How do employees feel about Walgreens's policy around taking breaks?

None. They treat you like slaves.

Everything: horrible hours, doing the work of 3 people, hassles with obtaining part time off (PTO, which is not paid), minimum wage, changing and unpredictable hours, not getting regular, legally mandated breaks; unreasonable multitasking duties and scolding if you don't perform them all perfectly; dealing with their diversity hires so you end up covering for them too because they can't do the job; cleaning filthy restrooms. . . I could go on. There is so much more bad treatment to report.

Easy to figure out how to do everything if you are motivated to learn. If you're fast, you'll end up with some down time

The company regularly adds more responsibilities to your job description while also taking away benefits. New hires get paid more than employees that have been here for decades. The expectation for how many people get staffed at a time is also too little. Scheduler is not given enough hours to schedule two shift leads at a time meaning the shift lead on duty doesn't get their mandatory 30 minute break.

You meet new people, learn things all the time and highly active.

No breaks are allowed and forced to take your lunch within 30 minutes of your shift starting and/or working through your lunch. Customers have no empathy, only want instant gratification and have completely lost any sense how to speak to people since the pandemic. It has been very dangerous to work here as well as theft has been on the incline. Close open shifts with no regards to minimum hours between shifts. No regard to a work week schedule as the schedule starts on Thursdays; meaning you can be scheduled 6 days in a row. There is absolutely no work life balance. You are forced to work off the clock and are given false hope of any promotion to ESM (Not that it'sworth it anymore). It doesn't matter how much you have given your blood and soul here. Bullies, mean girl behavior and rascism is apparently acceptable in this company and is driving the moral down. There is no employee engagement at this company what so ever as well. Also, no meals are provided occasionally like some companies would. Not even holidays. Break room is a table and 2 chairs, moldy refrigerator, counter and sink for your 20 plus employees at any given location. There is mold and leaks everywhere. Bathrooms are consistently down (causing bladder problems for employees) and customers are always doing drugs in the bathroom causing everyone to inhale mj and meth. Police no longer come for anything even for someone going through an injury or psychosis. All of this and there is more- they took away the majority of front end yearly raises by lowering it to 1% where as the RX staff kept theirs the same. The inequalities are unimaginable between 2 sides of each location yet still same company. The front end is a physically damaging job and to get 1 percent if that if you are capped is ridiculous.

Flexible scheduling and plenty of breaks

Working a lot of holidays

Pays decent, good scheduling, okay.

Understaffed, over worked, short lunch break.

I never had a dull moment working with this company.

The worst part was not having enough time for breaks.

good pay and break with ok perks

understaffed and it can get busy

Love working in this comfortable atmosphere. Great management.

We are short and I end up working more hours than I would like.

- Colleague was friendly - Manager was nice

- The break room is very dirty - Minimum wage

Good work environment and safe

very short breaks, had no coverage