Annual Layoffs - Principal Consultant Mercer Employee Review

3.0
May 4, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Worked with some great people. Leadership says the right things and seems to be very transparent for the most part. Martine is a bright spot. Had a big fail with implementing their new "home grown" benefits admin platform but seem to have learned from their mistakes and the platform has a bright future.

Cons

Mercer seems to manage toward making their end of year numbers and this means every year in November and December a large amount of people are laid off for "restructuring". Yet they continue to hire, which makes it look like it is also a way to low key get rid of people they no longer need (even if there has not been one performance related conversation). Good news is severance is good but this annual fact of life is something that keeps employees constantly worried about their job security.

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5.0
May 31, 2026
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Pros

People are friendly and helpful

Cons

Not a lot of career growth opportunities

2.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote flexibility, which is nice.

Cons

You will not get a raise and if you do, it'll be 1%. Managers will not help you with escalating issues, you're on your own. It'll be blamed on you. You'll work so much overtime you won't have a social life.

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