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What is TriNet?

TriNet provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR and payroll solutions tailored by industry. TriNet also offers specialized services through client access to HR representatives for advice and notifications on impactful regulatory changes.

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Recent Reviews

TriNet Review

9 out of 10
April 10, 2024
Incentivized
TriNet is our everyday HRIS, payroll and benefits platform. It addresses our issues by keeping everything in one place, making it a …
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TriNet

7 out of 10
March 12, 2024
Payroll, benefits, and compliance in multi-state environment. The product addresses our ability to offer strong benefits to employees and …
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TriNet User

8 out of 10
March 11, 2024
Incentivized
Human Resources - primarily payroll and benefits

Particularly helpful as we have a team comprised of both in-person and remote employees …
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TriNet is a great platform!

8 out of 10
March 06, 2024
We use TriNet for payroll, benefits, and 401k administration. TriNet has been very helpful in easily administering benefits to all …
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It's Been Challenging!

1 out of 10
February 26, 2024
TriNet is our PEO/HRIS system. We use TriNet in almost every aspect of our jobs. We have struggled with TriNet in almost every one of …
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TriNet

8 out of 10
February 22, 2024
Incentivized
PEO Partnership with TriNet. Payroll, HR, Workers Comp, Time & Attendance, benefits, Training, labor law compliance, etc, we are …
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Optimistic for some improvement.

5 out of 10
February 19, 2024
We use TriNet as our PEO with a scope that includes payroll, employee benefits, time-tracking, among other things. The major business …
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Popular Features

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  • View and generate pay and benefit information (641)
    9.1
    91%
  • Update personal information (655)
    8.3
    83%
  • Pay calculation (654)
    8.2
    82%
  • Benefit plan administration (665)
    7.9
    79%

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Pricing

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What is TriNet?

TriNet provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR and payroll solutions tailored by industry. TriNet also offers specialized services through client access to HR representatives for advice and notifications on impactful regulatory changes.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Human Resource Management

Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.

7
Avg 7.8

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

8.1
Avg 8.0

Leave and Attendance Management

Streamlines communication between HR and employees and facilitates efficient management of employee leave including requisitions, approvals, balance calculation, and annual carry-forward.

7
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.

8.1
Avg 8.1

Asset Management

Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.

1
Avg 7.7

HR Reporting

Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.

7.4
Avg 7.6

Onboarding

Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.

8
Avg 8.0

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

6.5
Avg 8.1

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

7.3
Avg 7.9

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

7.2
Avg 7.9

Recruiting / ATS

Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.

6.5
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is TriNet?

TriNet provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR solutions tailored by industry. The vendor aims to free SMBs from HR complexities by offering access to human capital expertise, benefits, risk mitigation and compliance, payroll and real-time technology. From Main Street to Wall Street, TriNet's goal is to empower SMBs to focus on what matters most—growing their business.

TriNet Features

Human Resource Management Features

  • Supported: Employee demographic data
  • Supported: Employment history
  • Supported: Job profiles and administration
  • Supported: Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
  • Supported: Benefits information
  • Supported: Organizational charting
  • Supported: Organization and location management
  • Supported: Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)

Payroll Management Features

  • Supported: Pay calculation
  • Supported: Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
  • Supported: Payroll history for each employee
  • Supported: Benefit plan administration
  • Supported: Direct deposit files
  • Supported: Payroll tracking and auditing
  • Supported: Salary revision and increment management
  • Supported: Reimbursement management

Leave and Attendance Management Features

  • Supported: Approval workflow
  • Supported: Email notifications
  • Supported: Balance details
  • Supported: Annual carry-forward and encashment

Employee Self Service Features

  • Supported: Employee login
  • Supported: View and generate pay and benefit information
  • Supported: Update personal information
  • Supported: Request time off
  • Supported: View job history
  • Supported: View company policy documentation
  • Supported: View company news and information
  • Supported: Employee recognition

HR Reporting Features

  • Supported: Report builder
  • Supported: Pre-built reports
  • Supported: Ability to combine HR data with external data

