Paylocity - The Good The Bad The Ugly

I am the HR Generalist and I use Paylocity daily for employee/manager information. In the fall of 2024 I set up and released our Performance Evaluations through Paylocity and in March of this year I used the Events application to launch the acknowledgement of our updated Personnel Handbook. All of our payroll functions are completed through Paylocity, on the HR side is where we do pay raises, status and position changes, and monitor position certifications/licensure as well.

There are still some aspects in Paylocity that are HR intensive, I am learning. I believe most of this is on us and what I see as inconsistent training of managers. I am still trying to learn those processes to help improve upon them. I have been with the company for 9 months and there is just much to learn about the organization itself. I would love to see the Knowledge Base articles updated to the current version so when I can count on sending them to the Knowledge Base for help. Right now, I go through the process and screen shot along the way to offer 'self-help' on how the screens actually look.

This January I started using the Community section to announce our employee recognition awards each month. I am finding that has helped increase the number of recognitions being completed by staff. In March, I launched an event to announce and acknowledge our updated Personnel Handbook and am struggling to get staff to complete this 3-minute task. I have reset far too many passwords because people are not using Paylocity as we would like. I am working with my HR Director on how we can increase awareness of the value of information contained in Paylocity. I am discussing the information contained in the platform during New Employee Orientation each month for new hires, but need to find a way to capture our existing employees.