Some great people...none of whom are managers - Anonymous employee Aviva Employee Review

1.0
21 Nov 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are some really great people who work for Aviva - kind, smart, helpful - who want to work hard and get on. They've recently made the 20p coffee free. You won't be bullied

Cons

Where to start... In Automatic Enrolment area there is a huge lack of focus. Not going to name individuals, but the problem is less the top managers, but the team leaders underneath them. Management propose ideas such as 'systems thinking' where admin monkeys like me are told we can make changes to the way we work....well this never happens. The team leaders are not equipped to lead, instead they make competent staff underneath them do their work for them. - Team Leaders are obstructive (there are exceptions to the rule) and your pay and progression depends on brown nosing - THE WORST THING: some employees have a sneaky trick (and this is rife through experienced members of staff), whereby they reduce hours to part time, but then do overtime so that they earn more than full-time staff even though they work less hours.

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