Manulife Employee Reviews about "work life balance"
Updated Nov 24, 2019
"work life balance and good people" (in 206 reviews)
"Can work from home 3 days a week" (in 171 reviews)
"Long hours sometimes and transactions must be completed within the day" (in 43 reviews)
"Senior management come off as very fabricated people" (in 38 reviews)
Reviews about "work life balance"
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"Great Place for Young Actuaries"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Manulife full-time for more than a year
Pros
Big organization with a lot of Actuarial roles. Very nice Senior Management in Actuarial teams that can teach you a lot Work is visible and promotions can be quick and is becoming more merit-based. Nnice study days for exams, good work-life balance, and ability to work remotely later. Great place to train and become an experienced actuary.
Cons
Recent CEO change has brought a lot of re-organization, so you need to be adaptive. However, the focus of new management is good.
Advice to Management
Need to invest more into advertisement and recruitment to attract young actuarial talents.
Manulife2019-02-24 "Great company for work-life balance!"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Manulife full-time for less than a year
Pros
- Strong employee base with very knowledgeable professionals to help you learn. - Practices and preaches work-life balance. - Transitions between departments is easy, better able to explore different areas and roles in the company.
Cons
- Highly bureaucratic - Too much IT contracting
Advice to Management
- Don't be afraid to commit to full-time employees. Loss of productivity could hurt the company in the long term with all the contract IT workers.
Manulife2019-11-17"CSP"
StarStarStarStarStarRecommendsNeutral OutlookI have been working at Manulife full-time
Pros
Work life balance, great coworkers
Cons
Work schedule, work during holidays
Manulife2019-11-24"General review on IT in Manulife"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Manulife full-time for less than a year
Pros
Faced paced approach to moving to new tech Senior management is surely talented
Cons
Office space is too less. Shared workplace culture. You sit wherever you find a place. Not a good cost cutting measure. Work life balance depends on project to project and the delivery date Design System is still updating which leads to deferred development Illogical cost cutting like shutting down the cloud env after work hours and on weekends. Promotions very hard to get on merit rather than years of exp.... Benefits are ok but very deceiving at times and are manipulative. Too much stress on core values. Agile is very new to them and the employees.
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Seats need to be assigned to people. So they know exactly where to go in the morning without the fear of not finding a seat and then improvising Too much stress on core values.
Manulife2019-11-21"Marketing Manager"
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RecommendsApproves of CEOI have been working at Manulife full-time
Pros
Great work/life balance. Friendly colleagues. Lots of opportunities for formal and unformal trainings.
Cons
Activities are very siloed. Hard to get information when you are not HQ-based.
Advice to Management
Leverage talent and expertise whereever they are, not just in the Toronto area.
Manulife2019-10-27- Helpful (1)
"Very Professional Company"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Manulife full-time for more than 10 years
Pros
Good work/home balance; Work from home program; good salary and benefits
Cons
Many layoffs; company moving operations to Philippines; 4 managers in one year.
Manulife2019-10-03 "Pleasant Place to work"
StarStarStarStarStarI have been working at Manulife full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Valued employees, work-life balance, peer support.
Cons
Peak times with pressure to do overtime, lots of changes in place making structured work style not consistent.
Manulife2019-10-05"great work environment, great people"
StarStarStarStarStarI worked at Manulife for less than a year
Pros
people, environment, work life balance
Cons
sometimes work got stale at times
Manulife2019-09-29"New Business Case Management"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Manulife full-time for more than a year
Pros
company offers great work life balance through work from home opportunities.
Cons
nothing to share at this time.
Manulife2019-09-04"A great work experience"
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I worked at Manulife full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Good work/life balance, good pay and benefits, great people to work with.
Cons
The Company could improve on individual effort recognition and rewards.
Advice to Management
Need to improve on communication, time processes and human resources appreciation.
Manulife2019-08-31