American National Insurance Reviews

American National was recently purchased by Brookfield and it has been going downhill past. Let's run through the big points: - Return to office is the big one. Many of us were told productivity at home exceeded all expectations, and after a period of time we were promised a hybrid schedule would be permanent. Not perfect but a compromise many could accept. Literally two weeks later they want back on their word and sent us back in full time giving no legitimate reason. Typical corporate rhetoric like "culture" was used to justify it. Well the culture is now all your employees are miserable. Fantastic job. - On top of all this they are adamant that we do more with less (literally said this) to increase profits. We are underpaid in the industry now and no raises are coming. Basically they are trying to sell us the trickle down effect here. Help us now and we will do right by you later. However, that requires trust which your employees no longer have in you. - For employee appreciation day they literally sent a snow cone truck at the end of September even to their NY based offices, which was obviously absurd. On top of all that they hyped it up all week like something positive for finally coming. Literally do nothing would have been better. - They recently announced the 2024 benefit package and across the board it is a significant step down. Once again, they tried to hype it because they added a "free" tier which is absolutely horrendous and is nothing more then catastrophe insurance. If employees want coverage similar to what we had that actually allows us to be proactive about our health- then the price has risen dramatically and even then is still worse then what we had. The cherry on the cake is that seasoned employees are leaving because many of the reasons listed above. They will literally let a quality employee walk because they refuse to offer WFH, and then will turn around and post their job offering remote work as a benefit. Stating that remote is not ideal but if they need to offer it to fill holes they will. I think we can all see there is no logic behind that.

When Brookfield bought us out from the Moody family, many of us hoped for the best. We were told that they acquired us because we were a solid and profitable company, and there were no plans to change what wasn't broken. Sadly, it didn't play out this way. We were told that flexibility was part of our culture, and that we had to RTO 5 days per month. We hired new employees based on that assurance. Then we went to 50% hybrid. HR put out videos to let us know this wasn't a move towards a full time return, because we were agile and cared about employees. They know that wasn't in our best interest. Then they quietly deleted these messages and required full time in office. It's been downhill ever since. Employees are not being replaced when they leave and now there are layoffs as well. We're taking solid employees with decades of service being eliminated. No reason was provided in why they were chosen. They expect everyone to work 60 to 70 hours a week to make up the difference in lost staffing. There is no work-life balance. The message is pretty clear that we should be glad we're the ones that still have jobs, keep our mouths shut and do whatever is demanded. We have a recent employee appreciation day. HR hyped up the exciting surprise we had coming. It was snow cones. Snow cones don't make up for all of the time we spend away from our families trying to make the company top in the industry. We didn't get excited about a new company logo either. We care and being able to afford groceries. Maybe give us bonuses instead. Rumor has the may be no raises next year. HR touted the great health benefits coming in 2024. However, we'll have to pay $6000 out of pocket per person for the health plan to kick in. We had a recent all employee meeting and leadership didn't even address the layoffs. Most of us are looking for other jobs and are saddened by what the company has become. We feel beaten and abused. They should hand out antidepressants and Xanax in the break rooms. For being a successful company worth billions, Brookfield sure seems to default on a lot of their loans. Just Google it. I wouldn't recommend anyone climb aboard this sinking ship.