Executive team is not ethical - Manager TriNet Employee Review

2.0
Jan 8, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The front line teams and certain departments are fine. The company offers good options for their clients. The pay and benefits are good.

Cons

Some executive leaders have affairs with other team members. Some lie directly to your face. The really good people get terminated in humiliating ways. Many work there with pure terror of when they will get fired.

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TriNet Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We are very sorry to learn of your negative experience. TriNet strives to be not only an ethical place to work but a positive and enjoyable one as well, so we take accusations of unethical conduct very seriously. To that end, we've always made available multiple channels for our employees and former employees to raise any concerns or questions about their jobs, their managers, coworkers or anything else work-related. If you truly feel that unethical behavior occurred, we encourage you to report it to our longstanding third-party vendor EthicsPoint. You will remain 100% anonymous if you wish. EthicsPoint allows you to communicate about unethical or illegal activities so that your complaint will be seen by the highest levels of management and even the board of directors Here is the contact information for making an EthicsPoint complaint: www.ethicspoint.com; phone: (888) 278-1485). Again, if there was unethical behavior, we hope you will use the contact information to make a complaint so that TriNet can act on it. We wish you all the best in all your future endeavors.

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