Bad Career Move! - Anonymous employee Insperity Employee Review

1.0
Nov 4, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The office was 5 minutes away from my home.

Cons

As a great sales representative at the peak of your career, you are lured by promises of making great money. You arrive and you get this title of Business Performance Advisor that nobody in any other industry recognizes. Some even get certified! Good luck finding another job after this, you might want to start looking a year before you leave or get fired! When you get there you realize you are a telemarketer and will work harder than any other sales job because you are selling a very expensive per employee per month service. If you ever get to the point where they will teach you, they teach you to use sneaky confusing moves to get business owners to think they are saving money. If you are a good sales person you can pull this off, get some recognition and make NO money. Your stomach will hurt at the thought of telling business owners they will save money, run better, grow faster and make more money. Deep down under the smoke and mirrors, you know it's not true! In reality, they can outsource stuff as they need it instead of paying for the possibility of using all of Insperity's services without signing a CO-EMPLOYMENT agreement. You will watch the hand picked BPA's get sales that have been handed to them by the managers or because you are required to split your hard earned prospecting opportunities. Out of 10 of those possible slim to none chances you dig up, they will maybe close NONE! Interesting how they can close their stuff, but none you bring. Wonder if it's because they are getting leads?!?!?! In every office 3 or so people are there to make it and the rest are just there to generate more chances and to bring in a fluke lucky sale. Eventually the filler BPA's burn out, quit or get fired and are replaced with the next set of dummies. When you look closely you will notice that even the long term reps are struggling because they are having to replace the clients that keep leaving.

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Pros

*Many sales tools and training provided throughout tenure. *Local management does a great job of taking care of their people and being servant leaders. No one is too busy to talk to you and give advice or guidance. *Unmatched referral program with good sized budget to build relationships and earn prospective business *Attitudes stay professional no matter what and issues are resolved as soon as possible. *Managers are understanding of the ups and downs of sales and will work with their reps to help get them back on track *No pointing fingers, just getting the job done, no matter what the case. *Internal teams have great communication and follow up/through. *Knowledge is openly shared throughout the organization.

Cons

*Salary is a bit on the low end. High stress in trying to meet metrics - even if a sale happens because the length of the sales cycle is so varied that you can't predict when you'll get your next win. (The job is a grind.) *60% of all new business wins come between September and December, making it the most stressful time of the year. *Tenured reps are treated differently and get more sales support such as someone who will do follow up calls and set appointments as well as doing the paperwork for a new prospect to get approved for the PEO model and pricing. *Residuals take 2-3 years to build up to anything significant. *Management will ask you to lower your enrollment fee on a deal to win the business which directly affects your commission. *Insperity takes a percentage of the enrollment fee so if you lower the fee to earn the business, Insperity still gets their cut of the ORIGINAL enrollment fee, making your commission even lower.

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Insperity Response
3mo
Thanks so much for your feedback. We wish you many more successful years with Insperity!
1.0
Apr 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits. Can't think of any other.

Cons

Poor pay, the lowest paying company in the PEO industry. District Managers are awful, the ones I had. Regional Manager is less than supportive and more interested in micromangement. In my office, there is lack of support from District Manager and Regional Manager. I have witnessed first hand in a few areas District managers going on ride alongs, helping BPAs target businesses. It's an HR company that preaches work culture, but does not practice what it preaches. Turnover is higher than they like to admit, due to the nature of the job and appalling pay structure. Wear and tear of personal vehicle- you're not reimbursed mileage, or given vehicle allowance. You get an Amex card with less than $400 monthly, that is meant to cover gas (even with the current has prices), oil change, lunches, networking events. The amount itself is a joke, usually you run out of funds after the first week or 2 of each month and you're formed to use your own funds. Regional manager blamed entire team for people that got laid off, afterwards threatened people's jobs. When investors wanted more money, there were massive layoffs. Some staff were promised roles within the company, but of course they didn't keep their end of the bargain. I was given the most useless RM and DM. When I was hired, my district manager told a few lies and tricked me into accepting the position.

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Insperity Response
1mo
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