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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Can I not do a zero review? After resetting my password over and over (every time it says password is incorrect, even though my PC has saved the password)... In the rare, rare event I manage to log in... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This has happened multiple times now. The employees at "SD Worx" are lazy and irresponsible. They will remove you from planning (for work) for any inconvenience for them. They instead of solving probl... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

In my previous company, payroll was managed by SD Worx. I understood my pay check, it was clear, concise, and consistently correct. When reading the ratings below, I don’t think it is fair to... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Customer support doesn't exist AT ALL! trying to login and I can't! Sent request for password reset and already two days nothing. need to get P60 which is in them database.

Company details

  1. Payroll Service
  2. Human Resource Consulting

About SD Worx

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SD Worx is a leading European provider of HR and Payroll solutions, supporting over 95,000 organisations in 27 countries across Europe and Mauritius and processing the salaries for around 6 million employees per month. We provide services to businesses of all sizes, ranging from SMEs to large multinational corporations.

With a team of over 10,000 professionals and a strong focus on innovation, we combine eight decades of expertise with cutting-edge technology to deliver compliant, reliable HR and payroll services.

Our mission is to empower businesses to manage the entire employee lifecycle through integrated, cloud-based solutions, from recruitment and talent development to payroll and workforce planning. Our commitment to ESG, AI-driven tools, and continuous improvement ensures clients stay ahead in a constantly changing world of work.

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2.2

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TrustScore 2 out of 5

166 reviews

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely terrible and incompetent…

Absolutely terrible and incompetent payroll provider for more reasons than I can list, no one month is ever paid correctly. The system errors, regularly, resulting in over and underpayments - average pay has gone wrong twice in a year, just as one example, resulting in some employee's getting overpayments into the 1000's.

No accountability is ever taken for their mistakes, they take weeks to review and fix anything, with no meaningful communication. Meanwhile our company reputation is shot to pieces because of the errors SDWorx are making. Avoid using this company at all costs.

13 December 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I was given a traineeship contract for…

I was given a traineeship contract for 6 months at an SD Worx entity (Indian Ocean). However, they trained me for 2 months and started testing me and my colleague who was a trainee as well. They have talked to us individually and put us to tests where they have tried to push forward the other trainee only. They sidelined me. At one time, a senior tested me and recognised that I knew all the answers which she did not even contemplate my grasp on the work procedure. She talked to the teamleader and both made me lose the position in less than 3 months of traineeship. The HR tried to retain the position for me but they did not accept. Do note that showing your efforts and talents may not always work at this company.

26 October 2023
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Reply from SD Worx

Hello, thank you for taking the time to let us know how your experience was. We’d like to learn more about your experience. Please do email us at customerexperience@sdworx.com so we can investigate further.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Former Good Company

Used to be a great company to work for, but in the last few years, severe lack of employee engagement and communication and when this is challenged in anyway by staff, it's seen as not appropriate, even though the are valid. Despite repeated issues logged on monthly basis, hotfixes done and no permanent solution put in place. Far too much pressure placed on staff to get the job done due to irresponsible selling of the service that we were unable to provide.

20 September 2024
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Reply from SD Worx

Hello, thank you for taking the time to let us know how your experience was. We’d like to learn more about your experience. Please do email us at customerexperience@sdworx.com so we can investigate further.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Wrong name for 2 years in a row

My company uses this service. They misspelled my name for 2 years in a row, and now I can't access my p60s. I have written several complaints, to no avail. Please do not use this service.

10 October 2024
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Reply from SD Worx

Hello, thank you for taking the time to let us know how your experience was. I am sorry to hear that we did not meet your expectations. This is not in line with the service we aim to provide. I'll make sure your feedback gets to the right colleague so we can work to improve the experience in the future.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

not a good service for international firms

we signed a contract with SD Worx to help us employ a colleague in Belgium. We really regret it. From the moment we signed the contract, our contact person "disappeared" until a person from payroll took over the file a month later. We receive very little explanation as a foreign employer, the platform is not at all user-friendly, access is complicated, invoices come from several SDWorx entities and it's very difficult to know what we're being billed. Customer support is poor. We still receive invoices/messages in Flemish when we had specified that we wanted to communicate in English or German. The contract commits us for three years...what a torment!

21 August 2024
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Reply from SD Worx

Hello, thank you for sharing your feedback. We understand you had expectations that weren’t met, and we'd love to know more so we can change that. Please email us at customerexperience@sdworx.com so we can take this forward.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Everytime I log on there is an issue

Everytime I log on there is an issue , payslips are fortnightly and again today another issue

7 August 2024
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Reply from SD Worx

Hi Lauren, thanks a lot for sharing your feedback. Sounds like you're having trouble accessing your payslip? Please do reach out to your company's HR department. They can connect with our support teams directly to get any issues sorted.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely awful

Absolutely awful, dreadful system. Cannot believe any large modern business - in this case, Marks and Spencer - would choose to still use this archaic, useless company. Just look at these other reviews. Cost-cutting incompetence at best and deliberately difficult for your employees at worst. Stress-inducing.

