GreenShield reviews about "pto"

- PTO is not unlimited in reality - Benefits aren’t good - No career growth - No work life balance - Excessive burnouts - No accountability, only excuses - Training is terrible, you have to sink or swim with no structured or formal training

- internal communications are confusing and delivered with a distinct lack of empathy - leadership is out of touch with modern tech workforce - hybrid/return to work policy is exclusionary to many people including caregivers, Disabled, and neurodivergent folks, as well as contributing further to the climate crisis by having more people commute (3 days/week hybrid RTO within 150km of an office is absolutely unreasonable) - senior leadership is not present and very uninspiring - profit over people approach (promotes itself as a company who doesn't, but in the end is a health insurance company that benefits off of degrading accessible public and free health care) - reducing benefits, removing remote work and drastically reducing PTO despite feedback and pushback from employees felt demoralizing and shows that leadership does not actually care about employees - very hypocritical since they talk all the time about "better health for all", ignoring the mental and physical health of employees - no attempt at DEI, exclusionary to people outside of being cis, male, white, and a combination of the above. Lack of training and understanding of diversity and inclusion for racialized and LGBTQ2S+ employees, resulting in many people being excluded or forced out - benefits packages are as confusing as they can possibly make it. Many different platforms that need to be signed up for, having to pay for some extra benefits, and lack of documentation means that no one knows how to make use of things like drug coverage (which is minimal) and often gets rejected

PTO isn't really "unlimited" No learning budget/coaching Lack of organization/open communication in some teams

GreenShield's motto is "Better Health for All" but I don't feel it extends to employees. First, there's an odd imbalance of below-average PTO and significantly above average mental health spending account dollars, as if an expensive weekly therapist is desired over more vacation. The mental health spending account increase was communicated along with a pitch on the wide range of mental health products our platform has, which felt extremely disingenuous. Second, the return to office policy and remote work changes were loosely communicated which left managers stuck in the middle and employees confused, and now enforcement is heading toward strict monitoring. Third, lately many top-class and well-liked employees including managers have either quit or been abruptly fired for speaking up. The lack of context communicated to employees is worrisome. These developments have created a culture of fear for myself and those I work closely with. HR feels like a spotlight to stay out of instead of a place to seek support from. While you can't knock an old-school company for operating as such, it's painful when the outward messaging is the opposite: "best company culture" awards, always inviting feedback, etc. The outward messaging of "Better Health for All" contrasts with what feels like an Amazon-style approach of treating employees purely like numbers - not what you might imagine working at a non-profit supporting health and wellbeing to feel like.