R.R. Donnelley Reviews

Pros

Management let's you do your job without any over reaching supervision.

Cons

Health benefits lousy and pension is no more.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve health benefits. Provide better info on what is going on in company....good and bad.

Pros

The employees here are friendly and if you are lucky, you will find a few who are extremely intelligent with your best interests in mind. However, they are few and far between.

Cons

Poor communication among management as well as between management and employees of the company. Tom Quinlan is a good CEO but needs to be aware of certain members of his c-suite who are ineffective and poor managers. Day to day work is unfullingly and meaningless. Only work here if you want a dead-end job.

Pros

You get a paycheck. And get to feed your family.

Cons

Management does not take care of their employees at all. You paycheck is all you get

Pros

The people become your family. A lot of great people work here, but you know them so well because of all the time you have to spend at the factory in order to make a living.

Cons

Overtime, overtime, and more overtime. Management can not be trusted. They don't tell you anything until it is too late or after it has been leaked.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees like the people they are! They are not your stepping stones! You need to treat them like they are not stupid little kids

Pros

Work with some outstanding and talented people who really do care.

Cons

Management is too busy "micro-managing" our jobs. They don't take care of their own and it shows.

We work with the constant fear of being let go; not a great way to start your day everyday.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat employees with respect.

Don't keep us in the dark about important day-to-day information that's needed for our jobs.

Pros

flexible work schedule
Nice/Understanding management
Nice people

Cons

Horrible Pay
Declining Industry
WAY too many acquisitions

Advice to Senior Management

One of the problems with RRD is they are the leader in a dying industry. Look at some of the things they print...books, magazine, telephone books, catalogs, credit card statements, checks, and annual reports. While they've tried to expand into non-print areas, it's mostly failed. They try to apply the RRD way to a non-RRD industry. I would describe the "RRD Way" is to spend the least amount in investment, hire insiders to run areas they don't know about, and hope for the best.

RRD is a great company, but they seriously need to trim the fat and aim at becoming a high productivity environment. Most young people see the writing on the wall and bail. So you are left with mostly people that are too lazy to go anywhere else.

Pay is not great, medical is ok, and there's no 401k match. But that's not really RRD's problem. They have too many employees in a dying industry and it's hard to make money.

Pros

Pay was very good for area. Cross departmental communication was a big plus. Most individuals really cared about how their contribution made us better.

Cons

Overall compensation was bad and getting worse. Benifits decined every year in some way. Ever since the Moore - Wallace team took over control of Donnelley the level of confidence in corp. management has diminished severly. The overall management style at my facility from VPM to line supervision became an indication that things had changed in a not so positive way. Mooronnelley as we came to know it has become an employer of dischoice in our community.

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up before you kill a corporation that has a long storied history.

Pros

You aren't required to have vast experience – you’ll acquire the experience you need as you work (they just don't want you to let customers know). Of course it doesn't hurt to have knowledge but it's not mandatory. If you're lucky to have a supervisor or manager that like you, you'll get loads of perks. If you make a mistake that costs the company money, management have clever ways of hiding it so that you won’t get into trouble. You get paid for working overtime - as much as you like (your supervisor has to approve the overtime - which if you’re one of the chosen ones, isn’t a problem). If you don't make it obvious to others, you can get extra days off that aren't counted against your vacation. You’ll be invited to attend baseball games, tours at vendors that take up to 5 hours of time – so you end up working half days but get paid for the whole day.

Cons

Employees encouraged to tattle on coworkers - an atmosphere of pointing fingers. Upper management supports that behavior.

Advice to Senior Management

The message is consistent, when you read other reviews - but you have to be open minded and that's not something that comes easy for RRD managers.

Pros

The immediate managers are flexible and understanding with work / life balance schedules.

Cons

The management tends to have a Micro management style.

Advice to Senior Management

In one word - Empower.

Pros

They have some awesome people to work with.
They have some major accounts and you can get get good experience working with them, but don't plan on making it a career.

Cons

Work/Life balance is skewed.
Management does not care about employees and doesn't listen. They have an open door policy, but don't believe it. They use it to weed out employees and use it to get rid of them or punish them.