-Unfair compensation. Pay increases have been minimal at best. Over 5 and half years my pay has only increase by 2 dollars per hour. There are definitely other payroll companies that are more aggressive and competitive with wages.
-Micromanagement, while better than most companies, has become much more prevalent during the time paycor has become public. Prior to their IPO they were the least micro managing company I had ever worked for, since then, they have put in a slew of new measurement systems that grade you for things you feel are irrelevant to your actual role.
-Your manager might have no experience with your actual role, and is there to solely manage activity and your measurement goals that they set out for the department and you, This makes it difficult, not only due to lack of relatability to your role, but also due to lack of leadership/knowledge with questions and concerns that might arise to your actual role.
-Over-time has been scaled back quite a bit. Before it was highly acceptable and expected quite often, now it's highly frowned upon unless there is a serious reason why you are working over.
-Cross department communication is severely lacking on good days, and non existent on bad days. It often feels like the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is ultimately doing at times, which can make things difficult when clients come out of implementation needing multiple fixes and repairs to there account and expect you to spear head all of the fixes
-You definitely feel like you are tackling a lot of different projects at times just due to the nature of the job, and while the best days feel like a walk on the beach, the worst days can definitely make you want to pull your hair out and walk away.
-Year end during early December is a black out period that last thru the beginning of December until beginning of February. Meaning no pto can be used, and any time off taken is extremely frowned upon.
These few months are easily the hardest most challenging times at paycor, and what will ultimately make or break you. Volume is extremely high during these times and there is a lot of pressure that will be applied to you during this period by senior management.
If you are accepting of no holiday vacations during your tenure with Paycor, and are able to push thru the busyness of year end, then everything afterwards feels like the, "calm after the storm".
