Assurant reviews

This company sure has been through a lot. I survived 5 interesting years in hell here, but finally had to tap-out. The company was poorly run prior to the acquisition. -There's not time here for the giant list of cons I could make for those years, but let me just say, they conducted 3 layoffs in less than one year's time from December 2011 to October of 2012. So that should tell you some things. Oh, and that first one was poorly planned. Nothing says "we care about you" more than letting 160+ folks go two weeks before Christmas, with no prior warning to the masses that there was even anything wrong with the company financially. Since the Assurant acquisition in October of 2013, I've seen the parent company and old FAS working together to try to make positive change. I could also see the natural struggles that come with that too. Currently, the struggles are overriding the progress. There are too many of the old executives and upper management still holding their positions. The management team needs to rolled, and Assurant needs to lay down the hammer. There is so much dysfunction at all levels and across all departments, I don't know how the company is still operating. It makes me dizzy when I think about it, really. To wrap this up I'll throw about a few descriptive terms to summarize the experience shared by many there: Dysfunctional, Executives are out for themselves and not a cohesive team, all kinds of things are hidden from the newly appointed Managing Director, pay is low across all positions whether entry level or managerial, general staff is under educated at time of hire, and under trained/under prepared for the difficult and important job they are given, poor relations with vendor network, IT problems.

None of the other reviews realistically mentions that this company is big on layoffs. This is the only thing that is a constant at this company - layoffs. Management plays favorites as to who they keep. As a result, they typically they keep the employees that are not doing much work or making any significant contributions. The Executive management is located in either New York or Atlanta, so they have no idea of the day to day running of the company. They are only interested in the bottom line and the satisfaction of the stockholders. So every year they have managers look at salaries and recommend cut staff based on salaries that they think are too high. Then they let the staff go and then rehire younger, cheaper staff and rename the previous position so that they can't get sued for replacing someone they laid off. Also, they are laying off the older employees so they don't have to pay higher salaries or pensions.