17 July 2024
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Reply from SD Worx

Thank you for sharing your comments. We understand that your expectations were not met, and we would like to know more about your experience so we can rectify this. Please do email customerexperience@sdworx.com so we can assist you further.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This company is a complete mess

This company is a complete mess; they have no organization and send incorrect information to HMRC.

4 July 2024
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Reply from SD Worx

Thank you for sharing your comments. We understand that your expectations were not met, and we would like to know more about your experience so we can rectify this. Please do email customerexperience@sdworx.com so we can assist you further.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Should rebrand to SDneverworx

Can only assume they are cheap to work with because they’re certainly not good!
This is the third occasion in around a year where my pay slip should be accessible however it’s nowhere to be seen, usually in a manner where the whole website is entirely shut down.
Complete shambles, be better off sending it with a carrier pigeon.

19 March 2024
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Reply from SD Worx

Hi there, we're concerned to hear about the challenges you've experienced and we'd really like to help. Please do let your employer's HR team know about this if you haven't already! They can then raise the issue with our tech experts directly, so we can find a solution.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Just noticed theres a lot of bad…

Just noticed theres a lot of bad revieuws here i wonder why. whenever i call them they help me instantly, when i sold my vacation days i had the money within 2 days, pretty much anything u ask for is taken care of within a matter of minutes. so 5 stars from me.

12 January 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Want to save your company money

Want to save your company money? Use SD Worx! The most useless HR solution around, does what other services do, but worse, but wait there's more, your employees will get so fed up of trying to log in, they give up entirely saving you headache, oh wait no it doesn't because they end up complaining to your in house payroll dept, are you a moron, if yes get SD Worx today!

23 November 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Croatia Tour with RSD Travel

Croatia Tour

Dream hotel (Nightmare Hotel)

24/10/23. Phone call to RSD @ 1.54pm
Re: asked to relocate the bus group to another hotel on arrival as Pearl Beach Hotel was well below standard.
Recorded call. No return call as promised.

1: room allocated looking over building site, smelt smoke, patio door handle broken, rusty metal fitments in bathroom. Was changed to better room but still faults eg:curtains hanging off rail. Room cleaned only when asked to do so.

2: food buffet not “gourmet”. Warm food turned regularly. Left overs reserved for whole week. Flies and wasps everywhere hence many down with stomach bugs.

3: hotel had closed for season, reopened for RSDq tours, staff disgruntled. In desperate need of refurbishment.

4: whole area closed down scruffy and had to go by bus anywhere that was decent.

5: tour guide not pleasant obviously didn’t want to be there.

6: hard sell at factories which is to be expected. But 2 days wasted on hard sell shopping. Unacceptable.

7: as has already been said in other reviews, not given opportunity to pay for packages on arrival but rather we were forced to pay in advance by guide, again not acceptable.

Will NEVER use RSD in the future. Suggest others not do so either.

24 October 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible app

Terrible app. When your password expires good luck. Just keeps looping back to change password. Even when using suggested password it still loops back. Finally when you try to reset password it doesn’t recognize your username. I would have given it zero stars if I could.

1 November 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible Website

If you are planning to use SD Worx for any reason, I strongly advise against it.
It is extremely buggy, difficult to use and has very low security as it has been cyber-attacked and had to shutdown its UK branch temporarily.
But not only is it a bad website, it is difficult to use and there are simply much better alternatives, such as ADP.

13 October 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Shocking company

Shocking company, SD Worx provide payroll for the company I work for in the UK, systems been down for over a week and can't even run payroll to pay us, now a week late!!!!!!

Advise, use another payroll provider.

20 April 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Website has been down for weeks now....

The website has been down for the best part of two and a half weeks now, meaning staff cannot access their pay slips or book holidays using the app/website.
There seems to be no improvement after checking it everyday.

17 April 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

From a guy who works in HR and Payroll...

I work in HR and Payroll for a dozen companies. One of these companies (a SME, 250 fte) is working with the HR and payroll software of SDworx. Their SAAS platform is not good. I has a lot of bugs, it hangs, it is not user friendly built. We get complaints from our personnel constantly and on paydays their server blows out on several occasions. Calling support and requesting help for a questions will result in a invoice of 500 euro's for each request. About their pricing, we pay almost 18.000 euro's each year for this service, while other HR - salary software does the same for like 6000 euro. This is how they work.

It is absolutely a despicable partner to do business with. Unfortunally we are still stuck with them for little over a year..

14 April 2023
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