empowerment to make decisions below executive level. Projects continue long after no one on the project team believes in them. * No consideration of available resources - no new project is too low a priority. Lack of focus is perpetuating the lack of true innovation projects as creative resources wasted on fixing past issues (lack of documentation, splintered non-global oversight, new internal regulatory limits, etc). * No decisions ever certain - too many zombie projects. Project killed one day, revived months later. * Teams dinged for not following new processes - when the demands to bypass them come directly from executive level decisions.

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SC Johnson Response
9y
We’re glad you like SCJ’s intentions and think we hire good people….and hear you that you feel execution could be better. We do read all feedback provided here, and appreciate that you took time to share your advice.

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