Hewitt Associates News and Happenings.

What do you think -- is this company going to survive and thrive? Are they looking to expand their staff, or do you think layoffs are inevitable?

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Hewitt is in a nose-dive. They forgot their own basic principles and now only answer to the stockholders. The Hewitt love is gone. They will likely survive, but it will never again be the great place to work like it once was. They may thrive again if they start to put their client's and employees needs first again. If they just staffed up in all depts. so there would be a reasonable chance to regain the depth of knowledge again that they lost due to the high attrition rates of frustrated employees - they would be fine again.

Hewitt keeps everything proprietary so it forces people to not have marketable skills except within Hewitt, and be hesistant about leaving Hewitt. It is their hopes to retain people like that. But it got to be soooooooo BAD working there the past few years, that many employees literally walked out / quit. All their knowledgable people left, and management was replaced by inexperienced employees. If Hewitt incorporated more normal unproprietary tools, then they could hire management from outside the office that have experience. Instead, they are now forced to grow their own management within. And when the blind leads the blind...you have a problem.

If Hewitt staffed up for just a year and suffered that initial expense, it would help everyone work out of the hole of defects, and bad client relationships they now have. People are just burned out there. With well trained motivated employees, Hewitt could thrive again in the long run. Never as good as it once was, but much better than it is now.