Allianz Partners

2.0

Jul 2, 2018

Anonymous employee

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Pros

The HR team is genuinely very active trying to make Allianz Care a better work place. They offer onsite massages, sport clubs, discounts for the local Gym, town hall talks on interesting topics and engage in discussions around diversity and LGBT. They also try to listen to their employees and implement small improvements. Allianz Care has a cafeteria and nice coffee place. Lastly, the people are nice and always happy to help out.

Cons

Allianz Care can be compared with organisations back in the 80s. It fosters an extremely top-down management style, challenging your manager's decisions is frowned upon (or worse), internet access is blocked, 3-month notice period, people are expected to sit at their desk from 9 to 5 and still need to clock in and out at their shift, the office itself is terribly boring with zero color. The technology and systems are shockingly old. Allianz uses a virtual environment that is controlled out of Paris (using Windows 7 and IE 11) which is slow and causes tons of trouble with fundamental business tools. Allianz Care works in extreme silos, where the different functions often don't get along and blame each other for failed projects. Even the senior leaders don't get along and play political games, which is often reflected in changing business priorities. Officially Allianz Care wants to change and adapt a modern way of working, but with the same senior leaders in the same positions they have for years, change will not be possible. They hired some very good new leaders and these folks had great positive impact, but there are still a lot of leaders stuck in their 80's command and control style. A lot of new mid-level and higher-level managers I spoke to privately expressed their frustration and the high turnover rate will continue if the organisational culture will not improve soon.

Allianz Partners Response

Hello, and thank you for your honest feedback. We are happy to hear you think positively about the people working at Allianz Care and that you appreciate the work being done by HR. To address your concerns. Improving the soft skills of people management has also been raised through our employee engagement survey. This has been addressed recently with a first cohort of managers and team leaders commencing our 'Leadership as a Profession' programme. Having IT systems managed off-site is not ideal but improvements have been made recently. You can receive relaxed browser permissions by logging a ticket with IT. The log-in/log-out system is in keeping with The Organisation of Working Time Records Regulations 2001 and are designed to protect employees. You might have noticed that the interior of our buildings at ParkWest have been undergoing a refresh recently. This work will be completed before the end of July. HR is working with all departments across the business to reduce the silo effect you mention. Companywide communications are becoming more aligned and you will start to see improvements in the coming months. We're confident that the changes we mention above will improve your working environment and you will see Allianz Care taking great strides forward in developing a new vision and mission which is culturally aligned with all employees. Thanks again for your feedback as it helps us to focus on areas for improvement. - Human Resources

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