Panduit Reviews in Chicago, IL Area

Pros

free parking- dedicated production employees like I have never seen anywhere else of employment, good location for employment and commute

Cons

low level employees are not respected , politics ,favoritism on reviews and advancement is common
knowledge and accepted by upper management and the older employees are being swept out the door.

Advice to Senior Management

Your Crew classes worked ,your toyota classes worked perhaps too good. Listen to your low level dedicated employees and maybe together you can save hundreds more jobs from being sent
out of our Country.

Pros

Company tries to provide decent benefits.

Cons

Upper management assumes underlings are inferior and stupid.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't ask for input to raise morale. That's shallow and transparent.

Pros

Decent benefits
Ok pay
Close to home
Nice new building to work in

Cons

No room for advancement
No dollars spent on technical training to keep IT knowledge up to date
Lack of recognition
Leader who plays favorites and does not value who works for her - not respected by most of the IT employees
Dread coming to work every day

Advice to Senior Management

Improve leadership, training, and opportunities for advancement

Pros

-It's a good SHORT TERM job
-The pay is good
-Another thing I like about Panduit is that it's like the "scared straight" program. Once you are there for awhile it makes you want to go back to school and try to improve yourself.

Cons

-Too "political"
-Hard to advance / losing too many good employees
-Management makes too many bad decisions
-No acknowledgement
-Extremely low morale

Advice to Senior Management

Promotions are often given to "buddies" instead of the best employee for the job, which in-turn has created this poorly run company. Panduit is too complacent with it's short term "success" and will never grow in the market until it make better, smart business decisions.

Pros

Many coworkers were if similar age, and held similar interests. Very professional workplace.

Cons

The hiring process for me (6 years ago) was atrocious. Slow career and salary advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

...treat your workers with respect and they will respond positively. Try to rid the company of all the "politics"

Pros

* Good people to work with
* Good commute
* Good salary

Cons

* Senior managment rules by fear
* Future of company leaves out core business
* Divided into haves and have nots

Advice to Senior Management

Lead without the iron fist

Pros

its a job better than nothing

Cons

everything is downside treat people bad

Advice to Senior Management

quit

Pros

The pay. The foremen aren't too bad considering their education levels. And the warehouse is pretty clean as far as warehouses go.

Cons

Upper management. HR has no clue what is going on. Ever. They need to be more open to new ideas. They need to stop treating their employees like numbers.

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management needs to communicate better with their employees. They are rarely open to conversation with entry level employees. They also have no idea what the warehouse jobs entail. Many of the foremen don't know what is involved in the Tech I and II positions either.

Pros

co-workers are about the only thing that make it worth coming to work everyday.
not a bad 401k package( as long as they don't take it away again)

Cons

management does what they want, when they want, for who they want.
 each shift does thing differently, each foreman does thing differently, but managenent
wants things to be the same. there is no communcation between foreman and employees.

Advice to Senior Management

listen to your people, i mean really listen!! the survey you have out right now does nothing to let you know how your employees really feel!!

Pros

Commute
Leaving this company - I've heard from many others who are so much happier now that they've move on

Cons

Negativity everywhere
Lack of fairness in treatment - many managers have favorites
Layoffs occurring while promotions and hiring are going on like crazy
New hires get the life sucked out of them & wonder why in the world they joined this horrible company

Advice to Senior Management

Get feedback from your employees, then actually do something about it