Unum reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(1,418 total reviews)
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Rick McKenney

63% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Unum has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,418 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Unum employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Jun 26, 2012

Worst ever!!

Recommend
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Pros

Benefits, Mon-Fri work week. Vacation days. All the money the company wastes on fun days doing nothing, hiring a big name motivational speaker for an all day event, sending employees to Disney world..The pro is for the upper management, CEO's and teachers pets, but the company wastes to much money on fun, but at least there is a lot of fun for the employees!!

Cons

I have had 7 mangers in 7 years of employment. Workflow changes bi-weekly or weekly or daily..(seriously) -Managers pick favorites. for a disability company; they treat employees bad for using FMLA or STD benefits. Teamwork is impossible with managers playing favorites. The employee is never right. The managers think they are and some of us know more than them. No understanding for single mothers leaving to pick up their sick child without having a initial mark on their HR file. Kids dont get sick once a year so if the employee leaves or calls in for this they can eventually loose their job as they only allow 6 occurrences and then you are terminated. Some managers treat their employees worse than you would treat a prisoner. This company says how tey want to make our customers lives better on their commercials, but they dont treat their employees the same. Never take a job their. anything good you hear about this company is from upper management or a "teachers pet". What I said is REAL 100%-

1.0
May 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are the best thing about this company.

Cons

Training is abysmal. They expect everyone to be able to learn at the same pace. Instead of working on resources to assist with learning, they decide it is best to just get rid of their employees instead of really trying to develop training. I have multiple people leave within a few months due to lack of resources for learning they position and the amount of micromanagement that goes on. Do not believe them when they say they do not micromanage. they watch everything that is done to the point it is suffocating.

1.0
May 29, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Paid Time Off and great colleagues.

Cons

- The company places you in one of two buckets when walking through the door on the first day - those they will promote quickly (always young) and those who are the 'workers' (aka the ones who do all of the work so the others can be promoted but will always remain where they are - underpaid and underappreciated). You cannot move from one bucket to the other, no matter how good (or bad) you are. - Severely underpaid and overworked. - Workload and responsibilities constantly increasing yet employees are given the message that they are lucky to have the job and really need to work harder. - Raises don't cover cost of living increases and management needs to beg even for these each year.

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