Way over their heads. - Manager UKG Employee Review

2.0
Dec 19, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

No body else will hire you. Your love of timeclocks. Kronos is a steady employer. The problem is that they do not offer a pay for performance environment so the longer you stay the less you get paid in real dollars if you are an overachiever.

Cons

Poor pay. Cronyism. Execs out of touch with reality.Senior management has no formal business training and has botched one acquisition after the next. It is not the acquisition, but the follow through that leads to success. They are too tied to their past success in selling clocks to make any progress since they fear losing out to new ways of thinking.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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