2 Jan 2020
Avitus Group Response
6yI’d like to take a moment to respond to your review and provide some clarity for those who may read it. I have refrained from responding to items in your review that are more of a personal attack as opposed to a review of our company as a whole.
I’m happy to see that you feel we have a good base pay, as we regularly review our pay against other organizations and strive to be a leader in our pay scale. I’m also proud of the benefits package we offer, which includes a generous 401k match and a health insurance plan which renewed this year with a flat increase (almost unheard of in this environment of escalating health care costs).
Your review seems to indicate that you had no opportunity to earn a bonus. To clarify, every Avitus Group employee does have the opportunity to earn bonuses. In fact, we paid out a substantial bonus payment to employees in November based on company and personal performance and anticipate similar bonus payments going forward. You likewise assert that our organization silences diverse voices or those who “dare to speak up.” Quite the opposite is true. We actively solicit ideas from associates at every level of Avitus Group, proudly challenging the status quo in our quest for ongoing improvement. Whether or not any idea will be adopted, however, depends on whether it will benefit our clients, our associates and our company as a whole. We don’t make changes just to make changes—we base our decisions on what matters: the people we employ and the clients we serve.
The fact is that at Avitus Group, our culture is not one of fear, but one of accountability. This means that we set a very high bar and if any employee—whether entry-level or director—isn’t meeting performance expectations or upholding our core values we simply can’t accept it. Instead, we ask people to utilize their talents to be awesome somewhere else—something I sincerely hope you can do.
-- Andrew Lindley, Chief Operating Officer