Kelly reviews

3.6

70% would recommend to a friend

(6,841 total reviews)
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Chris Layden

80% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Kelly has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 6,841 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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1.0
Apr 22, 2014

Horrible administrative

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Pros

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Cons

We're to begin. First off I was contacted by a recruiter for a scientific position in Colorado . I came and interviewed for the position and got the job. The job would not start for 2 weeks. So the day before the job starts I call to make sure everything is in order (after two weeks of waiting mind you). I am informed that I need to go take a drug test and then drive to another city to sign some papers with Kelly in order to start my job the NEXT day. This is a major inconvenience for me because it required rearranging my day to rush around performing these tasks which could have easily been done had they informed me of these things prior to the day before. So inconvenienced...but not the end of the world, just not impressed with the lack of effort and communicationnon their part. First week, no communication as to how I'm supposed to fill out a time card to report my hours and get paid. So again I contact them my first day, and I'm told to sign up for their online "timecard". Which I attempt to do, the system does not recognize me and I can't sign up. I inform them if this and they tell me to wait a couple days for the system to kick in and allow me to sign up. Couple days later all no access to the timesheet I'm supposed to use to get paid. Finally someone looks into it and they had my start date off by a couple weeks which was preventing me from signing up and enduring the hours I had already been working. A couple days later this is resolved I'm their system. Again another inconvenience but very lazy and super unprofessional on their behalf. So payday comes around, and of course....no money shows up in my direct deposit account. Maybe I don't get paid yet? Again another round of emails to figure out that the first check is being mailed. Check received!! Now the real issue... the rate of pay is not the same as what I was told and agreed to. It's $2+/hr less than what I was told (luckily I have an email stating the rate of pay). Now this is a real issue, seems illegal? This is not yet resolved but if this isn't resolved I will be seeing legal council for essentially breaking a contract and not telling me. The moral of this story, STAY AWAY from this company! And if you do have to work for them, pay attention...because they won't. Basically expect to do their job and your job....but only get paid for part of your job. Not cool Kelly scientific.

1.0
Sep 15, 2023
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Pros

I can’t think of anything

Cons

I work as a part time Interpreter with a real bad company called Language line Solutions thru Kelly temporary services. First of all, they treated employees as their were children well worst. They super “micromanaged” you to death, VERY LOW PAY, unprofessional, unethical not worth the aggravation. The were constantly doing their nasty “consultation “ just to point very “negative” it was absolutely disgraceful to say the least. They enjoyed humiliating you and they were backed by Kelley who could care or less about the employees. I will NOT RECOMMEND this two companies to anyone…FIND A COMPANY THAT WILL RESPECT YOU…don’t waste your time and effort with these two….👎👎👎👎if I could give a zero star I would.

2.0
Dec 14, 2022

Horrible beware!

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Pros

Work from home but you pay for internet, headphones and all supplies.

Cons

Terrible management at Kelly services they don’t care for employees only for clients like Language Line Solutions, Pacific Interpreters and Quantel who are the same company with terrible software and incompetent IT support. It’s a sweat shop model, they work you like a robot for a minimal pay. They offer worthless benefits or no existing PTO.

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