Q&A With Office Depot Employees

Training. I am a new employee and the training was minimal. Learn by making mistakes that make customers move to another company.

Listening to the field. Too many decisions are top down and "Right now" driven versus making a long term strategic value play.

Nonexistent unless you’re a corporate employee.

For management not so good.

Seems there is not a balance. I feel like I’m always on call.

Very LOW!

VERY LOW AND THE SO CALLED COMMISSION OPORTUNITIES ARE A JOKE.

Sales floor associates and cashiers all get minimum wage. Raises are minimal at best.

Health insurance and PTO.

Benefits are very good compared to lots of companies... health dental vision 401k also separate disability for additional small fee.

Health insurance. Paid time off. Probably other stuff no one tells us about.

The store level associates sees the CEO as out of touch and puts very little value on the face of the company “The Store Teams” its all lip service and very little monetary incentive and understaffed logistics conditions. They could share the wealth in many ways to instill more brand pride. They spend money at the corporate level liberally and do it well. Example water for just the corporate employees.

The people in my store don't really have an opinion of the guy. We'll never meet him, we know he doesn't care about us personally, so we don't care. If he visited stores and worked with us, doing actual grunt work, I think we'd respect him more.

The CEO has made zero effort to engage the rank and file. We see other huge cooperations using the massive tax break to give at least a small piece back to the employees. That's obviously not going to happen here. Basically your typical 'for the share holders' - 'screw the employees' highly paid executive.

High expectations for little pay and no real future. Not a great opportunity for stable growth. Phony upper management.

I think they are trying to improve the culture but need to step outside the box

Most people are fairly disillusioned with the company, at least in my area. We get tired of the company putting profit above the well being of the employees.

It was fine as a full time employee but I don’t get the hours as fast

For the corporate employees good. For the store level employees it stinks!!

Good now since they have consolidated sick time, personal time and vacation time as Personal Time Off (PTO)

no we do not

Not all of corporate has team outings, I've been there 2 1/2 years only have had one outing in that time. Many of us have high regard for those who work in the retail area of the business as it is not easy work and not everyone can offer great customer service.

11 years this january most times

Almost 4 years. I like the retail experience and the insurance benefits and the challenge but I do not like being treated like a non valuable unappreciated unaffordable burden.

6 years, not happy with the direction company is going

Car Allowance, Bonus Structure.

I love my co-workers and get along very well with them.

They are all different and still work together and give it their all for the team in spite of very low pay or loyalty to the company incentives. We all function as a family but learn to accept each other’s differences.

Excellent. I would put them against anyone in the field

Pretty bad. Most employees aren't getting enough hours to survive and there's no incentive to exceed management expectations.

I've only ever met one other employee that truly enjoys working store level

Exhausted. They're pulled in too many directions.

Cut throat some times

As a lower end store manager its ok as long as the Store manager is a fair person

It's every man for himself.

The corporate sales teams do not handle the back end of the sales leads we generate at the store level properly. There is a lot of room for improvement. On follow through.

Don't trust them, every body is watching themselves in fear of upper management

I work full time and the vibe is quite discouraging. No one is happy with all the changes.

The vibe is fair at the store level but could much better if there were better incentives

Very unhappy with current management and only able to work 18-21 hours a week. Even at the busiest time of the year can never be over 29 hours

Hire experienced managers at both the store level and corporate level. Require management to "get in the trenches" with us.

Better pay and benefits. I would put more emphasis on team morale building and promoting OD brand loyalty by offering all employees health insurance benefits, profit sharing and instilling pride in ownership with discounted stock options and a real retirement or pension plan. I would focus on true development of individuals with promise and potential. I would teach the salespeople how to sell and close and motivate them to ith a realistic commission structure.

Better pay for the management team & give us our holidays back! We have families too!

yes for better pay better hours

Yes all the time

Depends on the hiring manager and how much they like to talk

It varies.

30-45 mins