Paylocity reviews

Since the CEO change, the company has shifted away from being employee-focused and now prioritizes shareholders above all else. Morale has suffered, leadership diversity has disappeared, and the culture of inclusion that once existed has been replaced with sexism and favoritism. Career growth feels stalled, and leadership no longer invests in the people who keep the business running. On the day-to-day level, most of the work revolves around escalations that should have been handled by other teams. Employees spend more time firefighting than building, while leadership pushes meaningless metrics that don’t improve the product or client experience. Product roadmaps are frequently derailed by executive meddling, and instead of listening to PMs or frontline staff, leadership shifts blame when things go wrong. Processes are reactive, workloads are unsustainable, and stress is constant. Career advancement is nearly impossible. I spent three years asking for a promotion and was met with constant excuses: “we’re changing how we do it,” “it’s not in the budget,” or worst of all, being denied because leadership ignored my recommendations on a major launch, which later failed for the exact reasons I had raised. This was even acknowledged in a retro, yet I was held responsible for their decision. Employee feedback is consistently ignored. Internal surveys rarely result in meaningful changes, and generic Glassdoor responses encouraging staff to “talk to HR” are just corporate PR. I have, and HR’s only priority is protecting the company. Meanwhile, employees have lost benefits and flexibility year over year: - a forced return-to-office - the loss of our tech conference - the removal of on-sites - elimination of the rewards and recognition program - reduced or eliminated RSUs causing compensation cuts as high as 30-40% in some roles - raises do not keep pace with inflation - flex shifts have been eliminated Yet the CEO and C-suite continue to award themselves significant increases.

Barely able to make your bills with the current state of inflation and they refuse to do COL increases. They intentionally make pay transparency confusing so you don’t realize until too late that the base bay is for below the market average. But they constantly brag about their revenue successes and how we have records broken all the time but they don’t share that wealth with everyone else. Managers are amazing but they have very little control over trying to get you real raises. I am the hardest worker on every team and am told on every single one that I am the most valued employee due to my work ethic but am rewarded with more work rather than pay. It’s better to leave Paylocity to get the raise needed than stay and hope. They make changes for reasons they lie about. Like implementing salesforce for implementation emails instead of outlook because outlook doesn’t have reporting. Yes it does. We get reports every week with our ‘Digest’ that shows trends of emails.. but by implementing salesforce we lose basic email functionality like putting a priority flag on an email or delaying an email or being able to have our own personalized templates. We lose basic notifications! Emails should be the easiest part of the job and they are making it so much harder. They I increase our workloads by having a TON of manual processes for the internal partners so adding on frustration with emails was a very bold (stupid) decision. C suite employees are so drastically disconnected from the reality of what the basic worker is dealing with it’s truly egregious.