Georgia Farm Bureau Insurance Reviews

Pros

The benefits offered, opportunity for advancement throughout the company, work environment is pleasant and comfortable, management respects all employees and open door policy.

Cons

Parking facilities and ability to exit at end of day

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to embrace change and use of technology and work to keep all employees informed of changes and direction of the company.

Pros

Its reputation in the community

Cons

micromanaging, changes how your commissions are paid, don't dare to question your pay or you'll be fired

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Good place to work decent balance of work and social life. Management was helpful, great learning experience if you have just gradauted from college.

Cons

Not much potential for career growth, slow paced which is good if you are still in school. Some of your co-workers require alot of baby sitting.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire individuals that are computer savvy so those of use who do know about computers do not have to spend our entire day babysitting others

Pros

approaching 20 years with the company, so the pay is very good, along with benefits, pension and health care. I am very satisfied. New agents will struggle.

Cons

The company is taking very big steps to catch up with industry technology and agent support. Still a great deal of work needed to get us up to speed with competetion.

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management does not seem to have a grasp on the amount of task and the time involved in completing those task assigned to agents during this transition period.

Pros

The benefirts are very good, Health insurance, 401K, time off, holidays, etc. Mr. Duvall has recently taken steps to bring in new management for the insurance company. My only hope is that it is not too little too late.

Cons

Salaries are not comparable with others iin the field, no one who ultimately will make decisions. Management is a bunch of good ole boys who don't have a clue how to be managers. They are extremely overpaid and don't want to rock the boat by thinking!! The only employees left are those that are too old to go elsewhere or too dumb. All the good agents have left to go elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Sr. Management knows that they are light years behind in technology which will take years to catch up.

Pros

There are nice people (agents) and Homeowners insurance premiums are very competetive.

Cons

Agency managers are compensated on how much Life insurance is sold and presured by District management to do Life Insurance only as the District mangers bonus depends soley on Life Insurance.

The Life company based in Mississippi is inept, slow and lives in an era long past. Southern Farm Bureau Life are the dinosours of Insurance. The premiums are extremely high when compared to other higher rated company's, making it hard to sell. When it is sold, the lapse rate is off the charts, putting more pressure to sell just Life. Agents are subject to a week long sales "training"in Jackson Missippi and plied with free booze at a nearby hotel every night. The entire property casualty division seems to be nothing but a front and loss leader for overpriced Life Insurance.

Unfortunately for customers the agent turnover is as high as 200% annually in some counties yet the company does nothing because the agent body count is meaningless as long as the focus is to foist overpriced Life Insurance on the public.

The computer system is 30 years old. The company has just realized they need to do something and after 3 years of hand wringing finally selected a vendor to update the system. The project "Optimum" will take another three years to implement. Most paperwork is still actually done on real paper. shipped back and forth between the 151 counties and Macon. In many counties the agents must do ALL the tedious paperwork policy changes, run MVRS, uUpdate mailing addresses, and countless other time consuming paperwork that is normally automated by other companies leaving little time for them to actually get to know their clients. They are however required to produce Life by any means neccessary.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of Southern Farm Bureau Life, the company is stagnant, innefficient and way too expensive on Life premium rates. Stop the emphasis on Life and promote client / agent relationships. Can the old guard the tired life insurance huckster is not what the public wants.

If a county agency loses too many agents lets look at the agency manger. If it's widespread lets get rid of theDistrict Manager!