Stay far, far, far away from Kronos Workforce Ready.
Updated September 14, 2016
Stay far, far, far away from Kronos Workforce Ready.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Kronos Workforce Ready
Kronos Workforce Ready (WFR) is being used by our HR department as their primary HRIS. WFR is also used for timekeeping by all departments throughout the company. We are also trialing the Scheduler module within WFR for use by operational departments. WFR was chosen as a stepping stone from Workforce Central which we had implemented on site for many years prior. We were looking for a homogenous solution to avoid many different software applications being used by separate departments.
- The UI design was very refreshing after using Workforce Central for years.
- The removal of Java was the largest plus for us as far as productivity.
- The inclusion of scheduler, HRIS and timekeeping in one system was a solution we were looking for.
- The migration team is very difficult to work with. We were given a lot of sales promises that the migration team could not live up to. The documentation for migration is horrible and their import templates are in their ALPHA generation. Some of the team is very disrespectful as well.
- The scheduler module should be labeled as an alpha or beta stage module. It should not be ready for production, nor should it be sold to customers as a viable product yet. It lacks many features and the speed is horrendous.
- They way Kronos associates roles, permissions, security levels and employee views is very cumbersome and laborious to administer.
- The implementation of WFR has had a huge negative impact on productivity by absorbing the time of highly qualified people within the company thereby sidetracking other priority projects.
- WFR is capable of improving its ROI as time progresses and features become more matured. At this time operational managers are still very gun shy.
- The intouch timeclocks are a large improvement over the 8500 and are a nice tool for self service.
- Workday
WFR beats out Workday in the area of having more sellable features. The only downside is many of those sellable features do not function properly or are limited in how they were designed. I still consider WFR a minimum viable product and many of the features are not ready for mass consumption. In my experience, Workday was much better planned in its development and features weren't made public for consumption until they were highly vetted by the development team.
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Since we were already using Workforce Central, and had only moved to their HRIS module within the past 3 years, we dreaded the idea of migrating our data do another HRIS system outside of the Kronos family. As it turns out the migration to another brand would have likely been just as easy or easier considering the WFR team had absolutely zero migration tools for coming from Workforce Central.