Overview
What is UKG Ready?
Designed for small businesses where everyone wears multiple hats, UKG Ready® is an HR solution that guides users through their day-to-day HR activities. Capabilities span from HR and payroll to talent and time.
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Good but not perfect.
UKG Ready is a time saver
Excellent Service and Product!
UKG - an organizational transformer.
I would recommend UKG, but there is always room for improvement.
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Robust Software just make sure you know what you are doing.
Happy HR Professional.
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Good system for time keeping and employee management
Great Product with Diverse Functionality
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Popular Features
- Employee demographic data (156)8.787%
- Pay calculation (165)8.686%
- Pre-built reports (169)7.575%
- Report builder (168)7.474%
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What is UKG Ready?
Designed for small businesses where everyone wears multiple hats, UKG Ready® is an HR solution that guides users through their day-to-day HR activities. Capabilities span from HR and payroll to talent and time.
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Features
Human Resource Management
Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.
- 8.7Employee demographic data(156) Ratings
Administrators have the ability to enter detailed demographic data for each employee.
- 7.5Employment history(152) Ratings
Employment history is the ability to track previous positions held.
- 7.9Job profiles and administration(152) Ratings
Job profiles and descriptions can be created and edited.
- 7.6Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.(142) Ratings
Employee move workflow provides the ability to move employees to different positions and apply pay raises.
- 7.1Organizational charting(114) Ratings
Organizational charting is the ability to create hierarchical charts.
- 7.2Organization and location management(135) Ratings
Organization and location management allows employees to be managed across multiple geographical locations.
- 7.7Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)(111) Ratings
Compliance capabilities ensure full compliance with federal workplace regulations by capturing required data in central database.
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 8.6Pay calculation(165) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 7.5Support for external payroll vendors(103) Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
- 7.9Off-cycle/On-Demand payment(67) Ratings
Provide employees access to wages accrued during the pay period before the end of the pay cycle.
- 7.8Benefit plan administration(126) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 8.9Direct deposit files(130) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 8.1Salary revision and increment management(121) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
Leave and Attendance Management
Streamlines communication between HR and employees and facilitates efficient management of employee leave including requisitions, approvals, balance calculation, and annual carry-forward.
- 8.1Approval workflow(148) Ratings
Approval workflow is the process for approving employee paid time-off requests.
- 7.5Balance details(155) Ratings
Balance details is automatic updating of paid time-off balance to reflect time taken.
- 7.7Annual carry-forward and encashment(132) Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment enables unused paid time-off days to be carried forward to new year, or paid in cash.
Employee Self Service
Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.
- 8.3View and generate pay and benefit information(148) Ratings
Employees can view pay and benefit data and print pay stubs.
- 8.6Update personal information(155) Ratings
Employees can update personal profile with change of address, dependents, or other personal data.
- 7.9View company policy documentation(128) Ratings
Employees can review company handbook, and corporate policy documents.
- 8View job history(131) Ratings
Employees can view all positions held at the company.
Asset Management
Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.
- 8.4Tracking of all physical assets(61) Ratings
Tracking of track laptops, pagers, phones, and other company equipment.
HR Reporting
Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.
- 7.4Report builder(168) Ratings
Report builder allows custom reports to be created using a GUI.
- 7.5Pre-built reports(169) Ratings
Pre-built reports is the provision of a variety of canned reports on employee retention, and other key metrics.
Onboarding
Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.
- 7.3New hire portal(113) Ratings
New hire portal eliminates printing and mailing with a personalized portal of all required reading, corporate information, and all forms and other paperwork, online.
- 7.3Manager tracking tools(90) Ratings
Tracking tools allow hiring managers to check status on individual hires for all onboarding activities.
Performance and Goals
Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.
- 7.3Individual goal setting(58) Ratings
Individual goal setting is the ability to define individual goals that align to organizational and subordinate goals.
- 7.3Performance tracking(64) Ratings
Performance tracking allows managers to track individual progress against goals as a component of overall performance.
Performance Management
Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.
- 6.9Performance plans(73) Ratings
Supervisors have ability to build individual performance plans including, goals, competencies, etc..
- 7Performance improvement plans(68) Ratings
Supervisors can track disciplinary actions such as performance improvement plans.
- 7.4Review status tracking(73) Ratings
Supervisors can monitor and track review status completion with dashboard showing milestones and status.
- 6Review reminders(76) Ratings
System can generate reminders to ensure review completion timeliness.
