Not a great option for performance - look elsewhere
January 26, 2024

Not a great option for performance - look elsewhere

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • HR, Benefits Administration & ACA

Overall Satisfaction with Paycor

The biggest use of it is for semi-annual reviews. Each half, the full team is required to write personal assessments and then their boss can also use the tool to write their reflections. They can then talk and discuss what they each said.

It's organization wide.

There are technically things like meetings scheduling functionality, entering of goals and cascading them, etc. - but these aren't used.
  • Reminders
  • Side-by side comparison on reviews
  • More flexible goals
  • Employee disatisfaction
  • Marginal at best improvement on team efficiency in completing reviews
I’m not in HR or don’t handle payroll.
Features are lacking. Very hard to find things in their UI (universally true - team regularly complains about these). Reminders are the only thing that work well (get lots of them) but then you go into the platform and have to hunt down what you're looking for (and it's not always obvious you get it right)

Do you think Paycor delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Paycor's feature set?

No

Did Paycor live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Paycor go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Paycor again?

No

It gets the job done, technically - it records feedback from you and your boss and allows you to share that at a specific time.

But the experience is awful. You can't see your answers next to one another, so you have to constantly flip back and forth to have the conversation. Because the goals are so inflexible, you end up keeping them outside of the system, so you can't really see if folks are performing to goals or not in the same system you're reviewing them, even though it tries to show them together - so someone can be performing well, but it looks like they aren't because you are forced to track goals outside of the platform but they include them inside.

Paycor Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
Not Rated
Employment history
Not Rated
Job profiles and administration
Not Rated
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
Not Rated
Organizational charting
Not Rated
Organization and location management
Not Rated
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Not Rated
Pay calculation
Not Rated
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
Salary revision and increment management
Not Rated
Reimbursement management
Not Rated
Approval workflow
Not Rated
Balance details
Not Rated
Annual carry-forward and encashment
Not Rated
View and generate pay and benefit information
Not Rated
Update personal information
Not Rated
View job history
Not Rated
View company policy documentation
Not Rated
Employee recognition
Not Rated
Tracking of all physical assets
Not Rated
Not Rated
Report builder
Not Rated
Pre-built reports
Not Rated
Ability to combine HR data with external data
Not Rated
Performance plans
3
Performance improvement plans
3
Review status tracking
3
Review reminders
7
Multiple review frequency
7
Candidate ranking
Not Rated
Candidate search
Not Rated
Not Rated
New hire portal
Not Rated
Manager tracking tools
Not Rated
Corporate goal setting
2
Individual goal setting
1
Line-of sight-visibility
3
Performance tracking
1
Job Requisition Management
Not Rated
Company Website Posting
Not Rated
Publish to Social Media
Not Rated
Job Search Site Posting
Not Rated
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Not Rated
Applicant Tracking
Not Rated
Notifications and Alerts
Not Rated