Pitney Bowes Reviews

Pros

I struggle to come up with a reason to work there now
The pay and benefits are good; but, for how long?

Cons

Frequent layoffs
Expensive place to live
Sliding stock price
No clear vision on growth
Management says one thing but does another - Ex: We are done with layoffs, then there are layoffs
Unwilling to spend money to develop products internally

Advice to Senior Management

Stop doing broad cuts to reduce head count to match projected income.
Understand the relation between development manpower and continued income.
Instead of cutting heads, figure out how to reduce margin and drive growth.

Pros

Pitney Bowes does a good job balancing work/life priorities and community involvement. I believe the pay structure is very competetive.

Cons

The last three years have seen the company go from being proactive to reactive. Instead of relying on it's greatest asset - employees and their innovation - it has continuously cut that asset for quick cost reduction to salvage the stock price.

Advice to Senior Management

I would offer advise to current leadership but it would fall on deaf ears. Instead, I would advise the Board of Directors to disqualify the CEO from being the Chairman of the Board. You need the counterbalance of the two positions to keep a company moving in the right direction.

Pros

The people are good to work with.

Cons

Pay is low, raises are minimal to non-existent. They moved everyone in Shelton up to Danbury with no compensation for the longer, more expensive commute. No job security -- the work force has been cut drastically in the past few years.

Advice to Senior Management

Sell a few really good products instead of the jumble of so-so things that aren't selling.

Pros

Great name and market share. Takes care of their employees.

Cons

Constant changes with no strategy or idea of where the company is heading. Poor leadership who operates independently. Not collaborative.

Advice to Senior Management

Breakdown barriers and hire leaders from within. All great company promote from within their ranks.

Pros

Good work / life balance
Excellent team members
Challenging projects and assignments

Cons

Declining Industry
Declining Revenue
Lack adopting and using best technologies and software

Pros

Great work to life balance. Great teams of professions to work with. Oppurtunity to learn and grow as a professional. Benefits cannot be beat. Pay is "okay" but benefits make up for it.

Cons

Unstable economy=corp. office laying off everyone and anyone who knows what they are doing. Scarey place to work these days. Raises are insulting at this company...more work with less pay.

Advice to Senior Management

To much upper management. Stop offshoring tasks to india and the phillipines. Our customers hate it and we are losing them. Start holding middle management accountable for horrrid performance.

Pros

Tenure of many employees is amazing

Cons

More changes in the last 3 years than in the last 90 years!

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to what others have posted.

Pros

Competitive salary or hourly wage.
Fast paced work environment, never boring.
Solid infrastructure with strong leadership.
Outstanding benefits and starting vacation.

Cons

Very big with a strong corporate feel.
Sometimes feel like a number, not a person.
Very minimal bonuses (if any), poor salary yearly increases.

Advice to Senior Management

Talent acquisition should be a higher priority, and once you've discovered solid employees make effort to promote from within. There are opportunities for people to advance, I would prefer to see leadership taking more pride in this.

Pros

Great experience, offer good training, benefits are good, tuition assistance, good pay perks if you can get an on site gig, information about jobs and machines readily available, great website.

Cons

Management out of touch, held a meeting telling us we lost customers and we should take advantage of the tuition assistance program, very strong clique atmosphere,HR investigates but it still remains. very sad. I only have a few years left but new guys coming in don't have much of a future unless changes happen soon.

Advice to Senior Management

Telling how great we are doing and having 4 billion in debt lowered credit rating and 100,000 lost customers is not facing reality. You have to keep up morale, do it by having a plan for our future and showing us the future of the company.

Pros

Good benefits, good vacation time when you have seniority

Cons

They've cut so much that the job is almost impossible and everyone is wondering which day will be your last. It's a very unhealthy environment to work in. I used to love my job and in a few short years I've grown to hate it and I don't know a single person that likes their job anymore. It's sad because it's a company I expected to work at for the next 10-15 years and it really pains me to be looking for another job.

Advice to Senior Management

The endless cutting has to stop. You have lost, and will continue to lose, knowledge that can't be regained with the tenure of people you've burned out and made to hate their jobs. You reward people with good performance by eliminating their jobs and telling them it wasn't a performance based decision. How does that make any sense? The company has such a rich history, but the future is so uncertain. The overall culture is that we're all on a sinking ship. I've gone from praying I didn't get a package to hoping I'm the next one let go with a package. Very very sad.