Friendly Office Enviornment - Inside Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

4.0
Nov 24, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly environment and people want to genuinely help you succeed.

Cons

Older company can be set in their ways and tradition.

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Graybar Response
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Thanks for your comments. We are happy to hear that you are in a supportive working environment, as that is exactly what we wish to foster at Graybar, being an employee-owned company. Working together helps everyone reap rewards here. We do agree that our long history, while having some amazing parts about it, can also bring challenges. However, we have been making great strides with our digital transformation and adapting our business to the changing world around us.

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