What was once a great company has really gone downhill - Anonymous employee Unum Employee Review

3.0
6 June 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent benefits, great people who really care, great location, covered parking, good room for advancement for mid/entry career level folks (not so much for Management/Director level)

Cons

Unum used to be a wonderful place to work. Management was truly invested in developing people, and you saw it in the way the people cared about their work. In recent years there has been a shift: do more with less. This isn't so surprising given the nature of corporate America these days, but Unum seemed so immune to it for so long. They now have an open work space environment (read: no privacy), every transaction is measured, scored and analyzed to see if there is a better, faster, more efficient way to do it, and people are tossed aside if they don't measure up, even if they've been with the company for 30+ years. I get it, as a Manager you have to manage the business the best & most efficient way you can - but as an employee and as a human, it really, really stinks. I am so glad that I left when I did.

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