Aon Hewitt Reviews

I worked at Aon Hewitt full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Flexible schedule
Co-workers
Fast paced, at times

Cons – Mundane Tasks
Poor training
Little recognition

Advice to Senior Management – Connect more with your employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Aon Hewitt full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There are a lot of young and fun people. It is a good opportunity to learn right out of college.

Cons – Very bad pay, way too many meetings, depending on the client team that your aligned with, you may be overworked. Good for the first two years of career.

Advice to Senior Management – Value employees more

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Aon Hewitt full-time for more than a year

Pros – This is one of very few companies that will train you fully. It's a very good opportunity. if you took a career break then it's a good company to re-start your career. Just don't stay there for more than two years.

Cons – Very low salary, micro management, no salary raise. Manager will ask you to put lots of hours

Advice to Senior Management – Don't ask employees to put more and more hours on time card. If you are not going to give any raise.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Aon Hewitt as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – The diversity
The support of various client teams

Cons – Using Aon Temps with no benefits and low pay. Aon Temps are doing the same job and people who are hired on perm, with no recognition.
Client teams need more workers
They are working with less when they really need more

Advice to Senior Management – With the new healthcare law being put in place, there is no need to hire on temps to get out of paying health insurance. Offer perm employment and benefits

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Aon Hewitt full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Good people. My manager cared about me as an employee and as a person, and we are in touch to this day.

- Flexible work environment (I worked from home as often as I needed)

Cons – - Low salaries
- Excessive workload, and mgmt is hostile toward OT requests. Many associates (myself included) worked late from home to keep up and never got paid for it.
- Raises well below inflation - your real income will decrease in successive years, unless you keep moving up the ladder
- Top heavy
- Outsources far too aggressively
- Quantity is more important than quality

Advice to Senior Management – If you make the HRO practice get any leaner, it's going to starve.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Aon Hewitt

Pros – Co workers were great. Great health benefits.

Cons – With the reorg with AON a lot of RIFs.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Aon Hewitt full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Very focused on meeting and exceeding client requirements. Some of the client teams are very strong with good leadership. The client teams work together across technology, administration and customer service. The coordinated work ensures high quality service.

Cons – The company at times loses focus on working to service all of their customers. The focus will be on the client contacts and not all of the employees the company is doing benefits administration for. The corporate culture is focused on improving the margins with most of the work being done on cutting costs.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to bring back the culture the originally made Hewitt a great place to work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Aon Hewitt full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Senior Leadership in the firm does appear to genuinely want the regions to be successful and make a fairly good effort to push new ideas and tools out to the field.

Cons – The local leadership for the most part has no training and at times even brag about that fact. For those of us working under this type of misplaced leadership it is not pleasant.

Advice to Senior Management – Please listen to those doing the actual work and servicing our clients. We want to be successful, but it is more difficult than necessary if all local leadership is concerned with is increasing revenue at all costs.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Aon Hewitt full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – - Flexible hours for many of the departments (but not all)
- Good benefits & vacation time
- Working from home available to some associates
- Attempts by execs to have frequent Info-sharing sessions to keep employees informed of company status
- Some really nice & hard working co-workers
- On site cafeterias in many locations
- On-site Medical Centers in some locations also
- On-site Dry Cleaning
- Employee discounts
- Always new types of offerings for clients

Cons – - Low pay
- Long hours
- Much work being sent off-shore (some coming back now)
- Insufficient rewards & recognition
- Quality not as important as used to be
- 'Do more with less' - too much focus
- Cut costs by finding cheaper ways to do work - mostly off-shoring - regardless of outcomes
- Long term associates not as valued as younger, lower salaried employees
HENCE low engagement scores........

Advice to Senior Management – - Rethink quality - it must be VERY important
- Rethink off-shoring - USA associates need work too
- Continue to be flexible with work/life balance
- Review salaries/types of recognition

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Aon Hewitt as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Good Benefits
Very accommodating to your schedule (depending on your client)
Very friendly people

Cons – Very old hardware that makes your job hard to do sometimes
It can be very difficult to move upwards in the company
Salaries are stagnant

Advice to Senior Management – Get new computers/upgrade your database systems, it would make our jobs a lot easier!
There are people that want to move up through the company, work with them to give them more opportunities, while I was there too many people told me to get out while I could... before getting comfortable