Room for improvement - Program Manager Virtual Employee Review

1.0
Apr 18, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pros: remote work; good medical and dental coverage; unlimited PTO.

Cons

Cons: Overworked and underpaid. There are times when you would do the work of five people, and when you asked for help, you were told, "That is not within my scope." Client services felt like the catch-all for anyone who didn’t know what to do or just didn’t have the time to do it themselves. You are given 3+ clients and expected to pretend, with each client, that they are your only priority, making it difficult to set expectations with them. You would work insane hours for what felt like peanuts given the amount of work and responsibilities you have. It often felt as if the employees in Wakefield were the priority. From a non-Wakefield-based employee's perspective, they seem to be the ones promoted more. If you were with the Wakefield crowd, you were recognized more, making the environment very polarizing. It never felt like the leadership was listening. We would take surveys regularly, and the feedback always seemed to be the same: staff is burned out, we need more staff, we are overworked, etc., but nothing was really done to resolve the issue. It always felt impossible to succeed like this, and my clients suffered because we were overworked, which led to mediocre results.

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Virtual Response
3y
Thanks for your review. Despite, what you think we do listen to feedback—from reviews on sites like this, surveys and just talking to our employees. The picture that feedback paints isn’t as stark or negative as what you describe in your review, but I’m happy to address your concerns. First, client load depends largely on client budget. You’re absolutely right—if a client has a more limited budget, you may have more than one client. Put simply, if a client has a $5k/month budget across all services, that may leave $2k/month for one department. That’s just not a full time person. So the math on that is pretty simple—you wind up with more than one account. And working that way isn’t for everybody—it’s a balancing act. As for favoring the Wakefield crowd, not sure what to tell you there to convince you otherwise. Yes, Wakefield is our corporate headquarters. But more than 50% of our company works at other locations or remotely. Heck, we named the company “Virtual” twenty four years ago because of our belief in telework. So to say that we don’t consider our remote workforce in every decision simply isn’t true. Perhaps that’s why you listed “remote work” as one of the positives. I’m glad you appreciated our benefits—sounds like that’s the one point of redemption that you found. All that said, if Glassdoor is correct, it sounds like you’ve moved on from our company. I do hope you’ve found that the grass is indeed greener elsewhere, and wish you well as you continue your career.

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Thanks for your review. I'm sorry you didn't have a more positive experience, but glad you took away some positives. Not surprisingly, I'm not quite aligned with some of your negatives--but clearly you've made up your mind. Sufice to say, there are organizations--and people--who aspire to be rewarded with additional work based on their performance. I've been watching Wimbledon this week---players who win are rewarded with an even harder match the next round. Funny how that works. As for the lack additional comp, I'm surprised to read that--I've ok'd promotions and increases nearly every year that I've worked here. Our last year without salary increases was 2002. I hope you find success wherever you have landed.
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