USANA Health Sciences Reviews

Pros

USANA is a fast-moving forward thinking company. Sometimes senior management seems to be focused only on the current quarter, but overall it is a good company to work for.

Cons

Lower than average pay. Favortism among employees gets you promoted, not actual performance. Takes 5 years to get 3 weeks of vacation.

Pros

flexible schedule is a plus for me

Cons

unstable work place is an issue

Advice to Senior Management

no advice. it is a good company providing a lot of work opportunities for people around the world. I like it

Pros

It's fluctuating in how busy you can be on a busy day, which I see sometimes as a plus as it allows you to do the work that you want to put more time into with more care and sensitivity when it's slower - but at the same time allowing you to be driven in a deadline environment and get you through the day quicker.

Cons

The benefits of part-time employees are non-existent. No paid time off, forced holidays off with no pay, no sick days, no partial health insurance, nothing. Compensation in my department is definitely below what it should be for the difficulty of our calls and the volume - which rivals many other MLM call centers in SLC yet our compensation averages about $10.50 an hour. Free product is OK. Profit sharing is completely deceptive and when you actually do the math, it's a HIGH TAX BONUS that only equates to another 20 cents per hour.

Advice to Senior Management

Profit sharing is deceptive and any retard would understand that it only equates to about a 4% per hourly wage increase if it were distributed throughout the year. It's really just a method of retention for management, and the tax paid on it is very unattractive compared to a lower tax rate achieved from posting it monthly to the hourly wages based salary.

Pros

If you have a large network and don't mind ruining some relationships then sure. You learn how to act professionally and look the part as well. You learn how to step out of your boundaries and approach people in ways you never thought of before.

Cons

-Although they say it's work on "your time." It pretty much is on your "Up line's" time. They expect you to be available at every moment and they say you must "make sacrifices now in order to succeed."
-When taught how to approach people about joining the company, they basically teach you how to lie to your friends and family about what the company really is.
-When you have obligations, they are not understanding, and then view you as not motivated enough.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't push people the "rank up" too fast. I know getting those below you means getting you paid, but ranking up at that pace when you are new and just learning is hard. Not everyone is a materialistic as you. A designer belt or bag is not going to get the horse running for some people.

Pros

Flexible Work time, challenging work

Cons

Small company, don't have lot of other job to experience

Pros

You get to choose your time. You are free to work wherever and whenever you want.

Cons

You will only get paid through commisions by sales volume. No volume, no pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Add more compensation plans.

Pros

Great supervisors, decent pay for manual/unskilled labor, recognize hard work and promote accordingly, other employees can be lazy and may not buy in to company, leadership great and very approachable

Cons

Lack of strong culture, other temp employees treated poorly but they were also lazy, be prepared to stand on your feet a lot

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more stock options and incentives to employees, need bonuses for meeting production goals

Pros

They take very good care of their employees. The SLC campus has a gym and work out facilities for employees to use and they encourage employees to take advantage of them. USANA also supports its employees by encouraging them to learn new skills and get and education.

Cons

USANA sometimes experiences growing pains because it is transitioning from a medium sized company to a large one.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work

Pros

The company is diversified, to a degree, which is difficult to find in the state of Utah. The company provides extra benefits, such as work-out facilities, massages, personal trainers, full-size basketball court, yoga classes, etc... The company is concerned with helping their employees and not only concerned about using them to get the work done.

Cons

The industry (direct selling/MLM) isn't the most glamorous, and at times you feel that the people selling the products (the distributors) run the company and dictate too much what the company does.

Advice to Senior Management

Diversify the company's sales channels. Although it may be difficult to do in the industry , and many/most who have tried, have failed, I don't think its impossible. I believe the company is a good company and should continue to try and influence the world, not only through direct selling, but other avenues (explore the nootropic revolution that is about to happen as well as alternative retailing of products that don't compete with the direct selling products).

Pros

Usana Health Sciences has helped me to become a successful business person. I have learned how to manage promotions, treat employees right, and most importantly have been able to spend more time with family. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do, everyone has something to learn from Usana. I did not become successful with Usana, however, the business model that they have was very lucrative. I attended many seminars and was able to use their training in my own life. I attribute most of my successes to the training I received from Usana. The difference between Usana and most other companies is that the associates that are selling you the product, actually believe what they are telling you. Their product is so good that it allows the associates to be honest with you.

Cons

Rejection would be the biggest downside of Usana. Over the years people have been conned by snake oil salesmen and pyramid schemes. They have become so defensive against these things that they wont give you a chance to tell them the truth about the product. Most of the time you wont even get to give a presentation because people are so bitter. The thing that really hurts is for the people are doing this job to raise awareness about health and people turn them down and shove them into the same category as a con artist without even giving them the chance to talk. it gets very discouraging when person after person shuts you down, but its always good to think about the fact here is another 6 billion people on this planet and that there is a lot more people who care about there health and the health of their loved ones then there ar people who will shut you out.

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the good work, make convention a little cheaper for those who want to come and still have to worry wbout plane tickets and hotel rooms.