Ceridian Reviews

Pros

People and skillsets that are the current assets. Exciting new strategic direction.

Cons

Dramatic change going on in business model. People looking for stable work environments should look elsewhere

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to share (even overshare) with your employees on what you know.

Pros

The money is good, as is the time-off allowance. The benefits are average: not great, not bad. You can also do some good networking.

Cons

The company is evolving from a service organization towards SAAS, and decisions are being made that will probably pay off in the long run, but are not necessarily right for our current clients.

Advice to Senior Management

I think we're going in the right direction, yet direction has changed so often over the years that it is hard to tell how long this one wil last.

Pros

The employees work hard but the best are leaving rapidly.

Cons

The C-suite just does not get it. The company is less and less competitive and the strategies are desperate (maybe they need to be). Moral is low. Layoffs continue.

Advice to Senior Management

Sell assets while they are still worth something (Comdata, SVS, Canada) and at least some jobs can be spared. Recent moves will not solve the biggest issues in payroll and benefits.

Pros

benefits were excellent, not enough pto in the world to compensate for forcing yourself into work each day. coworkers are dedicated and supportive

Cons

management was out of touch; unpredictable promotion; expected more from employees without predicatable increases in compensation. continually asking employees to "take one for the team" but it never paid off

Advice to Senior Management

value your employees more than bottom line or at lease consider the working environment in making decisions. Seemed like management was feared rather than respected

Pros

The co-workers are great people to work with. They are hard working and determined to take care of their clients. The benefits offerings are average.

Cons

Jobs continue to be sent over seas. More executives continue to be hired while employees are left to watch as their co-workers are walked out the door due to another re-org. Every new VP has a "plan" to make the company more lean what is not understood is hacking from the bottom leaves no foundation. Employees are not appreciated but are treated like a bleeding wound that must be stopped with cheaper labor. Over 200 VP's, directors, and managers remain on the payroll some who are virtual. The company lies to it's employees by saying they can't afford raises while VPs enjoy perks and bonuses. The company made a deal with the city of St Pete to create 220 new jobs and upgrade the campus for a 1.9 million dollar tax break. Since the story was in the local paper on 3-1-2011 there has been 3 layoffs in St Pete.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at the upper level employees still on the payroll and make some lean cuts there. Stop reaping the profits for yourself and realize without people to do the work it won't get done. Stop hiring your golf buddies to come collect offthe companies payroll. VPs should have to go through an interviewing process just like entry level employees have to, after all they are employees too. Stop blindly rewarding upper level leaders hold them accountable for the companies shortcomings. Don't be afraid to layoff from the top and give them the same severance as lower level employees are offered. Equality for all.

Pros

This is a great environment for those with high energy, an entrepreneurial spirit, healthy self-confidence, and reasonable humility. It is a work hard, play hard environment. Clearly not everyone is the right fit for this business based on many of the reviews that I have read, but those that are thriving are not 9-5 employees. The people that are suceeding are the ones focused on helping the organization achieve its goal of driving their own destiny without the overreaching arms of our private equity investors. We need to hit tough financial milestones in order to be an attractive option on Wallstreet in a future IPO state, Unfortunately that means short term (12-36 months) of additional sacrifice for long-term gain. Get off the bus if you don't want to be on it and get on now if you want to reap the fruits of your labor. Ceridian's best days are ahead of it. I understand the frustration of those that didn't sign up initially to be part of this culture, but life is too short not to enjoy what you're doing. I love it here. I love the people. I love the industry.... and I love being a part of creating something better. I suggest you find a place that you can love too.

Cons

As stated above, the pros can also be seen as cons. A work hard, play hard environment is not for everyone. Sacrifice and urgency are needed in the business right now so that we can control our own destiny. Being held by Private Equity owners is a relatively unforgiving environment. They want a great ROI on their investment and will push us hard to get it. Our job is to meet our financial objectives so that we can get back to being publicly traded again where we can better control how we run our business.

Advice to Senior Management

Sprint! Sprint hard towards the finish line. Make sure to keep the communication lines open. Find ways to include your employees in the benefits of helping the company reach its equity event (i.e. Employee Stock Options). Give everyone an ownership stake so they are more willing to assist with the needed sacrifice Ceridian requires in order to achieve its financial independence. Keep hiring great talent (i.e. Lois Martin- new female CFO, Larry Dunivan- new Product and Technology leader, Jon Ziglar- new Chief Strategy Officer, and more to come I'm sure). These additions speak to the quality of Stuart Harvey's (CEO) decision making as he has moved in cutting edge practitioners and has seeked to updgrade his executive staff. I'd love to see some more change, maybe HR and Marketing can be next. We need more buzz creation in the marketplace and we need to create a more energized culture. A couple of upgrades in Marketing and HR could help achieve that.

Pros

Virtual environment. Allowed you to be independent and run your business.

Cons

A change in coverage removed the position that they had just filled four months earlier. Forecast should have shown not to hire at that time.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't hire and let go!

Pros

The people!!!
Benefits are ok.
Worklife balance
Participants we servce, rewarding work

Cons

Corporate may be a different work environment, but LifeWorks is not rewarding for the Non-9-5 high performers. People are being forced to leave due to lack of merit increases, toxic work environment, being treated unprofessionally by management which leads to unhappy workplace.
Favoritism among sorority goes unnoticed by HR and corporate. Senior management within LifeWorks are hidden behind closed doors and do not interact with staff. Salary is not competitive.
I jumped off the moving LifeWorks bus for my sanity.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a close honest look at LifeWorks!
Value employees. Reward top performers.

Pros

Co workers are very open and willing to help and I would not get through each day without having my co workers in my corner. Ceridian always hires exceptional employees and them loose them due to lack of management.

Cons

Extremely frustrating environment to work. Traning is horrible. Its not a true reflection of the job that needs to be performed. No outlined process to follow.

Senior mgmt does not care about how their employees feel and the job being perfomed. They are just interested in putting more and more work on a person until they they jump off the bus and quit.

Ceridian has had very smart, good, and dedicated workers but loose them because they are bombarding them with an abundance of work.

The over achievers are slammed and over worked. Employees are working all kinds of ridiculous hours, on the weekends, days off. Cant take off any time.

It is ridiculous.

Advice to Senior Management

Get an outlined process for employees to follow; especially new employees in this role.

Listen to your employees. Stop flooding your employees with work.

Employee need a work life balance and it is not provided in this role.

Pros

Some Flexibility to work from home although you might work 12 hours anyway
Pay was good for economic times but poor considering for workload

Cons

Managment doesn't show enough concern for employees
Work Live Balance doesn't exist - everyone overworked
Commiment to Quality does not match training for employees to do diligence for our products

Advice to Senior Management

Get to the Bones of the problems. Managers that ignore the real issues and do not support it's employees is not going to get the company into the structure that you need to keep high end clients.

Seperate the Implementation and BA roles like you used to have it. You can't pay one person to do the job of two people.