Low morale, poor management. Was good in the past...no longer - Manager Howden Group Employee Review

Company appears to be following no strategy, if it is then it seems to change and is privileged information! Colfax is forcing initiatives on Howden that are not suited to Howden's products, markets, customers and nobody in Howden's Senior Management appears to push back on this. Colfax says jump, Howden asks "How High, Sir?"! Constant risk of redundancy as parent company, Colfax, puts the pressure on to cut costs. Those who remain are stretched too far, putting stress on employees to try to achieve more with a lot less. Recent pay rise (1%) is a complete insult to those working hard, while Senior Management enjoy six- and seven-figure salaries. Training and development is non-existent. Constant acquisitions means even more uncertainty surrounding the direction of the company and what it's setting out to do. Recent restructuring to regionalise the Business Units was announced at the end of 2015, yet very little has been agreed on how this will work in practice. This has caused in-fighting and means the customer is not the point of focus. It's almost laughable at how poorly this has been executed.