High Turnover - Product Development Chemist PPG Employee Review

The culture is stagnant and resistant to change. There is a very high turnover rate. The people who have been at this place for 25+ years stay for their pension, but there is no motivating factor for the younger generation. The facility at Delaware, OH is extremely old and not upkept. The layout of the lab is horrendous and there are frequently storage issues. All of the chemists, lab technicians, etc. have desks inside the lab at the end of a workbench. They do not have offices, cubicles, or a separate break room from the cafeteria (which only includes snack purchases or frozen meal purchases). There is no privacy despite the high demand for Teams meetings. It takes extended periods of times for matters to be addressed by maintenance. Purchase requests for equipment replacement or facility renovations get lost in the bureaucracy of upper management. When an issue is brought up the most common response is "they're working on that" yet the last time it was discussed was 6-12 months ago. Employees are overloaded with work with little reward or satisfaction. There is very little visibility into upper management decisions on projects. This company lacks any sort of organization at all. It is nearly impossible to navigate between the several programs they use to track data - not to mention the data is inconsistent across platforms that all gather information from the same database. None of the programs are intuitive or simple to navigate. The majority of SOPs are outdated by several years. There is a huge lack of job responsibility training, safety training, lab focused efforts or considerations.