There are huge problems of retention in the Retirement and Health & Benefits practices. This is due to low employee morale caused by the leadership style withing the company.

I don't think anyone was truly happy working at Aon. Most of the people in the company do not get along, the work is not thrilling, and the clients can get repetitive and boring. Pay is quite low, and bonuses (if we get any) are extremely low. Like any consulting firm, Aon has its ups and downs. If they pay was better, maybe I would be able to put up with the company.

Aon is a big company, so it is difficult to maintain a friendly, open-door, welcoming environment. The office that I worked in did not work together, and there were many arguments over company politics. The management is not top-notch. They always miscommunicate and getting into heated discussions about how the company shoudl be run.

I feel that the company does not lead its employees very well. The Managers are too hands-on, and don't let you figure things out for yourself. Every manager that I have worked with micro-manages and there is often miscommunication among the team members. I think the biggest mistake that the partners make is that they don't let the people of the company know about what they are doing (like company vision or progress). If we know that, maybe we'd feel more empowerment in our work.

You will have a magnificent work/life balance at Aon. There is a trade-off though. Because our culture is so relaxed, there are few young people who make it up to management. You will see that the Managers and Partners are all very old. Also, the business development side of Aon is not that great, meaning that we don't really work with the most prestigious clients. You will have a lot of life outside of work though.

I am a Manager at Aon and am paid $91,000 with a bonus of $8000 at the end of the year.

The advantage of working at Aon is that it is a very large company and that it is a stable job in bad economic times. The disadvantage of working at Aon is that it is such a large company that you can get lost and forgotten in the sea of employees. There is a lot of bureaucracy and it takes much too long to move up within the company.

This is a stable company, but it is not very fun to work at. There is low pay, and the tools and technology that we use at Aon are not exactly top-notch. I feel that we could work much harder and much more efficiently at Aon if we had better systems in place within the company.

The company is all about getting your work done, then going home. There is not much life for the company outside of work, nor is there a lot of pride put into the work that we do. We are a very wide range of services to our clients, ranging from insurance and risk management, human capital consulting, and insurance underwriting.