State Farm – “Production line atmosphere of Life Underwriting is forcing awesome employees to leave by the double digits”

Pros

The other employees, the way you do feel a part of a family with other employees, nice office atmosphere, nice buildings and campus. The lower level management really does seem to care about employees.

Cons

The production line atmosphere that life company has adopted, the completely demoralizing atmosphere and the way professional level employees are now treated like kindergartners. Upper level management brought in a consultant group that more or less told employees if you don't like the production line, leave, we're happy to hire college grads off the street to replace you, we can pay them less and we can make them into trained monkeys who won't know anything different from the production line and they will be happy

Advice to Senior Management

Trust your employees to do the right thing, don't micromanage them to the point that they have no self respect.