Paycor Reviews

Pros

Monthly Performance Feedback
Plenty of Vacation Days
Emphasis on Community Service
Opportunity for Personal Development
Constant Change - Never Bored
Free Turkey for Thanksgiving

Cons

Constant Change Due to Growth and New Products
Average Pay (Competitive but Nothing Incredible)
No Longer Stock Options for All Employees

Advice to Senior Management

Great place to work but still a lot of room for improvement.

Pros

In IT, employees can work from home two days a week after their first 60 days of employment. People are hardworking though grumpy and disgruntled due to the heavy workload. Pay seems competitive but is not worth it.

Cons

Extremely stressful environment with inept management, poor work-life balance, high turnover, below average benefits and little time off. This was the most dysfunctional and toxic position I've ever held. It always feels like everything is going 100 mph. After the first year, you get 17 days of paid time off but that would include vacation, sick, and personal time. 401(k) matching is very poor. There is little training about the zillions of systems paycor has (all of which seem to have problems that no one seems interested in fixing long-term). The company is now outsourcing IT jobs to India claiming the idea is not to eliminate jobs but make IT more flexible. Of course, no one's going to tell you you're job will be eliminated down the road, and the new CIO was behind outsourcing at Convergys that led to the elimination of a lot of positions there and was a disaster. Employees constantly point fingers and throw each other under the bus. Very chilly coworkers who act annoyed or too busy if you ask for any guidance or direction on the spaghetti code they've written. Instead of asking for feedback, management will read your chats and emails secretly. Very little empowerment for employees, and you feel like just a warm body. A recent employee satisfaction survey from the company came back with less than 25% of employees satisfied and willing to recommend Paycor as a place to work. If you want to be overworked and underappreciated, this is the place for you!

Advice to Senior Management

Bob Coughlin seems like a hardworking, decent guy but the rest of the senior leadership inspires absolutely no trust and confidence from the employees. Improve benefits and time off. Stabilize your core products and emphasize quality of the products you have over new initiatives and the quantity of customers you can obtain. Reconsider outsourcing of IT and ask yourself if you've ever heard a successful oursourcing story.

Pros

Quality people
Fair compensation
Bob Coughlin is a quality leader and an even better person

Cons

Not the most family friendly environment - expect long hours including Saturdays
Poor sales training - all features and benefits
Overworked support staff

Advice to Senior Management

The best leaders manage their staff based on getting the most out of their abilities. Do not create robot salesmen.

Pros

Co-workers are supportive. Free coffee.

Cons

Profit over people.
Work 7 days a week. Be prepared to hear how CEO started everything every meeting.

Advice to Senior Management

You aren't as brillant as you all believe you are

Pros

Base salary is higher than the major competition.

CPA Care is very supportive when partnering with CPA's for referrals

Cons

Managment is more concearned with the number of appointment held rather than the
quality/results of your appointments.

Negative / Back stabbing environment.. Co-workers are as much of your compeition as ADP and Paychex.

Zero loyalty to employees, more so than any other sales position. Regardless of the number of successful years you have sold for Paycor, if you have a few bad months, you will be gone.

Be prepared to be micro-managed. The company philosophy is that if employees don't like it, they must be hiding something.

Excessive reporting.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a close look at your managers and management style. The managers that are considered your best,+ barely polay in legal boundaries.

Pros

good base...decent commissions...very much a micro manage atmosphere

Cons

Very small office...weak local leadership. Local manager doesnt make decisions on hiring or firing. Manager essentially runs reports and did nothing to help sales people. Didnt help with implementation or taking workload off so i could have focused on selling.

5 new appointments are required every week. Obsurd and negative goal as reps scramble for BAD appointments because they need to show 5 new appointments.

Benefit plan is weak. Employees are not appreciated or recognized. Heard from ex-Paycor reps that they left after making platinum club many years in a row and were fired or chose to leave because they were never appreciated.

Pros

Paycor does have a strong product, superior in many regards to all its larger competitors for all but the largest, most complex payroll/HR needs.

Teams are small and there is a great deal of personal interaction with all levels of management.
Sales pros that perform are treated well.
Opportunity to earn company stock.

Cons

Although Paycor can be a dynamic place to work, with a fast pace, and people who care about their customers, in the last few years, politics and policies have seriously limited employees' opportunities for growth and upward movement.

Management by activity is the norm, rather than management by results. Paycor's sales organization is obsessed with statistics, which can make a more seasoned professional feel stifled and dissatisfied. You'll spend more time worrying about making weekly call numbers, than closing deals that'll get you to your number. (That's coming from a pro that earned the company trip.)

Service levels have dropped, smaller competitors have popped up with better systems.

Though frequently used for recruitment and often referred to in company calls to rally the troops, the fine print in the stock ownership plan makes it worthless unless you intend to stay with the company 15 years.

Advice to Senior Management

Be open to allowing management on the ground in the various markets to manage by objective, focus on results rather than process.

Invest heavily in the product. It's good, but no longer the best.

Make the stock grants actually worth something for folks who may not necessarily plan or desire to retire at Paycor.

Pros

Good base pay and flexibility of your own scheduling.

Cons

Turnover is very high in the Detroit area for Paycor

Advice to Senior Management

Give people enough time to be successful before you fire them.

Pros

I really enjoy the team I work with. The job is demanding, but I'm excited about the work I'm doing and am proud of what I do. I've seen first hand that hard work is rewarded and I look forward to a great and challenging career.

Cons

The building is a little blah and could be in a better area; however, we're making the best of it and have been allowed to create our own creative space.

Advice to Senior Management

Put as much emphasis on employee retention as we do recruiting and client retention.

Pros

Great place to work with outstanding upper management. Take care and treat employees like family. Fairly good benefits and salary for a great place to work in sales

Cons

When I worked there it was a lower base salary, now they have raised it I believe, and I would probably still be there if that was the case. It is tough making cold calls if it is something you do not like, sometimes clients treat you poorly because they see no value in you.

Advice to Senior Management

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