Unrealistic Demands, Not Enough Focus on True Employee Engagement - Community Leader Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Nov 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible schedule, profit sharing, personal growth, opportunities for promotion at the store level. Compensation is decent as you move up. Customer experience has become more of a focus over the past few years.

Cons

Little work-life balance, especially for salaried managers. Not enough training hours for new hires. Upper management is more concerned with sales than employee safety and satisfaction.

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Pros

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Cons

Work life balance and low pay for what is expected. Not having enough payroll to effectively run a store. My store ran FE on a 320 hour a week budget. That was barely enough to get buy and meet the expectations put out by the company. I was never able to keep a full leadership staff. When a leader called out, I had to stay. There were days I was called away from my own dinner table. SM's were forced to be in the pharmacy for more than half of their day regardless as to what is happening in the FE. I worked over 50 hours a week and barely got to spend time with my family. If I wasn't at the store I was getting a phone call and having to go back to the store.

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