Avery Dennison Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Avery Dennison full-time for more than a year

Pros – - good if you would like to learn account management
- almost no politics, this is very rare for a 500 ppl office with lots of departments and management layers
- good employee relationship
- benefit is not bad
- good training

Cons – - too much internal communications, sometimes frustrating if you wanna get something done quickly
- lots of emails
- your success mostly depends on what kind of accounts you are assigned to
- I work OT a lot

Advice to Senior Management – stop restructuring all the time.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Avery Dennison full-time for more than a year

Pros – It's a global company and well-known in the market place.

Cons – Lots of workload and usually work over time.

Advice to Senior Management – Take care your teammate and be helpful all the time. Able to complete multi tasks in difficult working environment.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Avery Dennison full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Senior Leadership takes care to develop and deploy well thought out improvement strategies. Solid efforts are made to develop key personnel.

Cons – Deteriorating business has resulted in high turnover.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Avery Dennison full-time

Pros – Global organization with world class talent, progressive learning environment with strong benefit package, opportunity to advance, diverse talent and willingness to develop strengths

Cons – Large company with a level of bureaucracy common in Fortune 500 companies. Turnover rate is relatively high especially in mid to upper management levels with typical political alliances.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop shedding talented managers with diverse ideas. Focus on those who deliver results versus those who talk about the next big plan for recovering.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Avery Dennison full-time

Pros – Strong focus on financial results.

Cons – Lacks organizational commitment to innovation.

Advice to Senior Management – Build long-term success via long-term commitment to brand innovation.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Avery Dennison full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Op3 machine operators have it easy. Half is of what they do is working and the other half is just standing around, and or just talking..
Coater operator team is even easier. One quarter is working and the other 75% is talking and standing around.
Hours of paid wages per week are somewhere between 60 to 70.

Cons – If your wife works a normal week, you will only get 1 weekend together, every 7 weeks, if you work on the coater.. Your work schedule changes weekly. Monday/Saturday off the first week...........Tuesday/Saturday off the second week, etc. They want to eliminate any overtime, so they stick it to you to set aside a 6 day work week, and only pay you for 5..

Anyone starting at this facility will be starting at the upender. It is a fast paced job, because the 2 slitters associated with it are running at full tilt. Besides upending and wrapping the skids, you have to jump on a forklift, look at the 8 or so sheets to see where they go, and waste time putting in locations or trucks. Demanding, frustrating, and most times impossible. Get your own skids, and no relief person when you take a break.

Last years raises ranged from 5 cents to 50 cents.
The only other easy job is the rewinder operator.

All machines are rated, and if you have areas in your chart that are red, they call you in for an explanation.
This facility is a military compound, with all supervisors being ex military people.

They can't find maintenance people that want to stay. I have seen maintenance people work 21 day straight, without any days off. I have also seen 2 of them get divorces.

Benefits were changed to eliminate retirement benefits.

Everyone snitches on each other.

Advice to Senior Management – You have made a statement the you want to have an increase of $500,000,000 in this years production.
Personally, if I am still working there, I would love to see your stock drop down to about $10 a share. If the CEO took a bonus payment of 4.5 million dollars, even though he admitted that he did a lousy job..........then I am within my rights to expect this satisfaction.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Avery Dennison

Pros – Labels and Packaging Division - best one to work in. Decent benefits.

Cons – RBIS - Worst division to work in. It's a circus.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Avery Dennison full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Awesome people here; very easy to work with, good team work, low stress

Cons – It's a large corporation. You see where all your works goes and why it matters, but at the same time it seems that the company does not know where it is going, or you don't know where you are moving.

Advice to Senior Management – Personal Reviews of status of projects, better idea where team members fit in.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Avery Dennison as an intern for less than a year

Pros – A company culture with equality and flat structure

Cons – Chance to stay at Avery Dennison after internship is very small, since it requires more experienced personnel.

Advice to Senior Management – Not yet.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Avery Dennison full-time for more than a year

Pros – The fast moving environment will challenge capacity and improve the adaptability of employees.

Cons – sometimes people are after the agressive environment so the other values are not considered

Advice to Senior Management – concern more about employee engagement activities

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend