Pros
Remote work (for as long as they let us have it), the retirement plans, and the pockets of great leadership we have in middle management, and of course the people at the bottom are amazing human beings. I have many friends here I would give a kidney to if they needed one.
Cons
Pinnacol used to be a great place to work, but in my opinion it’s now become a hyper-political environment and a bastion of nepotism in a top heavy organization that has no viable solutions for the future. We lost our former VP of HR this summer who helped build our beautiful culture, but as the only VP with the courage to challenge our executive leadership when they wanted to impose their will on employees, once she left we feared the true nature of our executive leadership would appear, and it has, and it’s not been good so far. Our executive leadership has seemed completely lost since COVID started, and the virus has become their sole obsession, all while our market share continues to get swallowed up by our more technically gifted and nimble competitors. They now blame our “culture of niceness” for our market share losses, when in reality the cause has been a laundry list of strategic failures during their tenure, from their failure to update our core operating system and product tools, to our inability to successfully lobby the state legislature to change state statues which would allow us to privatize and sell work comp out of state. I’m also one of many employees who executive leadership thinks is stupid or “uneducated” for not being vaccinated yet, and I get to have the pleasure of watching them indirectly threaten us with a future mandate in weekly/monthly internal video messages and external articles they publish to stroke their own egos on their “heroic” vaccine stance. Having their threats hanging over our heads daily has been completely demoralizing for those of us who have given this company so much, and because we dare to control our own heath care. In the past, Pinnacol used to follow the data and what was good for the employee during times like these, but now we’ve become like every other heartless corporation or bloated state/city government that views its employees as “human capital” rather than actual people with feelings and free will. I plan on exiting the company once the vaccine becomes mandatory but it’s heartbreaking because I don’t want to leave, but if the company is willing to impose its will on me for what are clearly political and public relations reasons, then it won’t end there and it will only get worse moving forward.