Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores Environment Employee Reviews | Comparably
Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc. is a national retailer primarily focused on selling home appliances, hardware, tools and lawn and garden equipment. read more
EMPLOYEE
PARTICIPANTS
15
TOTAL
RATINGS
174
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Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores Environment Employee Reviews

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

Taking care of our customers even though management advised us not to.

We have lots that it's hard to ecplain

Review from Sales Dept

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

The company culture is based on sales metrics. Hiwever, when they hand off a store with a bad image in a small town. Sales are not the first item to conquer as is refacing customer satisfaction that makes customers for life.

Review Sentiment at Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores

40
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60
60%

About Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores' Environment

B
71/100

Where This Score Ranks Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores' Environment

TOP
35%

In the Top 35% of 2025 similar size companies on Comparably

TOP
40%

In the Top 40% of 175 companies in Chicago

2nd

2nd place versus 2 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores is considered positive by 75% of employees and regarded as having an “extremely fast” work pace by 3 employees. Relative to its competitors, The Home Depot and Casper, Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores' environment score ranks in 2nd place. This also puts them in the Top 35% of 2025 similar sized companies (1,001-5,000 Employees) on Comparably and Top 40% of 175 companies in Chicago.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Department - Sales
    +19%
  • Gender - Male
    +17%
  • Ethnicity - Caucasian
    +8%

Rate Environment the Lowest

    How Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores' Environment Score is Calculated

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    Results from 8 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

    AnswerPercent
    7 or less37%
    813%
    1025%
    120%
    More than 1225%
    On average, how many hours do you work a day?
    AnswerPercent
    Extremely fast37%
    Comfortably fast25%
    Moderate25%
    A bit slow13%
    Bureaucratic0%
    What's the work pace at your company?
    AnswerPercent
    Positive75%
    Negative25%
    Is your work environment positive or negative?
    AnswerPercent
    Yes0%
    No0%
    Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
    AnswerPercent
    Yes0%
    No0%
    Do you have a close friend at work?
    AnswerPercent
    5% or Less0%
    5-10%0%
    10-25%0%
    25-50%0%
    50%+0%
    What % of the time are you bored at work?
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