BambooHR vs. Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BambooHR
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
BambooHR is an cloud-based human resources solution that provides onboarding, payroll, and benefits management. It also offers automated time-off management and employee self-service.
$10
per month per user
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
Kronos Workforce Dimensions, later UKG Dimensions was a solution used to automate critical workforce processes such as timekeeping, scheduling, and leave management. The product has been discontinued, and is no longer available for purchase.N/A
Pricing
BambooHRKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
Core
$10
per month per user
Pro
Contact Sales
per month
Elite
Contact Sales
per month
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BambooHRKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
BambooHRKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Considered Both Products
BambooHR
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)

No answer on this topic

Features
BambooHRKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.9
378 Ratings
4% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.3335 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.1333 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration8.1345 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.7314 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting7.8356 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management8.1334 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.4202 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.6
261 Ratings
7% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Pay calculation8.1194 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.0146 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment7.4143 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.1204 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.3196 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management7.9212 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.6130 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.8
329 Ratings
7% above category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Approval workflow8.7329 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details8.5315 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment9.2129 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.5
367 Ratings
3% above category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information8.5253 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.9367 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.4317 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition7.9238 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.8331 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
9.1
74 Ratings
12% above category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets9.174 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.3
270 Ratings
4% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Report builder7.4264 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.5261 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.9198 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.2
301 Ratings
2% above category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
New hire portal8.4289 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.9260 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.9
223 Ratings
3% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
Corporate goal setting7.0165 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting7.9215 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility9.169 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.6212 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.8
241 Ratings
2% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Performance plans7.3228 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.3195 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking8.697 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders8.1101 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.7216 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
9.1
81 Ratings
14% above category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
Create succession plans/pools8.946 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking9.067 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search9.068 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development9.359 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.9
245 Ratings
0% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
Job Requisition Management7.6186 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.6201 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.291 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.3196 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.588 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.0218 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts8.1234 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
BambooHRKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Small Businesses
Dayforce Powerpay
Dayforce Powerpay
Score 9.2 out of 10
When I Work
When I Work
Score 6.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Paypro Workforce Management
Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.1 out of 10
Paypro Workforce Management
Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
PeopleStrong
PeopleStrong
Score 10.0 out of 10
Hubstaff
Hubstaff
Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
BambooHRKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(398 ratings)
7.1
(32 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(18 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(325 ratings)
6.9
(2 ratings)
Availability
9.3
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(174 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.6
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.4
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.4
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.9
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BambooHRKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
BambooHR
BambooHR works well for centralizing core hr processes like time-off management, org charts, and performance reviews in a mid-sized company where all employees need self-service access to these functions. Its ease of use and customization make it well-suited for organizations that want employees at all levels to interact with hr tools directly without heavy training.
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Discontinued Products
UKG Dimensions will work well with a company size of [fewer] than 10,000 employees. Once you hit over 10K, you start to notice that batch jobs will time out, clocks will perform slower or become unresponsive requiring manual restarts and the employee demographic will take hours to complete. Will the vendor has on their roadmap to increase the performance of the product, it is not at that point.
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Pros
BambooHR
  • Ease of use for established staff and admins, all the way down to brand new hires.
  • Integrations, especially for posting and managing jobs during the hiring process.
  • Making regularly occurring things like meetings and assessments easy to customize and to action easily.
  • Being able to assign out tasks for onboarding and offboarding.
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Discontinued Products
  • rule analysis- the rule analysis in this product is much cleaner and easy to follow compared to WFC
  • The level of granularity on FAPs is very helpful for configuring access compared to other platforms
