Its hard to believe that more positions weren't eliminated from the headquarters in St Paul. Only 70 of the 10,000+ employees that work at that location were affected. The layers of management are incredibly deep. The organizational charts go on and on, overlapping and filled with countless redundancies. They could remove 1/2 of the management tree and nobody would know the difference. If a decent early retirement buyout was offered I'm sure a lot of employees would jump at the chance, the last one didn't amount to much. Its hard to find anyone that thinks 3M is heading in the right direction. Morale and confidence are in short supply around here.
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Being with 3M for more than 30 years and retired, and what I experienced:
3Mers work hard to pay big salaries for executive and management years after year. Typically, 3M management designed a system of 3-4 middle layers to manage a technical worker.
the Advance 3M hoax actually creates another layer of redundancy of VP & directors to report up regional metrics. why are shareholders paying for another layer of reporters with no value add?
While that is the right medicine for an ailing patient like 3M, it is never going to happen.
Layers of redundant management ranks have increased, not decreased in recent years. Majority of 3mers know very well that going into management ranks is the only way to move up tge ranks, since promotion in the technical rank is extremely difficult and almost impossible after a certain stage.
In a recently layoff affected division , a dozen technical folks were laid off. Guess what, all ranks of management have been spared....they keep " managing" themselves as we speak....since they no longer have any direct reports anymore.
They need more technicians. Nobody are in labs anymore, attending meetings and not research.