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I will admit that Workbox at first seems like a great organization. They do a good job to promote their image by helping in the local communities and promote a sense that you are apart of the family when you join them. However, this honeymoon does not last long. You get thrown into the mix with very poor training. They rely on workers to help train you at first which almost always is tough because they already have so much on their plate. When you do get formally trained, it is very poorly done and again lacks most of the knowledge and tools you ACTUALLY need. I can say that in the daily life, the branch managers and regional managers as well as the recruiters and account managers are some of the NICEST people you will meet. They truly make every moment great. The issues arrise with upper management. They do such a poor job of handling and addressing issues. They will let issues pile on and then finally address them and make either you or the team feel dumb for not fixing the issues when they were aware of the problem but lacked either the professionalism or guts to let anyone know. They hope that problems will resolve themselves rather than fixing the issue. A major part of this is because there is no real HR team. Upper management lacks the skills and knowledge to coach and train and fix problems, so they try their best which leads to upset employees. The other issue with upper management is they do very little work and try to promote the brand, and push so much responsibility on the entry level and lower tier workers. I cannot tell you how many times they forced overtime to hit certain quotas while I would watch them come in late and leave early. Kind of messed up to set high goals but yet they can choose to do what they want and barely work. If your position does not have the words "Director, President, or Chief" in it, you are going to be in for a ride because any and all issues will fall on them because the people with these titles rely on you to do everything. Also, aside from maybe 1 or 2 devoted members of upper management, the rest of them spend maybe 15-30 hours total in the office every week because they feel as if they do not have to work as hard as their employees. This company is also VERY fond of nepotism. If you look around and see how many people there are related somehow some way, you won't be shocked to see which people have ultimate job security despite barely working or being less qualified than non family members. Overall, Workbox looks like the poster child of a great small brand that has a huge impact in the community and helps to change lives. However, once you get in to work for Workbox, you better hope you are doing exactly what they want or else you will be treated like dirt.


The company has a great senior leadership team that is trying to change the culture of the company in the right direction. Locally however there are issues with the leadership team. The local leadership team makes decisions based on personal acceptance and relationships instead of focusing on supporting data or experience. Chances are taken that  could potentially jeopardize the local branch both financially and legally as well. If the local leadership would comply with senior leadership requirements and maintain professionalism and utilize feedback from experience and data operations and morale would improve 10 fold. If you are an experienced staffing professional looking for a place to grow and advancement opportunities don’t expect that from the Greenville SC location as all of the rewards of hard work are already allocated to the local leadership and no deviation to that expectation will be allowed. Very little opportunity to be successful including being provided with the tools needed to even do your specific job duties.  Sry arrogant, disrespectful and greedy branch manager that is very unprofessional in all that she does. Diversity is also not something that is at the top  of the priority list either and placements are made based on willingness to be loyal and how down to the branch manager. If you are not willing to be a long, or remain loyal you won’t have to worry with being placed or being successful. The local branch manager holds all the cards and will only reveal them to  members of her clique. Most unprofessional and disrespectful team I have ever been a part of to both customers and candidates alike. Don’t waste your time with the Greenville location unless you are willing to play politics or be in a clique. If you can get in with another branch location id say go for it as everyone else is very supportive and professional, just one bad seed that will wreck it for everyone else.

I have been with Workbox Staffing since 2010 and have worked my way up within the company. The environment can be very fast paced, demanding and stressful at times but the rewards are worth the hard work. There is the potential to work long hours depending on customer demands. Upper management is doing their best to provide continuing education for their employees on HR laws and practices. Management also takes the time to hear ideas and concerns of their employees and does their best to implement ideas. I do believe management has our best interests in mind and want not only the company but their employees to be successful. My co-workers are great! They are funny, hard working and competitive. They care about the applicants and employees that we place by advocating for them. The hardest part of the job is that we cannot guarantee people for our customers and they do get frustrated. The most enjoyable part of the job is hearing about success stories of our placements from both clients and employees. I truly believe we make a difference in the community and hope we continue on that path!

