I would give them half a star if I could. - Anonymous employee Paychex Employee Review

1.0
Feb 22, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

None. This USED to be a good company to work for. It's not anymore. Paychex doesn't care about their employees at all. My particular office has had AT LEAST 14 (that I can think of off the top of my head) Payroll Specialists quit in the last 6 months and we've had 2 supervisors step down. Work load continues to go up with no match in pay. Clients are becoming increasingly nasty, and some of that has to do with constant employee churn. Those of us still working there are expected to put up with the abuse with a smile.

Cons

Everything. Don't work for Paychex. It's not worth it. You will be over worked and under paid. You will be verbally abused by clients while managers act like you could have done something different to have had the call go differently.

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Nothing is good about working here.

Cons

Nobody is ever held accountable. Pay is awful. Benefits were all moved out of state, so all providers in the area are all out of network. Jobs are being moved to India. The list goes on. Sales is the absolute favorite department in the entire company. Nothing sales can do is ever wrong, even when they give false information to clients and then the support team has to deal with the fallback. Don't get me started on Payroll.... the entire department has gone to the wind. I honestly don't know how this company ever did good with payroll services. The #1 complaint i got from every single client I interacted with was they could never get ahold of their Payroll Specialist. The company's response to this was to start making other departments learn payroll duties. This year they moved insurance benefits to a plan out of Arkansas, which made every provider I was already seeing become out of network. I had my first major medical scare of my adulthood and ended up paying a few grand out of pocket because U of R was out of network. Promotions are non existent. They make you apply and interview for any role you want to move into. There is nothing good about working here, and i would advise anyone to stay away from them.

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