ACCO Brands Employee Reviews about "great people"

Pros

Great people around the globe with some great ideas. Opportunity to travel to some other sites and meet people from other cultures

Cons

Current IT leadership seems to undervalue current staff Not setting the teams to succeed with little support when there is a failure

Pros

The people are great to work with Hours are 8-5 2 15 minute breaks throughout day Benefits

Cons

Heavy Workload Pay could be better

Pros

GREAT people, integrity in intentions,

Cons

Data integrity issues, tribal knowledge epidemic

Pros

Great people in the Kettering office; great compensation; great benefits.

Cons

Low morale; some departments overworked due to job/department elimination; often slow interdepartmental communication; ACCO management cared more about the bottom line than their people...CLEARLY. Until the ACCO buyout in May 2012, Mead was incredible. Then ACCO came in and made cuts, lowered morale, assumed too much, and made mistakes (which I heard one the the directors verbally admit to my team). I saw how NOT to manage a business. Mead had a great intern program, but with ACCO, the interns are so much more likely to leave after their internship than stay to get hired on. That speaks volumes.

Pros

Vacation time and Benefits are decent, most of the people are great people to work with.

Cons

Salary is mediocre at best. Annual increases are a joke at best, won't even cover insurance premium increases most of the time. Put in a pay scale but told people that it was highly likely that you would never top out. Too much overtime due to trying to put out their work with the bare minimum amount of workforce. Forcing people to do multiple jobs with no extra compensation. Far too much favoritism and encourages back-biting among the workers from lower- management which causes the environment to be very bad for the average worker.

Pros

GREAT people! Great pay and benefits, work/life balance, very flexible with time off requests.

Cons

I began working for the company under MeadWestvaco and it was fantastic. A few months after my start date the ACCO merger brought massive restructuring, layoffs and policy changes. The cull started with long time employees and continued until the vast majority of positions on the admin side were eliminated or relocated leaving the facility as primarily as a manufacturing site.

Pros

Great people. Flat structure so lots of interaction with Sr. Management. Exposure to tons of different tasks and functions. Great place to learn a trade.

Cons

Low pay compared to other companies in the area. Uncertainty due to constant restructuring and lay offs in the past years. No clear path to grow into a Sr. Position. Very much a boys club in Sr. Management. Severely understaffed in many departments leading to insane work loads even for Jr. positions.

Pros

Great people, good company culture. I enjoyed my time there, however it showed that retail marketing wasn't for me. My managers were very helpful and personable. I would recommend the company to someone interested in this line of work.

Cons

I found that retail marketing tended to be more order processing than actual marketing work. Seemed more like Operations Management than real marketing experience. Worked with largest drug-store firms such as Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid (even though they were quite demanding, price oriented (as opposed to relationship) and overall unloyal.

Pros

The people are great but Management forgot how to make money.

Cons

This business still has not merged even after more than two years. The culture clash is amazing. One side is a matrix the other pure hierarchy. If you work there - hope you never have to move backwards in time to the old command and salute organization that was once Mead.

Pros

Great people which makes the environment nice. The brands are good as well and the company is on a better path.

Cons

No remote working flex considering its in the middle of nowhere. Food places are also hard to get to during lunch. There is a cafe but not that great.