Marsh Reviews

Pros

Great work/life balance
Stable industry
Work is easy

Cons

Insurance can be boring
Limited sense of importance/fulfillment

Advice to Senior Management

Benefits package could be improved

Pros

Decent starting pay and good benefits. Decent flexibility of work/personal schedules. Professional atmosphere. Good access to social work related events, free drinks after work, dinners, lunches, etc.

Cons

Great place to work but jumping ship is the only way to advance your career professionally. Pay structure is set up to minimize costs not reward people or keep them around long term. They can attract you with a high salary but don't expect more than 2-3% annual raises. Training is NON EXISTENT.

Advice to Senior Management

I get that your job is to maximize shareholder value but a little more dedication to employee satisfaction would yield better results than the costs associated with turnover.

Pros

- not much to say

Cons

- New management looks for ways to hire their friends from outside, than to promote from within.
- Management would rather hire individuals who commute from Massachusetts (and they pay for their expenses) than to hire qualified individuals in the NY metro area.

Pros

Employment conditions, insurance, flexibility and the opportunity to learn and progress within the company. The working environment can be relaxed and friendly.

Cons

Pecking order, treated badly by other employees, no cohesive happy working environment.
Outright lies regarding opportunities that are available for promotion.

Advice to Senior Management

Work to create a happy environment to employees. Efforts in this direction are currently being taken based on voluntary payments by employees. Managment should see this as an investment they should make.

Pros

The people that work locally

Cons

Bad management, outsourcing, no rasies in the last 3 years

Advice to Senior Management

Go back to what got Marsh to where it was 2007

Pros

Steady paying job.
Opportunity for advancement in a large global company.

Cons

Lack of information provided to complete daily job functions.
No insurance training yet am responsible for a vast array of insurance related knowledge.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay your employees more and fire the losers.

Pros

If you're looking for a stable steady job, you've found the right company.

Cons

This could become very boring

Pros

Global companies that have big name in the insurance industries, especially in broking.

Cons

Company treat employees like goods but not as their asset because we feel that there's unbalance between the compensation with the job that we do.
The upper management also seems have hidden agenda so sometimes we feels they are hiding something or they release inconsistent regulation that confused employees

Advice to Senior Management

Please be inconsistent for all the new regulation that company wants employees to comply and remember employees are asset for company, there's a symbiotic mutualism between company and employees.

Pros

less stressful than underwriting
a lot better reputation and corporate than other brokers
good communication within the company

Cons

you are paid min. 30-40% less than underwriters
mid level management has been working there since forever
once you get crossed with management, you shouldn't expect a bright career progress anymore

Advice to Senior Management

too high turn over in the new generation,
marsh needs to pamper the new generation talent

Pros

As this company is large and its operations varied, there are many opportunities for learning new skills. The workforce is educated and well-qualified. Employees work well together and help each other. The benefits are good.

Cons

Senior management views employees as expenses rather than assets. Employees are used and then thrown out the door like garbage. Office politics rule. Promotions have little to do with performance. Raises are few and far between. Company loyalty and tenure have little value. When jobs are eliminated there is no effort to move experienced employees into other positions.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat employees like humans rather than disposable objects.