Western Union reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(2,934 total reviews)
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Devin McGranahan

52% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Western Union has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,934 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Western Union employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Oct 20, 2012

Good company

Recommend
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Pros

When i joned of this company than i was fresher but after some i get more experience to this company.....

Cons

I think every day is not working day....

1.0
Oct 3, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Have many service delivery outlets but not well maintained

Cons

Sent a $3,000 money transfer from State of Kansas to Chile, S.A., they charged an outrageous service fee of $136 for next day delivery. I went to Money Gram (Wal-Mart) and they only charged $60.00 for same service, same time delivery; more than twice as much!

2.0
Oct 1, 2012

Good People, Terrible Senior Leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good people work here and break their necks to do a good job for this company. Lots of great history, with fantastic services for all types of customers, including the "underserved." It's a global company, which provides a fantastic opportunity to work with colleagues world wide. This has been my favorite part.

Cons

Since the new CEO took over, the company feels like a sinking ship. It's too bad as it has a lot to offer. This CEO focuses highly on customer service (WHICH IS A PLUS), but you need to start with employee satisfaction first, which includes appropriate benefits, pay, training, recognition, work/life balance, training (yes again), etc. in order to positively impact the customer. We have no funds to do anything, we practically have to get executive approval for so much as t-paper (yes, it's an exaggeration, but you'd be surprised on how close this is), and are expected "to do more with less," which in this environment is not effective as it's more of a salt mine mentality. Due to the RIF's that occurred over the last few years, we have the same amount of work (A LOT) with less people to do it in and of course a short amount of time to get it done in (and leadership seems oblivious to this). They (the leadership) talk about empowerment, but manager's, directors and even some VP's do not have any approval authority whatsoever. I've loved working at Western Union and I've been here many years, but in the recent years, it's falling apart and it doesn't really feel like we have any leadership at all nor any loyalty to it's very hard working employee base.

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