Zayo reviews

Zayo allows room for creative ideas and listens to all staff before implementing new process. Zayo challenges their employees to be more autonomous and innovative with their individual roles as well as on a company wide scale. It is a company which pushes hard and expects positive results. However, Zayo is great at compensating people who go above and beyond their expectations. Zayo is lightyears ahead of its competition; keeping on par with technology advancements and industry shifts.

Like many Zayoites, I came here from another telecom down the pike. Not for salary - they paid me more. Not for benefits - theirs were better. I liked and was liked by most everyone I worked with. Nor was it for a chance to get rich quick - I forgot about that after 2002. I was bored and felt that every day my skills that were unused at the other place were going stale and rusty. And nobody particularly cared that I wasn't being utilized well. That is not the case at Zayo. I am doing what I love and people want more of what I do. I feel like I am part of a team of creative,innovative people pushing themselves to do well. Maybe, as some say, the ownership shares will turn out to be illusion. But they are a sounder investment than any 401K plan - they are an investment in me and my teammates. They enable us to think as owners of the company and focus on being profitable at the lowest levels to which we can drive that measure. I'm not fond of venture capitalists. Their insatiable greed pillages the economy, I feel. But what Dan Caruso and his team are doing is something different. We are showing that it doesn't take magic to get good returns on investment -- it takes running a business as a business, measuring what counts and then running from the measures. Do we work hard? Darn straight. Is there a whip at our backs or a carrot in front of us? Not so much either: We at Zayo largely work hard because it is fun and exciting to do so. Beats sitting around doing nothing, at any wage.