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Greg Case

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3.0
Jun 7, 2017

Must love chaos!

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Pros

Fair opportunity for advancement but very political. Good benefits. Must thrive in an environment of chaos and tight deadlines.

Cons

Poor management communication, long work hours, spotty support

1.0
May 27, 2017

Quality

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Pros

When it was a Hewitt LLC, it was wonderful and I could not put a price tag on making less than at other organizations but absolutely loving the people I worked with. Great benefits, free food and very familial atmosphere. All changed after going public and Aon purchase in 2010.

Cons

I was let go after 24 years of first Hewitt and then Aon Hewitt and the timeline was very mysterious. It came within 2 years of me reporting my manager for unprofessional behavior that would normally lead most HR organizations to terminate an employee immediately. He mocked a disabled person with mental challenges and did an imitation of this person during a joke he told a group of us in the office. HR had him apologize is all. From that point, I went from an employee honored several years prior as employee of the month to one that was suddenly struggling. I also had reported that several managers wanted me to skew data on contractual obligations to avoid a 50k monetary penalty. I reported this to no avail as well. The clients I worked on when this happened were Allstate and JCPenney. (Also General Dynamics at one point earlier in my career) When Aon bought Hewitt, the culture changed from collaborative to "knowledge is power" and became very cutthroat. They changed open air environments into closed door offices with administrative cubes outside of them. They still used the word "secretary" instead of "administrative assistant". You'd think that considering Hewitt outbid Aon for decades and had 80% of the fortune 500 companies benefits administration that Aon would adopt Hewitt's consulting strategies but instead their buyout resulted in hierarchy where you knew who your boss was instantly. The boss I was referring to was a colleague of mine while at Hewitt and left for 5 years, was unemployed and returned to get a job at Aon just prior to them buying Hewitt. So he went from being unemployed former co-worker to my boss. Suddenly.....my performance was slipping and after helping over 100 client teams in my career, I found myself out of a job after reporting ethical and other concerns to HR after 24 years. No severance. A former partner of Hewitt told them this time last year that she did not like the firms new direction. She has been there 34 years and gave her 2 weeks notice. They said to her, "that is not necessary, you can go today". No thank you,, retirement party or well wishes.....just "leave now". Terrible company,

1.0
May 25, 2017

Delivery Specialist

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Pros

People in Bridgewater office are nice but you won't be working with them. Most of tour team will be offshore who will give very low quality performance and never help. Interesting part is that you definitely will be trained by them (offshore), no matter even if you ask to change your trainer/coach.

Cons

Some uneducated managers who do not even have a degree treat others like trash bag. Managers get offended on feedback and so they start playing politics and try their best to make junior employees' life hell. Small teams are so disorganized. You never get appreciated (not even once), no matter how much you work hard. Criticism is the only way managers know to get things done from colleagues but may be because of lack of education they may not know that criticism all the time is very disengaging. Team Managers misbehave and are really rude. Complaining to your unit manager doesn't help. Training is the worst part of this job. It's a joke. Managers will make you work overtime to the level of exhaustion and then make a psychological attack that you are either slow or not performing well when you tell them you are overwhelmed with work. Blame is passed on to junior colleagues so casually as if it's part of managers' lives.

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