Extremely understaffed, employees are overworked in all departments - Implementation Consultant Paylocity Employee Review

3.0
Jan 6, 2022
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Pros

Job security, they do not fire employees unless it is really justified. They do have good managers who truly seem to care about employees. HR department has also been very great if there is ever any HR issue. I also feel comfortable going to my managers or HR with any work/personal issues.

Cons

They are understaffed, and every meeting with the CEO's and executives, they NEVER address the understaffing. In fact a meeting in Q3 2021 with the executives, they stated they've resolved the understaffing in multiple departments, though I've worked in one of those departments and know others in the other department and can confirm they are still understaffed. Though it seems the CEO's and executives don't care about that as long as the money is coming in. The CEO was intentionally 'sugar coating' the understaffing issue, instead of really addressing it. This is terrible as many employees end up having to work 10+ hours of overtime weekly just to keep up. The insane overworking is all year round, not just during our busy season. They keep saying we just need to get through the busy season, but then why has it been busy the past two years? Part of the issue with us being understaffed is they also don't train well enough, there is too much put on the employees (learning multiple processes, payroll, medical benefits, timecards, taxes) when really these multiple processes should be broken out, not all under one person to handle it. This causes extra stress on employes making it so they can not know everything in the site, cause they are doing too many jobs. I NEVER refer people to come work at this job for this reason, it is too much work and not enough employees. I do not recommend working here as you will likely not have a work/life balance. Again there is job security, but you will be overworked.

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Paylocity Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. At Paylocity and especially thorough the pandemic, we have worked to ensure that we maintain full transparency. The bi-weekly Executive Q&A’s are a great time to ask the Sr. leadership team questions anonymously. We have been transparent in communicating our hiring initiatives and address those departments which are most in need of additional staffing. We will continue to provide updates in real time and can ensure that our Talent Acquisition team is working very hard to recruit top talent.

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