Integration with other HR capabilities Features

  • Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by same vendor
  • Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by different vendor

Performance Management Features

  • Supported: Performance plans
  • Supported: Performance improvement plans
  • Supported: Review status tracking
  • Supported: Review reminders

Succession Planning Features

  • Supported: Candidate search
  • Supported: Candidate development

Onboarding Features

  • Supported: New hire portal
  • Supported: Manager tracking tools

Performance and Goals Features

  • Supported: Corporate goal setting
  • Supported: Individual goal setting
  • Supported: Line-of sight-visibility
  • Supported: Performance tracking

Recruiting / ATS Features

  • Supported: Job Requisition Management
  • Supported: Publish to Social Media
  • Supported: Job Search Site Posting
  • Supported: Applicant Tracking
  • Supported: Notifications and Alerts

TriNet Competitors

TriNet Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

TriNet provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR and payroll solutions tailored by industry. TriNet also offers specialized services through client access to HR representatives for advice and notifications on impactful regulatory changes.

ADP TotalSource, OASIS, and Insperity are common alternatives for TriNet.

Reviewers rate View and generate pay and benefit information highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of TriNet are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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March 11, 2024

TriNet User

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Human Resources - primarily payroll and benefits

Particularly helpful as we have a team comprised of both in-person and remote employees located across the United States. Our TriNet team has been able to assist with the nuances of each state and offer advice as we develop our operations processes, employee handbook, and benefits offerings.
  • Managing Remote Teams
  • Nuisances of each states legal requirements
  • Ease of payroll processing
  • Reporting
  • Customer support is good, but response times are lacking
  • Dedicated support specialists for smaller organizations
  • Ways to compare benefit offerings - but I also heard this may be coming
TriNet is best suited when your team is a bit larger (over 25 people) with a dedicated person for HR. Small companies may feel like they don't get the support they need and a person new to HR may be overwhelmed trying to find answers or get the necessary support. The features are great, but the support could be improved.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are a small company with under 50 employees. We use TriNet to manage our employees and conduct payroll. It has upped our game in our ability to stay organized, stay up to date with compliance and make sure that our employees are supported and receiving their full benefits. I primarily focus on payroll and it’s been a game changer.
  • Customer support
  • Time card and payroll cohesion
  • Their app
  • Their time card feature can be a bit glitchy. We’ve had numerous employees struggle with it.
  • Their system isn’t always intuitive. Trying to learn a new skill can be time consuming and it’s not always clear what the next step would be. A directory or learning center for processes would be great.
  • The wing is great but we need more challenges!
Costs can be super high and I’ve had situations where we are being charged a large fee for an issue that could have been resolved with better communication. So I just don’t know if I could recommend this to a smaller company as the over head and associated fees would just not be practical.
February 26, 2024

It's Been Challenging!

