I was hired onto the corporate side of CVS last month. When I was interviewing, I asked everyone about their work life balance. The resounding answer was that it was very very good. Now that I have started, I am seeing people regularly work 12-18 hour days, getting emails well past 10pm and into the wee hours of the morning. Were those people lying to me? What is your work life balance like?
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YOU have a part in determining your level of work life balance. Set limits. Don’t answer emails after a certain time of day. If you manage people, let them know you will not be engaged after work and will get in touch next business day. Have a discussion with your boss to determine their expectations. Just because they send a 10pm email, doesn’t mean they expect a 10:15pm response.
I work at least 55-65 hours per week (M-F) and was literally just told during my annual performance review last week that the only thing holding me back from getting a high performer rating was not being more in touch with issues that arise during the weekend. Our teams greatest engagement survey opportunity was work-life balance. But because I can’t jump on a bridge every Saturday and/or Sunday for an issue outside of my realm of control and at a moments notice, I can’t be considered anything more than a standard performer.
Why won’t this engineering guy go away?
which dept are you in?
In Engineering hardly any work, 100's of them workless for years!
4 hours meetings per day
1 hour work per day
They were all 1000% lying to you. Sorry you got played.
Company culture is toxic all around
It's CVS, there is NO work/life balance.
It all comes down to your leader. Cvs gives a lot of governance to their team managers. They make the complaint process so bureaucratic and impossible for a reasonable person to safely navigate. So it really comes down to your manager. Skip level conversation would be best. The thing is those that don’t do the 12-18 hr days do t get promoted.