I am curious as to what the folks that frequent this site have to say. This is a subject that has come around the last couple of years and now it is coming around again. Is this due to the continued loss of key people? It seems that Honeywell is only interested in retaining employees when it doesn't cost additional money. What else could Honeywell do to improve employee satisfaction and thus keep them? Pay raises are obviously out of the question because they might cut into the compensation of the executive leadership team. But maybe free hotdogs or something might help? :)
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If budget is completely off the table, then there's no real solution. Everything costs. Long term products require long term people. How to stop the bleed isn't rocket science. But we're competing for people... so the offers are always ringing. People need to like what they do, for the amount they make, and the time they have off. Key...time off. Not just vacation, but after 5pm. These jobs take all the day's time, and that is not sustainable. People won't stick around for 50hr weeks every week when the next pay raise is just an interview away...
Concisely, it will take better management. Management with the ba--s (intestinal fortitude) to balance creating a BETTER PRODUCT with the stockholders' craving for a high closing stock price on Friday afternoon. Sadly, I've seen no evidence of leadership having a vision looking out beyond lining their own pockets.
Honeywell is beyond fixable. And why even bother this line? We all know there will never be any material change for the people - it will always be for the piece of sh-t e level and up.
And we will all be outsourced to cheaper labor anyway. Why nobody supports unions etc.; and support and vote for pro business politics is beyond me. Business is designed by law, to fuxk us over and people still vote for those scumbags who allow business to duck us over. Amazing.
Honeywell T-shirts are great for home painting projects or changing the oil on your car.
Getting rid of a CAT in Greer would be helpful.
Honeywell mugs!
For us at UOP to make it better is if they sold us our managers are falling way to much under Honeywell political cr-p.
Hot dogs… doesn’t the OP know that they would probably try to stuff those up the wrong way as we do our daily grab your ankles moment?
Leadership isnt clueless. They certainly are not stupid.
They just dont give a rats $$$ about workers.
You dont exist to them. You impact them less than the kid they cleans the pool at the vacation house they never visit.
It doesnt help when you give people a shield to excuse their decisions..
even stupidity is preferable to their reality which is indifference.
Lol, Karen. Read and believe the damn surveys! How many times do you need to hear the same thing. The problem is that leader$hi! refuses to believe what they read, and they think the minions should be grateful to them! It's a hopeless case. They're clueless.
to be honest if they allowed permanent remote work I would say it's a decent place to work even with all the other problems and politics they have going on. The problem with this company is they never respect or listen to the employees. I think this is engraved in the company and I don't think they can fix their tarnished image unless they spin off as a new company and restructure everything.
- Removed remote work after experiencing record profits
- No 401k paycheck matching
- Bad yearly increases lower than inflation when the company is making record profits.
- Managers not recognizing talent promoting and giving incentives to political people and friends.
- No Bonuses for Band 3 which is most engineers in the company which is not normal for Honeywell trying to be a "software/tech company"
- Constant furloughs and layoffs.
- Layoffs not targeted towards low performers or the fat, they take out entire teams and then either replace them with people in a lower cost country or expect other people to carry their work.
- Constant fake culture and low morale. Directors pretending it's a great place to work but everyone deep down knows the company is bad to work out creating an even more toxic work culture.
I've overheard people saying this more than once: Honeywell is a mergers and acquisitions company with a legitimate aerospace front. Honeywell upper management has created a corrosive culture of greedy, cut-throat, and woke fools in the e-suite. The only way to make it a good place to work is to can the whole lot of them and start all over again.
Toxic work places start with leaders and they have become more and more toxic over the past 5 or 6 years and you can all thank MM for this. He has groomed a leadership that has zero ownership and simply agree with MM on everything. They tried to offset by brining in automotive geniuses to lead ISC and those leaders leave fairly quickly once they realize what they are dealing with MM. It always starts at the top and they are singular focused and remain that way until they are asked to leave. Buckle up because here is how the song goes.....eliminate roof tops and cut census, bundle sites, sell off, leader get paid off with shares by cost savings, business dries up, leaders get kicked out and try to rebuild once the assets are gone. Should add GE into this song? Probably. Just happy HW is a distant past experience for me. I'm now having fun telling HW recruiters to go pound sand when they ask me to come back......not in 1 million years....maybe if maddog is cut loose and DA is held accountable by the board for not improving a GD thing, but lining his pockets off of his employees. I am convinced it will catch up with these crooked leaders and when it does, I'll have a good laugh.
You have it backwards:
Is this due to the continued loss of key people?
It’s not a cr---y place to work because key people are leaving. Key people are leaving because it’s a cr---y place to work.
If you only got a raise and a promotion because of people leaving, you would be smart to leave too. This company can never be trusted, they have proven that. There are a lot of jobs out there. Even for the older employees. If you stay, you will get screwed down the road. This is how DA operates and he’s made it clear. He will take all he can from the employees. HI has the terrible reputation it deserves.
Tear it down and start over.
Honeywell leaders know the answers. They need new products.
To make honeywell great they must stop selling the legacy products that now force them into cost above all else business model. Honeywell cant organically grow and until it can life for employees will be terrible.
So stop trying to milk the rock. Learn to retire products and return to being a tech company. If we cant do that then we are all just going to work old stuff forever. Selling less and less, working harder and harder.
Are you 18 years old or what?