I've always liked working at Paycom but something has changed in how we do things that makes me nervous about our future. It feels like we've lost touch with a lot of our values. We've stopped prioritizing our people and prioritize investors. Decisions seem to be made with no prep or research. If there is it's not shared with employees. WFH: While many departments were told that we would come back to office after the pandemic, there were plenty of departments like QA and Dev that were hired on with the promise it would be permanent. Many departments do work better in person but the lack of flexibility is outdated. We are losing good employees to companies not as strong as Paycom just because they allow WFH options. If my kid is sick and sleeping the whole day I dont need to take PTO for that. If i could just work from home i can get my work done and not take PTO hours and still keep an eye on my kid. In the past, it seemed like we were trendsetters in the industry. Now it feels like we are falling behind because we're so determined to stick to our guns. We've been told Chad doesn't even want to hear feedback about working from home even though its a major reason for turnover. If we offered WFH flexibility it would increase morale and people would feel more trusted. If we allowed WFH permanently workload issues in many departments would go down. There are only so many good candidates in OKC. The market in Dallas is larger but the DFW office's training, leadership training and culture are not as strong as OKC so that market hasn't shown as much value as it could. Half of our company is annexed to a rundown office building across town. It's old, confusing because youonly use certain doors and has sewage issues. If we work better together, why are they separated? We're still having meetings with them over Zoom so they are still working remotely in a gross building. They are not even allowed to HQ for events meant to build our culture. We have conflicting narratives that don't make sense. Global Expansion: Growing as a company and trying to keep up with our success is okay but expanding globally is a whole other issue that we don't have to have. Why can't we just be successful in one country at a time? Expanding in North America is still impressive. It seemed like we just decided to go global one day and have been winging it since. Offering products in countries where we have no offices or representatives on the ground or background is just going to hurt us and make it seem like we dont know what we're doing. Every time we ask for updates on it it feels like no one knows what is going on. Internal Mobility: We offer transfers to other departments but it feels like there is no partnership when we do. When brand new departments with large salaries pop up they are poaching people knowing they can't pass up a huge raise. While it's great for those other departments, it leaves the rest of struggling to retain. Money isn't everything but its enough to keep people patient for change. Eddie's catering is so bad. I don't even talk about our catered lunches as a benefit anymore
