I Bet Your Alcohol Consumption Goes Up After You Work Here (Corporate HQ) - Anonymous employee ManpowerGroup Employee Review

- You are a commodity and nothing more at this place. If people talk about good experiences they've had it is a result of their managers and coworkers, it definitely would not be because of the corporate culture. The COO is a blowhard who you never hear from unless it's to announce yet another brand VP is being let go. In the five years I was there the one constant theme was layoffs in all areas (only slightly offset by the hiring of low wage recruiters in CORE). In the last year they have begun to implement a widespread offshoring strategy, replacing most non-business functions with resources from Indian companies. And while people who lost their jobs to this strategy had to train their replacements to receive their severance, management insulted your intelligence by telling everyone "This is not offshoring so don't call it that" And be careful who you say negative things to. While you most certainly can survive being incompetent at your job, being critical of absurd management choices will warrant far greater consequences. - Dysfunction reigns. This is due to two factors 1) the entire organization operates in their own silos. The different brands might as well be separate corporations, and the few times they have had cross-brand initiatives the execution was a joke. There's a "we'll figure it out later" mentality that derives from absurd deadlines, and no one has the time to sit back and figure out better ways of doing things. Workarounds become the standard process. Even within HQ the various departments are on different planets. Finance dictates everything, no one is left in IT, and HR is there to lick the business leaders' boots. Note that they will try to sell you on all the opportunity an organization of such vast size presents, but because no one works together the only way you discover new "opportunities" outside your department will be strictly on your own. There are no such things as "development plans" no matter how much lip services is paid to them 2) Institutional knowledge dwindles by the day. Layoffs, offshoring, and tons of voluntary turnover have left very few people around who know why things are as messed up as they are. In addition, the headcount reductions did not come with a reduction of workload, so the people left got more of the work, it was done faster/more poorly, or it no longer got done at all. This will only get worse as the latest phase of offshoring takes place. - Leadership is a mess. The largest brand Manpower has had three SVPs in the last five years and Experis just canned theirs. A couple years ago the COO thought it would be a genius move to have global SVP's "double-hat" and also take over North America, stretching them to the limit and creating even more chaos. - They are super cheap when it comes to their technology and systems. They will have several disparate systems where a large all-in-one enterprise system should be in place, and none of them will interface with each other. This leads to all sorts of inefficiencies and manual processes (and then leadership will turn around and use that as an excuse for offshoring when their own cheapness/ignorance is the cause). The brands themselves are all on totally different platforms. God only knows how finance ties it all together. Again, this is another issue with will not get any better as the IT department has been decimated.