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UKG Ready

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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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Recent Reviews

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10 out of 10
February 26, 2024
Incentivized
We use UKG Ready for payroll, compliance training, recording and distribution of our monthly safety meetings. All policy and handbook …
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UKG Review

10 out of 10
October 27, 2023
Incentivized
We use UKG for our time management system and HR date. I am very pleased with all of the features of the system to capture the data I need …
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Happy HR Professional.

7 out of 10
October 26, 2023
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We use it for recruitment, onboarding, timekeeping, payroll, benefit management, evaluations, and document storage. It has allowed us to …
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Popular Features

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  • Employee demographic data (155)
    8.6
    86%
  • Pay calculation (164)
    8.6
    86%
  • Pre-built reports (168)
    7.4
    74%
  • Report builder (167)
    7.2
    72%

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Pricing

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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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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

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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.

7.6
Avg 7.8

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

8.1
Avg 8.0

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.

7.6
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.

8.1
Avg 8.1

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.

8.4
Avg 7.7

HR Reporting

Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.

7.3
Avg 7.6

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.

7.1
Avg 8.0

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
Avg 8.1

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

6.6
Avg 7.9

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

5.5
Avg 7.9

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.

6.7
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

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.

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

UKG Ready Screenshots

Screenshot of UKG Ready® HR - A single solution for employee information that enables comprehensive people analytics and room for HR strategy.Screenshot of UKG Ready® Payroll - Facilitates pay that is quick, simple, and correct.Screenshot of UKG Ready® Time & Attendance - Streamlines time tracking with consistent, fair rules.Screenshot of UKG Ready® Talent - Tools to source, engage, develop and grow people.Screenshot of UKG Ready® Analytics - Offers proactive, practical, and guidance.Screenshot of UKG Ready® Benefits - Right-sizes benefits to match the organization and its people.

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UKG Ready Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAustralia, Canada, UK, Belgium, Mexico, Netherlands, France
Supported LanguagesEnglish (US &UK), French (Canada & France), Spanish, and Dutch

Frequently Asked Questions

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Reviewers rate Direct deposit files highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of UKG Ready are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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August 08, 2022

UKG Ready Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I able to see all settings that all are assigned to our companies and all employees. All resources needed to perform specific items are easy to use and webinars provide good information which helps me complete quarter end, year end, ACA reporting, PBJ filing and preparation of multiple audits. Reports, once set up, can be modified and saved.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In the payroll position, UKG gives me great access to see all of the HR and payroll data in one place. It's so helpful to easily be able to flip to an employee's profile, documents, or audit trail to see changes made, confirm adjustments, and see recent documents from the employees. I am a one-person payroll department with over 600 employees and I could not get my job done timely without UKG.
Steve Usarzewicz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
The software, while incredibly powerful, is also extremely user-friendly. Because of this, it allows my department of six employees to support over 60,000 users. We have taken government payrolls that used to be paper and pen from a 3-day process of collection, compilation, and entry to a couple of hours while increasing the integrity of the data and offering robust reporting - in many cases downloadable to 6 different formats (CSV, Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, Text). In addition to opening up data integration possibilities, this also allows the end-user to perform other tasks that are a value add to their organization, rather than spending countless hours on menial data entry tasks.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a fire service organization with 110 employees. UKG Ready provides our only HR platform for all personnel including firefighting staff, administrative staff, support staff and mechanics, and our community volunteer programs. Since the UKG rollout nearly 4 years ago, I receive feedback from staff daily on the convenience of having a program, such as UKG Ready, to have access to. By comparison, a neighboring department utilizes a program managed by the City government and they are very dissatisfied.
August 16, 2021

UKG Ready Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As HR Director, UKG Ready allows me the ability to quickly access my to-do items. From hiring, terminations, write-ups, and vacation requests, I can see them all in one spot with the click of a button. I am able to save time because I am not constantly searching for requests from my employees.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would give this a higher rating as I use it for reporting mostly, but my staff needs better ability with payroll flexibility. Also, we still struggle with the full use of the system as it is a self-taught system and we do not always have the staff to work through these types of improvements.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is super helpful in providing information, reports, etc. however sometimes the process is very complex and I am researching how to do something pretty simple. I really enjoy this program but I wish certain things were a little more straight forward.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Benefits, performance management and compensation are three main items I work on once a year, there is regular maintenance, but with this being our first year with UKG Ready, I felt totally unprepared and I was constantly adding cases for support. Again, frustrating process to connect with the so called experts of the system.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Some parts of the system come across as fairly complicated, let's use pay calculations as an example. There is a lack of online documentation and learning resources to understand how to build new pay calculations from the ground up. I see this over and over again in the system and think they should invest more in learning resources and documentation.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
UKG Ready has a lot of reporting capability that payroll can use to ensure timecards are accurate. There are also a lot of warnings that can be utilized to notify payroll. EX: when a terminated employees has pay, when tax changes are made, or when tax accounts are not set up for employees.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I feel mostly in control of my team. The system is very broad and nuanced so I think some more controls in place would be good, but likely, they exist and just need to be implemented.
March 14, 2021

Go Green with UKG!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
UKG's super software, allows me to seamlessly configure, implement, and onboard all of our new clients from anywhere with internet access. It is so convenient to be able to complete half of my tasks via mobile phone as well. UKG's directory online even made it possible for one of my employees' to inform me of an urgent matter fairly quickly. Thanks!
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well, our first Performance Management Cycle 2019 wasn't great. We had many hangups with this. Reviews getting stuck, instructions too confusing, etc. I would give that a 3.

The employee data is great, being able to find info on an employee. Rating 8.

Keeping notes on a particular employee in a list fashion is what I would love to see. Rating 2.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I gave it this rating because it's an above average product. An example of why this rating isn't higher is because it doesn't have the somewhat basic functionality of proxy/login as an employee to assist issues that they are facing.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Based on how the employer has been configured, the manager or administrator can be heavily involved and in-the-know of workflows and approvals taking place, in real time. It's all going to be determined by how workflows and security profiles have been defined/configured.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reporting has been made much easier with UKG Ready (formerly Kronos Workforce Ready) due to the functionality of the reporting module. For example, we were able to create columns and apply formulas before we exported a report, cutting down on the data manipulation required.
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