A wolf in sheep’s clothing - Anonymous employee Kforce Employee Review

1.0
17 Dec 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

People within your team can be great, as you’re all ‘in it together’. Since regularly pitted against each other by management, you bond quickly to survive.

Cons

It’s essentially online door-to-door sales and stalking of anybody who works with the company they have set their eyes on...for you You’ll be given unrealistic targets and expected to hound any and everybody who’s associated with them. What’s worst, management caves to pressure from above far too often, so is only concerned about the bottom line. While the ‘Kforce’ family is promoted incessantly, it all goes out the window as soon as you aren’t producing. There’s a lack of instruction and over reliance on canned, pre-packaged training. Management meets for regular gossip sessions and their are daily meetings to call out employees in front of each other & for you to recap and receive criticism for every detail of your previous day. It’s belittling at best, even for those that are selling regularly. Unless you’re coming right out of college and have few prospects in your given field, stay away. This is burnout defined.

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Kforce Response
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I’m sorry to hear about your experience with us, as it does not match our intentions for our employee experience. I would welcome the opportunity to directly discuss and better understand your comments. Please reach out to me at jschwaller@kforce.com. - Jessica Schwaller, HR Director

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