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UKG Workforce Central (discontinued)

UKG Workforce Central (discontinued)
Formerly Kronos Workforce Central

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What is UKG Workforce Central (discontinued)?

UKG Workforce Central (formerly Kronos Workforce Central) was a suite of HR Management offerings targeted mainly at enterprise customers with larger-scale and more complex HR and workforce management issues. The product is discontinued.

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What is UKG Workforce Central (discontinued)?

UKG Workforce Central (formerly Kronos Workforce Central) was a suite of HR Management offerings targeted mainly at enterprise customers with larger-scale and more complex HR and workforce management issues. The product is discontinued.

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Product Details

What is UKG Workforce Central (discontinued)?

UKG Workforce Central (formerly Kronos Workforce Central) was a suite of HR Management offerings targeted mainly at enterprise customers with larger-scale and more complex HR and workforce management issues. The product is discontinued.

UKG Workforce Central (discontinued) Features

  • Supported: Core HR
  • Supported: Scheduling
  • Supported: Absence management
  • Supported: Time and Attendance
  • Supported: Payroll
  • Supported: Analytics

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UKG Workforce Central (discontinued) Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesUS, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Middle East/Africa, Asia/Pacific
Supported LanguagesUS English, French Canadian, French-France, Italian, Korean, Polish, Spanish-Mexico, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, Dutch, Brazilian, Portuguese, Japanese

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UKG Workforce Central (formerly Kronos Workforce Central) was a suite of HR Management offerings targeted mainly at enterprise customers with larger-scale and more complex HR and workforce management issues. The product is discontinued.

ADP Workforce Now and Dayforce are common alternatives for UKG Workforce Central (discontinued).

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.1.

The most common users of UKG Workforce Central (discontinued) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Kronos would be good for a company with an HRIS team

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 05, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
UKG Workforce Central (discontinued)
5 years of experience
We have been using Kronos WC since 2014 and recently upgraded to Kronos WC 8.0. We use it for Timekeeper, Human Resources and Payroll functions and process payroll in house. We implemented the Attendance Module after one year of using the system.
  • Tracking Punches
  • One data entry point for Timekeeper, HR & Payroll
  • Reporting in WC 8.0
Cons
  • Difficult to set-up: not a good canned system. Many hours of programming required for set-up
  • Not as integrated as led to believe: there are issues with integration of data at times
  • Difficult to set-up interfaces: the system is not friendly for interfaces
Kronos would be suited to a company that has an HRIS team. Difficult to maintain without HRIS expertise. In these cases, you will be relying on a consultant to do simple quarterly updates.

Kronos Workforce Central at a large research University

Rating: 6 out of 10
January 24, 2014
Vetted Review
Verified User
UKG Workforce Central (discontinued)
8 years of experience
Kronos Workforce Central is used across the University and is the timekeeping system of record for all hourly employees. Workforce Central was selected to replace a legacy, in-house developed system that was nearing end of life. The Kronos Workforce Central solution provided additional functionality, while also allowing the University to apply a consistent application of rules for rounding, leave tracking, and compensatory time tracking.
  • Workforce Central offers an array of time collection options, including physical time clock, web time clock, mobile, and a pay from schedule option. Departments have the flexibility of choosing the time collection option that meets their need.
  • Workforce Central time cards have an impressive audit trail and reporting capability, allowing supervisors to determine how an employee's punch was added to their time card.
  • Kronos is enhancing the mobile capabilities withing Workforce Central, allowing additional flexibility to those departments and employees that need this option.
Cons
  • Workforce Central supervisors interact with the system using a web browser. Advanced time card options require the client PC to use the Java Runtime Environment (Java). Kronos has struggled over the years to keep up with the Java updates and at times, this has been a source of frustration for our campus supervisors. Java related issues include very slow system response times and in some instances, a failure to access the system completely. In fairness, many vendors have also struggled with Java updates. Preferably, vendors would move away from the Java requirement.
  • On a University campus, student employees often have multiple jobs. These part-time jobs are in various departments with different funding sources and supervisors. The Workforce Central product historically did not work well for employees with multiple jobs. Kronos has begun to offer new software enhancements that are designed to address this issue, but the updates are an additional cost and not included in the base Workforce Central product.
  • While the Workforce Central solution contains many standard reports, adding custom reports is not easy and requires billable support from Kronos.
It is important to understand your workforce and the needs of the employee and department supervisor. Workforce Central is a very good product, but understanding how it will be used in your environment is key. Workforce Central works very well in auxiliary units that use time clocks but is less effective in academic units with student employees that work multiple jobs.

