It’s the battle of the big box behemoths for today’s Culture Showdown: Target vs. Best Buy. Both companies are hanging on the best they can as the culture continues to shift its focus to online shopping, so the future for both is unclear. But while they’re still standing, let’s take a look via Comparably’s data at how employees at both retail chains feel about their workplace culture and how they are treated.
OVERALL CULTURE
An employee for Target says the company’s culture is “overall positive” with a “good environment and people.” Another cites “great communication.” One dissenter adds, “Most team members don’t feel like they are respected and thus don’t feel like putting their all into their work.”
Of Best Buy’s company culture, one employee writes, “We have a big focus on being human, and that carries over to the work environment.” Another adds, critically, that “performance check-ins and check-outs every day lower self esteem.”
CEO
While one Target employee says the company leadership is “open to new ideas,” another says that “the executives don’t really care that much about the team members, and tend to view them more as cogs in a machine.”
Best Buy’s leadership is “great” according to one worker. Another notes that CEO Hubert Joly “has shown and executed on an amazing vision for this company.”
COMPENSATION
One Target employee calls the pay “fair.” Another writes, “Minimum wage, not much more needs to be said. Pay increases are drowned out by minimum wage increases.”
As for Best Buy, an employee writes, “The compensation is good if you’re full time. Which is less than 25% of the store employees.” Another mostly satisfied employee writes, “I just wish we got paid more and got more hours.”
PERKS & BENEFITS
A Target worker singles out the company’s offer of “401k and a bonus payment after serving 10-15 years” as worthy. Another writes, “I don’t really use the benefits. The 401k is nice, though.” Multiple Target employees approve of the company’s flexible time off policy.
Best Buy offers “401K matching up to 5%” and “health benefits for full time workers.” Several note that getting time off approved at Best Buy can be a difficult process.
GENDER
Women are more approving of Best Buy’s perks and benefits, rating it at 63 (higher than the average of 55 above.)
DIVERSITY
“Target is inclusive and hires many different kinds of people,” writes one employee. Another adds, “Depending on the diversity of the Target location, you will have the same diversity. Utah, not diverse. Connecticut, diverse.”
A Best Buy employee says the company Is “committed to diversity and inclusion.”
