No longer a great place to work - Anonymous employee UKG Employee Review

1.0
Jul 1, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good. Pay is ok. The people below the Senior and Executive leadership are incredibly talented and want to do the right thing.

Cons

The EPIC organization is a mess. Lots of change with no change management plan. Every new day is more chaotic and disorganized then the day before. The new leader and his senior leadership team have sucked the life out of what was once a vibrant, innovative, and supportive culture. The new senior leader is incredibly tone deaf, in genuine, and has an ego. He looks down upon what both Ultimate and Kronos accomplished prior to his arrival, though he has yet to execute anything new and exciting under his watch. While the companies tag line is "Our purpose is people" the EPIC organization is anything but that. A lot of really good people have left the company because of the culture and lack of direction.

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1.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There was once a great company named Ultimate Software, it was destroyed by a hostile takeover from H&F, a private equity firm, and a merger with Kronos to become UKG. There are very few Pros since that time.

Cons

When this company was Ultimate Software, prior to the takeover from H&F and the merger with Kronos, it was a world class company with top shelf people. The company Motto was "People First" and they truly lived by that motto, never a layoff, great working environment and stealer benefits. Since the takeover and subsequent merger with Kronos, to become UKG this company has taken a path of "Money First", which is understandable given the greedy nature of Private Equity Firms like H&F. They have systematically closed most of the offices across the US and have been expanding their footprint in Noida India, for obvious reasons. The leadership that has been put in place by H&F is clearly focused on IPO. And we all know what that means, clean up the books and make the company look as good on paper as possible. Can you say "Lipstick on a Pig". This was once a great company when it was run by Scott and Viv but now it has gone the way of the Private Equity management and is heading for a great fall.

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