UKG reviews

Take two organizations with complimentary products (Ultimate Software and Kronos), squash them together without regard for either company culture, and you have UKG. The company is still struggling to come together as one cohesive org two plus years after its merger. Teams can't agree on which processes to use, technologies to leverage or systems to invest in. On top of that, they have a serious identity crisis and inability to adapt quickly to the changing workforce. Want to work remote? Too bad, we're in the throes of what leadership is calling "return to each other" (seriously, RTEO). Why? Because we...umm.."we just work better when we're together." Huh? We all worked remotely for two years and the company hit its numbers. Baby boomer leadership is desperately trying to get workers to be in person so that we can drive to the office, sit in a cube, and join Zoom/Teams calls all day. UKG's tagline is "Our Purpose is People." The irony is that UKG does not listen to what it's own people want: innovation, flexibility, and autonomy. Not an early 2000's grayscape office with pool tables and pizza partys. That's not culture. That's a prison.

I see lots of reviews from legacy Ultimate folks saying Kronos reaped the benefits of the merger. Total misperception. Legacy employees from both sides feel their once-great culture had been lost. Several new upper level leaders hired within the last 9 months are destroying our culture in EPIC. Condescending, arrogant, view people as cogs in a machine. Doing a terrible job supporting people through change at a time when retaining talent is more crucial than ever. I feel like I work for a different company under these leaders. I've never been treated with so much disrespect or been made to feel so insignificant in my career. We are taking a giant step backwards and may never recover. All our marketing about how much we value people is hypocrisy. Trust in upper management is irrevocably broken.