I’ve been with Honeywell less than 8 years and I keep hearing how it used to be a great company. We keep using the Honeywell reputation as being a great company; however, it is no longer a great company. It exploits its salary employees by asking them to work at least 44 hours a week to meet what they call Engineering Efficiency Index or Engineering Effort Index. Anyone who works below a certain number of hours are punished in their yearly review by now giving them the pay rise they deserve. They are pushing us to sit in our butts and charge, charge, and charge government program so they can make profit regardless of results. I knew an engineer who was bright, efficient, and superior in his performance. He worked 40 hours a week and accomplish more than his peers who inflate their time to 44+ hours. During his review, he was not given the raise he deserves and instead, the people who work more hours were rewarded – regardless of results. This time around they will not strategically Furlough exempt salary employees. Honeywell knows that they make profit by having them just charge, charge, charge, regardless if they can’t do their job because 60% of their support infrastructure is furlough. Honeywell needs the federal government to look into their shady practices. This Honeywell is a bubble that will implode.
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The post is true, except in my office, the Engineering Effectivity Index is (a minimum of) 115% (which equates to a 47 hour work week. Same story. Why does the incentive program design include the irrational belief that a highly competent engineer "needs" 47 hours to complete their job?
Insulting, at best.
Wrong incentive, wrong program design.
This is so True. I am an engineer in Phoenix and my manager told me I needed a higher EEI and yield so they gave me a Boeing charge number and made me sit on it to increase my yield. I basically was told to turn on my laptop at night, check my email, and charge for a whole hour every night. It is all "recommended" we charge at lease 44 hours a week on government contracts. This company is defrauding the US Goverment and taking us on a ride just to keep the stock high.
The posting above is 100% true. I have been there and done that