The Hartford Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Work/Life balance is great: I am so glad I did not have to give up on my career when my kids were born. My organization has been able to provide me with PT work AND continues to develop my skills and knowledge. I do not have to put anything on hold and can focus on my family and my career aspirations. Diversity & Inclusion: Is considered in everything we do. I appreciate that I am a person to The Hartford and they treat me as such. My voice matters, my history, my culture, what makes me, me matters to them. Continuous Advancement: Once you are performing well you can take on plenty of stretch assignments, join employee resource groups, take classes, grab a mentor, take a leadership pathway course - ANYTHING - nothing is stopping you from developing, it's great.

Cons

Not every operation is as forward thinking.

Pros

Flexibility and great work life balance

Cons

Difficult to get promoted due to the number of employees

Pros

If you work a salary or non call center type role then you have a lot of flexibility and work life balance

Cons

If you would an hourly role, more specifically one of the customer service roles, you have little to no time flexibility. You are treated more like a number than a person. All the great things about the company really don’t apply to the call center type roles.

Pros

The benefits, paid time off and training were all really good

Cons

Pay wasn't as competitive and the available hours for work made a life/work balance difficult

Pros

great benefits that start on day one

Cons

NO work life balance; they expect you to work an impossible caseload in a 40 hour work week. They will give you a little overtime but it's still not enough time to handle the caseload. The training is inadequate and there's no consistent support after you come out of training. I had 6 different mentors, all with different teaching styles, who were also under stress to process their impossible caseload while mentoring a new employee. They always talk about work life balance but it's just that, talk. I regularly started my work day before 6AM and left after 5PM, often times working off the clock in the attempt to process my heavy caseload. 2 of my coworkers who were hired with me had panic attacks at their desk. I also know of another former employee who was fired via Skype. Run like the wind from The Hartford. There were 4 people who started working at the Hartford with me. Only 1 of those remain. Don't say you weren't warned.

Pros

The people are really positive and professional, even management. You have a lot more flexibility than most places so work life balance is great. They really listen to your ideas and concern and make changes. Work from home opportunities

Cons

Call volume goes from crazy busy to slow and a lot of time they are begging for overtime when it is not busy.

Pros

The only positive thing I can honestly say about this organization is that an individual work life balance is encouraged and supported.

Cons

No room form growth. Nepotism is the norm. Friendship over talent. Senior management word is not to be trusted. Warning not a great place for minorities to work.

Pros

The paycheck and some of the benefits. Some good people, but even those seem to be flying out the door more and more, which is really a infinite con.

Cons

Leadership that doesn't seem to know what they want to do. Historic management that clearly didn't know what they were doing. Employees that don't seem to have the tools or the skills to compete in the marketplace. Work life balance doesn't mean working from home is a good thing in many cases. Doesn't have the clout it thinks it has. Musical chairs of employees and management. Your traditional corporate politics company, its everywhere.

Pros

Great work life balance and learning

Cons

rewards are not in line with the industry

Pros

The co-workers I had were really wonderful

Cons

I don't even know where to beginning . It is a call center environment. They micro manage your every move up to the point where I had my manager coming over to my desk or messaging me if I was doing something wrong in that moment. The objectives are very unclear. They pay attention to so many stats that it is very unclear what they are asking for. It is a difficult work environment. They also talk up their benefits a lot but they really aren't great. Their health plans are terrible. The 401K is nice. The work life balance that they so heavily promote isn't even close to what they say. You are constantly competing to get days off with others around you. If a day isn't available then you are out of luck and you have to call in. If you call in too many times then you get spoke to and eventually fired. There are so many people that quit while I was working there and even though some people like it - a lot of people wanted out.