Payroll, the worst company you will ever work for! - Payroll Specialist Sage Employee Review

2.0
2 Aug 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people are great. Benefits are decent. PTO is great.

Cons

Worst computer processing system I've ever used. If you enjoy working more then eight hours on a Wednesday this is the job for you. You are expected to wait for payrolls to run on the heaviest processing day of the week, could take up to four hours for one payroll to run. No training, have to rely on co-workers. I honestly feel the Mt Laurel division will close. They won't admit to it, but the writing is on the wall. You'll be sorry if you take a payroll processing position.

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Sage Response
8y
Thank you for your review. Pleasing to read the PTO and benefits worked well for you when you were at Sage. Couldn't agree with you more that our people are fantastic. We do have training for our payroll teams in NAM plus lots of other development available on Linda.com which is found via the Sage Academy. Well done for working in a tough environment - payroll. In any company payroll tends to have high volume processing days, it's the nature of the business. We have no plans at all to close the Mt. Laurel offices. Thanks again for your feedback.

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Sage Response
1w
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re sorry to hear about the challenges you’ve described around leadership continuity, targets, growth, and ways of working. We recognise the impact that stability, clear accountability, and achievable goals can have on the day-to-day experience of our colleagues, particularly within sales and customer-facing roles. We shall share your feedback with leaders for their visibility as we continue to evolve how we support our teams to truly thrive at work. If you have any additional insights to share, please leave us more feedback via our internal Always Listening forum or through your manager. Thank you again for sharing your perspective.
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