Caring leadership and great work environment! - Customer Service Consultant Progressive Insurance Employee Review

5.0
May 28, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great work/life balance. Gainshare (a.k.a. profit sharing). Work from home. Great pay and benefits. 17 days of PTO in first year. 8 paid holidays. Metrics matter but you never feel as if your job is in jeopardy. Coaching and professional development time is always available. Tons of ways to earn or win extra bonuses and prizes.

Cons

Very high stress dealing with customers all day long on back to back calls. A typical day of call volume you'll handle between 50-70 calls of all different natures with only 5 seconds in between calls. You don't sell home insurance but you are required to offer it to customers when the system indicates they are eligible candidates and you have to talk them into being transferred to a home insurance sales person to get a quote. Home insurance transfer metric is the most coached and talked about metric. You will also deal with a high amount of customers who are angry or upset because of their rates and take it out on you. Customers also think they know every facet of insurance and all the laws and they all believe they should have a lower rate, so you will be talking them down off the ledge or off their pedestal a lot. You also have to bid for your shift every year in March, so you're not guaranteed the same shift continuously.

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Pros

Work life balance is decent

Cons

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5.0
May 22, 2026
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Pros

Work from home and flexible scheduling, can slide schedule up to two hours to accommodate appointments, etc.

Cons

Unrealistic claim volume, it ramps up slowly when you're in training and then you start getting so many claims you don't know what to do with them. Customer service is constantly preached, but it's not possible to return voicemails, texts and emails timely while managing 20 claims a day. They keep increasing volume, and you have to spend a minimum of 5 hours a week taking live calls, during which you cannot make any calls out on your own claims, and are required to work each claim you take a call on to it's fullest point, even when they are brand new and unassigned, taking you away from taking action on your own claims that could prevent calls. They are incorporating AI and digital tools that were intended to simplify the process and reduce phone time, but customers are upset and refuse to participate, which means claims are delayed awaiting digital statements, and then need more phone calls anyway. The expectations are outrageous.

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