Pros
401k and parental leave better than most other companies out there. Good PTO. Great coworkers.
Cons
A year after most of the company being made officially virtual after working from home since 2020, the CEO announced in the most tone deaf fashion we are required to return to the office 3 days a week. It's not even a return for many. This includes employees hired remotely, even in recent months, and those who have always been remote, even before the pandemic. Going hybrid may not sound bad to some, but employees made major life decisions based on the fact we were told we were never going back - buying larger homes with offices, reducing daycare hours, building home offices, selling cars, moving further than they would have been comfortable commuting. The new rules will result in commutes for many people that are easily over 2 hours with traffic, making daycare even more difficult to plan, and timecard employees can't start their day one place and end in another, so they can't be flexible to leave early to pick up their kids on their 2-hour commute and then wrap up their day from home. And we have been given no reason for the change except "collaboration," after years of being told we "didn't miss a beat" going virtual. Employees who are not within a 50-mile radius are terrified their jobs could be at risk next and that they will not have opportunities within the company. Either none of this was taken into consideration, or it was and the CEO did not care. Lastly, he left the rest of the leadership team to clean up the mess, directing people to talk to their leaders and HR if they had questions, despite everyone finding out within a day of each other and having no additional information or flexibility to offer. If you are reading this and you are a Farmers customer, run, because soon there will be nobody left to handle your claims.