- 7Multiple review frequency(62) Ratings
System supports multiple review types including annual, quarterly mid-year and anniversary reviews.
Succession Planning
Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.
- 6.4Create succession plans/pools(22) Ratings
Managers can create and manage pools of potentially high-performing individuals.
- 7Candidate ranking(2) Ratings
Candidate readiness for key business positions can be ranked and assessed.
- 6.6Candidate search(3) Ratings
Candidate search provides search capabilities for potential candidates based on attribute or other profile data.
- 2Candidate development(1) Ratings
Candidate development is the ability to assign learning and development goals.
Recruiting / ATS
Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.
- 6.8Job Requisition Management(75) Ratings
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
- 6.8Company Website Posting(74) Ratings
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
- 5.7Publish to Social Media(52) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites
- 6.8Job Search Site Posting(55) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites
- 6.5Duplicate Candidate Prevention(57) Ratings
Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added
- 7Applicant Tracking(77) Ratings
Applicant tracking allows recruiters to assign applicants to various stages so others can see status at a glance
- 7.6Notifications and Alerts(82) Ratings
Notifications and reminders inform you of tasks to be completed
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What is UKG Ready?
UKG Ready Features
Human Resource Management Features
- Supported: Employee demographic data
- Supported: Employment history
- Supported: Job profiles and administration
- Supported: Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
- Supported: Benefits information
- Supported: Organizational charting
- Supported: Organization and location management
- Supported: Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Payroll Management Features
- Supported: Pay calculation
- Supported: Support for external payroll vendors
- Supported: Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
- Supported: Payroll history for each employee
- Supported: Benefit plan administration
- Supported: Direct deposit files
- Supported: Payroll tracking and auditing
- Supported: Salary revision and increment management
- Supported: Statutory form management
Leave and Attendance Management Features
- Supported: Approval workflow
- Supported: Email notifications
- Supported: Balance details
- Supported: Annual carry-forward and encashment
Employee Self Service Features
- Supported: Employee login
- Supported: View and generate pay and benefit information
- Supported: Update personal information
- Supported: Request time off
- Supported: View job history
- Supported: View company policy documentation
- Supported: View company news and information
Asset Management Features
- Supported: Tracking of all physical assets
HR Reporting Features
- Supported: Report builder
- Supported: Pre-built reports
Integration with other HR capabilities Features
- Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by same vendor
- Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by different vendor
Performance Management Features
- Supported: Performance plans
- Supported: Performance improvement plans
- Supported: Review status tracking
- Supported: Review reminders
- Supported: Multiple review frequency
Succession Planning Features
- Supported: Create succession plans/pools
- Supported: Candidate ranking
- Supported: Candidate search
- Supported: Candidate development
Onboarding Features
- Supported: New hire portal
- Supported: Manager tracking tools
Performance and Goals Features
- Supported: Individual goal setting
- Supported: Performance tracking
Recruiting / ATS Features
- Supported: Job Requisition Management
- Supported: Company Website Posting
- Supported: Publish to Social Media
- Supported: Job Search Site Posting
- Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
- Supported: Applicant Tracking
- Supported: Notifications and Alerts
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UKG Ready Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | Australia, Canada, UK, Belgium, Mexico, Netherlands, France |
Supported Languages | English (US &UK), French (Canada & France), Spanish, and Dutch |
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(388)Attribute Ratings
- 7.4Likelihood to Renew18 ratings
- 9Availability3 ratings
- 9.3Performance7 ratings
- 7.5Usability86 ratings
- 8.2Support Rating73 ratings
- 6.4Online Training4 ratings
- 7.8In-Person Training2 ratings
- 6.2Implementation Rating10 ratings
- 8Configurability4 ratings
- 8Product Scalability3 ratings
- 5.6Ease of integration60 ratings
- 8Vendor pre-sale3 ratings
- 8Vendor post-sale3 ratings
- 8.6Kronos WFR Industry Expertise78 ratings
- 8.8Kronos WFR Role-based Success64 ratings
- 7.8Kronos WFR Resource Quality63 ratings
Reviews
(76-100 of 204)Customer on the Fence
- I like the fact that are dashboards that report a screen shot of what is happening
- I like the notifications that are tied to various processes
- Customer support. I do not like the idea of not being able to call someone with a quick question without adding a case. Waiting for someone to call you back is not helpful at all. Chat line is mostly off-line
- SMA is relatively new to Kronos's Platform. I really felt like we were not fully trained on the system. We were not able to train our staff well either. I would really like to see short clip videos that we are able to share with new employees. I don't have time to read long documents which I find is a lot of what is on the training portal.