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
TriNet is our PEO/HRIS system. We use TriNet in almost every aspect of our jobs. We have struggled with TriNet in almost every one of these aspects. We have also had to create extensive work around for many of the processes in TriNet. Over all I would say TriNet has added an extensive amount of admin time on to my teams plates. We also feel that we have to constantly audit the system as it seems to fail at odd time in odd ways. For instance, a team member takes vacation, it shows paid in the system, but their taken balance shows 0. Or even though we set the system up upon implementation to not allow team members to go into the negative on their leave balances, after over a year they still do. When we bring it up, there is no good explanation or it is indicated that it must some how be our fault. We also have issues with response time, the understaffed leave team, the seemingly understaffed tax team, the time and attendance platform, the training platform, the reports and analytics platform, etc.
  • Compliance
  • Non integrated time and attendance platform
  • Final pay - term process
  • Reports and analytics
  • Fees, so many fees
  • No job costing for multiple locations
I feel like I already went over those in the previous questions. I do like how compliant TriNet is, though I think that does seem to be rather self-serving as well. In my opinion, TriNet seems to take a blanket approach to compliance which ends up costing our company more money than is necessary.
Gretchen Crist | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet is an excellent partner for small to medium-sized businesses - 10-250+ employees and a company that cannot invest in experienced HR talent. TriNet is a one-stop shop for all your HR operational needs, such as benefits, payroll, recruiting, compliance, employee training, etc. The model is designed to be self-service. They have significantly improved their 24/7 chatbot feature, which can get you answers to most questions quickly. You do, however, have to be comfortable with not being able to have individually customized benefits and programs for your employees. But, TriNet has an expansive list of benefit program designs and providers, and the overall cost is far more effective than going through a broker. I highly recommend it to small to medium-sized businesses.
  • Extensive variety of benefit program plan designs and partners. Something for everyone.
  • One stop shopping for all health and wellness benefits.
  • Continue to add new offerings, such as access to Salary.com at a discount and access to Carta at a discount to manage employee stock programs.
  • On top of compliance by state.
  • Performance Management program functionality is "clunky" and not customizable.
  • You have to submit a ticket for almost every question or use the chatbot feature. Ticket timing turnaround is 24-36 hours.
  • They will not share all information regarding your employees. For example, your employee has a question about their W-2. TriNet will not share employee W-2s with you.
The level of benefits and cost is very attractive for smaller companies, who normally would not be able to offer "big company benefits" if they had to manage each of these benefits directly with a broker or other. Has been a very position employee acquisition and retention feature for our small company of 50 employees. TriNet is not for you if you prefer to customize all of your employee benefits programs and other offerings. TriNet is one approach, and either you can make it work, or it may not be for you.
Judy Keesecker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Trinet for our payroll processing, Medical and Dental Benefits, 401K, and HR for assistance. I have been with my company for over 4 years and the company has been using Trinet since 2016. The online processing is simple along with the onboarding of new employees. Of all the payroll companies I have used in other jobs this one is simple and straightforward. They answer questions as they arise. Very professional with their clients. Trinet being a PEO company is best to use as the HR laws are cumbersome and keep changing. They have all the tools we need available to use. They take care of the taxes and reporting. Their reports are simple to use and during PPP they had sample reports to use and enter our information. They keep their clients apprised of new laws or changes for HR or Payroll.
  • Payroll processing
  • Communication via email with their clients
  • payroll reports
  • Benefit process
  • onboarding new hire
  • Vacation and sick leave tracking etc
  • To have some reports readily available like SOC
  • Workers comp reporting to have access in the reports
  • Cobra information if former employees opt-in having that information available in the reports section would help
Their platform is simple to use and user-friendly. Administrators have access to employee info which is good. All reports are in the reports section and you can customize the reports to fit your payroll periods and what you want to see on the reports. They have custom reports you can build your own. I have not tried it yet. It can integrate with your accounting software depending on which one you use. Yet it will not work for all clients if they have more than one Chart of account numbers for their payroll in their accounting system. So having that to work for clients on how they break down their payroll in the system would be helpful, for example, expenses. In payroll, it is entered as 1 number, but that one number in the expense report employees submit tends to be broken down to more than one Chart of Account. So that integration with clients' accounting software would not help.
February 12, 2024

TriNet.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet is something I use every day for our company, from processing payroll to updating all employee files. The knowledge center has amazing resources. We have been able to use the handbook wizard to create our company's handbook and make sure it is very comprehensive. The customer support that we have with TriNet is top-notch. They always are available to assist, and if they don't have the answer, they will reach back out to you. I think every company should invest in this platform.
  • Payroll
  • Handbook wizard.
  • excellent customer service.
  • None
TriNet has assisted with the new company handbook for our company, and not only do they have an amazing handbook wizard, but they also provide us with an HR resource agent who is amazing and available whenever I need assistance. We also have a payroll specialist who can assist with all payroll issues as they arise.
February 12, 2024

