Pitney Bowes Management Services Reviews

Pros

The people you work with tend to be pretty nice. not really much office drama.
they work with me as i go to school with my hours.
they also have good benefits and good school programs

Cons

management always makes promises that they dont keep
hard manual work.

Advice to Senior Management

just keep your words. if you say your going to do something then do it

Pros

Pitney Bowes would be a good company to work for if one were attempting to show experience when building their resume.

Cons

Pitney Bowes as a corporation is designed to be fair to the employees. However, there are few jobs where one can advance to the next level. Perhaps my opinion is biased based on what I have seen with my particular team.

Pros

Great people, good time off benifits

Cons

Very limited opportunities for career growth

Advice to Senior Management

The next 16 months will make or break PBMS - it will either flourish into something else - or continue the downward spiral

Pros

Great Benefits, Lots of choice time off and holidays off. other employees are easy and fun to work with. hours are great as well.

Cons

Pay is not competitive, management questions you about everything as if you stole something and you are constantly watched. Lack of leadership.

Advice to Senior Management

I have watched some very good employees leave PB because they all say the same thing "the high stress that the managers put on you does not match up with the low pay that they give you". Thus is why this company cannot retain any of there employees for more that a couple of years and are now losing some long time employees. Raises for employees working at PB for more then 10 years were .11 cents. That is a slap in the face. PB is always hiring because people are always leaving. My advice to management is to stop thinking you can "crack the whip" and actually treat your employees with respect and they will always work hard for you.

Pros

Freedom to manage territory/clients as you see fit as long as you are producing. PB name opens some doors in an "I didn't know you did that way".

Cons

Under siege by competitors who are using PBs constant "strategic transformation" as an opportunity to steal clients. Constant tinkering with sales strategy/direction leaves most in field wondering what the next change will be. No training structure at all. A near constant effort to right-size based on reaction to revenue projections. Most don't make it through the red tape.

Advice to Senior Management

Finish the tinkering and start pushing a strategic vision to the field. Realize that business growth happens by adding sales people not by making operational cuts. Commit to a plan and stick with it. Constant change is not healthy for business.

Pros

There are a good amount of discounts available through the company.

Cons

Our hours were cut and it will never come back.
Our differencial was cut and it will never come back.
Our medical coverage gets worse and worse each year, and every year the cost goes up.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend money on positive incentives for employees.

Pros

Decent pay, good people for the most part. The hours and benefits were very typical, overall a good experience. Would recommend.

Cons

I worked at a contracting site, where management didn't really know everything that went on. There were no issues, but some people were doing everything while others slacked and it went unrecognized.

Advice to Senior Management

Take more initiative to understand lower level employees and the work that is being done at contracting sites. Overall a good company.

Pros

Operations and sales employees are a qualified, experienced and interesting group of people. Work/life balance.

Cons

Sales management has very little involvement with clients or prospective clients, therefore limited knowledge of clients' initiatives and issues. Sales management has little knowledge of Pitney Bowes services capabilities. Sales management lacks sales experience and business professionalism resulting in poor sales perforformance.

Advice to Senior Management

Restructure sales management with proven performers.

Pros

paycheck hours benefits etc etc

Cons

all most everything else especially micromanagement

Pros

Flexibility to work agile when necessary. Great avenue to gain experience both good and bad.

Cons

Completely underpaid. The company does not effectively know how to do a root cause analysis, nor do make any attempt to fix issues upstream where it would be most cost effective. There is no managing the clients demands.

Advice to Senior Management

Fix the issues at the root cause, bring back the acceptance/importance of a quality/lean methodology like Six Sigma or 5S. Make leadership accountable. Spend money on REAL innovation, don't wait for customers to agree to innovation before investing.