Culture shaping - Anonymous employee Paychex Employee Review

1.0
Jan 26, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are truly good people at Paychex.

Cons

The company's initiative is to provide culture shaping to the whole company was my down fall. They force this on you and you have no choice. These culture shaping exercises are very uncomfortable. Turn to the person next to you and tell them how you appreciate them, I don't know you, how do you appreciate a person you don't know? Most of my peers felt uncomfortable. Does Paychex not see how uncomfortable it makes people? If you did not participate a meeting was scheduled to discuss why you were not "here and now". Definitely not the Paychex Values.

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Paychex Response
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Thank you very much for your review. Our company culture is very important to us and we appreciate your insight into the culture shaping initiative. We definitely don't want to put any of our employees in uncomfortable situations. Sorry to hear that we were not the right company for you. Good luck in your career.

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