Terrible Company - All good reviews are from the HR department - Anonymous employee Cansel Employee Review

1.0
3 Nov 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Some good staff members who make working here tolerable

Cons

- No recognition for current employees, everyone wants to leave. - Management is very poor from all levels. - Definitely a 'boys club.' - Constant changing of people in various positions. - The HR department lacks any form of HR qualities. - All reviews that are good are done by the HR department trying to save their reputation, as they have lost many good employees. - I was underpaid by more than 75% of people in my former position.

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Cansel Response
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Cansel is a very dynamic company and will continue to have lots of change. We will continue to purchase new business and we make this clear to all potential candidates when they apply. The many acquisitions makes it busy and exciting and creates opportunity. Unfortunately, this environment isn't for everyone. At our head office half our Senior Managers are women and 80% of our Operations Managers across the country are women. All jobs have been benchmarked with the industry and all employees in the company fall within those established benchmarks. However as many of our non-administrative roles have variable pay components, a large percentage of our employees earn above average incomes. New employees with no experience can expect to start lower in the pay scale and work their way up as they gather experience and add more value to the company. HR is a relatively new discipline at Cansel in the last 2.5 years. HR has set up quarterly communications to all staff, developed a modular benefits program to improve benefits for all employees, improved vacation management to ensure all staff take their vacations, improved recruitment and onboarding, developed referral programs, upgraded the payroll system, developed safety policies and safety committees, book clubs, on-line educational opportunities, re-established Christmas parties, and provided an avenue for employees to express concerns. We are continuing to develop structures and systems to support our employees. HR has not written all the positive responses, however we did encourage some employees to provide truthful reviews of the company to counter some of the disgruntled ex-employees reviews. Most of our employees are actually quite happy and this has been demonstrated through employee surveys.

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