Work-life balance and the lack thereof - Leave Specialist Unum Employee Review

2.0
24 Jan 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Decent starting rate, if you can breathe and have work experience, they will hire you.

Cons

No work life balance due to mandatory and implied overtime Only way to advance is to network, hard work will move you further, but talking will do more. Nepotism in senior leadership, questionable ethics, and a "hire to fire" recruiting strategy. Workload is impossible to keep up with. Overtime leads to mistakes that make it harder for good workers to manage their workload effectively. You will be punished for good performance. The better you do, the more work and stress you obtain. Hope you like base pay because merit based raises are now nonexistent with their pay plan. Health insurance premiums for a 3 person family are about $220 every two weeks for mid-range benefits.

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5.0
7 June 2026
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Pros

Great benefits, wonderful coworkers and peers, caring DIRECT leadership, growth opportunities

Cons

Strict in office policy, leadership VP level and higher does not seem as caring, burnout possible, lower end of salary compared to the market

1.0
17 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pto, good company to work for career wise, good discounts on things+discount for food on site.

Cons

Overworked like crazy, I was hired a few months ago but am already looking for something else, due to the stress and constant feeling of “wow finally i think im starting to get this” all to be reminded when submitting your tasks for mentor review you either did it right or have to redo the whole entire thing from scratch that is if your mentor is even available. Depending on your mentor as well that can really damper your experience and overall understanding. Training could have been done a lot better initially with constant exposure to different task types and different material. For example Medical certifications could have been shown over and over again for us to understand if it’s complete, incomplete and what significant health condition it would be for coding. With other team members also leaving as training ended and senior team members leaving once we got assigned the writing was on the wall. I really wanted to give Unum a shot and really try to see myself here, maybe it’s just the position of leave specialist or maybe all the jobs are the same, still can’t help but wonder if another position would’ve suited me better if they allowed role transfers sooner instead of waiting a minimum full year.

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