Run! Micro Focus: How to not do the right thing. You don’t want to be working there – Indeed Review

This is the 3rd attempt to have Indeed post the employee review of Micro Focus on Indeed. See the story here. Originally published at https://essemonreport.wordpress.com/2022/03/05/run-micro-focus-how-to-not-do-the-right-thing-you-dont-want-to-be-working-there-indeed-review/.

It is posted here in case Indeed doe snot accept it or it is taken down as seems to be what Micro Focus is trying to do (See for example with Glassdoor here)

Run! Micro Focus: How to not do the right thing. You don’t want to be working there – Indeed Review

Lowest possible star (1)

Micro Focus made a mistake with enrollment for some of its benefits, yet confirmed them. They then modified the committed benefits, including supplementals that can be carried over year to year or when the employee leaves the company. They did that by modifying the statement committed to and back dating to that data, also as a way that seemed to cover up the changes. It affected multiple employees, many probably never noticed.

Micro Focus HR benefits played the clock to try to convince that error does not matter with the next year enrollment which is not true for supplement life insurance. They claimed they could resolved and couldn’t. Some employees did cancel existing life insurance and now have lost the coverage. Micro Focus offered no way to restore the coverage, other than with extra pain and risk during the pandemic and state lock down.

Micro Focus never followed up on paying for damage of lost coverage. When HR was reported (whistle blow) for document tampering, fraud and cover up, they threatened, with mock litigation language, through outside legal counsel supposed to discuss why Micro Focus would not have to be accountable. Answer never discussed breach of commitments, and damages due to reasonable reliance, only that ERISA law would protect, yet that is a different topic. Never mind that life insurance coverage was lost during pandemic when risk are high. Whistle blowing investigation and legal justification were driven by the head of litigations!

All that despite a no-retaliation policy. It could be construed that with such actions, Micro Focus attempted to push not older employees which have otherwise stellar records but are expensive. Clearly Micro Focus does not care as it disinvest widely everywhere including in business-critical investments.

Employees and future employee should run from Micro Focus. Why work for a company that does not care. Customer should wonder if they can trust companies that drive crazy audits of its customers but don’t respect their own commitments.

Pros Nobody cares, so if you do not want to work hard and still get paid, it’s your place Cons Not trustworthy, not caring, not respecting its commitments, no ambition, no future