Assurant Employee Benefits Reviews

Pros

For the most part, quality employees who cared about each other, family environment, excellent benefits, generous time off policy, provided solid learning opportunities and career advancement was possible if you were interested.

Cons

Could be stressful at times, very tight project deadlines, depending on which project you were assigned to, you could be expected to work long hours on a regular basis, favoritism existed on select teams and the Company could be a little too conservative at times.

Advice to Senior Management

As a whole, senior management cares about the employees, however, too much trust is given to favored officers who aren't exposed to everything they need and poor decisions are made.

Pros

Great Benefits
Cafeteria available
Fitness room available

Cons

There is nowhere to go in the company, and do not expect management to lend a hand in your professional growth. In 2 years I had 5 different team leads, the next caring less than the next about my career, only the numbers I pumped out every day. If you don't mind being a drone, have no ambition, and would like really good benefits, this is the place to work.

Advice to Senior Management

Your employees are your largest asset. Start treating them like assets.

Pros

Schedule flexibility and some "good people".

Cons

Lack of accountability, especially among leadership.

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up.

Pros

Company is fairly flexible with work life balance. Pay is comparable to industry average. Awesome tution reimbursement program and decent benefits.

Cons

Career advancement is not clearly laid out especially for employees who work in remote locations. Challenging service issues and coordination among departments is a constant source of frustration.

Pros

- Flexible Work
- Claims department always does the right thing
- good customer support
- Good first year compensation for sales
- Great commission scales for sales
- Products are superior to most in the market (Come at at very high cost, though)

Cons

- Upper management is biased and shows major favoritism
- Base Salaries are very low
- Training for sales is lacking compared to competitors
- Low expense budget compared to other companies
- Limited marketing name
- Not competitive compared to 30 plus competitors
- Very hard to qualify for the President's trip

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management needs to look at the sales managers. There are many talented ones but a lot are way below pare. They are way overpaid for what they do and show little support for their sales teams.

Pros

Good environment, very approachable people, tasks would seem easy, located in the middle of a city which is always helpful.

Cons

Have not really had much exposure to really get down to cons, but as it might seem, at times, they were not completely clear.

Advice to Senior Management

I believe they could have been a bit more clear about what exactly they were looking for, but other than that, they were really nice people, very approachable and friendly.

Pros

Mgmt definitely has a sense of integrity. They have had to make tough decisions since I've been on board and I think they've gone about it in a very professional and fair manor. Communication is very open and two-way. Very comfortable work atmosphere. Employee benefits are very strong (it is, after all, what they do).

Cons

From what I've been led to be believe from competitors, compensation is a little below average. Wouldn't be a major deal right now if the products we sold were more competitive in the market. The competitiveness of these products could change at any time though, thats the insurance market.

Advice to Senior Management

Well, duh... lower product rates to be more competitive.

Pros

Great benefits, competitive salary. A good place to work.

Cons

Management is unable to execute on increasing top line growth and is focused on cost cutting (eliminating jobs and off shoring work). If they continue along the same path, expect AIZ corporate to put AEB on the block and sell the business to someone else.
Lot of uncertainty about the future. Employees are concerned about future.

Advice to Senior Management

Time to revisit long term strategies.
Don't get rid of people who aren't afraid to speak their mind and even disagree if management decisions are not in the best interest of the company. Those people are one of the best assets a company can have.

Pros

Flex time schedule, yearly bonus

Cons

Not enough training, and management not knowing job

Advice to Senior Management

Learn the job

Pros

Great place to get in from outside the insurance industry. They hire a lot of individuals from outside the industry because the pay less than competitors and have a tough time retaining employees.

Cons

On your own...extremely high turn over rate both terminations and resignations

Advice to Senior Management

Be open to feedback, that means negative feedback as well.