Not a good place for opportunists. - Anonymous employee Gallagher Employee Review

1.0
Oct 23, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Stable company in stable business with stable management. If you are easy to satisfy and place job stability high on your list of needs, it's a good fit.

Cons

Senior management is a nepotistic club of middle-aged, white males. The advertised "culture" is in reality chauvinistic and bureaucratic. There is little interest in innovation and virtually no opportunity for growth for minorities and women. They don't care what you think - they already know what's best. Senior management and salespeople (mostly male) are paid well. For everyone else, salaries have been stagnant and even decreasing for years, as the highly-touted year-over-year great financial results are used for acquisitions and not shared with the employees.

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Gallagher Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We take this feedback seriously and are actively growing our talent pipeline in a manner that reflects the communities we support. Gallagher began as a family-run insurance agency. While we continue to acquire many other family-run businesses, all Gallagher employees are held accountable for their performance. We are proud of the top talent we are seeing join Gallagher and we are working to continue this trend. Gallagher’s workforce looks much like the rest of the insurance industry, which hasn’t been as diverse as other industries. Our commitment to culture and inclusion means that we are proactively developing new strategies and approaches to reflect the communities we serve and are enhancing our focus on diversity and inclusion. We have been a sponsor of the Dive In Festival in Chicago, Southern Florida and London as well as a sponsor of Business Insurance magazine’s Diversity & Inclusion Conference. We have also brought on a Diversity Recruiter and are expanding our recruitment efforts at historically black colleges. While we have a way to go, we are working to create an environment where everyone thrives.

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