Thumbs up!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a small business that uses TriNet for payroll and benefits for our employees. TriNet services make labor management both time and cost effective. TriNet offers a number of HR and benefits tools and features including PTO, health insurance, 401(k) plans, life and disability insurance, etc. The onboarding process is simple and allows a smooth transition for new employees to become engaged.
  • Payroll tracking and auditing, salary revision and increment management
  • Benefit synopsis
  • Providing employee and company reports
  • I would love to have one person to contact (account manager per say) that can point me in the right direction with any issue that arises.
  • Provide client notice of any charges/fees in a reasonable timeframe.
For the most part, TriNet has been responsive to our company's needs as a whole. However, there has been times when no response on certain issues have been addressed. I am still waiting for response on a 401K issue from December.
I would love to have hyperlinks for the different departments within TriNet readily available on the dashboard.
February 09, 2024

TriNet is awesome!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Benefits, Payroll, Onboarding/Offboarding, Recruitment, Leaves of Absences.

The business problems that the product addresses are streamlining our organization's operations, as well as ensuring that we are operating at maximum efficiency. TriNet has been a huge help to us in every single way imaginable from an HR perspective. The PEO model is the way to go in my opinion.
  • Recruitment
  • Benefits
  • Payroll
  • Leaves of Absences
  • Onboarding
  • Offboarding
  • Interface
  • Mobile access
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Service
I think that TriNet really adapts to scale. So organizations of any size can utilize it effectively. I think that TriNet will be most effective for small sized businesses, medium sized businesses, and not for profit organizations. The way that TriNet bundles all of its features into one easy to access package is absolutely remarkable.
February 07, 2024

Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Trinet for multiple purposes, for payroll, for time management and for hiring new employees and on boarding them
  • payroll
  • time management
  • HR
  • The staff does not return call on time
  • the time keeping portal glitches a lot
  • the on boarding seems to complicated for some employees
I like that its a one stop shop and you could do everything under one platform. I believe it is very expensive and they don't seem to want to work with the individuals about their payment concerns
January 31, 2024

TriNet Review

Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our primary use is payroll. We are currently evaluating using it for its HRIS features such as; Recruiting, time off, performance management, document management, onboarding/offboarding...
  • Payroll processing is simple
  • Updates to federal/state/local requirements are conveyed to us via email.
  • Access to webinars and training are good.
  • Customer service from dedicated rep - Responses not timely, unclear responses, no follow up or confirmation from rep. Often times I need to follow up several times on emails. My rep has never picked up the phone when I called, or returned messages I've left. Lack of expertise in my opinion.
  • Text and phone support should be available for basic questions and they should have more knowledge so responses are available quickly. For general questions that I chat in or phone customer service about, they will simply create a ticket that goes back to my rep and then I still have to follow up to try and get assistance.
  • Training (such as performance reviews) should be recorded so that we can rewatch them. If there are concerns about changes affecting the info, there should be several disclaimers explaining that this information can change at any time and that it's highly suggested to watch the video within the next month of the recording date, for example.
From my experience, TriNet is not user friendly or intuitive. In many cases, I feel it is not straightforward and there is a lot of red tape to make simple changes. We are often running into situations when we can't get something to work, due to permissions, which need to be adjusted by TriNet. Simple things like changing the name of a location.
October 17, 2023

