Securian Financial reviews

Associates feeling extremely stressed is a daily occurance. I’ve known more than enough people here who have developed serious health conditions due to the stress and lack of support/work life balance. Some departments seem to constantly be behind on work and the problem is never addressed. Instead, managers resort to belittling and harassing employees rather than focusing on the hard work it would take to improve things. This company needs to remember their associates are human beings, not robots, and we have suggestions to improve things if anyone cared to listen (they do not). They refuse to hire enough people to manage workloads. To this day I have no idea what some of my managers even did all day for their jobs because organization on the teams were a disaster (non-existant). The company has recently switched to management being solely focused on leading the team rather than being knowledgeable in their department at all. Therefore, my first supervisor had no idea what my job entailed, how to help, how to evaluate performance, etc. Needless to say, no one on the team respected or trusted the supervisor. That’s not someone you want making hiring decisions or work flow/distribution decisions.

Compensation is not in line with market for internal hires. Associate feedback is not valued - surveys indicated return to office was not desired, but was implemented anyway. The CEO seems me concerned about bringing associates to downtown St. Paul than their well-being. There are even mandatory make-up days of you're on vacation or ill. Consistently understaffed- associates often asked to do more than is reasonable / possible. Relies on a revolving door of contract workers, so expertise is built, then leaves, so they are constantly starting over. Their solution to turnover is to ask retired associates to come back. Open bidding on divisions. Continuing to hire remote workers even after asking existing employees to return to the office. Completely different experience with current ceo vs. the previous.