UKG (not quite) Ready
- Time entry
- Easy navigation
- Dashboards
- Compensation management: Cannot bulk approve or reject.
- Time Entry: Approval process for cost center managers requires multiple steps: approve, then submit. Doesn't make sense from an approvers perspective.
- Lacking parallel approval workflow. i.e. Cost Center managers and supervisors cannot approve time concurrently.
- Easy to build and automate reporting
- Kronos Global support is great when system issues arise that we cannot take care of ourselves
- The Kronos App allows employees easy and convenient access to their timecards, vacation, pay slips, etc
- FMLA doesn't always feed well into timekeeping so information is entered multiple times
- While we appreciate the wish to continually improve the system, a lot of major changes have been taking place so it is hard to keep up and keep supervisors trained on modifications to processes they are used to - HR spends a lot of time trying to keep up with the changes
- Many of the changes taking place are to be compatible with tablets and cell phones, while company administrators (the ones that use the system most) don't use tablets or phones, making regular tasks more complicated and time consuming
- Cannot print tax reports directly out of UKG Ready - must use BSI or Payroll services to do this - both costing additional money to use
UKG Ready is HR Electronic Support
- Training with My Learning, program staff
- Housing documents
- Simplifying processes i.e. talent acquisition, performance management
- The changing of profiles, constant "upgrades."
- Use of creating custom forms, utilizing the forms.
One of the best out there
- Covers all scenarios
- Intuitive
- Evolves with new ideas/legislation
- Highlighting changes for licensees in a more meaningful way.
- Treating licensees on an equal playing field with direct clients.
State of the art HRIS software!
- Innovative.
- Easy to use.
- Constantly evolving.
- Has guides and different helpful videos.
- Changing looks / layout too often.
- Chat support could be improved with more functions able to handle.
Go Green with UKG!
- UKG offers an enormous amount of documentation, training classes, and opportunities to increase knowledge of the system.
- The customization options are endless.
- User friendly interface.
- Definitely takes a while to get familiar in the system.
- Certain mass editing options could be improved.
- Ability to configure certain defaults sometimes seems limited.
It is great for keeping electronic information on employees.
- Employee information. It is very helpful to be able to pull up one screen and see all the demographics. Also very easy to report on.
- Time keeping. Access is great from employees to managers to HR. We can edit if someone needs to change time and push it through for them. Although we don't like to do this, I like to have the option. Very easy to see historical time as well.
- Performance management. The tools set up is great even though we had some hiccups. I like the fact that we can build the tool to what our organization needs and have a few different ones for different populations. We did not use the merit increase tool as this was our first time doing online performance management but I'd like to use that feature this year.
- Historical records. I appreciate when an employee leaves our organization that all the information remains for me to see, it doesn't just wipe them out of our system and make it more difficult to find. It's the same as pulling up an active employee which is easy.
- Yearly training. I like that we can track when an employee took New Hire Training or other training that we offer. I think there is a better way for us to utilize this but we just haven't gotten around to it. Ideally, I'd love that when someone is a year old, that particular employee gets an automatic email. I haven't even looked into it, but perhaps that feature is already there.
- Room notes - something better than we have today. More of a list, with dates, etc.
- Room for LOA notes, again, list sorted by dates so you can follow someone's leave.
- Termination screens should in there in the employee record, shouldn't have to do a different search for it.
Kronos has a good response rate when reaching out. I love the live chat. It is quick and easy rather than going through the trouble of putting in a whole ticket.
Lots of bells and whistles but ultimately disappointing
- Response time is fairly quick from support
- Lots of configuration options
- Lots of documentation to review
- Support for Advanced Scheduler is weak
- The implementation team we used was not that experienced or didn't understand our needs
- It is hard to find answers to your questions on the community page
Good system but could be improved
Used as the HRIS--manages anything employee related: data, onboarding, training and certification records, demographics, etc.
Problems it addresses--maintaining an accurate employee database, historic data, keeping on top of certification records, etc.
