Sara Lee Reviews

Pros

Flexible in all areas, great management. when you need help or info you get it! Sara lee is a highly respected and excellent place to make a career.

Cons

At times the consumer demand is trying. You also need to tolerant of weather conditions, tho if you get stranded actions are taken immediately to get you moving again.

Advice to Senior Management

none really, its amazing with demand and merge that they keep their heads on straight. when your employed with sara lee you know your part of growing family and are never alone in your duties. Every position of the company is important and is treated so.

Pros

The people and teamwork make it a good place to work; work / life balance is pretty good; pay is OK.

Cons

Promotional opportunities, development plans and pay for performance are non-existent; company has high turnover and does not do a good job in trying to retain talent.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to communicate better and open your eyes to what is occuring internally and externally to this company.

Pros

great customer service, excellent supervisors, clear direction

Cons

limited growth opportunities, lack of foward progress

Pros

Good work/life balance, autonomy, respectful environment

Cons

Company is in constant transition, strangled by processes, workforce recently cut by 30%, workforce is disenganged, employees learn more about the future of the company from the press than from the leadership

Advice to Senior Management

Find a new CEO ASAP

Pros

Compensation is competative and inline with suburban companies remains to be seen how they will step up to be competative with down town firms
Big focus on career development if you want to take advantage of it

Cons

Constant state of reorganization
Lack of decision or clarity from senior management.
Relocation of coprorte offices seems to take place every 6 to 7 years/
Pay freezes or capped merrit regardless of performance
Beuocracy and process fit for a 20B company that we were have not improved for the 4B company we are about to become

Advice to Senior Management

Jan and Marcel have exhibited a complete lack of respect for the current employees. You ask for feedback and input and then do the complete opposite. When the results of the employee survey came back overwhelimingly to keep the headquarters in the general area of Downers Grove and then announce that the preferred location is downtown shows that you have no value for your employees. You justify it by trying to compare the vision of our future to becoming the next Google or Apple...incase you got confused we make sausages and hotdogs, we should be looking to the powerhouses in the FOOD industry, what are they doing right and how we can we attract their top talent. You need a talented and experienced employee base to lead the new fresh talent that you think is lining up for us in the city.

Pros

Great benefits, good opportunities for advancement

Cons

very little structured training and inter-departmental communication

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more resources on training of job related duties rather than the 'feel-good about yourself' training

Pros

The union here is strong, good benefits, great people, Pay is acceptable. Excellent facilities, steady work.

Cons

Need new trucks, the union makes it hard for new people, seniority is everything. Hard work really doesnt add up to much. Promotions are hard to come by.

Advice to Senior Management

a little reward for hard work would be nice.

Pros

fun, caring, good listener, energetic, creative

Cons

negative, lazy, disrespectful, blunt, naive

Advice to Senior Management

stay strong

Pros

diversity good and employee competence usually rewarded

Cons

long hours and some of the management reward their friends

Advice to Senior Management

train better

Pros

Great Brand Recognition
Collaborative Environment
Opportunities to take on more responsibility
Opportunities for Networking

Cons

Uncertainty about the future of the company.
Speculation regarding divestitures.
Departments operate a little too lean.
Perhaps the emphasis on speed-to-market has led to hasty desicions.

Advice to Senior Management

Address speculation early to reduce insecurities of the employees' futures with the company, regardless of whether the outcome is good or bad.