Mismanagement: Look up ABB in Athens-TN, St. Louis-MO - Anonymous employee ABB Employee Review

1.0
28 Feb 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits are good.

Cons

Mismanagement from very top down to middle management impacts business and eventually the employees pay a heavy price. Examples, whenever someone left the firm in Phoenix, their tasks were piled onto remaining staff, which was already clearly overburdened; customers were left waiting for service or parts replacement for years, in some cases; H1B staff were paid less than going labor market rates (which is illegal). Due diligence and compliance are also weak. Hence, large stock holders are pressuring board to reform. See Activist investor Cevian Capital AB. Yet, instead of resolving these issues, ABB reduces costs by laying off hundreds of highly skilled, high-performing employees, and keeps the leaders responsible for bad decisions.

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