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What is the best part of working at the company?
Working at home and signing off at the end of the day.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
When I first started with the organization, there was a team of 3 (2 contractors and 1 regular employee).  The team was downsized a couple of months later, and I became the team with a massive workload that was humanly impossible to manage without issues happening.  I had asked several times for an additional full-time person but was denied each time.  Management told me "To do the best I can".  Plus, I worked a minimum of 50+ hours weekly, and could not function at the end of the day.  I thought the job was going to literally kill me due to the stress of it.  Had I known at the time of the interview, I would have declined the offer.  Needless to say, the role was terminated due to "poor job performance".

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Siloed and totally disorganized.  Teams rarely worked together, which is a red flag.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful, chaotic, and everything was a priority to resolve because I was a team of one.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I was able to interact with people and help them find a good job and or start training or school for something that would be beneficial to them in the future I love helping people


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I would say the people who would ignore me when I was just there to help them with as many resources and information about our company to help them or their family succeed in doing what they enjoy 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment was amazing because we always traveled to different places and we had a huge variety of different cultures which was great 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
It started at 8am and ended 4:30 we always had breaks and lunch together at many different places like the beach,parks, and other recreational places we also all received paid meal breaks

I was really pumped to see tattoos, colored hair, and overall different vibe of financial retirement workers. Most managers are supportive and I had one that really cared and made sure he heard where I wanted to be next. 
However, I have been here over a year, you have to wait 18 months before you can move out of your department. I am on manager number 4 and who knows how long this one will last before another shift. Their lack of proper support for us associates who have genuine system issues is not there. I was out half a day trying to have help desk fix my issues only to be told that though it isn’t my fault I would only be paid for one hour, the rest is covered by my time! It doesn’t matter though, end of the day we are easily replaced with temps or new hires. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Overall your co-workers are nice and supportive.  Client website is high quality.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Unrelenting overtime led to the worst employee turnover I have ever seen.  Company response is that turnover is bad everywhere.  However, it is horrendous at Empower.  High turnover negatively impacts customer service.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Collobaritive, Friendly, Overwhelming Volume, Excessive Outsourcing 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
You deal with far too many emails.  Distribution lists include too many staff members.  Very inefficient.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Helping children within the foster care system.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of transparency from management.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic and hostile  environment it starts in training and continues when you arrive to your unit.  No one seems to know what is going on. The communication just isn’t there.  Micromanaging is what happens when you lack knowledge so you control your team so you can point fingers.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Chaotic from start to finish. Multiple emails, texts, teams message and calls from your director, and manager about the same thing without a moment to answer.

The pay is not great for how much stress this job gives you. They promise opportunities to move up but even after a couple years of working for them no opportunity has come up. Extremely high turn over rate. Time off is hard to get and usually needs to be requested months in advance. If you get sick or have an emergency and call out, it counts as a “point” against you, same thing if you go even 1 minute over your break. Your only allowed 6 hours of time off for appointments and such during a 3 month period and any time missed for those appointments must be made up in the same week. If you have kids find someone else to handle doctors or dentist appointments. The company expects so much out of you and does not appreciate employees at all. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
 Nothing at all. Poor leadership , poor training 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Too much work on PCM. The expectation to work CWOP every few months on top of a 40 plus hour work week. The hours for CWOP are insane include overnight shifts. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Terrible, toxic. Negative, poor morale. Turnover is unlike anything I’ve seen before. There’s a reason for such turnover and company fails to address it. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful and chaotic. You never know what the day will hold .

Typical day consisted of greeting visitors and answering telephone calls. Scheduled and monitored meetings to be held. Assist and organize charity events. Filed paperwork and managed accounts. Scheduled meetings and set up conference calls. The most enjoyable part of my job was being able to organize events that were positive experiences for the community. The CEO of the company was a great person to work for because she was very motivated and always looked for ways to help individuals.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Helping those that are differently abled live an inclusive life, and allowing them to participate in a variety of activities. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Finding staff that are there for more than just a paycheck. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It is an inclusive environment that promotes positivity and inclusion.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Assisting those with activities of daily living, cleaning up, assisting with participation in activities and outings in the community.

The role itself that I served in was something that shouldn't require a college degree and yet for some reason it was required. Management constantly asked for feedback on different topics that would help the desk as a whole and yet when the opinion was given would consistently become aggressive and confrontational. Management as a whole is more worried about being friends with the promotee vs actual ability to do so. When asked by an employee under them for any sort of feedback on what they can do to be better and get ahead to a promised position the answer was "Be patient."

This company has a lot of places to grow and learn.

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