[In My Opinion:] It Does It's Job, but Not Always Easily
September 23, 2021

[In My Opinion:] It Does It's Job, but Not Always Easily

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ADP Workforce Now

It is being used across the whole organization. We use it for all human resource systems and payroll as well as recruiting and onboarding.
  • Once I get the correct properties and reports created, it runs reports nicely.
  • [It has good] benefits administration.
  • [It has a good] personal profile for employees.
  • Performance dashboard: [in my experience,] the entire review process is clunky from setting up the review forms to the final completion when an employee acknowledges their review. [I believe] my managers despise the performance reviews because they are not user-friendly. [In my experience,] we have had issues with reviews getting stuck in the system and it takes days for the ADP development team to get them unstuck. As a practitioner, I wish the performance reviews would automatically flow over into the Employee Documents and that is not an option. I also would [like to] receive a notification when a review has been completed. I was recently told that is also not an option.
  • [In my opinion,] their customer service representatives are sometimes quite rude and talk to me like I'm ignorant. [In my case,] if I call or chat in and I get a certain person, I will just hang up because [I feel] that person has been [previously] unhelpful and quite rude in the process.
  • [In my experience with] other times when I call in with an issue, they try to answer a different question rather than the question I have. And other times, I have been transferred back and forth between departments, specifically between payroll and time card management. [In my experience,] I have even had the people in payroll tell me that the time and attendance team should be handling my issue, and then I am told it's just because time and attendance is being lazy and doesn't want to handle my issue. I [believe I] have come to the conclusion [and feel] that oftentimes the ADP representative doesn't actually know how to help me out and [I think they] need better training.
  • Communication with ADP representative in Service Connect: [in my experience,] if I put in a service request, it takes at least 1 week to hear back from someone. Other times [in my experience], if I call in, and they are unable to help me at the moment, they will open up a service ticket and in several instances, I'm told they will update me later that day. [In my experience,] I've had it take two weeks before I hear back from that individual. When I go in to "escalate" the ticket, I've received emails stating that they have tried calling me. [From my standpoint,] those emails always come after hours, and I [don't believe I] had a missed call or voicemail from that representative so I [feel] they are lying, so I email back and let him know I never received a call from him. [In my experience,] when I finally get to talk to the representative, he will let me know that he looks at my case every day and that I need to quit escalating it and that he would be back in touch with me the next day. [In my opinion,] he never kept his word and it would be nearly 1-2 weeks before I would hear from him again. In this particular instance, it took 2 months for him to tell me it was finally resolved. These are just recent frustrations I've had when I call in. [In my point of view,] I have come to the conclusion that the representatives need to be better trained and more customer service friendly and helpful.
  • I think that overall, ADP [Workforce Now] does a decent job in employee management.
  • [In my experience,] we've had issues with some tax bills not getting paid when we were told they were through Smart Compliance. But for the most part, Smart Compliance is really helpful.
  • I do like that ADP SASS can be tied into the recruiting module. However, [in my opinion,] it is very difficult to call into SASS because often there is a 4-5 hour wait time to speak to someone.
[Personally,] I do not love most things about ADP [Workforce Now], so I cannot rate much of what it does very high. [In my opinion,] it does it's basic job, but overall in most aspects, I feel it is clunky and difficult to get good help.
  • We have integrated Zip Recruiter with [ADP] Workforce Now.
  • I have looked into integrating LinkedIn Recruiter with [ADP] Workforce Now.
Zip Recruiter was easy because it has been built-in.
In order to integrate LinkedIn, it looks like I would need to purchase another app off of the ADP Marketplace, and I'm not sure we would want to go in that direction.

Do you think ADP Workforce Now delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with ADP Workforce Now's feature set?

No

Did ADP Workforce Now live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of ADP Workforce Now go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy ADP Workforce Now again?

No

Overall [in my opinion], support is probably my biggest complaint with [ADP] Workforce Now. I think their support staff needs better training on customer service manners.
I think that ADP W[orkforce] N[ow] has a lot of capabilities, but I believe they should provide a better explanation within [Workforce Now] on how to perform certain aspects. [Personally,] I don't like having to call in to get help every time I need something. I'll look questions up on the Bridge as well, but typically, I don't have time to browse through looking for my answer. Earlier this year, we paid to have a Utilization Review, and with several of the recommendations, I have called in to try to implement those recommendations. These have been smaller recommendations, and [in my experience,] the ADP representative has told me it's not possible to do what I'm asking. [I feel like] that's been frustrating and leads me to believe that the representatives need to be more thoroughly trained on the product.

ADP Workforce Now Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
Not Rated
Employment history
5
Job profiles and administration
7
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
6
Organizational charting
8
Organization and location management
6
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Not Rated
Pay calculation
Not Rated
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
Salary revision and increment management
Not Rated
Reimbursement management
Not Rated
Approval workflow
6
Balance details
6
View and generate pay and benefit information
5
Update personal information
5
View company policy documentation
5
Employee recognition
Not Rated
Report builder
3
Pre-built reports
3
Ability to combine HR data with external data
3
Performance plans
1
Performance improvement plans
Not Rated
Review status tracking
4
Review reminders
5
Multiple review frequency
Not Rated
Corporate goal setting
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
Not Rated
Line-of sight-visibility
Not Rated
Performance tracking
Not Rated
Job Requisition Management
5
Company Website Posting
Not Rated
Publish to Social Media
5
Job Search Site Posting
Not Rated
Applicant Tracking
5
Notifications and Alerts
5