Paychex reviews

3.1

45% would recommend to a friend

(5,996 total reviews)
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John Gibson

47% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Paychex has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 5,996 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Paychex employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Nov 23, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Substantial training, good name recognition, understanding and lenient with rookies, national call center assists with appointment setting. This is a company you can move up in, especially if you are willing to relocate.

Cons

Highly reactive at the corporate level and makes sweeping changes under duress from their stockholders without any consideration for the impact on the staff (and even more notably, the client). Service is plummeting, they keep adding sales divisions to add to their bottom line, but bombard every new customer with endless sales calls. Impossible to get current client referrals because nobody wants to put their friends in a position to get hammered by telemarketers. Accountants don’t want to refer Paychex because we poach their wealth management, and brokerage partnerships. The core sales division is getting virtualized and segmented into smaller market spaces, but asked to deliver more new clients year over year. The culture is disintegrating around us and we all want our managers to win, because they are generally good, but they have no shot at quota when the sales team members are abandoning ship before they drown. Help

2.0
Sep 15, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great coworkers, 40 hour week guaranteed, PTO

Cons

Underpaid, overworked, changes made by management will usually make your day harder instead of easier and they will combine departments so your doing 2 people's work without a raise

2.0
Aug 10, 2017

How this place is still rated so well is beyond me...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent health insurance and 401(k) matching. Allowed to work from home if you work for the "right" manager. One paid volunteer day per year.

Cons

Shady management and HR practices. Downsizing occurs and is rarely, if ever, in the media. Employees are switched back and fourth between exempt and non-exempt frequently for the same job title and role because HR doesn't know what they're doing or what you're doing as an employee. For an HR and payroll company, that's just sad. If you're on FMLA or have ADA accommodations more than a year or two, be ready for your manager and HR to do everything they possibly can do to get you to quit. I have no idea in the world how this company is rated one of the most ethical companies by Ethisphere magazine year after year because it is the most single unethical company I ever worked for (and I worked there for years). This company is going down the tubes. I would not recommend even applying here. It was great at one time. Not anymore. Not even a shadow of what it once used to be. Sad.

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