Tough work/life balance - Senior Engagement Strategist Avalere Health Employee Review

3.0
Mar 23, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A wide variety of good benefits, incentives, and yearly bonuses. Remote work. Good PTO. Try hard at diversity and inclusion. Book club, diversity meetings, celebrations - but often you cannot attend because you are so swamped with work

Cons

Managers are often under so much pressure that they have no time to dedicate to guide and teach their younger team members. Communication on accounts is terrible even with sometimes 4 project managers and 3+ account managers. Deadlines are almost always extremely tight so expect to work 13-hour days more often than not. Understaffing is a continuous issue. Seem to care more about profit than employees' well-being even though they "encourage" us to take time off to avoid burnout...but only if you can find coverage (which hardly exists). Leaders in HR are generally great, but the younger employees are often clueless.

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Avalere Health Response
3y
Hi, and thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We're proud of the steps we're taking when it comes to D&I and our overall benefits offering. Thank you for showing your appreciation. Workload pressures for our leaders is something we have to address this year. We know from our recent Your Voice Survey that we need to step up our efforts on well-being. As we speak, we're developing initiatives and plans to get more time back to our people by streamlining the way we meet and by introducing more protected time for things like professional development and growth opportunities. We'll be announcing these plans very soon, and please keep the feedback coming via Your Voice Box and other feedback channels. Thanks again. All the best, Nick, Global Head of Career Experience

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Avalere Health Response
5d
Thank you for taking the time to submit a review. It would be helpful for us if you could reach out to to one of the following people: Chief People Officer or People Partner/Capability President so we can discuss your feedback and perspective in more detail as we work towards any improvements. Thank you again.
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