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
2.0
Nov 22, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, excellent opportunities for benefits like great insurance

Cons

Kiss your work life balance goodbye. You will be expected to go “above and beyond” and given a workload that is physically impossible to do in 40 hours a week. Regularly will work evenings and weekends. Calls with claimants can be extremely emotional, you will need to tell someone with cancer their disability has been denied because they didn’t get certain forms in soon enough and will have no outlet to discuss these emotionally labor intensive claimants and no time to decompress between calls. For the first year the pay and perks will seem worth it, maybe, but when the burn out sets in you will have no safety net. Regularly to see “stress casualties” of coworkers needing to go on leave for months at a time to do the stress, and their team will need to cover their work which will make the next domino fall.

3.0
Aug 17, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good Benefits (401k, PTO, Family Leave etc) - The employees , frontline talent - Community Support and Volunteer Opportunities

Cons

- High attrition in multiple areas. Leadership gives no recognition to the primary cause; the significant change in culture over the last several years, the failure to staff authentic leaders who are focused on developing staff. - Lack of compensation adjustments for long term leaders and significant reduction in compensation adjustment pool over the last 4+ years. - Allow new managers, directors to be placed or hired based on leadership’s perception of talent when they often have no experience managing people or leading anyone. Quick elevation leads to leaders who focus on what their manager will perceive as successful that will allow them to continue to move up. This eventually eliminates any true investment in those they lead. Everyone becomes secondary to their individual career goals.

1.0
May 21, 2019

Horrible Leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

None since mid-2000's, but it used to be a great place to work. Once the former leadership left/retired, it went downhill quickly.

Cons

Mandatory bell curves. Incompetent people in leadership roles. Foreign outsourcing is rampant. Racial discrimination is rampant against males who are not of a foreign origin, Routine layoffs of knowledgeable people.

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