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Payroll Review
Updated February 28, 2020

Payroll Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Kronos Workforce Ready

Being used throughout our organization.
  • Electronic time keep has streamlined the payroll process for our organization.
  • Applicant tracking and on-boarding has had positive results.
  • A more universal reports system. Not all available fields are in all reports.
  • I don't have any information to answer this question.
We felt Kronos fit our organization better.
A solid 8, at times higher, and other times lower on the scale.
From a payroll perspective, Kronos has completely changed my job and streamlined our payroll process.
I wish there was more human contact with the quick training. The majority of my questions can't be answered by searching the community. I find the community is lacking in that respect.
Payroll processing has been a new experience for us. It has its ups and downs.

UKG Ready Feature Ratings

7.8
Employee demographic data
8
Employment history
8
Job profiles and administration
8
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
8
Organizational charting
7
Organization and location management
8
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Not Rated
7.6
Pay calculation
8
Support for external payroll vendors
8
Benefit plan administration
7
Direct deposit files
8
Salary revision and increment management
7
7.3
Approval workflow
8
Balance details
7
Annual carry-forward and encashment
7
8.0
View and generate pay and benefit information
9
Update personal information
8
View job history
8
View company policy documentation
7
7.0
Tracking of all physical assets
7
7.0
Report builder
7
Pre-built reports
7
Integration with other HR capabilities ()
Not Rated
Not Rated
Performance plans
Not Rated
Performance improvement plans
Not Rated
Review status tracking
Not Rated
Review reminders
Not Rated
Multiple review frequency
Not Rated
Not Rated
Create succession plans/pools
Not Rated
8.0
New hire portal
8
Manager tracking tools
8
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
Not Rated
Performance tracking
Not Rated
7.8
Job Requisition Management
8
Company Website Posting
8
Publish to Social Media
8
Job Search Site Posting
8
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Not Rated
Applicant Tracking
8
Notifications and Alerts
7

Using Kronos Workforce Ready

From employees clocking time to our CEO managing employees, our entire company uses Kronos Workforce Ready.
5 - Basically our HR Team. Although all of our branches have staff champions to assist with some functions.
  • Payroll
  • Onboarding
  • Human Capital Management
  • Streamlining payroll
  • Electronic onboarding
  • Managers have access to employee pay rates, PTO, etc.
  • Online Benefit Enrollment
  • FMLA and Personnel Leave Tracking
  • Work Scheduling
We're only a year into our contract but it has been a good change for our organization. If Kronos keeps in front of the competitors and offers a bigger and better product I believe we will continue with Kronos.

Evaluating Kronos Workforce Ready and Competitors

Yes - Sage ABRA Suite
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
Usability and price.
Not sure that we would at this point.

Kronos Workforce Ready Implementation

Overall we made it through....but looking back there are many things that could've made the implementation smoother.
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
  • Certain earnings codes set up incorrectly that paid our employees incorrectly
  • Not always being on the same page with our implementation specialist
  • Having to repeatedly submit the same reports over the course of a year and the custom reports that were to be created by Kronos were not created.

Kronos Workforce Ready Training

  • Online training
Not applicable.
Sometimes hard to understand without the human touch! Overall we got enough training to get us started. A lot we had to learn through trial and error.
Not applicable as we did online training. After the online training most of what we learned is through trial and error self training.

Configuring Kronos Workforce Ready

I'm not familiar in this area.
Sorry I do not
Yes - we have added extensive custom code - Many custom payroll and benefit codes.
None

Kronos Workforce Ready Support

ProsCons
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
Support understands my problem
Support cares about my success
Escalation required
Difficult to get immediate help
Slow Initial Response
Yes - No, it is not resolved in a timely matter.
When we first started with Kronos some of our year end fringe reporting was new to Kronos and they worked with us to come up with a solution that would work for us.

Using Kronos Workforce Ready

ProsCons
Like to use
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Lots to learn
  • Payroll Processing
  • Reporting
  • Benefits Enrollment
  • Some on boarding features
  • Payroll corrections
  • I-9 auditing
  • ACA Reporting
Overall it works well for us but there are areas such as ACA reporting that are still very manual to our organization.

Kronos Workforce Ready Reliability

Integrating Kronos Workforce Ready

Relationship with Kronos Incorporated

Very personable and knowledgeable.
Still have a relationship.
I'm not familiar with this
None

Upgrading Kronos Workforce Ready