Close-minded Executives Behind on the Times - Manager, Product Management UKG Employee Review

1.0
14 Mar 2023
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Pros

Benefits which are being chipped away

Cons

Executive leadership has dictated go to office for all within 50 miles "as the crow fly" regardless of employees being hired as remote. Some employees 20 years working remote being required to go to an office for the first time. There is no empathy for the impact to work/life balance, family, mental or physical health impact. No additional pay to compensate for the new need to commute. Teams working with a global workforce are expected to be flexible, yet the company is not providing flexibility to being in an office. There is a push to reduce labor costs. In addition to offering a volunteer severance to qualified employees, there has been 2 mass layoffs in the last 12 months. Looking at the employees selected for layoffs, it is extremely obvious this was based on pay. When the CEO was asked about layoffs in all-hands, his response was absolutely there would be layoffs and everyone should feel good about that and want layoffs to happen. There is no culture, the company does not live its values, and there is only a focuses on the bottom line. The focus is to present the company as profitable in preparation for the potential sell/IPO. It is no surprise though customers are leaving as they are being impacted by the decisions of poor leadership. There is an extreme lack of direction. Reorganizations happening every 3 months and lend to the inability to have any idea who owns or does what. There is not enough time to understand and learn your role before it is changed again. Leadership dictates we must all to work in an office to be more innovative and deliver quicker being ignorant to the impact of their decisions. When looking at reviews, take into consideration this was two excellent companies that were merged so many of the prior reviews do not reflect the current company.

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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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