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CBIZ

What is the best part of working at the company?
The experience of meeting with our clients or contacts and interacting with them.  The opportunity of gaining knowledge of insurance appraisal industry and how the business operates. Also, other employees are pleasant to work with. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The constant micromanagement philosophy throughout the division. Micromanagement signals a lack of trust in employees’ abilities. It conveys a message of “I can’t trust you to do it right on your own,” which can demoralize workers. 
The constant oversight intended to ensure quality control and minimize mistakes can instead undermine employee autonomy, creativity and motivation.  Studies show that when employees have higher autonomy, they have better mental health, are happier and more committed to their organization. Micromanagement creates a toxic environment that is detrimental to creativity and the pursuit of new opportunities, limiting organizational growth and adaptability. Also, without growth and perks and lack of work life balance, it’s no wonder there is such high turnover. 


What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Micromanagement creates a toxic environment that is detrimental to creativity and the pursuit of new opportunities, limiting organizational growth and adaptability.  Over time, here at CBIZ, people start to leave toxic workplaces at high rates. Turnover is definitely a good sign that you are sniffing around some toxicity, especially if you are seeing a specific department or segment that is struggles to keep people. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day at CBIZ valuation department is constant negativity and micromanagement from management. There is lack in leadership. You are micromanaged and at times blamed for issues beyond your control.

Service Edward Jones Financial service branches in New England/NY

Work from home.... I was the sole employee in CT... 
Never met my managers in St Louis.  All communication by phone or text

No real opportunity for advancement, unless willing to move to headquarters in St Louis

Shipping/Receiving via UPS

Very rarely saw, or spoke to other Field Service Techs 
Spoke extensively with Technical support in St Louis

All contacts with Edward Jones employees pleasant.. Nice people

Most difficult part:
Initially, I was assigned to very little of CT, (my home state) but covered all of RI, Western MA, Southeastern MA...  Too much travel..
The travel issue was resolved by my suggestion to move a vacant
FST position from CT, to MA, and reassigning EJ Branches.  I acquired all of Connecticut, and branches close by in upstate NY
I was assigned 20% more than previous, but the workload was not a problem, since there was far less travel involved

Best part was being permitted/required to work solo.  Involved great
trust by the company.  Also liked being paid salary.  Infrequently worked more than an 8 hour day, including travel.  Many days there
was little or no work.... got paid to stay home and be available.

Planned to work there until retirement at 70, but forced to leave after a non-work related injury

(NOTE:  My extensive primary career was in Broadcasting, not field service. Therefor my last job is NOT as pertinent to the job I am applying for)

I to m a specialist and agree with the person's review that says managers/Team Leaders love to micromanage, Not a happy place at all! Human Resources is supposed to be there to help the employees but are always on management's side so it is a waste to tell them anything. I have given HR concrete information to investigate and they never got back to me as promised. My manager has written me up for things that simply never happened with a client for example and find out later HR never followed up with the customer.  

My Management encourages the team to tattle tell on their co-workers and the ones that comply are given much more freedom/kudos in their day to day. This causes a destruction of trust between co-workers and it is obvious to everyone who the favored employees are. Many are in the habit of not punching the clock like they are supposed to. I've seen many of them clock in/out for 10 minutes while participating in one of the countless events CBIZ participates in. After clocking back in they return outside for another two hours to sunbathe or play corn hole or volley ball. A few combine their two 15 minute paid breaks into 40 minutes and use that as their lunch hour.You know the boss is overlooking this but there is no one to tattle-tell on the bosses conduct. 

This place provides an income but leaves you feeling defeated in so many ways.

Typical day: Sit at your desk, catch up on emails, email clients for the millionth time hoping they finally send you the information you need. Track every minute of work because billable hours are everything to management. Work overtime. Work alone. Get in trouble sometimes for getting caught talking to people too often. Go home late at night and repeat.

I did learn a lot with several programs such as Quickbooks, Caseware, and Excel. I got a lot more experience with bookkeeping for small companies, which was nice.

Management: Only care about billable hours. Training is nearly non-existent. You'll get most of your CPE hours offered by the company for free, but the company picks the CPE courses and they're rarely useful to improving yourself. They like to tell you what you did wrong, but they'll rarely recognize anything you did well or take steps to help you improve. Also, every manager has their own preferences so you have to keep track of how each of them wants things done. Very little standardizing across managers or clients.

Culture: Work work work. You can talk a little but you better be working 99% of the time.

Hardest part: Hours and Pay. During tax season, you'll be working 80% more hours than the average Senior Accountant in the private sector, but paid significantly less.

