Kelly reviews

3.6

71% would recommend to a friend

(6,844 total reviews)
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Chris Layden

81% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Kelly has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 6,844 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kelly employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human Resources & Staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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7K reviews
2.0
Jul 29, 2021

Stressful

Recommend
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Pros

-had full time hours -work from home job -opportunities to advance -application process was short -they provide equipment needed -weekly and reliable pay -not enough training for some

Cons

I had to leave due to my mental health. Even though it is said to be a technical support role, it is more customer service than anything. The customers you deal with sometimes can be so rude, which is understandable that you would encounter that in a customer support role, but the difference is that if the customer is unsatisfied with the resolution, or Apple products, or just "feel like it" they leave you a negative review and you are blamed for it. Your chats will be examined to see where you went wrong even if you did the best you could to help resolve the issue. It is metric based and even though I had met the required metrics and had good performance, the way I was always examined to see what I could have done better gave me severe anxiety when having to clock in for work and at weekly coaching and meetings. This job is more a way to get the customer to be satisfied enough to leave you a good review, even if you don't even resolve the issue at all. You are required to take on additional responsibilities and go through additional training, as it is mandatory now and do not get a raise or adjusted metric requirements. Training and pay are not long enough for the amount of expectations that are required 3 chat concurrency. How is it possible to maintain all positive reviews, reply to each of the 3 customers within 2 minutes, switching from application to application, doing research, record the case accurately, and all do so without changing the required goal? There is no good way to support customers with 3 chats and then you get negative reviews and your performance suffers. They want us to have the personality of humans but be as efficient as robots. Technical issues or issues that are beyond your control such as weather or outages will be counted against you. This job will take a toll on you and burn you out. Good for starting out but recommend finding something else if you want a rewarding and fulfilling job

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Kelly Response
4y
We welcome all feedback and suggestions on how and where we can improve.
2.0
Sep 1, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Polished cold calling skills. Received pay checks on time. Met some nice people.

Cons

Turnover in sales is very, very high. Staffing sales is a great way to learn sales skills if it doesn't make you go insane. My experience with Kelly Scientific was horrible on a local level in Minnesota. I reported to a "Team Lead" who drew the territory lines with a skew in his favor. He also liked to pit team members against each other and created drama. He would say one thing one day and then another a different day. I have no idea how the man has this job - I've since met 3 other people who had the exact same experience as me and now we're all friends. With the number of people in the Twin Cities, do the math on the odds of the four of us having an experience so bad that it brought us together. Upper management did nothing to help when I asked them to. I think they're so focused on numbers they just don't care - add to that it seems people advance in the company simply by not quitting, regardless of leadership skills - or lack thereof in my "leader's" case. It's a dumpster fire.

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Kelly Response
6y
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. We review all of the feedback we receive in order to help evaluate our structure and processes. We take your concerns seriously and continually strive to do better.
1.0
May 24, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Easy to get hired in

Cons

They will let anyone go, on a whim. People who have been there 30 years. People who have helped build their systems. People who work hard and are good at their jobs. Doesn't matter. Everyone is expendable. And, no, I actually was not let go. I left on my own after watching them decimate whole departments.

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Kelly Response
7y
Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
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