Burt's Bees Reviews

Pros

its a nice place to work

Cons

theres just too many bees

Pros

Production is only 4 days a week

Cons

Engineering works Fridays and Saturday 50% of the year.

Pros

Constant work. Not a place if you dont want to stay busy.

Cons

Dont be late! Each minute cost production.

Advice to Management

Give employees more opportunity

Pros

Great Brand. Great people. Fun category.

Cons

Myopic focus. Not risk takers. Category isn't growing the way it was 5 years ago.

Advice to Management

Create NEW categories to enter into. Focus on adjacent categories. Minimize investment in Lip products as they are defining the where the company can play now in the eyes of the consumer.

Pros

Great company culture Does what is good for everyone Free products

Cons

You always stay very busy

Pros

Great culture! Fantastic leadership. Products you can believe in and promote.

Cons

Owned by Clorox, so integration took many jobs away from area. They have worked to keep brand whole, but the integration came at a cost to many departments.

Advice to Management

Keep the Burt's culture alive! I loved working there and would return if a position opened up.

Pros

Great environment and group of people to work with. Burt's Bees is a great company that practice what they preach.

Cons

None that I can think of.

Pros

4 day week. Insurance is competitive, co workers are good.

Cons

Mgmt is the biggest problem. No obvious leadership and priorities are on the least important things. Good place if you don't mind having "leaders" that truly know less than most of their subordinates. This is one reason turnover is unusually high. "Do as I say, not as I do" atmosphere.

Advice to Management

If you talk the talk, walk the walk. When you don't, you lose credibility and respect. That's where we are now. It could easily be a good job- you really need to change the culture on day shift if you want to retain intelligent, talented people. Some groups of employees try to run new people away if they are not like them. It's just their insecurity and fear that these people will take their jobs because of the... language barrier. I have experienced it every day when I started. That's the truth and they have ran away some good people. Pay attention to the "leaders" you trust to run the floor- there are some major problems with some of them. We also need a training program. What we have is lacking at best and dangerous at worst. Not just anyone can be an effective trainer and that is a problem. There's no real system- just paperwork that most people pencil whip. It's going to be a real problem one day. Please stop recognizing people that everyone on the floor knows are incompetent. It really does hurt morale. Talk with different people on the floor instead of the same old ones and you'll get a better perspective. I do hope you will think about this. I do believe most upper mgmt people are really smart and do the right thing. The leadership on the floor leaves a LOT to be desired. They really need to understand their actual role and not try to overstep their bounds. Type A personalities don't always make good leaders. If you can't interact with people and lead by example, they will resist anything you do. I sincerely hope you will at least think about this. If not, I guess its status quo for us.