Avis sur Eastman

Avantages

Travail stimulant et exigent, axé sur les résultats. Horaires flexibles, rapport de confiance entre employeurs et employés. Haute concentration sur la sécurité et bien être de travailleurs. Les résultats sont reconnus et payés.

Inconvénients

Processus de décision parfois lent, vu la taille de l'entreprise. Forte dépendance des directives américaines, malgré les résultats obtenus en Europe.

Conseils à la direction

Continuez sur cette voie de relation de confiance et gratification du travail fourni, on ne vous quittera pas facilement et à coeur léger!

Avantages

Kingsport is a great place to live if you like outdoors, want a short commute and want a cheap lifestyle. (It’s cheap because there is nowhere to spend money)

Inconvénients

Eastman moves at a snail pace seriously company who wants to be a specialty chemical company needs to be fast and agile. They are stuck and been spinning in place for years now. There is very much so, us vs them mentality. There are golden children (typically home grown talent committed to the area - that’s fast tracked) and there is everyone else. No incentive to working hard. Be a local or be gone is the motto.

Conseils à la direction

Eastman has potential to be a greater company but major cleaning of the house is needed - the biggest obstacle to Eastman is not outside threats is the “be local” culture that is preventing this company from growing and making any meaningful change.

Avantages

Great work culture Flexible Timings Lots of things to learn

Inconvénients

I didn't find any cons in this company.

Avantages

A good place to start your career if you are freshly out of school or need visa sponsorship. Eastman is nice to new people and compensation is good.

Inconvénients

Career movement is very slow. Eventually you will find yourself become a second-tier politician and third-tier scientist if you want to be promoted (or "join the club"). Diversity is lacking - Need more people with diverse background sitting in management positions. Until so, Eastman will struggle competing globally.

Conseils à la direction

CEO, EVPs, and VPs have good vision. This doesn't mean other managers are on-board. Need aggressive management house cleaning (mainly directors and group leaders) to truly change the culture and truly become a strong global chemical company.

Avantages

Lots of independence, guidance from senior engineers, good compensation and work life balance. It has been a very fulfilling experience so far

Inconvénients

There are some issues with integrating small sites to work fully with the larger main manufacturing site

Conseils à la direction

Keep communicating with employees about where the company is headed and why

Avantages

Great people to work with for the most part who care about doing a good job.

Inconvénients

I have been with Eastman for many years. For the past few years, top leadership within the company continues to push changes and emphasize performance in a way that clearly indicates the bulk of the workforce does not seem to be valued. Lately there has been a push to emphasize certain HR policies in such a way that there is increasing division across a very large part of the workforce. It is getting increasingly difficult...

Conseils à la direction

Remember your roots with respect to employee valuation. They really are the greatest asset for any company. To the BOD: hold the CEO accountable. The stock price continues to be pathetic while the general market roars along. Employees have even suffered personally to address cost in an attempt to rejuvenate the stock. By the CEO's own calculus he needs to be replaced with someone that can make a difference if he cannot....

Avantages

Eastman has had a lot of interesting product releases in the last several years, and along with the acquisitions, the product portfolio has expanded to the point of having many different types of businesses and technologies to work on, so plenty of good opportunities to continuously learn. The company also does allow people to change job functions (provided there is a need). With so many manufacturing sites, there are...

Inconvénients

First, the company has made a huge negative shift in how they value their employees. When I hired on, it was a team based feel where people enjoyed helping each other. After the rating system was introduced, the desire to help each other started to drop. Mentoring became more awkward for people, as helping one person might be hurting another, so both the company and the employees were losing. The company has some...

Conseils à la direction

People choose to work at Eastman based on the team based culture that used to exist. In recent years, that culture has been fading because of this "performance based culture" and it will continue to get worse. Combine that with middle and senior management's lack of care for people anymore, and you can see that things are going downhill. Go back to the days when Eastman used to truly value their employees instead...

Avantages

It's a paycheck. Benefits are better than other places although health insurance is getting worse. Some products are commodities and some have potential to be market leaders. Engineers seem on the ball and the science is sound.

Inconvénients

How much time do y'all have? Watch out, experienced dedicated workers! Once you reach a certain age, they'll lay you off and hire someone younger for a song. Meanwhile, the overpaid executive team is more concerned about their stock shares than their employees. They get ridiculous salaries and we get raises that don't match inflation if we get a raise at all. CEO emails to employees are usually depressing. Not a motivational...

Conseils à la direction

Break up the cronyism at the top. Replace the CEO. Show a little optimism by standing by your employees in tough times instead of sacrificing them. We're told "headwinds" are temporary. Laying off a 55-year old is can be pretty permanent for that person.