Uline reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,537 total reviews)
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Dick Uihlein

74% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Uline has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,537 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Uline employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
May 21, 2020
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Pros

The pay is good I suppose.

Cons

It doesn't matter how good the pay is when the president of the company puts your health at risk by insisting you come back into the office even though we've been successfully working from home for about 2 months. And the company has had dozens of COVID-19 cases. The president of Uline has gone on record saying that what takes us 5 minutes to do in the office takes us a week to do from home. That's absurd. When the corporate office goes back to work next week, we'll be going back to our cubicles that are much closer than 6 feet. All because we're "not a work from home company". Uline was behind the curve with taking action on COVID-19 prevention methods, they were behind the curve with technology since they had nothing in place ahead of time to help us work from home, and they're still behind the curve by not allowing employees to continue to work from home. Most companies and going to allow their employees to work from home indefinitely because they've seen how successful it's been for them. Their employees have greater productivity and increased job satisfaction. Their facilities costs will go down because they no longer have to maintain large office buildings. And since Uline loves to hire people straight out of college, just know that Forbes says that 68% of millennial job seekers would have increased interest in a company that offered the ability to work remotely. You can also hire the best people no matter where they are in the country and you wouldn't lose employees due to relocation. It just makes sense. And now that we've all had a taste of what working from home is like, we're not going to like coming back and you'll probably lose people who seek employment with a company that's living in the 21st century.

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The health and safety of Uline employees continues to be our top priority. Uline has instituted numerous changes to normal operating policies to respond to COVID-19, including additional deep cleaning, implementing social distancing practices and paid leave for any employee who has contracted COVID-19 until released by a doctor. Uline will continue to evaluate and adjust policies to adapt to the changing needs of employees. Thank you for sharing your feedback.
1.0
Jul 31, 2014

The company is a Gulag

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Pros

As a customer they have good products at a good price but as an employee, do not even bother to apply

Cons

The company is apparently into Data Mining prospective employees as they rarely if ever hire but always have jobs posted. Don't waste your time. First you take 6 tests at home before they will even talk to you on the phone. After the phone interview, they invite you in without telling you that you will spend another hour testing before your 10 minute interview. Before you get home they send you an email stating you are not qualified. I sold their line for 7 years and have a B.A. I believe Age Bias is an issue at the company.

3.0
Jan 5, 2017

Parent-child paradigm ruins the culture

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Pros

Customer service, the benefits and the beauty. These are the high points that have resulted in a 3 rating rather than something lower. But don't be blinded by the money and the beauty--there is a lot that's rotten in the state of Uline.

Cons

It takes a lot to elicit negative feedback from me. Here goes--the president (Liz) is off-the-charts controlling, capricious, stuck-in-the-80s. Never has a president's influence been more apparent for both good and ill. Her paradigm is parent-child, not colleague-colleague, and you will feel it in every encounter. She gets reports on ALL of her employees' actions, even the mundane, like when you use the on-campus salon. She refuses to accept things she doesn't understand, so the creep toward technical modernization is about one step for every 20 years. It is seriously stifling. Management is gossipy and can be vindictive. And if you like to be innovative and try to improve processes, this is absolutely not the place for you.

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