Worst company ever - HR Business Partner Paychex Employee Review

1.0
Sep 7, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Paychex used to be a great place to work. They used to care about their people which translated to their people caring for Paychex clients. Since Gibson took over, things went downhill fast.

Cons

No work/life balance anymore. Leadership changes KPIs every three months which makes it extremely hard for employees to meet it. And even the employees who exceed their metrics still don’t get a good rating on their performance review, because they don’t want to give us a good merit increase. More money for us equals less money for Gibson’s 7 million dollar bonus. Offshoring so many departments to India has severely compromised quality and service. Clients are constantly upset, payroll errors are frequent, health and benefits are constantly understaffed so errors in that department is also common. Paychex clients leaving at record rates, causing sales to use questionable and unethical tactics to trick clients into joining more expensive bundles. Client threats to sue Paychex are common. About a year ago they started recording all of our calls and our screens and using AI to rate the quality of our calls with clients, which compromises the confidential information that our clients share with us, and further micromanages employees. We are not trusted but we are expected to trust Paychex. We are micromanaged, undervalued, overworked. Please avoid this $h!th0le at all costs.

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5.0
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Pros

- Sales training - Team support - Goal oriented work

Cons

Day to day misaligned with company values

1.0
Jun 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

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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