How many managers would need to be cut to make Allstate function better? Any estimates?
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6mnt+1iaSHTuN Rep Defender go away you waste bandwidth and you yourself are a waste of carbon.
Your posts stick out because they are vapid ad hominem cr@p from a downward sliding company that is being singled out by insurance commissioners (GA), can’t expand market share, has employee morale in the toilet, and it’s answer is to hire a jack @$$ like you to troll posts with content.
Did you flunk out of HR courses in college? Those psych Org Behavior seminars were really taxing huh?
Don’t go away mad.
So basically you feel your wife is part of the problem? Nice
My spouse is a mid level manager and I can overhear their (far to frequent, disorganized) meetings …. you would be amazed at what they consider “work” try: “icebreakers” for 20 minutes, incessant chit chat about personal lives and vacay, talking about non-issues for hours with and if there is some portion of actual work discussed: end result? to table or worse to form some subcommittee/new layer bureaucracy to work on it (the mgt form of procrastination). Add to that continual emphasis on change…not because it’s needed, but to justify the managers positions themselves (btw change often inhibits productivity whatever the end goal may be), blame and disdain for the front line staff, and finally laughing contemptful comments and insults said about employees—sometimes by name—are shocking frankly. Work from home has been a real eye opener. WAY too many cooks in the kitchen, Allstate could cut out layers of management above CSL to C-suite and I doubt any of the people doing the front line value-generating work would even notice (it happened in a reduced capacity in Dec 2020 and who noticed?).
Literally I wish stockholders or an audit team representing them would query front line staff not for a unproductive b!tchfest, but for genuine feedback on how dysfunctional the company is operating and how well it could. Workers are too afraid to respond truthfully to surveys offered by the company.
At the first line level at least there is no exchange of ideas it’s discretionless supervisors parroting what they are told with zero input from staff, so why are they needed send an email. Your hardest working staff are a great resource for ideas Re: improvements to scale and efficiencies— don’t pay some outside consultant (who will come in, interview the workers, write down what they say as recommendations, present it in a neat report, and management will act like it’s a revelation). I wish this was farce but it’s true; trust me I am witness to it being spouse of a employee manager and it ceases to amaze me.
Here’s a thought : Try listening to your hard working front line staff, I mean really listening with an intent to change, instead of treating all of them with contempt. Yes there are whiners and plenty of d-mb proposals but their are also very hard working, dedicated employees who want to do their best and improve things here but are ignored at best and more frequently disparaged and dismissed who have great ideas. And you can have all the surveys and exit interviews in the world but if it’s for show don’t waste the time of mgt and staff: the later are the people who actually ad value to the company (producers who try and place business, and claims reps who try and mitigate expenses) and they don’t have time to do surveys that serve no purpose — it cuts into PRODUCTION.
Middle managers? You want to save a bundle? Eradicate a huge portion of them trust me those of us who actually work won’t even notice. You fired claims people in one of the worst unethical, underhanded, deceitful travesties of a “reorg” during a global pandemic in Dec 2020, then spent the next year asking them to come back, and how the ripple effect of that move is finally hitting. Some areas can’t even staff now and the word is out: Allstate is NOT somewhere to work and those who stay will usually admit it’s because they are vested substantially.
Many managers aren’t only unneeded costly liabilities they are actually detrimental to the company and deliquent in their responsibilities as fiduciaries of shareholders investments.
As a former employee and manager I can tell you that about 75% of my peers were absolutely useless. It was amazing someone promoted them at one time. Even as they continued to show how useless they were on a daily basis, they continued right on in their positions. Our manager let it slide. Seems to be the way there.
There are many redundancies in middle management. It can cause more harm than good.
@gkk+1iaSHTuN That's right. You've got to chop the head of the snake.
There’s that insulting Allstate word again from the 2020 layoff decisions “redundant “. Allstate is so insulting. Yes, there are many redundancies in management. There are too many managers and not enough respect paid to the people who are actually doing meaningful work. Whack about 3 levels about the CSL’s and about 2 levels below Tom and you might just get on the right track Allsnake.
From what I saw when I was there, at least half. Some teams more, few less. This goes for EVP, SVP, VP, ... levels
Time to make cuts starting at the top with Tom & Glenn. Thai will be the only way this company will survive.