International SOS Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

There are many people passionate about what they are doing. There is a work life balance. Many good benefits.

Cons

Senior Management team should bring new work force inorder to innitiate new business ideas.

Pros

work life balance is good

Cons

salary is very low low low

Pros

- Global workforce so you meet interesting people - Service provided is valuable - Feel like you're making a difference - Good benefits, however you pay a lot for them compared to other companies - Work/life balance was acceptable

Cons

- Internal infrastructure/service delivery is unorganized and getting anything done is like pulling teeth - Company does not practice most of what they preach to clients - Lots of internal competition that management will not address - Sales Management does not have sales experience - Remote employees are unsupported and often have to wait days to get answers to their questions/help - IT/technology is disappointing and not what you'd expect from such a global company - Commission structure is purposely convoluted and constantly changing

Pros

Interesting business industry. Good work/life balance. Many career opportunities if you are willing to be mobile around the world.

Cons

Poor business model, too many changes in a short period of time. The company is always switching directions - could be better than a company that never changes?

Pros

Good work life balance and good environment to work

Cons

Low salary, lack of interaction with other teams

Pros

I worked for the company for 2 years under the AIESEC program. Below is a list of the pros I can vouch for from my personal experiences: - International SOS is without a doubt the global leader in what they do, and because of that they have a very impressive clientele. The company would look great on resumes. - I had some decent exposures to important projects in my capacity, which definitely helped me build a highly competitive skill set as data and system related analyst. Thanks to that, I was able to further my career elsewhere on a bigger platform. - Very great work-life balance. Productivity is valued over your time spent at work, at least for me. - You can meet people from all over world and be close friends with them, who can also act as your support group at work. - The company exemplified 3 of their 4 core values: Passion, Expertise, and Care (for their employees). A good example is that when they put their employees on furlough due to COVID-19, they still offer to top up 100% of their salaries, even though the UK government only reimburses 80%.

Cons

I will demonstrate the cons in my own experiences. I was so disheartened and bitterly disappointed by how I was treated that I eventually seek to leave the organization. 1. The company does respect their clients, but doesn't respect their employees- one of their core values they failed to live up to. Respecting your employees and caring for your employees are two separate things. The company did well in one of them, but failed to deliver the other. If you are a non-EU citizen under the AIESEC program, your compensation package will be highly disproportionate to your contribution. After the first year of my contract, I was confident that I deserved a permanent employment, but only to be told that I would be renewed under the same terms at last minute, which I had to accept out of the fear of losing my visa and therefore took a huge financial loss. And while my manager was having his 2nd or 3rd promotion in the 2 years, I was informed the company didn't even have the budget to offer me a permanent contract! Fortunately I saw this coming and had already prepared my exit strategy, because there have been so many similar cases in the company. The truth is that the management most likely see the AIESEC program as a cheap source of quality workforce, and they have no intention to provide any type of reasonable commitments for our future inside the company before they can take the full advantage of you. How is that different than exploitation? 2. Lack of diversity, or what I called "Pseudo-Diversity". This might be the biggest problem of the company in that nobody inside the company has even recognized it. Indeed, the company's London office has a lot of different nationalities and culture backgrounds, the common definition of diversity, but so are the other 50 companies in the Chiswick business park. The reasons why I call it Pseudo-Diversity are that: a. Despite so many people from different backgrounds, the company didn't promote sensitivity and common sense. b. Despite the equal opportunities promoted by the company, its leadership consists almost exclusively of white males with christian background. The diversity only exists on the bottom of the pyramid. Their diversity only has the appearance but lacks the essence. In fact, diversity has only been used as a reason as to why there are frictions between two coworkers, which is a scenario that I have experienced, while the true discriminating behaviors are either played down by HR or overlooked.

Pros

Great office, Good work life balance, Helpful team players and always striving to deliver the best quality customer service to its members and clients.

Cons

IT systems room for improvement.