The Most Dysfunctional Place I've Ever Worked as a HR Professional - Human Resources Allina Health Employee Review

1.0
Dec 21, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

There are some amazing clinical staff who truly care about patients. There are good people working in this organization who want to do the right thing. If you decide to go work there, seek them out, because your relationships with them will be the only thing that keeps you sane. Some positions are allowed to work remotely during and post the COVID pandemic.

Cons

HR leadership is terrible and lacks the self-reflection to realized how terrible they are. I've never seen anything like it. They can't hire effectively externally into HR positions because of the terrible reputation they have in the marketplace, and, if they do, the new hire is typically gone within the first year. You truly can't appreciate how bad it is until you work there. If you are a HR person and you care about your happiness and your career, you'd be better off staying unemployed than accepting a job there. It's so bad that I left without another job because I couldn't handle working there for one more day. The organization is hypocritical. They tout a 'commitment to care', but they couldn't demonstrate less care to the people who work there. I've never felt less heard or valued then I did during the time I worked there. Most of the clinical organization is unionized, and that culture has carried over into non-union roles. That means you can work there forever with no expectation that you are performing. And if you are non-performing, you'll never get that feedback because they don't care about you as a person; rather, they'll eliminate your job but not tell you the real reason. Working in healthcare is hard under the best circumstances, and Allina Health is a worst case scenario. Unionized, weak leadership, financially struggling, COVID, etc. Do not join this company thinking that you are going to change things...it is broken beyond repair. I have never been so happy to leave a job, and my mental health has improved 100% not being there.

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