Destroyed legacy - Manager UKG Employee Review

2.0
8 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Healthcare fully paid. UPTO, 401k match 45%.

Cons

Misdiagnosed problems leading to awful decision making by upper management. This is going to be management textbooks on what not to do in the future. You took 2 great companies, botched the merger by trying to pretend like it didnt happen at first and nothing would change. Then you got rid of all the leadership on 1 side of the merger (Ultimate Software), which by the way fostered the culture to create a top 5 company to work for consistently over many years. Then you put blame on the employees for things moving too slowly 3 years later. Forced RTO will not solve the problems, because the source of the problem is not working from home. The problem is attrition, the problem is loss of legacy knowledge, the problem is reliance on contractors to make up for not enough internal resources, I can keep going if I had all day to write this. Everyone seems to know this except for the new leadership making the decisions. Our culture sucks now because we dont trust leadership to make the right decisions in their ivory towers anymore, plain and simple.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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