New To TriNet

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a small startup with a team of around ten employees. TriNet offers incredible support and tools for us to provide to our employees. We are able to get the help we need when we need it. We are also able to understand what is considered competitive in benefit markets. The only downside is the platform is quite expensive compared to others that offer the same or better
  • Benefits
  • Support
  • User-friendly Platform
  • Price
  • not including 401k in the high prices
Prior to me being in my position and managing our TriNet site, the person in my position failed to properly document the relocation of an employee from one state to another. TriNet was very responsive whenever I brought it to their attention to get it handled. However, once they recognised the issue, it took months for the resolution to occur
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as our HRIS, applicant tracking system, payroll provider, benefits broker, and I'm sure some other things that I can't think of off the top of my head! Our headquarters are located in a different country and our team in the US is small, so we have a limited number of employees on each team. I'm an HR department of one, so having the support of TriNet on the administrative side of things has been great so that I can also focus on the strategic side of my job.
  • Responsive support team, chats are answered quickly and the staff on the phone are easy to work with as well.
  • Payroll is easy, I just have to make sure that time off requests are approved in time, but if they're not they are easily added to the next payroll.
  • They make sure that we stay in compliance with all local, state, and federal laws and ordinances.
  • Building reports is not intuitive, especially the filter features. Most of the time I create a report that has way too much information and I have to go through and delete what I don't need.
  • As an HR professional, it's tough not being able to do some things myself - like adjusting PTO hours if needed. Though I understand that many companies using TriNet may not have anyone in HR or people without a lot of experience, so it is ultimately to protect their clients.
If a company has a small or non-existent HR department, TriNet will be useful since they make sure your business is in compliance with federal, state, and local laws. If you don't have someone dedicated to payroll, they handle it and make it really easy. If you have a small team in general, in particular one that has employees in multiple states, it's great to be part of their benefits since you don't have to worry about only getting one expensive option and/or having to do something convoluted in order to make sure that team members in different states have health benefits that work for them. All employees in any state are offered a variety of coverage options and different price points.
October 02, 2023

All-In-One

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Trinet is used by our organization to run payroll for approx. 18 employees. I frequently use the Chat for Admin questions about handling new hires, terminations, pay codes, etc. <br>However, the one key concern that employees have is understanding what benefits are available to them for their state. These information on their specific/unique coverage, premiums, and deductibles should be available and easy to access.
  • Convenience of all in one service for payroll, benefits, HR
  • Payroll entry is easy
  • I-9 verification is convenient
  • Lower Pricing
  • Communication on Benefits
Trinet is well suited for our company because it takes control of the compliance issues I would have to manage if I were not using a PEO.
It might be less appropriate if we wanted to save money and have an in house HR representative while using payroll software to process pay.
September 30, 2023

Happy we switched to TriNet

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use TriNet for our Payroll, HR and Benefits. We are a smaller company, so being able to use TriNet's benefits selection makes it affordable and work for all the employees. TriNet makes the payroll process seamless!! I had an employee tell me the other day "switching to TriNet was the best thing we could have done". So not only do the managers appreciate TriNet and the solutions they offer, but so do the employees.
  • Payroll - Seamless
  • PTO Tracking - Accurate
  • Benefits - Large Selection
  • None at this time
We had an employee that was having a baby, TriNet walked me though the steps needed for Him to take Leave.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We utilize many of the solutions and tools TriNet has to offer. The primary use is to manage payroll, benefits, employee relations and compliance. We leverage forms, policies, library for advice and guidance. We have a great business partners supporting us in payroll and HR needs. The support teams are outstanding as well.
  • All things Payroll related are outstanding!
  • Benefit Tools and Annual Enrollment Process
  • Customer Relationship Manager Partnership
  • Performance Management
  • Talent and Organization Assessment
  • Compliance documentation for onboarding and off-boarding employees
  • HR Support Employee Relations
  • Workflow Management, it's very difficult to correct or pull back something once processed
  • Org Chart Reporting
  • Outstanding Client Relationship Management creates a great partnership which is key to successful relationship
  • Top notch payroll tools, management and support
  • Intuitive and user friendly applications
  • Strategic resources available
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use TriNet to host our payroll, administer all our benefits, and as an HR Consulting tool to navigate new cases within our team.

TriNet helps streamline our processes for onboarding and new employees.