Kronos: Easy to Use, Easy to Track

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 22, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
UKG Workforce Central (discontinued)
7 years of experience
Across the entire school district we use Kronos for keeping track of hours and work dates. It helps the district keep 2500+ staff members organized and it's easy enough to use. Many staff members use it to predict vacation hours, sick hours to help them plan for their vacations. Having an easy-to-use, organized space to keep track of their hours.
  • Hours tracker.
  • Reports of accrual balances and projections.
Cons
  • For what it is, it doesn't need any improvements.
No matter the size of your business, Kronos Workforce Central is well suited for you to keep track of all of your employees hours, vacation time, sick time and more. If you are a business owner looking for an easy way to keep track of all the staff information for sick time, hours, etc..

Kronos Workforce Central - Works even in the Bush of Alaska

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 03, 2015
SH
Vetted Review
Verified User
UKG Workforce Central (discontinued)
7 years of experience
Workforce Central was used throughout our organization, which encompassed our main hospital in Bethel, Alaska as well as 50 village clinics that were spread-out across the "bush" of western Alaska. The business problem that Workforce Central addressed was the HR / Payroll and Time & Attendance management of our employees, regardless of the location of the staff. Considering that we had no road connecting our main hospital in Bethel to our village clinics, the accurate management of these functions with an electronic system was imperative for accurate and timely payroll.
  • Time and Attendance integration is exceptional, whether using time clocks on online clocking capabilities at off-site locations that lack physical time clocks
  • The ability to track details from an HR perspective, such as educational requirements (and expirations), immunization status, etc was well built
  • Security is very granular, so you can give certain users access to certain pieces of the application, while maintaining security in other areas.
Cons
  • Administration of the system is complex. There is no way that an organization with no formal IT department will be able to effectively able to manage the complexity of the system without some outside assistance. This wasn't a problem for our organization as we had a large, formal IT department, but we had four people involved in the build process and one person dedicating approximately 30% of their time to the day-to-day management of the system.
  • The server requirements are extremely robust for the system, utilizing more resources than I really think should be required. Although the system does support virtualization, you have to dedicate a significant amount of CPU and memory to each virtual machine to obtain peak performance.
  • Although you can import data from an extract, this is complex to do. Even if you have someone who is a SQL (this is the version we used) expert, developing importation scripts is difficult. Most likely, if you are doing a switch from a previous system, you will need third party assistance to develop the import / validation scripts.
I would not suggest Workforce Central for small organizations with fairly simply pay rules. The system is so complex that you will be purchasing capabilities that you will likely never use. However, if you are a large, complex organization with complex pay rules (such as a union shop) and difficult tracking requirements, then I would highly suggest looking into the system. Because the system supports virtualization and use of SQL versus more expensive Oracle, mid-sized organizations may find Workforce Central very appealing.

Workforce Central - Its Time to Consider It

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 25, 2014
JV
Vetted Review
Verified User
UKG Workforce Central (discontinued)
7 years of experience
KRONOS Workforce Central is being used across the whole organization as its primary timekeeping tool. This tool helps address accurate time keeping of the workforce along with PTO management.
  • Timekeeping including clock punching, web punching, and cell app punching
  • PTO management -- submission, review, auto deduction
  • Pay rules - ability to designate rules based on groups, individuals, and more
Cons
  • As a web-based solution, Workforce Payroll requires internet connectivity for data access – offline capabilities are not available.
  • Being Microsoft-based, browser support is limited to Internet Explorer.
  • Kronos’ international presence will always be restricted as long as Workforce Payroll (and HR) is only available in the English language.
Expectations and requirements need set to make sure it is right or right sized for the company in question. The product can be overwhelming if you do not approach it properly
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