Sinking Ship - Stay Away - Client Administrator ARI Employee Review

2.0
Mar 14, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

*Solid, intelligent, and generally good upper management *Reimburse tuition 100% *Privately owned, so no threat of being fired (unless you're exceptionally awful at your job) *Annual Christmas bonus worth up to 17 days of pay, depending on goals met for the year *In-house cafeteria

Cons

*Incompetent middle management *Strategic initiatives include: obtaining more clients than the company can support; growing too rapidly / in a free-for-all to steal Element's customers; demanding too much of their employees while paying too little and then wondering why they're losing all of their top young talent who know they can get paid better for less stress almost literally anywhere else; using buzz words like "there is an opportunity" instead of "there is a problem" because management cannot face reality; promoting work-life balance to their employees when 95% of them barely have enough time to get half of their work done any given day and are forced (unofficially) to work non-paid extra hours just to keep their heads above water; restructuring departments and sibling companies every six months which makes it impossible to keep up with how the Holman organization even operates anymore; "promoting" managers by giving them different titles so that they can sneakily get pay raises; promoting anyone with a last name that matches one of the executives' last names regardless of qualification or tenure...etc. The list goes on.

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4.0
Oct 4, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I feel that this company really does try it's best to make employees happy. I have only worked for a few companies, but ARI has made more changes to improve employee benefits than all those other companies put together. ARI does take the feedback they received from Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work for Survey and tries to make a positive difference, year over year! We have PTO time, which is 15 days for new employees (can be used for vacation or sick time). Starting in 2019, all employees will also have their birthday off as well. We also receive an annual profit sharing bonus (based on goals) , which could be up to 17 days pay. We have summer hours from June to August, as we work an hour extra Monday to Thursday, so we take a half day Friday or come in late on Monday.

Cons

Currently our 401K match is only 3%. I would like to see this percentage increase because I feel that saving for retirement should be a high priority for everyone, the individual and the company. We have some departments that have low employee turnover and some have high turnover. Perhaps if we had a better retirement match, we might retain more employees in those departments that have a high turnover rate.

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