Passive aggressive leadership - Anonymous employee Paylocity Employee Review

1.0
4 Jan 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They pay better than other comparable companies

Cons

1. An employee in operations gets no planned training and is expected to learn in the chaos. There are unforgiving performance reviews unless you are in the good books of upper leadership. 2. Women in technology are always in disadvantage because there are very few in there and the few in there move up only if they play the right kind of games to move up the ladder. There are no women leaders in operations on the super exec level. 3. They do claim to offer flex hours and work from home schedules but it’s an unsaid pressure of watching your phone for emails and instant communication. 24/7/365. You are gauged by how much you are ‘on top of it’. 4. Managers are puppets in higher leadership’s hands and don’t have your back. It’s sad to see how many people are so insecure with their jobs there. You are never sure where you are in their eyes and if you are playing the right chips 5. Trust level on leadership is incredibly low especially if you don’t belong to a ‘clique’ there. All those ERG groups are artificial and a check in a box. 6. HR is never for the employees. They will throw you under the bus if you go to them with concerns. There is never appreciation for loyalty, hard work or anything if you are not in the clique. HR will sweep you to the side 7. Paylocity does not deserve all these accolades on Glassdoor. It’s not accurate when you are in there

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Paylocity Response
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Well… at least we pay better? But in all seriousness, we’re sad to hear that your experience with us was not what you expected. We hold ourselves to the same high standards across all of our groups – because we want to avoid the type of inconsistent experiences that you’re describing. Regardless of whether someone works in operations, technology, sales, or any part of the business, we work to make sure they receive the same level of training, support, and have the same opportunities for development as everyone else. Thanks for your specific advice, for what it’s worth, we’re going to dig into it and find opportunities to improve, whatever they may be. Sorry, we didn’t work out for your career, best of luck in your future endeavors!

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