What happened to Holcim?
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Over the past year or so the company started to get rid of employees (long time ones mostly) with shocking regularity. People are dismissed at a moment's notice on the smallest of charges against them. This practice is really unworthy of a Swiss company that prides itself on being the best in the industry. I would expect that from an American company where it is known practice to fire people on the spot. What I find jaw-droppingly stupid with this is that Holcim is willing to lose so much know-how that has been acquired over 10, 15, 20 or more years and cannot be replaced by new people. Instead of using this know-how to forge ahead and use these experiences to the fullest advantage of the company and the new direction it is taking, people's accounts get closed the second they are dismissed, therefore losing the company an incredible amount of accumulated knowledge.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Trust your employees and let them do their job
Promote people to managing positions with people skills who can be inspring leaders instead of being micro managers
Arbeitsatmosphäre
It used to be fun to work for Holcim but the office climate is now quite often very tense and guarded due to the management's obvious distrust in their employees
Kommunikation
Could be a lot better
Kollegenzusammenhalt
See above topic on "Arbeitsatmosphäre"
Work-Life-Balance
There is a lot of talk about the importance of work-life-balance but in reality it is not true, or only for those employees who have he management's trust. There seem to be different rules for different people within the various offices
Vorgesetztenverhalten
There are a lot of uninspiring, not to say mean managers at Holcim. Unfortunately the people who get promoted to managing positions (at every level) are not always the best qualified to lead people. They might be good in their areas of experience but are mostly unfit to lead people. A good manager inspires his/her team to do their best work for the company. Managers these days tend to loose themselves in micromanaging their positions, i.e. instead of letting people get on with their work they try to control every little aspect of the jobs that need to be done and so create an area of mistrust and demotivation.
Interessante Aufgaben
The work is challenging and great if one can go ahead and simply do it
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Lousy!!
Arbeitsbedingungen
Again, Holcim used to be a great company to work for but with all the changes in employees (out with the old, in with the new) it has become a company I would not recommend to work for
Image
Might still be good when looking at it from the outside but a company is only as good as its employees and all the talk of "our people are our best assets" does not hide the fact that there is a lot of frustration among the employees