Acuity Brands Reviews

Pros

Very flexible work environment.
Life work balance is very good for most employees.

Cons

Acuity Brands Lighting owns Peerless Lighting. Acuity is a large corporation that provides very poor benefits to employees and very little HR support.

Pros

This is a union environment. People on the floor are easy to work with. Good pay for people who live locally.

Cons

Very stressful. People with no family should only apply. Extreme amount of overtime for salaried and hourly. Seems to be a lot of "fibbing" to new hires about hours required to work.

Advice to Senior Management

Crawfordsville plant needs to be evaluated. Cursing and name calling from management to employees. This is unethical. Ask questions discreetly to a range of people, hourly and salary. You will be surprised. Not a good situation. Many medical issues due to stress

Pros

People at Acuity value the work they do and take pride in the products

Cons

Keeping people in the dark about the plans for the future of the company

Advice to Senior Management

Work on retaining valuable people

Pros

work isn't to hard for the money

Cons

benefits are very poor. Insurance is high if you have a family and it doesn't pay well. no bonuses for safety, christmas, or anything else.

Advice to Senior Management

reward your employees for jobs well done. all the money you are getting by taking away things from us like paper towel and all the money from recycling could be put into christmas bonuses or safety bonuses.

Pros

Great Brands, Powerful position in the market, opportunity for improvement

Cons

Very political culture
In decisive
Lack of direction

Advice to Senior Management

Great brands and great opportunities for growth. Need to stay focused and leadership should be more visible.

Pros

Lean Manufacturing
Flexible work schedule
Fair pay

Cons

Bad application of Lean. You are supposed to reallocate resources freed up by Lean success - not fire them!

Advice to Senior Management

Live by a true Lean philosphy - don't just use Lean as a cost cutting tool. Start thinking long term instead of just worrying about the next quarterly profit statement.

Pros

Location, respect, salary and benefits are decent.

Cons

Layoffs, panicky leadership, not much room for upward growth

Advice to Senior Management

Relax about the economy and let the numbers fall below "record best" for a little while. Savings jobs is more important than beating last years numbers.

Pros

Location, location, location-not Atlanta traffic.

Cons

The annual layoffs right at review time is unnerving to say the least.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop the talk of layoffs at annual review time. It is becoming a bad habit.

Pros

Friendly people. Profit sharing. Reverse commute if you live in Atlanta.

Cons

Several different leaders over the past few years - rate of change is fast.

Advice to Senior Management

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