Growth is Limited - Anonymous employee Carhartt Employee Review

3.0
Oct 4, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly co-worker; everyone cares about the community and making an impact outside of Carhartt; good PTO; free coffee every morning; casual dress code (as long as you have Carhartt on, you can wear jeans); now has a parental leave program!

Cons

need more flexibility in work from home options; benefits could be further improved; leadership plays favorites - very political, but they pretend that they aren't; if you don't become a "favorite", you won't get many growth opportunities; their structure doesn't allow for much career growth; very resistant to change; passive-aggressive conflict style throughout the organization - and this is further rewarded by top leaders; Managers will throw teams under the bus to make themselves look better

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Carhartt Response
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We appreciate you sharing your experience at Carhartt and are glad for the positive experiences that you had. We regret, however, that you did not have the opportunity to feel the improvements and progress that we have made and are continuing to strive for. Carhartt works hard to offer all associates the greatest work life balance possible, considered with the needs of the business. This includes providing clear expectations up front for positions that are able, or not able, to offer non-traditional working hours. As well, we have a continuous goal of offering diverse and valuable benefits and year-over-year, we have improved and/or provided exciting new benefit offerings. We are proud for the recent recognition of a Best and Brightest in Wellness® Award for doing so. As we continuously strive to improve, we aim to promote new ideas and developments that will help us further transform Carhartt. Your feedback will be analyzed for consideration on how we can be THE best place to work. If you wish to discuss anything further, please reach out to the Human Resources Team.

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