Culture Needs to be Overhauled to Return to Unum’s Commitments - Leadership Unum Employee Review

3.0
Aug 17, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Good Benefits (401k, PTO, Family Leave etc) - The employees , frontline talent - Community Support and Volunteer Opportunities

Cons

- High attrition in multiple areas. Leadership gives no recognition to the primary cause; the significant change in culture over the last several years, the failure to staff authentic leaders who are focused on developing staff. - Lack of compensation adjustments for long term leaders and significant reduction in compensation adjustment pool over the last 4+ years. - Allow new managers, directors to be placed or hired based on leadership’s perception of talent when they often have no experience managing people or leading anyone. Quick elevation leads to leaders who focus on what their manager will perceive as successful that will allow them to continue to move up. This eventually eliminates any true investment in those they lead. Everyone becomes secondary to their individual career goals.

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5.0
Jun 7, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great benefits, wonderful coworkers and peers, caring DIRECT leadership, growth opportunities

Cons

Strict in office policy, leadership VP level and higher does not seem as caring, burnout possible, lower end of salary compared to the market

1.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pto, good company to work for career wise, good discounts on things+discount for food on site.

Cons

Overworked like crazy, I was hired a few months ago but am already looking for something else, due to the stress and constant feeling of “wow finally i think im starting to get this” all to be reminded when submitting your tasks for mentor review you either did it right or have to redo the whole entire thing from scratch that is if your mentor is even available. Depending on your mentor as well that can really damper your experience and overall understanding. Training could have been done a lot better initially with constant exposure to different task types and different material. For example Medical certifications could have been shown over and over again for us to understand if it’s complete, incomplete and what significant health condition it would be for coding. With other team members also leaving as training ended and senior team members leaving once we got assigned the writing was on the wall. I really wanted to give Unum a shot and really try to see myself here, maybe it’s just the position of leave specialist or maybe all the jobs are the same, still can’t help but wonder if another position would’ve suited me better if they allowed role transfers sooner instead of waiting a minimum full year.

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