Payroll Advocate at Gusto - Payroll Advocate Gusto Employee Review

4.0
Feb 21, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work. Bonuses for your work anniversaries. Great perks and benefits. Free health benefits for employees. Stipends for your home office as well as a quarterly stipend for your health and wellness. They also offer pretty good support for mental support. You start off between phone and email time. You have the chance to move to the chat team.

Cons

Micromanage ish. There's a slack channel that calls you out whenever you're not on phones when you're supposed to be. This causes discomfort for some being that people are getting called out for going to the bathroom or taking a quick mental break. The information is a lot and the training doesn't compliment what the actual job is like so a lot of it is learning as you go. Which is daunting considering that we're required to assist with peoples payroll and tax related issues. Although the benefits and perks are great, the pay doesn't match the job load so it can be very tiring for some. Customers will blame you for their own payroll mistakes so I wouldn't recommend this for anyone who takes things personal. You can't take PTO during blackout days which start in around the holidays so you can't take a break during that time unless you use sick or unpaid time

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
May 20, 2026
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Pros

The product is genuinely good, too bad the same can’t be said for how they treat the people who sell it.

Cons

Leadership talks a big game about people-first culture but the reality doesn’t match. The Chicago office expansion felt like a poorly thought-out experiment, new hires were brought on without a clear long-term commitment, and layoffs came without warning, leaving people blindsided. Crossing a billion dollars in revenue and still cutting employees sends a clear message about where workers rank on the priority list. Remote work flexibility is also a glaring weakness. For a company selling HR software to modern businesses, their internal stance on where employees can work is surprisingly rigid and hypocritical. The “flexibility” messaging is mostly optics. The broader concern is the AI roadmap. The automation push feels less like an innovation strategy and more like a slow wind-down of the workforce. Employees aren’t blind to it, it creates anxiety and erodes trust. The culture of transparency they promote externally is largely a facade internally.

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