Their workforce analytics tools help us often when we need to pull reports and is very intuitive
  • Their HR consulting is a great resource for our growing company
  • Their customer service is quick and always professional
  • Their onboarding process for new hires and their mobile app makes it easy to navigate
  • Simple reporting. Pulling reports takes a lot to work- the content is great but often have to call to pull a report
  • They need to expand further than the US and Canada
TriNet is great for mid sized companies such as ours. As we continue to grow, it’ll be harder to scale with TriNet.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use TriNet for HR, benefits, reports and payroll. I have called them numerous times about HR concerns, termination, platform support, help with benefits, where to find different reports for data analytics etc. Every time I call the general support line any tech I speak to is so helpful, polite, patient and professional. They know where the items are and walk me through on where to find them or step by step instructions on how to terminate or promote or increase pay. I cannot say enough good things about how easy it is to work with them!
  • Step by step instructions how to do anything in the system.
  • Send follow up emails with additional support information.
  • Set up specific reports needed for our company.
  • The benefits area for choices was hard to navigate and find the information I needed and it took me several calls to understand it all.
I recently had to find out the process of how to terminate myself and explain it to the person who would be taking over my job responsibilities. TriNet walked me through the process using another employee on the system and answered questions all along the way. They made the process intuitive on the system but also easy to understand as they coached me. When I went to explain it to the new employee it was easy for me to explain.
Trevor Davis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use TriNEt in their new platform. Not being a full PEO but rather using their system to manage other vendors and using them for HR , compliance and payroll. We were sold as them being a full PEO but the switched and told us this system was better.
  • Nothing! Seriously, in my experience, there are issues with everything we have..Except for maybe HR help.
  • We've had very limited admin access. In my experience, its takes weeks to solve simple issues. I feel there is no direct problem solving and in my experience, its Always answered by I will get someone to do this. Then the ball is just dropped.
  • In my experience, there is literally nothing that works well . The software looks great, however, you will not even be able to change or update employee info accurately. We loved the sales people and the initial presentation but my experience has been that they cant even onboard well. I believe they have a system that passes people along with information missing in big ways and no one doing their job thoroughly.
  • In my experience, it takes forever to fix issues. I believe they did not onboard our employee's time off correctly. We have weekly meetings addressing this. Had multiple forensic people in our company involved to ensure accuracy and almost a year later I feel they cant input the correct information. Nor do I believe they know how to compute time off correctly or accruals. Still not resolved. We had to do all the math and work for them.
  • Ive never written a bad review and I try to work through issues however I feel this company is a mess. In my experience, this company literally does nothing correct. In my experience, they literally just mailed checks to employees who were off boarded even though that illegal in Ca. Even though we select Direct deposit on the offboarding. I feel nothing is to be trusted in their system.
  • My opinion is I would run far away from this company!! I have no idea how there are any positive reviews as, in my experience, there is not one area they do well for us outside of having a good HR rep.
  • I believe they have created legal liabilities for our company with their inability to function even at the most basic level. We are moving on from them and consulting on how to asses the damage I believe they have caused.
I described multiple issues in the needs improvement sections. In my experience, they are a mess. Id leave a zero if it allowed me to.
July 11, 2023

How TriNet helps

Maria LaDuca | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
They are the company who is our workers comp carrier so they are our payroll company and handle all our payroll and employee information.
  • We do not have to do workers comp audits
  • They pay the payroll taxes
  • Letting us get the w2 at the end of the year so we can give them to the employees instead of waiting until January 31 to put them in the mail our employees do not like to wait that long. It is a stupid issue with this company
  • Like today I could not sign on something is wrong and i need to access the site and i can not and there is no one there to help this sucks I have to wait for some to come in at 9:00 am to help me. Just wrong
  • quit with the diversity bull shit
  • i have an awful time entering a new employee into the system sometimes it takes weeks
  • the connect360 is worthless we should have 1 person who knows about trient and us not 50 million people who know nothing
They do my new employee input only it takes at least 5 days before the new employee is entered into the system but lately it was 2 days which is still too long. Our employees do not want others to know the information and wishes i could do the whole employee thing without going through this people.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our firm utilizes TriNet for HR and payroll. As a small business, TriNet helps us to focus on our clients and employees by ensuring we are operating within current employee and tax regulations.
  • Real-time employee laws, benefits, etc.
  • Simplifies payroll and taxes.
  • Customer relationship.
  • Provides useful and timely resources.
  • Reports and analytics were not user-friendly. However, we're aware of the changes made recently.
TriNet was instrumental in educating our firm at the start, during, and post Covid. We appreciate the effort put forth to keep us well-informed on all matters that affect us as a small business every day.
March 30, 2023

TriNet Review

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we primarily use TriNet for payroll, benefits and retirement (401k). it is also our ATS and HIRS. Its great to have a 1 stop shop for everything. The platform isn't as in-depth as we would sometimes like but we work around that. As an example we have to have custom reports built for us rather than us having the ability to log in and create them ourselves.