  • UI is very easy to follow and intuitive
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Cons
BambooHR
  • I think it could display PTO in number of days, as well.
  • I wish that the benefits page was easier to navigate.
  • I don't like that the pay stub area is hidden, since I am typically alone at home when I review that data.
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Discontinued Products
  • You got to have a solution for employees with multiple jobs
  • Need to allow customers to easily access your integration technology
  • Your business structure is too restrictive and making the application far less flexible
  • Your professional service team needs a lot of improvement, especially in the execution part
  • Need to have a proven and working interface for business structure automation.
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Likelihood to Renew
BambooHR
There's nothing wrong with this platform. I would recommend it to any business starting with more than 10 employees. I will continue to use the program for as long as I need to, hoping they continue being tremendous and finding other ways to incorporate more technology.
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Usability
BambooHR
I often have trouble finding where a setting or task I need should be. It's gotten better since we started using BambooHR®, but it's still hard to find things. Support chat is ALWAYS unavailable when I do have a question, even during their posted business hours.
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Discontinued Products
UKG Dimensions is very user-friendly from an employee and supervisor standpoint. It is very robust on an admin level and can get complicated; however, you can do so many things with it that is outweighs the complexity. The security for UKG Dimensions needs to be revamped however. It is very cumbersome and not user-friendly.
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Reliability and Availability
BambooHR
Yes, there is a huge team in the back of the online platform or it looks like it because I have never been left without an answer when I have a question or waiting from a response on my chat .... There must be a huge team, this is so great and I always seem to have someone that is very knowledgeable too. So many times in the past I had to leave with customer service that would connect you with someone else because of the expertise, here everyone seems to be some kind of an expert in the HR function.
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Performance
BambooHR
I love BambooHR. Reports are easy to run and download and it usually covers any types of requests I get from the management team. You get excel or .csv downloads/reports and it is fast and simple, not too crowded so it is easy to read through. We don't integrate the tool yet but again, soon we will. we just did not had the time to utilize it yet but that's the plan.
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
BambooHR
I think that the Bamboo customer support team is great. I've only had to contact them twice, but both times they were very easy to work with, assisted me quickly, and made sure I fully understood the solution and that it worked the way I needed it to.
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Discontinued Products
  • Kronos Workforce Dimensions a new product, and it has a lot of scope for improvement, with future releases. One of the best tools to perform time tracking.
  • Their support team is very knowledgeable, and their SLA's are pretty tight. Any query raised would be addressed in a few hours.
  • Timeclock configuration can be complicated; however, their support team knows the processes and guidelines.
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In-Person Training
BambooHR
I didn't have in-person training besides teaching my managers how to use the program. However, I couldn't omit this question (maybe a system glitch).
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Online Training
BambooHR
Overall this training was great and our implementation specialist was wonderful and very helpful. We felt really prepared once our training was completed, But we could get additional help immediately even when we were live. The continuation Support heros after implementation are wonderful and you can always get a LIVE person each time you call into their office.
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
BambooHR
We implemented bambooHR in Fall, 2023 then implemented Payroll 1/1/24. A vital piece of information was not known or missed in that we are exempt from State Unemployment Tax and have a Reimbursement Set-up, so bambooHR did not send Payroll Reports to the State. Those reports need to be sent regardless if we are exempt or not.
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
BambooHR
These are the three that come to mind, and we use each program for different things. We stick to HR driven areas for Bamboo, as we haven't shifted to it for payroll or project management. I do find Bamboo to be the most user-friendly, with the smallest learning curve of all the other programs, though.
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Discontinued Products
UKG Dimensions provides an enterprise-wide integrated suite for timekeeping, staff scheduling, and clocks. We were an existing Workforce Central customer for timekeeping only and were interested in providing holistic experience between staff scheduling and timekeeping. In addition, [UKG] Dimensions established a great foundation for transitioning our organization from departmental focused scheduling solutions to enterprise.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
BambooHR
Since my organization has dropped with employees, I always find ways to reduce costs. I thought there would be a cheaper option, but I was glad that my package included a lot for the price, and downgrading would cost more. The rep could have let me downgraded and taken me to a higher package. I am thankful that didn't happen.
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Scalability
BambooHR
There is so much you can do with this platform, it is incredible and so welcoming. We don't utilize it 100% yet just because we are growing and the HR team has not been able to concentrate on other areas offered to us but but we will soon. Which is also why we got the product, specifically because what BambooHR can do to help us meet our growing business needs.
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
BambooHR
VERY professional!
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
BambooHR
  • We were able to cancel our ATS monthly subscription with another provider to use the Hiring module with BambooHR®. We save on average $600 a month!
  • We cancelled another monthly subscription that we were using for time off tracking saving hundreds a month.
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Discontinued Products
  • It is neutral. We enjoy having somewhat of a seamless system between HR, PR, and timekeeping.
  • When a person uses the Reset Password link, the system sends the user an email with a link to set their password. Then when the person logs in with their new password, the system forces the user to change their password a second time. This second password change is unnecessary and creates confusion.
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ScreenShots

BambooHR Screenshots

Screenshot of the Job Info tabScreenshot of Onboarding TasksScreenshot of a New Hire PacketScreenshot of an Employee Performance ReportScreenshot of Employee Satisfaction (eNPS®)Screenshot of Open Enrollment

Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Home Screen Overtime Data ViewScreenshot of Home Screen Overtime Data ViewScreenshot of Control Center Recommendations