A typical day at work, accounting firm as an administrative and clerical assistant, was starting out with a cup of hot cocoa, following up with your inbox/voice mail message returning calls and/or emails, and gear up for incoming requests and needs.  I've gained all my office, and people skills and experience from an excellent, sophisticated, and creative supervisor, who spent quality time training and teaching the team with much loyalty and respect.  Team work was always the great closure for the day. The trails and tribulations, were working and dealing with difficult and complicating people, that want to see you fall down and go from being called a brat to a b----. In addition to my duties, responsibilities, I did a variety of strenuous, and tedious assignments and projects resulting in good recognition.
My experience was challenging, interesting, exciting yet scary, I feel I gained humor, strength, as I strive through that journey.  I made wonderful friends, learned good behavior and good habits, and tolerance that blooms who I am today.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Its a remote job that is maybe the only good thing

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The duties of payroll their software salesforce is not how you do payroll and the training is terrible it doesn’t prepare you for anything other than keying payroll and making corrections the CELs show favoritism and if you make a mistake due to lack of knowledge or being told multiple different ways to do a task you will be written up and all they care about is the clients not the employees 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Stressful and the policies need to change because if you take any time without pay will call for corrective action you are limited to having any say so on how you want to use time off hours if you’re missing a hour on your timecard time from PTO balance will be applied without your permission 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful you have to go all around the world for a simple fix you have to reach out to several people just to get one answer or get matters handled the process is so old school

While I left to pursue a different field of work, I did enjoy my time at CBIZ. I absolutely loved my supervisors; I truly felt like they care about my wellbeing and personal life. The most enjoyable part of the job was the many times we got free food (before COVID), and then I appreciated the flexibility with working from home, and the benefits are excellent. 

The hardest part was the workload; some days were tougher than others, and while I respect CBIZ's dedication to their clients, it meant that there were many days of unexpected over time, which was not the best for my work life balance. I think this wouldn't be a big deal for those who were really passionate about the work they were doing, but that didn't apply to me personally. I know there were quite a few people in my office who worked far more than I did but seemed to really love their work. 

If you are passionate about the financial/employee benefits industry, I would definitely recommend working at CBIZ. I felt very supported while I was there and I do not regret working there.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part of working for this company is the flexibility of working remotely.


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The metrics, micromanagement, and outdated EJ systems and ideologies are major issues. EJ doesn’t want employees to take bathroom breaks, deducting the time from their lunch. I’ve never worked for a company with such a degrading rule. They promise the dream of working at EJ, but they actually value stagnation and lack of ambition, keeping employees stuck in the helpdesk hamster wheel. The trainers put us in a high-volume call queue, causing immense stress to my entire training team. If you’re looking for a company, avoid B2B companies like CBiz. Instead, find one that truly values its employees. They expect us to provide white-glove service to entitled branch associates, but we can’t even receive the same level of treatment. Every employee deserves to use the bathroom, and that’s a fundamental right. Seek a workplace where you’re valued and respected.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Taking calls until the end of your shift.

Management cares staffs’ personal development: trainings, webinars , meetings ..., be a team player grows wither other coworkers together. Coworkers/ management  would like to help staffs on works and a career growth 

During the COVID pandemic, the company really made a lot of efforts to make sure us safe like following  a state gov COVID instruction ,  very early encouraging us working from home even before  our state gov  following gov instruction , and let staff work from home if necessary even our state is reopened. 

employee benefits,a job offer whole package,Stability of jobs : there are a decent number of employees who works there a lot of years . Stability of jobs : there are employees who works there a lot of years .

There is a life and work balance  although there are hours requirement during busy seasons which is typical in a public accounting firm. Different meal menus  for staff in busy seasons,coffee,drinks,snacks, breakfast..

CBIZ is the physical epitome of the term “rat race.” There is a push to market a “performance based meritocracy,” but the unfortunate part for all is that your merit increase is set 10 months prior to performance reviews, bonuses are GROSSLY unevenly distributed between management and staff, and advancement is dictated by your tenure in the position (“NO ONE’S ever made manager before they’ve hit five years of service!”). 

The HR department is more than a red headed step child, it’s the child living under the stairs. A majority of all corporate budgeting goes towards the revenue producers, then to legal compliance, with the kings cup going to HR, employee relations, or staffing. Remember, this is a publicly traded company so stockholders are royalty and we must produce!

Understaffed, underfunded, and under appreciated all around. Management becomes management if they drink the kool-aid and work through burnout, creating a culture of toxic work ethic. 

Do not expect market/median level pay if you are in any type of position that doesn’t create revenue.


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