Overall the support is great but there are some areas we don't use because we have the service in-house
  • state final pay compliance - we have employees in every state and it is nice to be able to rely on the fact that we are always compliant when people leave
  • Leave administration - I love not having to manage employees leaves
  • VOE - I love that we could give away VOE's. Simply scan and send to TriNet
  • a better ATS - the current functionality is very limited. For an organization our size we more "power". I like to be able to run custom reports from the ATS as an example
  • Reporting - there's a stack of standard reports but we need and want custom
  • stop changing the layout. We don't care about the layout its the content that matters. get rid of the turtles or hippos or whatever they are
  • Manager access. Let us give managers access to their employees info without having access to EVERYONE
  • Be honest. If you cant do something, you cant do it. Let us know so we can make other plans and move on
  • "I'll put a ticket in" = this is where your dreams go to fade away. See above
Its tough to say. Would I recommend it to a company of our size, no. Would I recommend it to a small business, maybe 10 - 50 employees, yes.

Theres no workflow. We can have managers initiate a change it has to be done by us... manually... *yawn*
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the Payroll PEO services for two separate entities. TriNet's PEO platform allowed our companies to save approximately 36% on health insurance costs, which we are then able to reinvest into our employees. We will also be rolling our 401K to TriNet in 2024.<br>TriNet serves as our direct HR department
  • Timely customer service
  • Employee compliance support
  • Great saving on health insurance costs
  • Increase the flexibility of analytic reports
  • Provide better pet insurance options
  • Provide gym membership discounts
TriNet's overall PEO status helps the small and mid-size companies to provide blue ribbon HR services for payroll, health insurance and retirement savings
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet is a one-stop HR partner and wonderful for companies that do not want to stand up an in-house HR generalist function. TriNet takes care of all of the "less fun" aspects of HR, like state registrations and taxes, managing payroll, handling time off, and benefits. I have saved so much time and effort by having TriNet manage all of the innards of HR compliance, and it's even better that they are very responsive. For us TriNet manages: compliance, new hire onboarding, benefits (insurance and 401K), performance management, expense, and time management. The only detriment is that they have purchased quite a few of their additional services (such as performance and expense) and have tacked it onto their platform, so it is managed by a separate "cloud services" team which can have a much longer lag time to resolve issues.
  • HR Compliance
  • Payroll Management
  • Response times
  • Response time for cloud services products
  • Additional help with tricky states compliance (i.e. - Washington)
TriNet is great for companies that do not want to build out a robust internal HR compliance and generalist function. If you already have someone managing state registrations, unemployment, and so on, then TriNet is not the best fit.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a new start-up company back to 2018. TriNet is very helpful to set up payroll, payroll tax filing and deal with some HR matters via their platform. As a result, we don't need to hire full-time employees to take care of payroll and HR. It's cost efficient. Also, TriNet's platform is user-friendly with high standard of cybersecurity. In addition, TriNet is very responsive when we encountered new issues, such as maternity leave policy and process. We stronly recommend TriNet if you are considering of outsourcing payroll and HR to a third-party service provider.
  • Payroll
  • payroll analysis report
  • benefit package
  • to share more market reports related to payroll
When the employee left the company, Trinet can help deal with all employee termination matters with such employee, which saved the employer a great deal of time.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use TriNet as our professional employer organization. We use this product for our HR Management. I can quickly and easily add new employee into the system, make changes and updates, research labor and employment laws and get training.
  • The TriNet representatives are very responsive to my HR questions.
  • I can always get quick answers regarding benefit questions.
  • I can quickly and easily access benefit information when an employee has a question.
  • Reduce the cost of compensation bench marking.
When I call the employee solutions line, I am always able to reach a representative who can quickly answer my HR related questions.
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