Abusive management - Anonymous employee WTW Employee Review

1.0
12 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good work / life balance. Nice office space.

Cons

For the first time in my long career, I was bullied by a manager while I worked at Willis. The signs started very early on in my employment and continued for the years I was there. This individual also recruited others, including managers, to participate in the intimidation and bullying, which included regular obscene behavior including inappropriate hand gestures. I realized that in order to protect myself, I needed to videotape and record the physical and verbal behavior and I have this audiovisual record on file to this day. With evidence in hand, I contemplated going to the EEO, as I am certain that I had grounds for a lawsuit. Instead, I decided to leave Willis and I'm so glad that I did. My time at Willis was my most miserable point in my professional career.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Paycheck is great, people to work with are generally very intelligent, positive and professional. Many positions are work from home or at least hybrid. Continuous learning is encouraged. Since the company is technically British, it is very inclusive and has several networks to ensure inclusion (although some such as the menopause support group are UK based which isn't surprising as the US doesn't typically care about such things though they should).

Cons

The workload is often insane to put it mildly. You are expected to sort of "do everything". When you are encouraged to speak up if you have too much work, they pretty much tell you "well you just have to figure out how to get it done because we have to give you more work". There is blatant favoritism. Those who are liked are praised for giving detailed answers on calls and granted a month off of PTO while those not as well liked get grilled when they ask for one day off and are told "not to overthink" when they try to provide detailed answers.

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