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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

UKG Ready review

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
Incentivized
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)
    7.3
    73%
  • Report builder (167)
    7.2
    72%

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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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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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
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.

8.3
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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February 26, 2024

UKG Ready review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reminder Notifications
  • Always expanding capabilities
  • Mobile app
  • Ease of work flows
  • Some limitations of workflows of offer letters - only one manager review option at this time
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Time Keeping.
  • PTO Requests.
  • Reporting
  • Audit Trail.
  • I would like to see the balances for PTO described and grouped differently. Employees continue to be confused with the "Projected balances" section. Maybe this can be worded one way for the users and another for the admins.
  • The Passwords to access the system, plus the need for a verification code, is a huge pain point for our deskless workers. We have a lot of frustration around accessing the system to clock in and out, request time off, etc. The increase in user adoption is a struggle.
  • It would be great to have UKG Pro and UKG Ready in one application on the mobile app; having access to areas to simply punch in and out for your daily shift is counterintuitive.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I find timesheets to be easy to use and provide good details for employees and employers.
  • I love how customizable the dashboard is. This is a time saver for someone working in HR.
  • The payroll process was easy to learn. The steps are simple to follow, and changes can be made to the pay statements with ease.
  • There are a few places where there are extra clicks to confirm actions. I feel in most areas, this is not necessary.
  • Although checklists are great in many ways, the layout with the checklist to the left and the action in the middle of the page can be hard for new hires to follow. I also do not like that the checklist opens when it is assigned; this is not necessary, and it wastes time.
  • For an organization that has employees working in many departments, it would be helpful to have the Default Department listed in the rate table next to the Base Compensation Record.
October 27, 2023

UKG Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Time Keeping
  • System Personalization
  • Reporting
  • One on One training
  • Easier step by step instructions
  • More Personalization of fields
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to Customize.
  • Customer Support is usually quick to respond.
  • Lots of training opportunities.
  • The Recruiting Module is not applicant-friendly.
  • Too easy to customize. Not enough questions are asked when making changes to make sure what you need is being accomplished.
October 26, 2023

Happy HR Professional.

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reports - they are so easy to customize on the spot, create from scratch, share, and easy access on the dashboard. Best I have ever had!
  • Employee Self-Service - there are so many options; we have rolled things out slowly and are always finding new things to allow employees to self-serve.
  • Payroll - simple and easy to access and update on the backend when needed.
  • Recruitment - Too clunky to maneuver for supervisors and employees, needs to be streamlined.
  • Onboarding/Checklists - The layout can be confusing, and documents go missing.
  • Job Descriptions - Need easy storage/access/editing.
October 25, 2023

Workforce ready review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting is probably the best feature of WFR, it is easy to create and modify your own reporting needs while filtering the data and exporting.
  • Using FMLA, ACA, & Points helps us manage our associate data effectively.
  • Self Service
  • Attendance(points) process could use some improvement. Setting up and maintaining I find easier than WFC however we lost some functionality in the automatic processing as well as document generation.
  • FMLA module has a lot of restrictions on setup and has to be handled manually.
  • Not all fields for data entry are effective data which cause some issues in changing associates profiles in a timely manner.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Time Keeping is done very well, especially in calculating current pay period hours
  • Vacation balances and the way that is managed is excellent
  • Ease of updating employee data makes using the system very easy
  • It is a little difficult to update employee socials if they are a permanent resident or in the process of obtaining a social security number.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • timekeeping & accruals
  • payroll tax reconciliation
  • reporting functionality
  • implementation & integration timelines
  • journal entry & gl compatibility with outside accoutning resources
  • finding direct point of contact for problems
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Timekeeping and payroll
  • Open Enrollment online
  • Benefits management
  • Reports - millions of them!
  • Implementation team - ours had turned over completely by the time we went live
  • Implementation felt very rushed
  • The attestation feature is not meaningful with payroll and submitting time sheets
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • UKG is really good at work flows
  • UKG has a large community forum to reference
  • UKG has robust reporting that also can be fine-tuned and tailored
  • UKG has easy to read and understand dashboards of HR data
  • To be able to customize more of UKG's generic fields would be nice
  • Overcomplicated on some processes; could simplify processes or steps on many things.
  • Overall look could be simplified.
  • Would be beneficial to have a dedicated Solutions Manager or Account Manager.
DeAnna Primus | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • UKG is constantly updating its Software to what the customers' needs are
  • UKG has knowledgeable staff in all areas of its software to help customers
  • UKG continually offers training to its customers
  • Better support when onboarding new customers. My experience was receiving enough education to get UKG up and running. I did not learn all that UKG can do for me as a customer.
  • The new Company Hub page took a lot of work to format. I would have liked to have templates to utilize the setup of the Company Hub better.
  • Projects take forever when requested from UKG
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting for complicated timecard management
  • Flexible payroll processing
  • Easy, one-stop source of employee HR/benefits information
  • System is very complicated, which is a plus because it can handle almost any situation but difficult to learn
  • There are often several ways to complete a task and it isn't always clear the most efficient route to follow
  • Reporting can be clumsy to customize
October 20, 2023

Fair and balanced

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • EEO-1 reporting support
  • ACA tracking
  • Equalize knowledge base of customer support staff - have consistent answers regardless of associate or allow customers to contact support staff who previously supported us.
  • Enhance reporting capabilities and training opportunities so I don't have to go to AI applications with a raw EE dataset
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Timesheet Counters.
  • Advance scheduler automation.
  • Payroll Interface to UKG Payroll.
  • UKG Pro HR records do not sync into UKG WFR- WFR defaults total annualized hours to 2080 versus the scheduled hours in UKG; part-time hours and salaries are not housed in WFR correctly. The Standard Accrued Liability report does not calculate properly for part-time employees.
  • Workload template & refreshing Schedule template-Adding new shifts to the workload template cannot be refreshed in the Schedule Template. All shifts are re-imported. To correct each shift in each template needs to be manually deleted.
  • Accruals Reset: Terminated employee's accrual balances are retained in WFR indefinitely. Re-hires in UKG Pro require a manual re-hire process in WFR to clear out old balances.
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