Brady Reviews

Pros

Core company culture and values are excellent.
Wide variety of markets and businesses under one corporate entity makes for possibility of more interesting job assignments.
Historically strong brand and market reputation.

Cons

Company has run out of ideas to grow business organically and now the main strategy is to acquire companies. Hardly counts as "Bold".
Company was once very strong in innovation, R&D. Some signs of that coming back to life, but nowhere near previous levels of success.
Overall compensation gap between the "Club" at the top and the rest of the managers pulling the work load has widened by an obscene amount.
In addition, executive management will go out of their way to take care of themselves, even when things aren't going so well for the rest of the employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Dig deep and reassess what made the company a great force in the markets and a great place to work and try to recapture that before its too late.

Pros

Lack of accountability makes this an easy job to wittle away a number of mind numbing years, though not much room for fullfillment

Cons

Senior managemnt is unwilling or unable to make a decision or to communicate a formal policy or plan. Future prospects are dim.

Pros

Friendly people
Many employees have been with the company a long time--lots of deep knowledge

Cons

Lots of hours and competing project priorities

Pros

Friendly office environment.
Process based company. Brady has good internal systems (SAP) for product managment, order processing and reporting.
High quality standards for products.

Cons

Brady used to be very employee orientated. Great Benefits and an excellent record of hiring from within and recognition. That all changed over the past few years. Benefits have withered and the costs have skyrocketed. Company wide layoffs are a regular event and most people fear for their jobs most of the time.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve communication throughout the company. Position changes are rarely announced. Employees find it hard to know who is in charge of what. Bring back benefits packages worthy of a company this size.

Pros

income is the best ever

Cons

too many hours to work

Advice to Senior Management

less hours

Pros

Great products, Great innovation, Global approach to Safety,

Cons

Follow through of management in regards to bonuses

Pros

Passionate people, good pay, ability to move up quickly, great company to start out and many people stay for a long time

Cons

Management can be biased, Social cliques, Siloed, You need to be a certain personality to do well and this may not be fitting

Advice to Senior Management

Be more open with lower level personnel and think about the possible benefits of investing on lower management vs upper

Pros

Location is nice. Plant is clean.

Cons

Everything from HR to benefits to IT etc. etc. is outsourced. It is ridiculous to get a problem solved if you are an employee as you must call another country essentially. Used to be a great place, now just too many paranoid managers and high level management wannabees. Used to have a great cafeteria, library, resources... now that's all gone. Everything is now farmed out to China. Products had at one time a lot of loving care, now the push for new products at all cost comprimises quality.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop making every stuffed shirt a director. There are more than enough layers of managers and non-working Dilbert types. There was a great culture there 10 years ago. Now it's over run by kids out of finance school and non-techies.

Pros

Due to its relative small company size, you get to take on tasks that might not be possible with much larger MNCs, good for professional growth.
Office politics are there but less complicated compared to other companies.
Friendly place to work. Great co-workers.

Cons

Frequent direction changes at Management level; too impatient to wait for results.
Management believes that the big quantum leap will come from hiring people from big MNCs, always ended up hiring drop-outs from declining big brands.
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Advice to Senior Management

Set realistic, not lofty goals, don't just try to please the wall streets. Stop wasting money on consultants. Big change will come from some change out of the top management team. Believe in giving opportunities to middle management that has been loyal to the company

Pros

Most of the people are friendly
Great benefits, started first day of work
Suburban location with plenty of parking
Pay is decent for the area.

Cons

Speaking up or asking a question makes you look like a troublemaker-this is a VERY passive group of employees
There were some workplace privacy issues-part of the reason why I left
No work/life balance-be at work no matter what!!!
There was a factory on site-lots of health issues among employees
Younger, less educated employees were usually the ones promoted first
Difficult employees "kicked upstairs"

Advice to Senior Management

Promote from within, respect your employes' privacy and work/life balance