Follett Corporation Environment Employee Reviews | Comparably
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EMPLOYEE
PARTICIPANTS
182
TOTAL
RATINGS
1610

Follett Corporation Environment Employee Reviews

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

The coworkers and store level management, and a handful of higher ups who empathized and helped where they could. As for the job itself, helping customers and minding the store was pleasant on slower days. Living wage/reasonable work/benefits etc would have made it an enjoyable career.

Our General merchandiser lead is nice.

Nothing that I can think of

The students are so wonderful. I would take them over anything at the end of the day. They are who keeps me sane. Plus my immediate coworkers

Follett has a new CEO and president that are focused on a one-team philosophy. The culture is catching on and everyone is united in the goal to achieve together. Recognition is a focus and employees feel appreciated and welcomed.

Review from Sales Dept

Interacting with the customers is nice when they actually come in.

The pleasure of being respected

We value each other daily

Review from Sales Dept

Mutal respect we've had to find with one another to get thru the day working for a insecure store director

Review from Sales Dept

The customers/students are the only reason to pull myself out of bed to work in a negative environment. People above my pay grade do not listen to customers. Everyone above has ask me what to do in times when a management decision is needed and people ask me if I am the manager.

That everyone is there to succeed

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Actually caring about employees. Not constantly telling employees how off the mark they are even though they're already working 12 - 14 hour days just to keep up

They need to stop hiring micromanagers who play favorites.

Hopefully change in currently happening with new PE group as new owners. But PE groups are driven solely by profit, so just wait & watch.

Complete reorganization of executive leadership or company should sell off what's left of it...

Get quality, competent leadership ASAP

Too many unqualified family members employed at top positions.

Start treating people with respect. Stop blaming the union for your management team's ignorance and lack of leadership.

Less hostile mangers with a bit more understanding on medical concerns and accomedations

Review from Sales Dept

Review Sentiment at Follett Corporation

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About Follett Corporation's Environment

D+
61/100

Where This Score Ranks Follett Corporation's Environment

BOTTOM
25%

In the Bottom 25% of 1555 similar size companies on Comparably

BOTTOM
20%

In the Bottom 20% of 175 companies in Chicago

3rd

3rd place versus 4 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at Follett Corporation is considered positive by 41% of employees and regarded as having a “moderate” work pace by 21 employees. Relative to its competitors, Graham Holdings, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Baker & Taylor, and MBS Textbook Exchange, Follett Corporation's environment score ranks in 3rd place. This also puts them in the Bottom 25% of 1555 similar sized companies (5,001-10,000 Employees) on Comparably and Bottom 20% of 175 companies in Chicago.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Experience - Entry Level
    +10%
  • Ethnicity - Caucasian
    +6%
  • Gender - Female
    +5%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Department - Operations
    -5%
  • Experience - 6 to 10 Years
    -2%

How Follett Corporation's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 71 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

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7 or less32%
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On average, how many hours do you work a day?
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Extremely fast29%
Comfortably fast18%
Moderate30%
A bit slow10%
Bureaucratic13%
What's the work pace at your company?
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Positive41%
Negative59%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
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Yes0%
No100%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
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Yes0%
No100%
Do you have a close friend at work?
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5% or Less0%
5-10%50%
10-25%0%
25-50%0%
50%+50%
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