Unum Group Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Unum Group full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The people here are great to work with.

Cons – Your raises does not reflect on how hard you work.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the your employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Unum Group full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great benefits package with generous paid time off

Cons – "Managers In Training" need much more experience before they should be allowed to lead teams

Advice to Senior Management – Speak to your front line with more openness and sincerity

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Unum Group full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good benefits including for domestic partners. Tuition reimbursement includes books and you need only a B-. Sometimes interesting work and there are some truly excellent people there (not necessarily Managers and above, though).

Cons – I agree with many existing reviews here. In my experience this company is slow to give raises unless you slavishly conform to the existing corporate culture (which means change is slow if it erupts at all, and then sometime's squashed). Some IT systems are awful: old, poorly understood and supported, clunky. As noted by others, some recognition programs are thought by many to be for rewarding favorite employees only, not merit-based. This company attracts workers partly because there aren't many large employers in Southern Maine, and not based on its own strengths....

Advice to Senior Management – Ask the employees: they have plenty of good ideas.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Unum Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – GREAT people, decent opportunity, fantastic training program--best in the industry

Cons – A lot is contingent on how good your territory is

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Unum Group

Pros – The best reasons to work for Unum Group are for the stability & pay a fair wage.

Cons – It's not that Unum Group is a horrible place to work. Just every other company I've worked for has out performed them on almost all aspects.

Advice to Senior Management – Unum is not a horrible place to work but one will quickly see their short comings working for other people. Anyone with a little bit of ambition will stick out easily here which is not always a good thing. Usually that person gets stuck with all of the work.

Sr Leadership should reassess the level of talent they have a middle management level. The company will continue to be mediocre until they change the level of middle management talent.

Current Employee – been working at Unum Group

Pros – money benefit its a great company good PTO time that is important with this position. room to move around and grow within the company

Cons – some of the works are not that friendly. go to work do your job get your money that is what you are there for in the first place.

Advice to Senior Management – Ways to motivate team. i think it is important in this position to have people properly motivated. in some cases management lacks in that aspect.

Former Employee – worked at Unum Group

Pros – great benefits package, generous time off, some interesting and new technology for an insurance company.

Cons – if you're in a management position, you'll never be able to take the time off. Organizational resistance to change is huge, and getting simple improvements through is very difficult.

Advice to Senior Management – focus on long term value creation in the marketplace - the stock will respond over time.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Unum Group

Pros – The benefits package is very generous and the amount of paid time off is substantial even for entry level job title. The people that work there are good people and there is an easy balance with work and leizure. The benefit package is very good and I think anyone would be hard pressed to find any sort of benefit package that tops the one that they provide their employees. The company encourages people to take different jobs within the company which can prove to be beneficial for anyone that bores doing one job for too long and it also is looked as a managerial development tool.

Cons – There seems to be a lack of ability to climb the ladder and the job is essentially the same thing every day. t times, expectations of timeliness are unreasonable given the amount of duties one is responsible for. It is virtually impossible to do everything on time in an 8 hour work day. The quality assurance ratings are unreasnable as well, and those scored reflet the bonus compensation that an employee recieves. Across the company people struggle with there quality assurance score and it almost seems like it is a way to justify a low compensation bonus for the year.

Advice to Senior Management – offer more growth oppurtunities and speed up the promotional process for those that deserve to be promoted.

Current Employee – been working at Unum Group

Pros – Diversity of the products offered (from an insurance perspective). The brand name also helps as Unum is one of the premier Life/Disability carriers in the nation. Our benefits package is also stellar. Another plus is that management seems to have a great track record which is important (especially in these economic times).

Cons – The opportunities for promotion are not what I would have anticipated. Opportunities for advancement in the field are not plentiful. They are if you work in their corporate office in Portland, ME. It would also be nice to have some flextime (working from home on occasion) but that practice is not well regarded.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to provide us with timely communication, especially in this economic environment.

Former Employee – worked at Unum Group

Pros – Benefits. Its also a good place for a lazy person to work...

Cons – As with many jobs...the favortism. I worked there for almost 10 years and even though I benefited from the favoritism myself some times...it still wasn't fair.

Advice to Senior Management – Quit listening to what tickles your ear...