UKG Ready

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Pros

Ease of Use and Customization: Users have appreciated the user-friendly interface and customization options for timesheets, making it easier to provide detailed information for both employees and employers. This design allows for seamless navigation and tailored settings to meet individual preferences.

Dashboard Customization: Many reviewers found the customizable dashboard feature to be a significant time-saver, especially beneficial for HR professionals who use the system frequently. This personalized layout enhances productivity by displaying relevant information at a glance, improving workflow efficiency.

Reporting Capabilities: The standout feature of robust reporting capabilities allows users to easily create, modify, filter data, and export reports based on their specific needs. With the ability to generate comprehensive reports, users can make informed decisions and track key metrics.

Reviews

277 Reviews

UKG Ready- Puts Control In Your Hands

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 17, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use UKG Ready for Time and Attendance, Payroll and Payroll Services, Scheduling, and as our HRIS. We use it for storing personnel documents and retention notes on employees, it integrates with our talent acquisition software and we use it for tax records and reporting use cases also as well.

Pros

It is easy to navigate and find information quickly
It integrates well with our Applicant Tracking System
It helps us set custom rules for scheduling and time and attendance

Cons

There could be better administration for Payroll Tax setup
The search function in the platform is not very effective
There is not a way to delete duplicate profiles

Likelihood to Recommend

UKG is great for growing companies that want to internalize their payroll services and support. It does an excellent job for payroll and time and attendance. It seems less appropriate for heavily customized payroll situations as well for integrating across many platforms. Overall it is an easy to use platform with good layer of support in the background.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

20 years of experience

UKG Ready - Reporting and Implementation

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 16, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using UKG Ready as our primary HRIS and Payroll system. It allows us to have all of our compensation and people data housed in the same system. We have set up multiple integrations between UKG Ready and our other People data systems like our ATS and a separate Data Visualization portal.

Pros

Building custom reports
Having payroll and HR data all in one place
Mobile access

Cons

Integrating with other tools
Implementation speed
Support when there are issues

Likelihood to Recommend

UKG Ready is a solid solution to integrate payroll and people data in once place. As someone who primarily works with data, analytics and reporting, I appreciate the custom report building. It is very flexible and intuitive. You can pull any data into a custom report and easily export it for analysis. There are also several built in dashboards which are easily filterable.

Verified User

Analyst in Human Resources (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

UKG can do it

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

November 18, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use UKG Ready for payroll and HR management. We are a small-to-midsize community organization that has multiple unions, and although our payroll is relatively simple, UKG addresses multiple jobs per employee, complex scheduling needs, unification of HR process and documentation as well as high-level payroll management and reporting. We are planning on expanding our scope in the coming year by working with consultants.

Pros

Extremely granular reporting capabilities
Easy and integrative employee management
Proficient payroll processing workflows

Cons

Custom reporting is not intuitive
Learning and training is poor and has not provided our team with a way to approach our problems in a cost-effective and meaningful way
Consistent glitches in some areas result in errors that persist through multiple payrolls despite a thorough review of all settings
Reports don't live in the same place, multiple types of reports exist in multiple places with little explanation of the difference. We often build custom reports only to have them disappear or have to spend a long time trying to find them.

Likelihood to Recommend

I might recommend UKG to a larger organization than ours. The complexity is rich, but perhaps it is too powerful a tool for what we need. That or it's a bit messy in its construction, having so many tools available but difficult to find or not working appropriately. UKG Ready processes payroll efficiently and with ease, but unless you are using a simple accounting platform it may not be able to easily integrate with yours.

Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

UKG Ready Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use almost the entire UKG Ready system! We needed a system that could handle it all and integrate with Spectrum and our other Trimble products to bring it all together to create a One stop shop for our employees as well as our HR team. We also needed to move from our manual processes to more automated processes and UKG Ready has allowed us to do that!

Pros

Recruiting Platform works great to fill our open needs with the partnership with EQuest
T&A and Payroll all in one place to make the process easier
Reviews to allow for an actual system to be in place
HR onboarding to sync with the Recruiting and make it easier to hire and complete what is needed as we move them through the whole process.

Cons

Construction in general - Lots of focus on retail, healthcare, and manufacturing but construction is a space that I see is mentioned but not the focus for the complex needs.
Reviews - easier way to really set up and manage profiles when you have multiple departments and review set ups

Likelihood to Recommend

I have absolutely loved working with UKG and everyone I have met. They are all great and always willing to help and answer our questions! We love the product and what it has provided for not only our HR team but our employees as well.

Alexis Klima

HR Manager in Human Resources at Kidwell (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Maddy's UKG Ready Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

UKG is being used across our organization! We use the HR, Performance, TLM, and Payroll functions. We currently use UKG to conquer onboarding about 400-500 new employees every week. It also helps us stay on top of accrual policies that impact us a nationwide company. The way that UKG best addresses our business problems is by its configurability. We grow fast and we move fast; UKG makes it possible for us to pivot quickly.

