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Best decision our organization made!
Updated November 24, 2020

Best decision our organization made!

Lisa Farris | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with UKG Ready (formerly Kronos Workforce Ready)

River Valley Resources, Inc uses Kronos Workforce Ready accross the entire agency. We have employees in many locations throught Regions 9 and 10. We use this for time keeping, payroll and paid leave purposes.
  • Customer Service is amazing! If I run into an issue that I don't quite know how to address, I reach out to Support my creating a case in the Kronos system. We usually have resolution within the hour.
  • The Workforce Ready system is user friendly and easy to explain to new employees during their orientations.
  • We use many different funding sources. The system is able to allow time charging to all funding sources through the Cost Center Setup.
  • Pulling out reports by funding stream.
  • Removing of codes that have not been used after a duration of time.
  • This does not apply to our Organization
A huge benefit to having Kronos is the Resources available. Our organization has received so much assistance from Michelle.
We can't seem to get our PTO accruals to coordinate with when our organization releases the hours to our employees. Other than that Kronos is a blessing.
We have to do a lot of reports as we are a non-profit who receives state, federal, and grant funds to operate our programs. Kronos makes it so easy to pull out the information that we need to make up these reports.
Every time something with payroll changes you can find a plethora of information in Kronos Community. I have also done many webinars, which are actually interesting. The resource guides are phenomenal.
I feel that we have great support from UKG. The only issue is that we used to have 1 go to person and now it seems as though if we need help and submit a case the case goes to whomever.

Do you think UKG Ready delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with UKG Ready's feature set?

Yes

Did UKG Ready live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of UKG Ready go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy UKG Ready again?

Yes

I find that the platform is very user friendly. Some, many, of our older employees would disagree with me.
This system is user friendly and that is exactly what our Agency needs.

UKG Ready Feature Ratings

6.7
Employee demographic data
Not Rated
Employment history
10
Job profiles and administration
Not Rated
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
5
Organizational charting
Not Rated
Organization and location management
Not Rated
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
5
9.7
Pay calculation
10
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
10
Salary revision and increment management
9
1.0
Approval workflow
Not Rated
Balance details
1
Annual carry-forward and encashment
Not Rated
8.5
View and generate pay and benefit information
9
Update personal information
8
View job history
Not Rated
View company policy documentation
Not Rated
Not Rated
Tracking of all physical assets
Not Rated
6.5
Report builder
5
Pre-built reports
8
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
9.0
New hire portal
9
Manager tracking tools
Not Rated
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
Not Rated
Performance tracking
Not Rated
Not Rated
Job Requisition Management
Not Rated
Company Website Posting
Not Rated
Publish to Social Media
Not Rated
Job Search Site Posting
Not Rated
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Not Rated
Applicant Tracking
Not Rated
Notifications and Alerts
Not Rated

Using UKG Ready (formerly Kronos Workforce Ready)

78 - Executive Director, Managers, Administrative Staff and Front Line Employees.
2 - The Controller/HR Manager and HR Assistant support employees with all things payroll. Our Controller/HR Manager has been in the business for over 30 years so she has tons of experience. I am the HR Assistant and before I started assisting with payroll in 2016 I had no experience. The training that I received from what was then APS was wonderful.
  • Payroll Processing
  • Time Keeping
  • Tax Jurisdictions
  • Deductions
  • Benefit tracking for employees. I don't think that they realized how much the organization alots as benefits in was other payments.
  • Employee Assessment
  • New Employee Onboarding
Training employees to use a new platform can be very difficult. At this time we are pleased with the services that we receive. I must admit that the new look is taking longer to get used to for many of our employees. The continued changing of a "go to" person for assistance could be better.

Evaluating UKG Ready (formerly Kronos Workforce Ready) and Competitors

  • Advisor recommendation
The organization was using APS, which became Kronos, which became UKG when I was hired on and asked to assume some of the payroll responsibility.
If I had to do it over again I would be a part of the evaluation and selection process. I would concentrate on how friendly will the platform be for our older generation of employees to use as that is where we seem to have most of out struggles. I would also want to see some type of user training not just for payroll administrators but for all employees.

UKG Ready (formerly Kronos Workforce Ready) Implementation

I think our employees would have benefited from a Kronos representative to come in and provide training.
  • Implemented in-house
  • Our employees were literally using paper time sheets prior
  • Getting employees excited about something new
  • Technology!! Many of our older employees do not like it and don't want to use it.

UKG Ready (formerly Kronos Workforce Ready) Support

ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
No escalation required
Support understands my problem
None
Our "go to" person at the time was named Michelle Buchanan. I was having difficulty setting up an employees taxes who lived in one state but worked in another. It was becomming very frustrating and it didn't help that I was new to payroll processing. Michelle was, number one, very patient with me. She kept me calm and walkeed me through the necessary steps. I really appreciate all of the assistance she provided to me.

Using UKG Ready (formerly Kronos Workforce Ready)

ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
Slow to learn
  • Time Keeping
  • Payroll Processing
  • Some Reporting, but not all
  • Some Reporting
  • Payroll tax set up
  • End of the year processing