AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COSTS - Sales Paychex Employee Review

1.0
4 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You will be lied to about the pros

Cons

You are better off not having a job than working here. Micromanagement and turnover are beyond anything you have seen before. This place is a hostile workplace. Certain favorites are given big advantages and the rest are scolded and treated like children. Quotas are way higher than you will ever hit unless you are one of the handful of reps being given favors. Fear and punishment are used to "motivate" you. Very few hit quota and at least a third of the reps are on some kind of PIP. Even new reps who have only worked a few months are put on performance plans because they are expected to meet impossible metrics and goals. The customers you call are angry because Paychex has harassed them to the point of needing a restraining order. You will be very much mislead about the "OTE" . Recent big layoffs show that their business model is broken and the company is in trouble. Stay far away.

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Cons

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1.0
1 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nothing is good about working here.

Cons

Nobody is ever held accountable. Pay is awful. Benefits were all moved out of state, so all providers in the area are all out of network. Jobs are being moved to India. The list goes on. Sales is the absolute favorite department in the entire company. Nothing sales can do is ever wrong, even when they give false information to clients and then the support team has to deal with the fallback. Don't get me started on Payroll.... the entire department has gone to the wind. I honestly don't know how this company ever did good with payroll services. The #1 complaint i got from every single client I interacted with was they could never get ahold of their Payroll Specialist. The company's response to this was to start making other departments learn payroll duties. This year they moved insurance benefits to a plan out of Arkansas, which made every provider I was already seeing become out of network. I had my first major medical scare of my adulthood and ended up paying a few grand out of pocket because U of R was out of network. Promotions are non existent. They make you apply and interview for any role you want to move into. There is nothing good about working here, and i would advise anyone to stay away from them.

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