They listen - Back Office Accounting Zayo Employee Review

Zayo is a good company because it is a company that is not afraid to change in response to feedback from employees, investors, and customers. Zayo knows it is not perfect but they do listen and try to make employees happy. Flexible work including work from home for certain back office teams, and It was just announced that we will have a 401k match starting mid-year in response to employee requests. So there WILL be a 401k match. Zayo is still a young company and they try to keep the company feeling small and tight and this is on purpose. I also think it's not for everyone because if you don't enjoy a very results driven work environment you might not like zayo. A lot of my colleagues are workaholic types and will check email and send replies at midnight and have calls after hours by choice. They just enjoy the work and despite it not being an expectation it is something they do. I don't feel pressured to sign off at 5 pm just because of the work life balance initiative going on. They are sending out the message that it's ok to sign off at five if you want to then you should. I think the culture does attract a lot of workaholic types though and I think of this new work balance initiative to let people know just because some choose to do it, it is not a requirement of the company to put in a bunch of extra hours. We are never short on work to be done though and that is awesome. I do feel that I have job security and zayo likes to move people around within the company. I believe that if my position was ever eliminated or transitioned into something else, zayo would find me a place in the company before they would just lay me off. They, unlike some competitors, do move people around in the company a lot into different roles and I think this helps contribute to how well rounded a lot of the employees are. At some of the other large telecoms there is a constant fear of being laid off and a lot of people do get laid off... it creates a very negative culture of fear. Zayo isn't like that at all. Why spend money training people just to let them go? Zayo leverages the training and time spent at the company by employees and a lot of time promotes internally to keep talent. If you are reading this and considering a position with the company, take the negative reviews with a grain of salt. No job is perfect.