A typical day at work is pretty easy if you like to recruit. You deal with clients if needed, enter orders, screen candidates, do lots of computer work, and answer the phone. I did not recommend Workbox as the turnover is very high, and there is no real leadership and honesty. Every month, someone new is terminated until it's you. There is a lot of cattiness, messiness, and unprofessionalism, which are minor issues within the company. The direct problem is the company will lie to you and feed you on. I usually won't care to write a review, but if you're like me and want to do research on a company before starting, I hope you come across this review. The work is great! Very easy, but it's hard to work at a company with no trust, integrity, or idea of what they want to do next. Many changes are thrown at recruiters who have no say in the process that only they do all day. There is favoritism, managers will lie to your face, be messy and spread info back and forth. Dont vent to anyone here it will be repeated. Anyone including your colleagues can have a say so in your termination-beware. I have not seen one technical or very skilled recruiter last. This is more for people straight out of high school who needs the experience on their resume.

During my employment with Workbox, I was assigned to work at the Grand Rapids Press. A typical day at the Press would usually result in being assigned to one of three lines which would consist of multiple machines that inserted ads into newspapers. These machines would run at high speeds while the workers 'jogged' ads and placed them into the machines. Learning how to work quickly and effectively with my hands is the only skill I learned on the job. Managing temporary workers could be better, they had a breif and ineffective process of screening the workers work ethics before placing them on the job. Therefore, some of my co-workers were lazy, dishonest, and had been let go and then rehired without an effective screening of their improved work ethics. The hardest and most enjoyable part of the job was running two to three ads at one time. It allowed me to work at my quickest and best performance to which my reputation with my supervisor gave the impression that I could be handed a difficult job and still impress and succeed. It also gave a sense of accomplishment seeing an empty skid with your forehead dripping with sweat, instead of running a single ad and spending hours standing in place.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They're nice group of people to work with, but I was not able to get a job through them. I did not have a good listing that I could fit the bill with. I would still recommend that they go there to work they at least have some jobs so have a good day bye now.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful part of the job was wondering where they had a job for me or not. They're good group of people, but they can only give you what they have.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Okay here's temp service was a good experience. But they just did not have enough options for me to go find a job.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Typical day is to go into the shop punch in get ready for work and get to my workstation.

Great company to work for. In the ever changing world that we live in, our management is always on top of the newest methods and software in the industry. They are always open to ideas and suggestions to make our lives easier. Your expectations are clear and you work towards those daily. There is a strong sense of "TEAM" in this company. The staff does what they can to help each other out no matter what branch you work at. They are very helpful and welcoming. They are a very hard working group of people and if you work hard you will love it too! I welcomed a new opportunity and have appreciated every bit of it. The staff genuinely cares about the welfare of the candidates that we place. My manager always says, "The best thing that you can give someone is an OPPORTUNITY"! We strive for this always.

Finding a job is tough enough in Muskegon & the folks at Muskegon Workbox make it even tougher with 400 working hours paid to Workbox just for finding you a job. That ends up being a minimum of $400.00 & that's only IF they're only taking $1.00 an hour most the time it's anywhere from 2.00 to 3.00 an hour for 400 WORKING HOURS (do the math). Offer of low paying jobs ($9.00) is an insult. The front desk folks are a joke & are in no way skilled enough or educated on how a temp service is run. No one knows much of anything & the one that does isn't ever there. Go to Staffinginc, manpower or Adecco for decent work & better hourly pay. Workbox Staffing aka Phoenix personnel think $9.00 an houris good enough. It's 2016 not 1998 get it together.

A typical day working for workbox staffing will include breaking your back, heavy lifting, dirty environment, and crude comments. You will be treat less than human for minimal pay. Temps are always replaceable and they make sure your aware of it. They claim that positions are temp to hire, however in most cases you will work your life away for 1-3 years prior to being hired. Despite advertising hire after 90 days. You will not get paid time off. You will not get vacation time. You will not get Holiday pay. There will be no benefits offered to you because well your just a temp. They are by far the worst staffing company I have ever had the displeasure of working with.

If there was a lower rating then 1 star I would have given it to Workbox.   The management is nothing but a joke.   You never see any of the top four owners and if you do they typically are only in the office to pick up their shipments of wine or golf supplies.   They might show up to fire someone who bust their butt and actually gives a care about their job.  They treat their people like they are expendable and look down on everyone as though the people are trash.  As they drive their $90k cars and hang out in their golf clubs.  

This is sad... if you are doing business with this company there are more than enough companies out there that do what they do.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Laborer 61 salaries reported	$16.64 per hour
Machine operator 61 salaries reported	$18.04 per hour
Assembler 78 salaries reported	$18.16 per hour
Forklift operator 30 salaries reported	$18.35 per hour
Production worker 26 salaries reported	$17.68 per hour

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