Everything that glitters is not gold - Project Manager UKG Employee Review

I can only speak from the experience of what things have been like shifting from Kronos to what is now UKG. I have heard similar sentiments from those that came from Ultimate as well and with the state of things currently, there is a drastic shift in culture. The company boasts “people first” and high scores among its employees and the public in publications like “Greatest Place To Work” but the reality is that an influx of layers of new, outside C-suite officers with impressive resumes are pushing out legacy management and with them leaving, the culture of the company is being destroyed. Management is speaking out of both sides of their mouth, saying they are shifting things so that people end up being able to take time off (after YEARS of intense merger related work) while asking for aggressive timelines and creating high turnover. The employees are TIRED and there is no trust in the current climate as there are constantly conflicting messages of saying one thing and doing another. A new title framework was set up as part of the merger to align two companies into one and we were told the money would follow. It has not. Bonus plans have been reduced and managers that are close to the employees now have very limited power. Older legacy employees are being pushed out with “early retirement” incentives but managers aren’t allowed to backfill their positions and there are talks of possible layoffs in the future. But while the resources have been reduced, the work certainly has not been. Employees are working super long hours with no ability to take decent vacation time and just recently, employees were informed that all remote work statuses were being revoked in some departments with others likely to follow suit and employees have 4 weeks to essentially figure it out with no manager discretion allowed. This includes people who were hired as remote employees, people who changed to remote (formally) and then moved who are now being told they need to move back to wherever their home office is, and people with children or other family situations that have caused them to be remote. Rather than coming up with individualized plans based on employee situations and allowing their direct managers to have input into what works, a blanket statement has been made and many employees are burnt out and extremely angry. (I must add that many of the employees that this affects work with global teams, so going into their home offices in many cases means they will be sitting at a desk on phone calls all day with their teams regardless of where they are) Unfortunately, this company that really started out as something special - a diamond in the rough - has now become just another story of a corporation piloted by greed and the push to go public and caring very little about the people.