Frax Reviews

2.8

53% would recommend to a friend

(12 total reviews)

Bruce Berglind

83% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

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12 reviews
1.0
22 Aug 2020

Company in Chaos

Recommend
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Pros

Frax has a positive CEO with a friendly disposition. Bruce is bright and idealistic, but completely inattentive to the details of the company's daily operations. For most of my tenure the company worked with my schedule needs (though it did not do so for others.)

Cons

Frax was once a very well organized company with positive, well-informed, highly trained people in the right leadership positions, as some older reviews mention. Since then, the company has changed completely. Training is very poor, doing almost nothing to prepare agents for the scattershot labyrinth of conflicting policies that Frax has agreed to with each of its 100+ agencies. Frax simply took on more than it could train its employees to do. When even the most fundamental functions were no longer within their scope the company began signing new agency after new agency, agreeing to whatever they asked, regardless of Frax's ability to handle the task. This, of course, was a behavior that only exacerbated training issues, destroyed morale, and introduced unthinkably high turnover both of agencies and cast members. The extreme majority of employees work there less than three months, most of them quitting during training. Overpushed and undertrained employees allow hundreds of calls per day (from people seeking medically necessary care) are ignored, never returned, and never divulged to the agencies Frax serves. It was not unusual for a large majority of calls to go unanswered during busy periods. Frax would describe these instances as "rare" or because of high volume or staffing shortages, but almost always the team was fully present and call volume average. Agents simply could not do their jobs. Also not divulged to these agencies are the criminal activities of its agents, who are allowed unfettered access to the private information of thousands of care recipients, caregivers, and office members. Cast members routinely violate privacy laws, never having been trained on the proper protocol. The only training given for many years was only how to complete an inbound sales call. I left Frax when leadership mocked and derided team members for wiping down their keyboards and desks with disinfectant at the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak. Frax is disorganized, woefully untrained, critically mismanaged, and downright dangerous for its employees and clients.

1.0
22 Aug 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company's CEO Bruce is friendly and idealistic, but could more attentive to the daily operations of the company. The company has fair wages and worked with my schedule, but did not do so for others.

Cons

Frax started out as a well-managed, intentional, and focused company. As many outdated reviews here mention, Frax was very friendly, welcoming, and capable. This has changed completely. The company grew too quickly for what it could handle. Flooded with new agency after new agency, agents' work ballooned while wages stayed stagnant. With these new agencies came layers of complexity that leadership was unable to coordinate and train for. What resulted was poor service, a destruction of morale, and company ownership flailing to sign more agencies to make up for the inundation of company's firing Frax for its poor performance. This, of course, exacerbated the issue even further. Today's Frax is unable to fulfill its most basic objectives. It was not unusual for the company to miss the majority of calls it received, leaving hundreds of calls per day unanswered and never returned. Frax went to great effort to hide this reality from its customer agecies. It was the duty of night shift leadership to doctor call logs to hide the errors committed by Frax. When agency management would inevitably notice these failures the issues were always dismissed as being rare events caused by short staffing or unexpectedly high volume. The case was that agents simply weren't taking the calls - either overwhelmed by volume, untrained to do the work, or defeated by the company's dire morale. This inability to perform caused hundreds of vital calls to be missed every day. Those who received care from agencies would have their needs go completely unnoticed. Urgent calls from caregivers needing a shift covered would go unheard for hours, only noticed when a clock-in did not occur. It was always my greatest fear that Frax's failure to answer its calls would cause bodily harm to the innocent people who had no idea their in-home care agency outsourced its phones to Frax. Training at Frax Outsourcing was the company's greatest failure. Hundreds of agents began work at Frax during my tenure only to quit in their first few weeks. Almost none stayed for greater than six months, the majority quitting during training or within their first few days on the call floor. As many reviews here indicate - they were simply not prepared in any practical way to handle the volume of calls or complexity of policies. No training was ever provided on privacy laws and they were routinely violated. On that note, Frax grants its hundreds of very short-term employees unfettered access to sensitive private information. Frax agents are given access to social security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and phone numbers of thousands of agency care recipients, caregivers, and office staff. When unscrupulous agents took advantage of this and committed fraudulent activity, Frax did not divulge it to the agencies it affected, fearing the company would lose business. While Frax did not notify local authorities, it changed no policies. My time at Frax ended when, at the beginning of the pandemic, leadership mocked and derided those who were disinfecting shared keyboards and desks. During this time Frax implemented an assigned seating chart, forcing agents within arm's-reach of one another. Frax was simply unconcerned with the safety of its employees or callers. It is company so disorganized it is dangerous to all of those involved with it.

3.0
15 Nov 2018

Good survival job

Recommend
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Pros

Awesome coworkers, decent pay (It could be better, it is still a call center), casual attire, easy job.

Cons

Not enough training, terrible schedule management and they do not offer any benefits.

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