Beware the fake positive reviews - Consultant UKG Employee Review

1.0
6 Feb 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

People are generally very nice within your business unit (not the case outside of it however)

Cons

-BEWARE Kronos pads the glassdoor reviews with fake positives. Just read through them and you will see cliche comments like "Great place for millenials!" Millenials don't call themselves millenials. "Great work life balance" with no other information. It is very obvious to those that work here that many of these are false. -Different departments have more animosity between each other than actual competitors. -Kronos is showing its age. Having lots of trouble branching into the cloud market, and the only reason they can report profits is due to OTHER companies (partners) doing better than Kronos at its own process. -Executive management could not look at data and give you an accurate decision on what a productive employee looks like and what an unproductive employee looks like. -Kronos spends so much money promoting how it wins work awards (again look back to fake reviews on glassdoor as well as other vehicles.) when they could ACTUALLY have happy employees if that money was invested into them instead of a FAKE image of being a good place to work. -Plain and simple the organization is top heavy with all of the value coming out of the lowliest positions. On one hand rewarding years of service is nice, but not if the older populations in Kronos cannot keep up with the changes. The amount of work to reward of those just joining the company is bad. If you have been here forever and have the "cant fire me" years of tenure, then you can ride this cushy raft to retirement with little to no work. - Kronos introduced MY TIME. You no longer accrue any time off like PTO or vacation. It was sold to the employees as INFITE TIME OFF YOU CAN USE WHENEVER. What it actually is is time off where if you are a low performer, your boss won't let you take time off. If you are a high performer your boss DEFINATELY won't let you take time off as you will hurt your bosses metrics by not outputting while on vacation. Many Kronos jobs are billable hours and taking time off actively NUKES your utilization. You no longer get paid out for benefits (the real reason Kronos introduced this). All studies prove implementing this type of time off DRASTICALLY lowers the amount of time employees take off. You can no longer say "I am entitled to x hours" as you don't actually have x hours.

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1.0
25 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There was once a great company named Ultimate Software, it was destroyed by a hostile takeover from H&F, a private equity firm, and a merger with Kronos to become UKG. There are very few Pros since that time.

Cons

When this company was Ultimate Software, prior to the takeover from H&F and the merger with Kronos, it was a world class company with top shelf people. The company Motto was "People First" and they truly lived by that motto, never a layoff, great working environment and stealer benefits. Since the takeover and subsequent merger with Kronos, to become UKG this company has taken a path of "Money First", which is understandable given the greedy nature of Private Equity Firms like H&F. They have systematically closed most of the offices across the US and have been expanding their footprint in Noida India, for obvious reasons. The leadership that has been put in place by H&F is clearly focused on IPO. And we all know what that means, clean up the books and make the company look as good on paper as possible. Can you say "Lipstick on a Pig". This was once a great company when it was run by Scott and Viv but now it has gone the way of the Private Equity management and is heading for a great fall.

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