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IRIS Software Group

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IRIS Software Group reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(864 total reviews)
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Jason Dies

75% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

IRIS Software Group has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 864 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IRIS Software Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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864 reviews
2.0
Apr 26, 2022
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Pros

Great CEO. Good products across Accountancy and Education. Great people

Cons

HCM and in particular Cascade heavily neglected. V little Product development, no CS support, huge number of customer complaints, Sales in total turmoil with targets far too high. Management young and very inexperienced with very little management training. Senior Leadership team are 'coin counters' and do not care about their sales teams and do not wish to listen. Bullying mentality. No wonder so many people have left recently.

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IRIS Software Group Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, although we are surprised and disappointed by your comments. We have zero tolerance towards a bullying mentality of any kind and would strongly encourage you to reach out to our Chief People Officer, Stephanie Kelly, in complete confidence so that she can put things right. We pride ourselves on being a supportive and inclusive culture and train all our managers to reflect our values and take any instances where someone has fallen short of our high standards very seriously. Our ‘Managing with IMPACT’ training programme provides managers with ongoing support, communication, emotional intelligence and practical training, HR coaching, and wellbeing tools to ensure that their employees are performing at their best. We are sorry to hear that this was not your experience. We are delighted that our Cascade HRi product is one of our most popular products, providing a flexible solution for core HR functionality, integrated payroll, recruitment, training and talent management. Customers have recognised this great service, with a 42-point improvement to our Cascade NPS score since 2020, and we are continuing to invest in this product to better support our customers, including a new help community and improving our technical support request process. We are also proud to have a new managing director for Human Capital Management, and she is working to shape our future product development. We are delighted to provide for our Sales employees a personal performance coach, in addition to our company-wide Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders, to support people in meeting the high expectations of our sales roles. We also provide other great training, continuous development, and career opportunities across the IRIS family. We value our employees feedback and are proud to champion our employee engagement survey Peakon, which provides staff with a platform to share their suggestions and comment with managers and senior leaders instantly so that we can make an #IMPACT together. We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would welcome any further suggestions. Please reach out to the HR team or email EmployeeFeedback@iris.co.uk. Kind regards, the HR team.
1.0
Apr 22, 2022
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Pros

Good benefits, there are no other pros

Cons

Other than the perks, there is nothing good about this company

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IRIS Software Group Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, although we are surprised and disappointed by your comments. We are proud to offer our commercial employees coaching with a personal development expert. We also run an extensive induction training for our Customer Support team that usually lasts 2-4 weeks, depending on the products. This is delivered by our Customer Service experts who are able to bring the training to life with their own experiences. The training is a blend of customer service, legislation, product and process training with practical activities. Employee feedback is very important to us, and we encourage our employees to use our immediate feedback tool, Peakon, to share their ideas and concerns with managers and senior leaders in real time. You can also reach out to our Employee Voice Ambassador with your thoughts, we are proud to have 11 ambassadors in Sales & Marketing, who support business improvements by listening to their employee constituency to gain feedback and present their findings at monthly breakfast meetings with their Executive and Head of Functions. We are proud to conduct regular customer surveys, using an industry-recognised index that measures the likelihood of our customers to recommend our products or services to others; a Net Promoter Score (NPS). Our NPS surveys provide direct feedback of how our customers feel about us, providing us valuable insight into what we are doing right, and where we can prioritise internal initiatives to drive continuous customer-focused change across the business and ensure we continue to invest in the right areas. Our Trustpilot score also reflects the hard work and combined efforts across IRIS to commit to one of our IMPACT values: #CustomerFocus. We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would welcome any further suggestions. Please speak to your HR representative or leave a comment in our next Peakon survey. Kind regards, the HR team.
1.0
Apr 22, 2022
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Pros

Other people are going through the same experiences as you, so you will be able to find someone to vent to

Cons

As other reviews have explained, IRIS are constantly acquiring businesses. After this happens you will feel like suddenly no one cares about you anymore, and this is because they don't. They are in a constant acquisition cycle and their MO is sticking 'by IRIS' on the end of the company name, making all the management figures disappear and then sucking the life and soul out of everyone left. After our acquisition I had a year of hell and during that time I witnessed some frankly disturbing things. For example: - people made redundant and (allegedly...) told that if they let anyone know they wouldn't receive their redundancy package - droves of people being made redundant from departments in one fell swoop, and their responsibilities being outsourced to agencies in India or reallocated to the few people remaining - logging on to get extra work finished at 1am because I couldn't keep on top of everything, and there being dozens of others online doing the same I was constantly scared of being made redundant and I did everything I could to keep my job. For example, I asked to have a few hours off to accompany my husband to a hospital appointment and was told no...so I didn't go with him. I was scared I'd be next to get the chop if I did. It got to the point when my mental health suffered so much that I called my manager crying my eyes out begging for help with my ever-increasing workload and unattainable expectations. This call ended in her telling me someone was going on maternity and I'd have to pick up her workload too. If you scroll back through the past few months of reviews here you will notice that many of the 5* ones have word-for-word the same title, or variations of the same title. If you think this is genuine then I don't know what to tell you. HR are constantly trying to persuade people to leave positive reviews here, especially when you're a new joiner before you've seen the full picture of what this company is like. I know this because I've been there. If I could get on my hands and knees and beg you to not take a job at this company I would. And if you're working somewhere that has is in the process of being acquired by IRIS...run.

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IRIS Software Group Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, although we are surprised and disappointed by your comments. We are very proud of all our fantastic acquisitions, which are full of great people who help us provide outstanding services and products to our customer base. We are committed to our growth and always buy successful companies which will support IRIS’ expansion, and therefore do not make redundancies as part of this process. We are delighted to have increased in size from just over 1,570 employees to over 2,000 employees in the last 12 months. We are proud that as part of this growth, we have invested in our Marketing teams, having welcomed 31 Marketing employees into the organisation. Over the past 12 months, we have also refined our acquisitions and integration processes and are now proud to have a dedicated team within IRIS focused on welcoming new businesses into the IRIS family. This includes inviting them to join our competitive benefits package – which for UK employees, encompasses company-funded private healthcare, an employee assistance programme, matched pension with NI uplift, mental health provisions and discounted gym memberships, our electric car scheme and many other opt-in benefits. We are also delighted to share a monthly Company Update with all our employees across the globe to celebrate our wonderful achievements across IRIS and signpost upcoming events. Our acquired employees are also able to access the wealth of personal and professional development we offer, with career and progression focused initiatives such as our High Potential programme and mentoring scheme, as well as a host if training and development opportunities with our quarterly updated learning curriculum. We encourage all our employees to voice their feedback, either through our monthly Peakon engagement surveys, our 35 Employee Voice Ambassadors across our departments, our Belonging Group, consisting of employee representatives who champion inclusion and diversity, or our range of dedicated inboxes for employee facing initiatives. We are delighted to have achieved an engagement score of 8.3 in our Marketing department, with consistently high scores on ‘Reward’, ‘Workload’, and ‘Autonomy’. We’re sorry to hear that this wasn’t your experience and encourage you to reach out to our Chief People Officer, Stephanie Kelly, or contact EmployeeFeedback@iris.co.uk with any further comments. Kind regards, the HR team.
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