Despite what you may (or may not) have heard... - Avis employé Employé (anonyme) Howard/Merrell

2,0
25 juil. 2011
Employé (anonyme)
Recommande
Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

Relatively good job security - given that the majority of clients are B2B, there is less knee-jerking and budget reductions than seen sometimes with B2C clients. Wonderful understanding of work/life balance - these are mostly all family people and they understand that their employees have families too.

Inconvénients

The management team - at best, they lead by committee (which is not a particularly effective management strategy since nothing ever gets decided by concensus, nor does anyone take responsibility for a decision or its repurcussions). At worst, they are utterly out of touch with their employees and how to help the company succeed. There is so much ducking and covering when it comes time to make the hard choices, that instead, the hard choices aren't made and it becomes the responsibility of middle management to make decisions, for which they are later blamed. Employee morale - there is no "team spirit". Departments work in silos with very little integration or free exchange of information. Stability - given the lack of strong management, there have been some major hiccups and there are likely more to come. There have been several layoffs (albeit quiet) over the last year, and there has been high turnover of the voluntary kind as well.

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5,0
9 févr. 2017
Employé (anonyme)
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

Fun atmosphere; people really care about you and are interested in getting to know you.

Inconvénients

No cons that I could mention thus far.

2,0
17 juin 2015
Employé (anonyme)
Recommande
Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

- Great company to work for if you have kids and need to take a lot of time off work. - Good entry opportunity for someone who's fresh out of college and wants to work in an agency. - Very casual work environment, if you don't like to wear business clothes. - When you leave work, it stays there.

Inconvénients

A one-word description of Howard/Merrell: stagnant. This is a company that's stuck in the past and doesn't care to grow and keep up with the industry. Most deliverables are sent to the client without a strategic plan in place, goals set, or results measured. It is basically just a free-for-all, fingers crossed that the client won't know any better. If you genuinely care about your clients' success, this is not the place for you. Howard Merrell's staff is a reflection of its stagnation. Year after year, the management has lacked the ability (or desire) to recognize when the old-timers have become complacent and in some cases, toxic. It was not unusual for staff members to gather in cubicles and whisper gossip about the person sitting across the way from them. In a thriving agency, there's simply no time for this. Pay is far lower than the industry average - even for North Carolina. Between the low pay, stagnant work ethic and negative staff attitudes, turnover rates are extremely high.

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