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Healthy Back Institute Reviews

4.2

83% would recommend to a friend

(55 total reviews)

Jesse Cannone

92% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

Healthy Back Institute has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 55 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Healthy Back Institute employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Personal consumer services industry (3.6 stars).

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55 reviews
1.0
27 Apr 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Offers health benefits, vacation and sick time has improved. Nice working from home.

Cons

Most of the positive reviews are here, because H.R. dept. sent employees a direct link to Glassdoor, encouraging employees to submit positive reviews. Since it was a link, everyone assumed Healthy Back Institute could track the reviews and felt pressured to put a positive review online. Our immediate supervisor blatantly appears to favor anyone who is not Caucasian.. Paycheck is a joke, while this company rakes in millions. Egotistical supervisor who lacks focus and direction, and micromanages staff to the point of general uneasiness and constant tension. Many good employees have lost their job due to trumped up charges, yet employees reported time after time for cheating and/or extreme company violations, are kept due to favoritism. Many issues with software ranging from small to extremely large issues, causing additional stress on employees and customers. Turn over rate is high.. You will be terminated over the littlest things. Narcissistic female supervisor who will only keep employees who cater to her every need or feed her inflated ego.

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Healthy Back Institute Response
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First, the organization and I welcome all feedback, and I appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback. I am sorry to hear that you feel your experience is anything less than stellar with your direct supervisor and HBI in general. Positive company culture is one of the highest priorities I set for our team - we strive for it every day. It saddens me that you did not feel comfortable coming to me or HR directly to discuss your experience, and I have checked with my leadership team, and no one has heard similar complaints. I take all complaints very seriously, and will be looking into this. I have an open-door policy for all employees at every level in the company. I would love to hear more about how we can make HBI better. Please private message me or HR, whichever you prefer, through SLACK, and we can set up a time to talk. That said, I am sure that I know who this is and that you are not an active employee. Yes, I have invited our employees who love working for our organization to leave a review, sharing their authentic experience working at HBI. We value our employees' opinions. It would be unwise for us not to ask our employees to share their feedback about HBI. There is a reason the overwhelming majority of reviews here are all very positive and our turnover low, much lower than industry standards. The only negative reviews tend to be former employees who were let go for performance-related issues. We wouldn't be here if it weren't for our customers; their health is why HBI exists. I have communicated about our best-in-class customer service philosophy. A positive, win-win experience for all involved. We are determined to help our customers live a pain-free life, and doing so is our mission. I have opened multiple channels to hear from employees. A team of managers is involved in the organization's day-to-day operations; they are always open to feedback and laser-focused on making the company a great place to work. They welcome your ideas and feedback. I am personally engrossed in the day-to-day operations. I'm on SLACK from morning until night, always open to interacting with employees and learning anything I can about the company. We have used stay and exit interviews, anonymous surveys, manager feedback, culture pulse programs, messaging channels, open-door policies, and more. Many employees use these methods regularly to share their thoughts, suggestions, and opinions providing feedback on all sorts of company-related topics, like operational suggestions, customer trends and concerns, and more. I'm sorry you don't feel comfortable doing so. That is unfortunate. That said, I know we are not perfect; no organization is, but we are doing our very best and are constantly improving. Regarding compensation, we recognize we are competing with larger organizations for our employees. We constantly look at external data and feedback to stay competitive, as competitive as we can be. With remote workers across the country, we have employees in over 27 states nationwide. We allow every employee the opportunity to work from their home office, never having to endure long commutes, large gas bills for work travel, work attire bills, and any other expenses that go along with working outside of the home. We offer health benefits and paid time off. Compensation is indicated in our job postings and has not gone down during your tenure, even as the country went through the COVID crises. Our goal is always to pay our employees an above-market wage and, ideally, as much as possible while running a profitable operation. All of that said, one of our core values is “Be Great” and so, we are always striving to improve and again, we take all feedback very seriously. So, if there is an opportunity for improvement we will surely gather as a team, figure it out and make it happen!
3.0
13 Feb 2019

Was a good job when we were 1099 employees..

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

401k and benefits. Coworkers are really nice people. The owner of the company seems like a genuinely nice person.

Cons

since the company employees are no longer 1099, the company has had immediate changes that are typical of large corporations who lose sight of what is important to the employees. Changes every rep I have spoken to, were dreading. The company says they care about your schedule and do everything in its power to keep it the same as when we were 1099's but that is not true for many. Role playing is another example that most employees are pretending they like in front of the sups, in private, admit that they hate it. We are tired of hearing the benefits of role playing, give us choices! (such as you can participate in role playing, or you can share your best practices in front of the group, or another rep can ask, how would you handle this situation and you respond back..The supervisors say they will listen to your needs or wants privately, but then you are berated for anything that they feel goes against the sups desires. It is their way or the highway. Sups are disrespectful often putting you down by stating that we were taught this in training, we should know this by now, etc, to the point where we go to each other rather that be verbally beat up by our sup (many reps complain about this in private) you get the feeling you cannot go over your sups head to complain because your supervisor is respected and you won't be believed. Like any company, reps will constantly complain in private but not stick together and speak up, and those same reps constantly state the opposite of what they say in private, in meetings, etc. due to the pressure we all feel to conform or lose your job. Call metrics drastically increased, so we are not as effective at assisting guests, because we have to get our quota of calls in for the day. We have to find someone to take over our shift just to take a day off, even a sick day unless it is an emergency situation. We need vacation and sick days that are paid for by the company. I loved this company when we were 1099's. This is a company I planned on staying with for many more years, but unfortunately, I would definitely consider another company to work for.

1.0
13 Nov 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I cant think of any

Cons

micro-management personified..dont take a leak..you will get a "where are you?" text

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