Paylocity Employee Reviews about "work from home"

Pros

I get to work from home, really fun yearly department conventions, best team environment, flexible work schedule.

Cons

I cannot think of a con.

Pros

Working from home, and the freedom to do so. Being able to work from home has been fantastic. The IT support team is amazing and helps with getting things setup and fixed. Leadership is wonderful and not afraid to revisit something they may have made a mistake on.

Cons

Just because you have the best product in the market doesn't mean the prospects are looking.

Pros

There's a lot to love about working at Paylocity. Besides the great people and great work culture there's a real positive energy that's pervasive in my day to day. Our CEO seems to have a level of understanding of the products that's in line with what you might expect from a Product Manager. For a company this size, that's a rare thing. As a remote employee I have never felt marginalized in anything that the company does. In fact I feel like they take great care to include and inform us work from home folks in the decision making that goes on in Schaumburg.

Cons

If you're not located anywhere Paylocity has offices (Chicagoland, Lake Mary, FL, Boise ID etc. etc.) you'll still have the work from home option. Personally I love being remote and making occasional trips to the office. But it may not be everyone's cup of tea.

Pros

Good Benefits. Work from home. Nice conference by the beach

Cons

You only get a decent territory if you are friends with the right people. They say all territories are created equal but that is not true. It's the only sales organization I have even been a part of that creates such unfairness in their territories. If you're in the "club", you are taken care of and you get a giant territory. Even if you're a good producer, unless you have an in with management, you're going to be a smaller patch.

Pros

Great leadership/Great software/ work from home /service and implementation work with you to make sure clients are happy. Paylocity is always trying to improve

Cons

No one is perfect, but I don't have any major cons. If your looking to show up go through the motions this is not the company for you.

Pros

--Pay is pretty competitive --Depending on your department, work from home is an option --Nice office space --Cool swag items

Cons

Paylocity was quite possibly one of the worst experiences of my life. I cried tears of relief and joy when I got a new job (much different from the tears of depression I cried in the office, though beautifully designed, or on my way home with commuters wondering what tragedy I must have just witnessed). Aside from the problems listed below, I was made to feel incompetent at my job (to the point where I questioned my self-worth….thank goodness for therapists), didn’t have a solid leader to turn to or that advocated for what we needed, and saw people be mistreated (myself included) in ways I never thought I’d see at a large corporation. --Paylocity is a lot like college. Some people really knew what they wanted their career path to be and were dead set on it while others didn’t mind hopping from major to major, up for whatever. If you’re in the latter category, this will feel right at home for you. If you have specific career aspirations, they will be derailed pretty quickly. Sure, you can attribute some change to growth and that’s fine. But the truth is that Paylocity doesn’t know what it wants. They think they do, and move quickly to make things happen, but then can turn on a dime and say nevermind. Scrap it. And that happens pretty often. And those decisions can have a big impact on you. They move way too fast. It’s one thing to be speedy in go-to-market, but you have to have a strategy behind it. They say jump and you better guess how high. And you have to work insane hours to help them achieve half-baked ideas. But don’t worry – you’ll get a cute little recognition badge to make it all okay. --Differing opinions are not welcome, as much as they claim they are. Or maybe it depends on who you are. If I spoke up during a cross-functional meeting and offered an alternative approach or played devil's advocate just to give a different perspective, I was either dismissed or I was made to feel like I was being a Negative Nelly. Just be a “yes” man, and you’ll do just fine here. --The culture you experience strongly depends on which department you’re in and who your leader is. I saw fun happening from afar, but rarely got to experience it myself. --Be Unbeatable Together is one of the values they have plastered on the wall (one Google search will tell you that’s not how you drive home core values, but whatever, the CHRnO is the queen of the castle). However, it’s the least followed value, right behind Growth Fuels Opportunity. Departments work against each other, not with each other, to get things done. There’s duplicate efforts across the board on projects, a race to the finish line to see who can do it first and better, which causes mass confusion and frustration by the people that actually have to do the work. People here will not be afraid to step on you to get on top. --The brainwashing is nuts. I have never seen people blindly follow without questioning it for a second. Just throw some swag at the employees, make some good videos (the videos are quite good), bring in some donuts and pizza, allow rampant drinking, and they think it’s the best company they’ve ever been at, no questions asked. (But seriously, did they ever think about how exclusionary “Drink Our Own Wine” is?) --If you're a job seeker, don't look at the overall ratings or the short 5 star reviews that say "great so far!" I thought it was great too in the beginning, but they showed me their true colors pretty quickly. I've had people ask me for a recommendation to work here and did them a favor by telling them to look elsewhere. I hope you'll take the time to really dig in the reviews. I wish I had. Paylocity, stop saying “we’re a growing organization.” It’s been 20+ years. At some point, you have to enact structure. It’s been such a free-for-all for so long that the minute structure is put in place, it’s immediately discarded because someone doesn’t like it or “that’s just not how we vibe.” It’s the definition of a hot mess and one I’m glad to be away from. I don’t even want to see the responder of this try to be cute (seriously, stop. It’s embarrassing) with a response for this. Just own up to the fact that maybe not everyone has the best experience and learn from it instead of sugar coating it. It’s demeaning to the people that take the time to express how they felt. But then again, that’s Paylocity.

Pros

Great office space. Great working from home opportunities. Some of the best people I have ever worked with. Great product and always evolving!

Cons

Not enough snacks in my work from home office.

Pros

-Benefits are great -Work from home is standard -You don't have an actual schedule -PTO policy is great -Annual meetings to spend time with your team

Cons

-Quota, you have to meet a certain number every month -Pay is a little lower than I would like -I personally would like some type of work space option away from home with reimbursement, for the days when it's harder to focus at home