I heard they over extended themselves with these hubs in trying to attract millennials.........I think they were short sighted, who idea were the hubs
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There is a ton of highly rated responses in this thread, never seen so many 'thumbs up' - my reply got more thumbs up (or arrows up) than any of my FB posts... funny
a good thread tho
If their goal is to attract millennials, they missed the mark by a mile. I’m a little older than a millennial but everything I read about what they want and expect in the workplace --work life balance, flexible schedules, the ability to work from home, autonomy, and state of the art systems and software — is the complete opposite of the new model SF has created. It’s no surprise that new employee turnover rate is and has continued to be so incredibly high. Tenured employees want the same things as millennials and are leaving in droves too. The consultants that SF hired to come up with this new business model must have gotten their MBAs using text books written at the beginning of the industrial age!
@XoADIGM-kyi Exactly! State Farm only worked the way it does because it was the only show in town in Bloomington for 50+ years (there was a time when blono had more diversity in employment). The culture, how we work, how we view ourselves; all of it is wrapped up in that. And when the prospective employees in the hubs are confronted by our archaic systems, backwards methods/thinking, cronyism and a theory X way of managing they run screaming. Why wouldn't you? These people are (in theory) better educated and aware of how an organization is (or should be) run. Isn't that why SF went to the hubs cities? To attract those people? The execs are nad have been for 25 years in a mirrored echo chamber of their own making and its only a matter of time before their failures cause the whole company to fail with them.
If you're working at State Farm at all, you're on a dying vine. Or at least a disgusting one, half-rotten and reeking of inbreeding, corruption, and schmegma.
The problem with the hubs is the opposite side of the same coin. They wanted to be in large population centers with a built-in workforce. The problem is SF is not the only game in town and Millenials can jump ship every year for a few bucks more.
Considering the terrible reviews on employment websites like Glassdoor, I don’t think State Farm will ever be able to attract and retain the thousands of employees they were hoping for in the hubs. The company‘s reputation has been tarnished and there are way better places to work in these major metropolitan areas. They are already sc-aping the bottom of the barrel desperately trying to find anyone willing to come and work in the oppressive toxic culture they have created. Considering the extremely long learning curve for many insurance jobs, the continuous turnover will further destroy the company.
Considering that a vast majority of the employees in the field offices were higher paid tenured employees who would be eligible for medical benefits upon retirement, closing those offices, and hiring new hires at the hubs (instead of relocating existing employees) is the clear objective of the new hub model. State Farm was able to commit age discrimination discreetly and get away with it.
You must be from Blono... If you're not in a hub, you are on a dying vine.
Whose*......good question