EssilorLuxottica’s culture is deeply toxic, particularly within Professional Solutions, where dysfunction begins with the president. The environment he creates is driven by fear, overwork, and demeaning behavior, with stress, passive aggressiveness and intimidation treated as management strategie
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
It starts with the President of Professional Solutions. He needs to stop fostering a toxic, demeaning, passive aggressive environment. HR needs to reign him. They witness his constant berating, but the HR head stays silent. HR needs a profound come to Jesus moment.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
The partnership with Meta, managed by an unqualified step-son of the late founder, who got the job out of pure nepotism in his twenties, disadvantaged the company. With low margins, the CEO has resorted to aggressiveness to whip out results. The company needs to reassess its vision.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Salaries are well beyond the local averages, which makes hard to find talent (it end up getting imported from Italy). The recent changes to stock compensation greatly reduce pay-out and unattainable goals means nobody will get them. Health benefits are very poor. They need to fix it all.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Create an environment that lifts people up. Stop the daily MBRs. Employees spend more time preparing presentations to get yelled at instead of doing the job to actually make a difference. The CEO needs to change his toxic demeaning style, and stop giving power do those that share his aggresiveness.
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