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What is UKG Ready?

The UKG Ready® software suite is a centralized HCM solution designed for small to mid-sized businesses. It automates and streamlines HR, payroll, benefits, time, talent, and scheduling processes.

UKG Ready's suite of tools offer actionable insights while helping to ensure compliance. Using AI, it draws on work, people, and culture data to boost efficiency and productivity.

For example, UKG Ready streamlines core HR functions by centralizing employee information in a single secure database to give HR teams simplified benefits administration, automated workflows, configurable forms, and real-time access to all their people data in one convenient place to help reduce administrative workload and compliance risk.

When it comes to payroll, UKG Ready calculations run continuously in the background to reduce payroll processing time and provide real-time reports and analytics. UKG Ready’s flexible pay rules engine simplifies different pay scenarios such as shift differentials and employees with multiple positions. And automatic compliance updates keep you current with constantly changing regulatory requirements.

For workforce management, UKG Ready streamlines time and attendance tasks by automating hour tracking, time approvals, and time-off requests. It also simplifies leave and accrual tracking with consistent policy application. In addition, managers can create optimal schedules based on demand, skills, and compliance rules while employees can access self-service tools for shift selection and schedule viewing. And automated expense tracking speeds reimbursement approvals for a better employee experience while offering comprehensive reporting for more informed decision making.

The Great Place To Work® Hub in UKG Ready leverages data from the global workplace culture authority, Great Place To Work, and compares it with insights gathered directly from employees, allowing for the measurement of company performance, with recommendations on improvement opportunities so employees want to stay and grow.

UKG Bryte AI™ is the platform's AI-powered sidekick. With AI driven by people, work, and workplace culture data, the assistant gives users insights to build trust and deliver personalized experiences that foster meaning and purpose.

All UKG customers receive expert support, on-demand guidance, and anytime, anywhere access to a wide range of resources.

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Top Performing Features

  • Pay calculation

    Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.

    Category average: 8.7

  • Direct deposit files

    Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.

    Category average: 8.9

  • Corporate goal setting

    Corporate goal setting is the ability to define corporate goals, and/or vision statements in the system.

    Category average: 7.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Support for external payroll vendors

    Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Duplicate Candidate Prevention

    Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added

    Category average: 7.6

  • Organizational charting

    Organizational charting is the ability to create hierarchical charts.

    Category average: 7.6

Who Buys & Uses UKG Ready

Pros

  • Robust reporting and custom analytics generation
  • Intuitive navigation and ease of access for users
  • Efficient and accurate payroll processing

Cons

  • Complexity and unintuitiveness of reporting and customization
  • User interface design and overall system intuitiveness
  • Customer support responsiveness and issue resolution

Why I recommend Using UKG.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

UKG is easy to use and ready to help us clock in for work, as well as clock out for lunch or the day. It stores employees' personal information that we can easily edit; I use it to request personal time off, check my available hours, and view my requested time off. UKG has my pay stub information and details, which are easy to download or share. I really love UKG.

Pros

  • Allows to easily update personal information.
  • Allows easily t clock in and out.
  • Allows to see available PTO hrs..
  • Allows to easily find pay stubs and download.
  • Allows access to request PTO.

Cons

  • It would be great if it were easier to find the edit button when you need to edit personal info, instead of clicking everywhere trying to find it.
  • Easier way to request personal time off. it is a little confusing.

Return on Investment

  • Help us as employees to easily clock in and out.
  • Somewhat easy to request PTO.
  • Holds our personal information as employees.
  • Easy to see next pay day.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Workday Workforce Management and Paylocity

Other Software Used

Paylocity, Sales Force Assistant

Intuitive System

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

scope is ATS and HRIS
We got rid of paper timesheets for 400 student workers by implementing UKG

Pros

  • multiple jobs in different departments for the same person
  • human resource information system
  • timesheet processing
  • payroll processing
  • supervisors have access to employee information

Cons

  • posting job ads
  • adding new job requisitions
  • push notifications

Return on Investment

  • eliminated over 40 hours of manual timesheet data entry
  • eliminated hundreds of paper forms (Form I-9, federal W-4, and state W-4)

Usability

Alternatives Considered

BambooHR

Other Software Used

Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution (JICS), discontinued

HR Management Improved with UKG and Related Modules

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use UKG for our timecards, payroll, compensation, performance and acquisition.
I helped implement, continue to maintain, view upcoming modules and general improvement of our use of UKG

Pros

  • Time card management
  • Security permissions
  • Payroll processing

Cons

  • Leave case management
  • Attendance Point systems
  • Performance Reviews
  • Talent Acquisition

Return on Investment

  • Reduced payroll errors
  • Timesheet management

Usability

Alternatives Considered

CYMA Financial Management System

Other Software Used

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, KPA EHS Software

2026 UKG Review.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use UKG to clock in and out, update my documents, such as my W4, and request PTO.

Pros

  • It's great for document management.
  • It's easy to use.
  • Tracking my available PTO is easier with UKG.

Cons

  • Correcting timecards could be a little easier.

Return on Investment

  • The easiness of use makes it less time consuming to complete tasks.
  • Having such a large dashboard saves time in trying to find data I need.

Usability

Other Software Used

NetSuite ERP, ConnectWise CPQ

Reviewer

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

UKG Ready is use to manage employees personal information, payroll, compensation, training, recruiting. It is easy to use, our employees use it on a daily basis to manage their personal life within the company.

Pros

  • Easy navigation
  • Good reports and easy to access
  • Good phone app for all employees to use.

Cons

  • Recruiting dashboard, having to go back and move forward.
  • Reports can be difficult to set for the first time.
  • Check lists, too many.

Return on Investment

  • Employee engagement
  • Tracking of business objectives, for example, turn over.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Workday Workforce Management