Great if you're a sycophant - Anonymous employee Affinity Consulting Employee Review

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We take all feedback seriously, both positive and negative, and we want to address your concerns. We are sorry to hear that you felt the work environment was insecure and toxic. We take pride in fostering a positive and inclusive work culture where all team members feel valued and respected. We take all reports of toxic behavior seriously and encourage employees to speak up if they feel uncomfortable or witness inappropriate behavior. Regarding your comments about how people get ahead at Affinity, we believe in promoting based on merit and performance, not personal relationships. Our leaders, whether promoted from within or hired from the outside, are chosen because of their skills and experience, and willingness to work alongside our other leaders to make Affinity a great workplace and deliver excellent services to our clients. We are currently working on rolling out a training plan for our leaders to make them even more effective and give them the tools they need to lead an ever-changing workforce. Regarding your concerns about health benefits being too expensive, I agree with you 100%. I take the time each year to personally assess our benefits package and to make sure that we are making the right choices for our employees. I take into consideration the actual benefits each person will receive compared to what they currently have and the associated costs to Affinity and to the team member. We pay about 85% of the cost of employee coverage, and despite the fact that premiums have gone up every year in as long as I can remember, we have not raised the cost of what our employees pay at all – Affinity has absorbed all the individual increases. I am not sure where you got the impression that no one uses our family benefits - many of our team members cover their partners and/or children. I wish I had an answer for how to make health care in our country more affordable, but I don’t. In any event, we are committed to providing competitive benefits packages and are regularly adding things that are valuable to our team members to make the package even more valuable. Thank you again for providing your feedback, and I would be 100% open to an offline conversation to talk more about your experience and how we can do better. Please reach out to me directly if you are open to that. Best of luck to you in your future endeavors! Debbie Foster, CEO Affinity Consulting Group