USG Reviews

Current Employee – been working at USG

Pros – Great people work here
Company provides a lot of opportunites for laterial moves

Cons – Middle Management in position because of years of service not quality of work
no real advancement opportunities
several workforce reductions and no Manager, ever seem to get cut, too much work for lower level employees.
salary freeze since 2008
Sr. level managers keep getting longer titles and promotions

Advice to Senior Management – Provide career paths
Do something about middle management
provide at minimum cost of living increases

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at USG

Pros – Outststanding people. Great work-life balance. Perfect location & office environment. Highest level of integrity.

Cons – Waiting for housing market rebound. Career and comp on hold. People are pension locked and just waiting for retirement.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't wait for the market. Get serious about change. This is the new normal!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at USG

Pros – Solid management who cared about employees
Great location in downtown Chicago

Cons – Overbuilding causing negative outlook and layoffs
Some of the work was repetitive
Things could get boring sometimes

Advice to Senior Management – I think,despite having been laid off, that management has the right strategy to weather the economic outlook. I look forward to possibly being hired back someday.

Current Employee – been working at USG

Pros – - Excellent people with many years of experience
 - Everyone is willing to help/friendly environemtn
 - Pension plan

Cons – - promotions are based on favoritism rather than actual performance.
 - HR DOES NOT act as YOUR advocate
 - huge difference in pay between managers and regular employees
 - most managers have their jobs only because of who they know and how long they have been
   employed.
 - low pay

Advice to Senior Management – - terrible communication and tone from the top coming from the senior management team
 - many efforts are duplicated within the company
 - work force reductions have demoralized the company

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at USG

Pros – The People are the best

Cons – The vendors are at times hard to work with

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at USG

Pros – Many employees have been there a long, long time.
Everyone is very friendly with each other.
Interesting work for minimal amount of employees left.
Company is pro-lateral moves in career
Work/Life balance
Location of HQ

Cons – Pay
Company depends on housing market
Not many opportunities to advance
Many layoffs
Did I mention, pay!!

Advice to Senior Management – Take care of what is left of the actual workers in the company. If your not giving out bonuses/merit increases, don't take them yourselves.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at USG

Pros – Market leader, work-life balance, compensation and benefits

Cons – Lack of career growth and personal development. Lack of performance management and accountability.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop waiting for the market to improve. Instead, tackle the core issues.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at USG

Pros – Good products and a safe work enviroment

Cons – Company continues to struggle thru tough economic times.
Payroll discrepencies favor newer employees over long term employees
Limited short term opportunities for advancement

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at USG

Pros – good integrity , quality people, High quality products with good service levels, Benefit packages are excellent and leadership at the high levels are strong

Cons – Business is very cyclic tied to housing starts this makes long term planning for strategic efforts difficult and employee retention tenuous.

Advice to Senior Management – All though many of the outdated less qualified peope have been eliminated recently, some still need to be gotten rid of.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at USG

Pros – The pay and benefits are OK. Really good if you want to work at night and go to college during the day because they will pay for your tuition. Good safety programs, however employees are rarely involved in their implementation which makes everyone unhappy if normal practice has to be changed.

Cons – Too many changes happens on a daily basis, whatever management wants it will be done regardless of what employees think or their input.
Management is so fake, they tell you,
'feel free to tell us your opinions we will listen' but at the same time they avoid those that raise good questions and concerns in the meetings.
The supervisory team is so biased, you cant move up to the next levels unless they like you. No equal opportunities for advancement.

Advice to Senior Management – Open your eyes guys (management) we are very unhappy out here on the floor. We won't say anything because of fear of retaliation through layoffs. Think about this, most people have resorted to going back to school while others are investing their hard earned money in buying lottery tickets, as groups, in hopes that they can walk away from the misery. That should tell you how bad people want out but the only thing stopping them from leaving is the money. Compensation alone has never motivated people, remember from your management courses if you took any.
Really won't be a bad job if you just want to go to college and leave after wards, I heard it will be more like a full ride scholarship.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend