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CMR Risk & Insurance Services

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Strong Executive Vision, but Service Team Culture is Driving Burnout and Turnover - Account Manager CMR Risk & Insurance Services Employee Review

1.0
Apr 9, 2026
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Pros

Executive leadership seems to have a clear vision and strong direction for the company. Coworkers are supportive, knowledgeable, and genuinely help each other out. Good exposure to complex accounts and hands on experience that helps you grow technically. Strong team dynamic at the peer level, which is what keeps people going.

Cons

Work life balance is effectively nonexistent, with ten hour days feeling like the baseline rather than the exception. Workload consistently exceeds reasonable capacity and does not ease up, leading to sustained burnout. Noticeable turnover within the servicing team, with multiple departures tied to the same issues of overwork and burnout. The work environment is highly reactive, with constant urgency, shifting priorities, and little clarity on what should take precedence. There is a culture within senior service leadership that relies heavily on pressure rather than support. Communication and feedback can come across as overly critical and, at times, dismissive. Over time, this creates an environment that feels mentally draining and, in some cases, crosses into what many would reasonably describe as a toxic dynamic rather than a performance driven one. Unlimited PTO is advertised but not realistically supported. Taking time off often carries an unspoken stigma, and employees are expected to make up the work either before or after being out. In practice, this makes it difficult to take meaningful time off without increasing your workload and stress. There is a clear misalignment between expectations and resources. Employees are held to a high standard of ownership and output, but staffing levels, systems, and workflows do not support those expectations, leaving individuals to absorb the gap. Overall, the role becomes unsustainable over time, not due to lack of capability, but due to the cumulative effect of workload, pressure, and lack of structural support.

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5.0
Apr 28, 2026
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Pros

CMR puts employees ahead of corporate profits and it really shows by the amount of resources they deploy to not only make CMR the best place to work, but also by investing these resources into training and education to drive the very best out of everyone here.

Cons

CMR offers a hybrid working environment requiring employees to work in the office a minimum of two days per week. I would prefer if CMR would require employees to work full time in the office as I appreciate the collaboration with my fellow employees and find the experience working together even more enjoyable when everyone is here together.

5.0
Apr 23, 2026
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Pros

CMR is a company that cares deeply about its culture and employees. Your ideas and suggestions are heard and encouraged. It is an incredibly enjoyable place to work. It is an unbelievably transparent company that shares revenue and profit margin goals with employees in real time, something I have never experienced before. It makes you feel like you have a stake in the overall success of the company.

Cons

Sometimes the workload can be heavy but that might just be the industry in general.

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