No Work/life balance - Anonymous employee Unum Employee Review

2.0
30 Aug 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Unum provides excellent benefits and the pay is decent. The company gym is nice and the company culture is wonderful on the surface.

Cons

Unum preaches work/life balance constantly but this concept is never effectively implemented. Overtime is mandatory and employees are encouraged to work on company holidays. If you choose not to work on a company holiday or decide to take PTO you are absolutely overwhelmed with your workload when you come back meaning you have to work twice as hard to catch your work list up. It often feels like taking a break is a punishment. At Unum you are constantly micromanaged and your performance will never be enough even if it is constantly improving. You have to remember you are simply a cog in a machine.

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1.0
17 Jun 2026
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Pros

Pto, good company to work for career wise, good discounts on things+discount for food on site.

Cons

Overworked like crazy, I was hired a few months ago but am already looking for something else, due to the stress and constant feeling of “wow finally i think im starting to get this” all to be reminded when submitting your tasks for mentor review you either did it right or have to redo the whole entire thing from scratch that is if your mentor is even available. Depending on your mentor as well that can really damper your experience and overall understanding. Training could have been done a lot better initially with constant exposure to different task types and different material. For example Medical certifications could have been shown over and over again for us to understand if it’s complete, incomplete and what significant health condition it would be for coding. With other team members also leaving as training ended and senior team members leaving once we got assigned the writing was on the wall. I really wanted to give Unum a shot and really try to see myself here, maybe it’s just the position of leave specialist or maybe all the jobs are the same, still can’t help but wonder if another position would’ve suited me better if they allowed role transfers sooner instead of waiting a minimum full year.

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