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Canvas Credit Union

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Canvas Credit Union reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(159 total reviews)

Chad Shane

41% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Canvas Credit Union has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 159 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Canvas Credit Union employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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159 reviews
2.0
May 15, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people you work with day to day are great! Always having fun and making the most out of a situation. Decent vacation time. Plus floating holidays and wellness days.

Cons

Don’t get me wrong, canvas is a good employer. However, they expect too much from their staff, or ‘CanFam’. The hours are long even if there was a change, it would only be beneficial if ALL branches close at 5. They don’t understand work life balance and don’t understand that we actually have family we want to spend time with, or even just time to ourselves. Most of the branch staff are burnt out. Home office positions offer hybrid and work till 5. In a consultant role, you also don’t get paid enough. You have the potential to get 2 raises a year, but they are a few cents and most of the time you only get 1 raise at the end of the year. At the pay, you can’t even afford to have a small apartment by yourself in a bad neighborhood. It’s not a livable wage and most barely get by living pay check to pay check. They make it hard to work your way up and spend money on areas that aren’t important instead of paying their staff more.

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Canvas Credit Union Response
1y
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with valuable feedback. We appreciate hearing your thoughts on what’s going well and where we can improve within Canvas Credit Union. Your feedback is essential as we strive to create a better workplace for everyone. We are delighted to learn that you enjoy working alongside your fellow CanFam. We continuously evaluate our total compensation package to ensure it remains competitive and supports our Canvas Family members’ financial well-being. Your feedback helps guide our decisions in this area. Maintaining a healthy work-life balance is crucial. We understand the challenges and have actively explored strategies to improve. Based on discussions and dedicated research, we rolled out new branch hours this week. This new approach aims to strike a better balance, allowing us to serve our members effectively while respecting the well-being and priorities of our employees outside of work. We share more details about the why behind this decision on the iCan and we hope the new hours create a positive impact on your and others’ schedules. Your feedback matters to us. It helps shape our initiatives and ensures that we create an environment where everyone thrives. Please continue to share your insights—it makes a difference! We thank you for your continued service to our members, Canvas Family, and others.
4.0
Mar 30, 2024

Good Company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good teams CEO seems to care

Cons

Lower than average pay PTO was slashed within the last year Large workload High turnover Positions lost to external candidates

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Canvas Credit Union Response
2y
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughtful feedback with us. We genuinely appreciate hearing about both the positive aspects and areas where we can improve. Our commitment to our people is essential, and we’re delighted that your experience working with our teams has been positive. Regarding your concerns about pay and vacation time, please know that we continuously strive to be a market leader in compensation and benefits. We regularly evaluate and adjust our offerings to ensure they align with industry standards and meet our employees’ needs. Paid Time Off was originally designed to be an all-in-one bucket, and included time for sickness, personal reasons, or vacation. With the onset of the health benefit changes from the state of Colorado, Canvas decided to transition to separate buckets for time off to comply with the new regulation. Now that vacation is separate from sick time, it does look like less accrued time; however, accrual figures are annualized, and accrued time off may be realized sooner than modeled. Across all hours, accrued and awarded, Canvas’ paid time off is generous. Canvas also provides dedicated paid time off for wellness and volunteer time, as well as observance of federal holidays. Additionally, we would like to highlight the training and development opportunities available to support employees’ growth such as Empower Hours, uCan courses, and MyPlan discussions. These are valuable resources that can help open doors for professional development. We encourage all employees to take initiative and explore utilizing these resources. Once again, thank you for your valuable contributions to serving our members, Canvas Family, and communities. Your service is appreciated!
4.0
Mar 25, 2024

Great people

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Culture, benefits, diversity, pay, travel.

Cons

Work-life balance, hours, advancement opportunities.

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Canvas Credit Union Response
2y
Thank you for sharing your experience with us! It’s encouraging to hear that you enjoyed working here and we thank you for dedicating many years to serving our members, Canvas Family, and others. We love that you aspired to grow with us, we consider ourselves a blank canvas for one’s career, full of immense potential. In the pursuit of advancement and career growth, we encourage all CanFam to work closely with their leaders to craft a development plan to prepare them for the next chapter in their careers. We pride ourselves on providing our family members with the tools necessary to paint their ideal career picture with development tools and opportunities such as MyPlan, Canvas Tours, Empower Hours, and Innovation lab to name a few. Furthermore, we understand that maintaining a healthy work-life balance is crucial, and we are actively working on strategies to improve in this area. We have heard similar sentiments about work life balance from others, but striking a better balance takes folks such as yourself sharing when things could be better. We recognize the challenge, and after much discussion and dedicated research, we are pleased to share that we are rolling out new branch hours on July 8, 2024. We believe this new approach to our branch hours will create a better experience for both our members and Canvas Family. Please know your voice is heard and your feedback is invaluable as it helps us create a better workplace for everyone. Again, we thank you for taking the time to share details about your time with us! Wishing you the very best in your future endeavors.
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