Innovation and Employee Wellbeing Ground Stanley Black & Decker s COVID-19 Efforts
By Lindsay Cates | Associate Manager, Communications and Strategy, US Chamber of Commerce
Published 02-12-21
All photos courtesy of Stanley Black & Decker.
Stanley Black & Decker is in the business of creating products that people use every day to update their homes and fix their cars. Their infrastructure systems deliver the roads and bridges people drive on, and their security technologies protect the places where we live and work.
This year, the company’s products which include tools, fasteners, security, health, and safety solutions used by healthcare, first responders, and construction, transportation and manufacturing workers became essential in the work being done across the globe to fight COVID-19.
Stanley Black & Decker is in the business of creating products that people use every day to update their homes and fix their cars. Their infrastructure systems deliver the roads and bridges people drive on, and their security technologies protect the places where we live and work.
This year, the company’s products which include tools, fasteners, security, health, and safety solutions used by healthcare, first responders, and construction, transportation and manufacturing workers became essential in the work being done across the globe to fight COVID-19.
“Everything s interconnected,” said Stanley Black & Decker Chief Technology Officer Mark Maybury. “If our fastener business stops working, it prevents others from making hospital beds, it prevents others from making respirators, and even impacts those making masks that rely on nose clips. All of these things are produced in our factories.”
Stanley Black & Decker is Named One of America s Best Large Employers 2021 by Forbes
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NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE:SWK) has been named to the Forbes list of America s Best Large Employers 2021. This prestigious award is presented by Forbes and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. Stanley Black & Decker ranks #100 out of 500 companies on the list, and comes in third out of 25 companies in the Semiconductors, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Technology Hardware and Equipment industry. This award is a testament to our dedicated and passionate employees who are proud to recommend Stanley Black & Decker as a top workplace, said Stanley Black & Decker President & CEO Jim Loree. Our company purpose – For Those Who Make the World – is pervasive throughout the company, and we ve been working hard to ensure everything we do as a com
After early pandemic layoffs, CT giant Stanley Black & Decker adding jobs amid DIY boom
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It’s the tried-and-true maxim for the do-it-yourself enthusiast “measure twice, cut once.”
But the CEO of Connecticut tool giant Stanley Black & Decker suggested he may have erred in cutting too many jobs in haste last year after his initial read of the pandemic economy failed to anticipate a surprise boom in purchases by people stuck at home.
After making permanent 1,000 job cuts last year and putting an unspecified number of temporary workers and external contractors on hiatus, Stanley Black & Decker now lists 800 job openings in the United States.