Aon reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(7,355 total reviews)

Greg Case

87% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Aon has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 7,355 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Aon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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7K reviews
2.0
Jun 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Loved my colleagues! They knew the business and helped me learn a lot. I would not be at the place in my career without them. There were also carrier options in choosing benefits which I liked.

Cons

Management was awful. My boss never provided any formal training (I never did the new employee orientation because I was expected to start renewing accounts immediately), and when I expressed concerns about the program and the systems, he completely passed it off as an annoyance. I never knew exactly what my role was despite asking for more clearly defined roles, so I ended up doing everything. We were expected to work like robots, including through holidays, since management only cared about revenue. I also felt that there were holes in the ethics of the program in terms of how renewals were handled. Once I realized that the program and management were unwilling to change, I decided it was time to leave. Aon is so big, that sometimes management doesn't see problems with colleague morale and executives need to pay attention to that. I would have stayed if I was able to transfer to another business unit. I think that your manager defines your experience at Aon, and my boss was one of the worst people I've ever worked for.

2.0
May 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Understand this is a resource..... not your source. Don't over think and keep your expectations reasonable.

Cons

Mgmnt is not to be trusted.

1.0
May 27, 2017

Quality

Recommend
CEO approval
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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,

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