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Fairview Health Services reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(1,753 total reviews)
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James Hereford

46% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Fairview Health Services has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,753 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fairview Health Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
May 29, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

day to day job and work in the office is great I have worked in a lot of different offices and the small clinic that I work in is a very supportive environment. the staff go out of their way to help one another and the community is great

Cons

the management style is distant, condescending, without direction and counter productive. They let staff go only to tell everyone to increase productivity. when offered suggestions , they are ignored. excuses are made so often for why things aren't as they should be I am sure I could get out a tape recorded player of the last few meetings and just replay them. there seems to be no long term game plan for most projects.

3.0
Apr 2, 2013

UMMC Laboratory

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Wonderful co-workers, beautiful facilities, Strong history in Minnesota, Pay checks always clear the bank.

Cons

A LOT of job cuts, replacing many positions with casual non-benefit workers, Management is deaf to employee concerns or suggestions. Lack of recognition. Lack of opportunities for growth. Employees are treated as "replaceable". Left hand can't see the right hand disorganization. The senior employees resist change. Unions keep lazy employees around for a long time. Pensions were cut. Health insurance gets cuts every year. Vacation bank maximums are in the process of being reduced. Raises are few and far between. High staff turn over. Many greedy and deceptive CEOs.

1.0
Feb 20, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

ROWE environment. The checks clear.

Cons

It has gotten steadily worse over the past couple of years. Cost of living adjustments are rare, raises even more so. Training is out unless you are new, underpaid and extremely green. Forget about peer training as most work exists in silos, even on a team there is almost no overlap of skills. Benefits have decreased steadily, the pension plan got axed, the 403b matching is a joke and medical gets worse by leaps and bounds each year. The past three years we have been forced to burn/lose banked vacation time and getting time off is often a problem. Because of a lack of coverage, there is often the expectation you will continue working to some degree while on vacation. Lately the problems have escalated. New development has been largely frozen, paperwork and progress meetings have taken over most of the week. We spend a great deal of time defending against the one person no one should not have to justify work to... our direct manager. Work has taken a strange, incident-based approach. Run-the-business work that keeps the lights on and the systems running smoothly is now frowned upon. Instead, work is done only when something breaks and an incident is created. This type of reactionary workplace is eventually going to lead to all sorts of problems and potentially lawsuits. In order to cover work with a reduced workforce, a concept of flexing is in place. Instead of doing what they are best at, highly trained professionals are out installing PC's and operating systems, doing data entry and installing software.

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