- Ability to customize reports
- Notifications
- Relatively simple-to-use look
- Ability to schedule reports with more than 3,500 lines
- Simplify overall look and functionality of security profiles
- Custom forms--looks, functionality
- HR actions--looks, functionality
- Smart date handling in reports--more options, as they are very limited
- Customizability--ability to customize more of the generic fields within the system
- Org map can be vastly improved--looks too basic
- Inability to proxy in as a user to see what issues they are running into (this is the most important improvement that's needed, in my opinion)
Although it has a good foundation--when you're using it for larger companies like ours (6500+ employees), we basically need to use every module to its fullest. Unfortunately a lot of the modules within the system aren't very developed and only allow basic functionality.
UKG Ready Admin Loves & Hates!
- Customization.
- Capabilities.
- UI fluent (mobile, desktop, etc.).
- Complexity.
- Heavy detail-specific configurations.
- Workflow capabilities.
New player in the HRIS space that punches above its weight
- Certification handling
- Reporting analytics
- User interface
- Performance reviews
- Recruitment
- APIs
A simple easy system without the fluff
- Time
- Payroll
- reporting
- Performance Reviews
- Recruiting
- Access for admins to log in as employees
UKG Ready will give you the gift of time!
- Quick payroll processing
- Manages complex timesheets
- Report availability
- Nice user interface
- Latency issues
- Constant updates
- Every module has a price
This is a good system for smaller companies
- The HR module is fairly intuitive for users to navigate.
- The homepage and dashboards are easy to read.
- Employees can review their own information using ESS functions.
- Employees can submit changes to their information using HR actions and forms.
- As an administrator, many areas of the system are hard coded and we are not given the ability to edit them, while other areas allow any employee to make changes and edit what all others see.
- There are a lot of small enhancements that need to be made. Judging from the ideas section of the help community, some ideas sit for three years with hundreds of people upvoting them, and they are still not implemented.
- The system seems to be intuitive, but its easy to get lost in the navigation.
- The system tries to be agile and customizable, but when we try to change something, we are told its hard coded and we can't change it, but we're encouraged to submit an idea to the help community in hopes that it gets noticed.
Pretty good stuff, with a few caveats
- Accurate time calculations.
- Accurate leave balances.
- Scheduling/shift availability.
- Advanced scheduler is cumbersome to learn and manage.
- Constantly changing the look of forms is painful for inexperienced employees to learn and re-learn.
- Would like to see a totally simplified user interface for basic employees that is very dead-simple.
UKG Ready is a great product!
- Handles complex time keeping needs very well.
- Data in/Data out is extremely easy.
- User-friendly User Interface - intuitive for users
- Can't filter on custom reports in the system
Time for a break-up?
- Kiosks are easy to use
- Tracking punches
- The implementation process needs a lot of work.
Great way to help standardize your processes
- Helping with cases-Support Team
- Standardize processes
- Reporting
- Payroll processing
- Work flows
- Custom Form Capiblity
Old is sometimes better!
- Timekeeping.
- Lots of difficulties with implantation.
- Had lots of issues that has required assistance.
- When fixing one issue, it seems to upset several other things.
- Sometimes slow turn around on needs.
- Counters are difficult to set up, and to get in the exact right order.
- Reports are horrible.
- Viewing layout is not great. Requires too much scrolling.
Happy with Kronos
- Quality support
- Great reporting capabilities
- Products are seamless and work well together
- Too many constant changes to the product, it's hard to keep up with
- Some of the items that were available in the former UI are not offered in the new UI
- Correcting the semi-monthly weighted-average overtime calculations to reflect what Wage and Hour requires
User Friendly System with Customization Options
- Customization.
- Automation.
- Implementation is overwhelming.
Terrific value and the best support staff around?
- The support staff is AWESOME.
- Our implementation team was great.
- The system is very user friendly.
- We dislike the function of forcing employees to consent to electronic W-2's.
- Our transition rep (between implementation and total support) was not good.
- Can't think of anything else - it's only been 5 months.
WFR Ready Review Feld
- Time tracking is straight forward.
- Audit trails are very helpful and easily accessed.
- Provides data for separate payroll module outside of WFR.
- Automating the building and maintenance of employee profiles is a bit cumbersome.
- Although online learning is great, sometimes a searchable manual could help our managers.
Mobile access is great!
UKG Ready is for Us!
- UKG keeps an accurate log of time for employees.
- UKG is easy to use when requesting time off.
- UKG has many features available to use for a variety of businesses.
- UKG support has been very helpful for any issues or questions we may have.
- The biometric does not always catch every finger print, but I believe that is not directly a UKG problem.
- The live chat is not always available when I need it.
- Mass editing could use some improvement, like allowing to replace a holiday already populated with another day.