Pros

Reporting
Company setup at the administrator level
Customer feedback

Cons

Unintuitive checklist experience! The amount of user support our employees need is a major cost for my company.
Lack of proper communication on important system bugs. We have had issues with direct deposit changes, 401k match, and withholding form submissions; these are obviously all hugely important functions. All came back to be system bugs! Things happen but none were resolved quickly and none were communicated well. We were told that they were fixed on several occasions, only to find out that it wasn't deployed.
You should be able to change someone's accrual profile effective a date. This is important to both employees who have been promoted and employees who are changing their work location.

Likelihood to Recommend

Maddy Butler

HRIS Manager and Project Lead in Finance and Accounting at Addison Group (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

UKG Ready the Best Hidden Secret

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the entire UKG Ready suite. UKG Ready has streamlined our tedious HR functions and has improved our service times. We've also become a Great Place to Work thanks to the data analytics of UKG Ready. Our employees love the ease of the system and really like their pay for earned wages with UKG Wallet

Pros

Data Analytics
Workflows
Communication with Employees

Cons

Survey Module
Performance Reviews
Better AI

Likelihood to Recommend

UKG makes recruiting and job postings so much easier than other platforms. It cross posts jobs to several job boards with the click of the button. It also has some exceptional reporting functionality that similar systems do not have built in. Overall, I think UKG could improve on their performance module.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Human Resources (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

UKG Ready

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

UKG Ready is our employee facing portal. It is the option for our employees to log in, update their personal information themselves, onboarding, open enrollment, performance management, and file feeds for insurance. This has helped to make things more efficient for processing, and saving money in the long run ensuring everything has been turned off when it was supposed to be when employees left the company.

Pros

Design and suggestions! When building the portal, they made many suggestions to help with flow.
Project planning-timeline and staying on top of it!
Flexibility. I can adjust things or ask them to.

Cons

Customer service-while their customer service has been awesome so far, everyone can always improve!

Likelihood to Recommend

Flexible-al a carte if you want. You can pick and choose services that suit your company's needs. We started with a few items and have added along the way. My goal is to have everything there eventually!
We also have multiple EINs and they have made it easy to switch between them. Can also have varying dashboards when each company logs in and see different things.

Sabrina LeMay

HR Payroll Manager in Human Resources at Mine Services, Inc (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Why UKG Ready works on Our factory floor

Rating: 9 out of 10

July 24, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The primary use for us is time and attendance, scheduling, and compliance tracking. Every employee, from machine operators to warehouse support clocks in and out using biometric time clocks linked directly to UKG Ready. Our line supervisors manage shifts directly in UKG Ready. They can copy templates, drag and drop coverage which appear instantly on the mobile apps.

Pros

The way it understands workforce complexities like shift premiums, lateness tolerances and union rue variances.
not once has it buckled when we ran custom accruals, absence banks or timekeeping across different departments
Automated time collection rules

Cons

The system's filtering logic still leaves a lot to be desired
Syncing issues with the mobile app

Likelihood to Recommend

If you manage a multi-shift, hourly workforce and need one system to handle time attendance and scheduling, I couldn't recommend a better tool. The initial rule configs take time but make quite the difference. Just train your team leads to own schedules. You might also need to set up signal boosters if you're relying on LAN from mobile apps, for clock-ins.

Verified User

Contributor in Human Resources (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Keeps everything in one place - love that

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the UKG Ready platform through a third-party named Fuse Workforce. One of my favorite things about the UKG platform is the seamless connection between the people management and payroll pieces. In previous platforms, there was a disconnection between those 2 pieces and it was overly complicated to process payroll. We use the UKG ready platforms from recruiting, onboarding, benefits, performance management, offboarding and people management.

Pros

Seamless connectivity between different pieces
Payroll is simple
Performance Management creations are easy

Cons

Learning piece is separate from the main account, employees have to download 2 apps
With Fuse, the helpdesk is sometimes difficult to reach
With Fuse, getting a solution can be challenging since it’s a third party

Likelihood to Recommend

There’s not much for me to share here other than multiple mobile apps for employees to download for different functions. We have the learning function activated and employees had to download a second mobile app (HCMToGo Learning) to be able to access the Learning portal on the go. Concerned that if we continue to add more functionality, there will be more apps to download.

Verified User

Professional in Human Resources (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Does the job but better platforms out there

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

July 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HRIS for employee and employment information salary history, emergency contacts address taxes, payroll and PTO

Pros

Customizable homepage
Easy access to tax records

Cons

Platform is non-intuitive in terms of its design and where things are located
When changing permissions you have to do things in multiple parts of the platform and again it’s non intuitive

Likelihood to Recommend

UKG is good for a large scale organizations and it has really good audit records, but it’s challenging to use for a small professional services organization because it’s highly complex overly engineered and doesn’t track the things that we wanted it to track. For example, it doesn’t track bonus percentages, or total bonus or total actualized compensation over your basis and we also find the reporting is very challenging to use and then put into some of our own proprietary models. so all in all it’s hard to use for our compensation use case

Verified User

Director in Human Resources (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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