Alright pay, but too many hours - Associate Medical Writer OPEN Health Employee Review

2.0
May 13, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay is reasonably competitive and there is room for pay negotations

Cons

The company is quite a corporate environment and felt similar to what I would expect in large companies in the US, which personally does not suit my more relaxed, less formal style of working. You are expected to work a lot of overtime without any compensation; when I flagged that I was overwhelmed by the number of hours I was expected to work, I was told that it was up to me to manage my own calendar. However, I had no control over the number of job requests that came through and was not given any leeway when I attempted to push back.

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OPEN Health Response
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Thank you for your feedback, we do encourage creativity and flexibility to enable our people to be autonomous in order to do whats best for the client whilst also managing their work/life balance in the way that makes most sense for them. However, if balancing these things becomes challenging, we would encourage you to reach out to your line manager to work together on reaching that more balanced view.

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Pros

You get to work from home. That is the only benefit.

Cons

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