Overview
What is UKG Ready?
Designed for small businesses where everyone wears multiple hats, UKG Ready® is an HR solution that guides users through their day-to-day HR activities. Capabilities span from HR and payroll to talent and time.
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What is UKG Ready?
UKG Ready Features
Human Resource Management Features
- Supported: Employee demographic data
- Supported: Employment history
- Supported: Job profiles and administration
- Supported: Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
- Supported: Benefits information
- Supported: Organizational charting
- Supported: Organization and location management
- Supported: Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Payroll Management Features
- Supported: Pay calculation
- Supported: Support for external payroll vendors
- Supported: Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
- Supported: Payroll history for each employee
- Supported: Benefit plan administration
- Supported: Direct deposit files
- Supported: Payroll tracking and auditing
- Supported: Salary revision and increment management
- Supported: Statutory form management
Leave and Attendance Management Features
- Supported: Approval workflow
- Supported: Email notifications
- Supported: Balance details
- Supported: Annual carry-forward and encashment
Employee Self Service Features
- Supported: Employee login
- Supported: View and generate pay and benefit information
- Supported: Update personal information
- Supported: Request time off
- Supported: View job history
- Supported: View company policy documentation
- Supported: View company news and information
Asset Management Features
- Supported: Tracking of all physical assets
HR Reporting Features
- Supported: Report builder
- Supported: Pre-built reports
Integration with other HR capabilities Features
- Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by same vendor
- Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by different vendor
Performance Management Features
- Supported: Performance plans
- Supported: Performance improvement plans
- Supported: Review status tracking
- Supported: Review reminders
- Supported: Multiple review frequency
Succession Planning Features
- Supported: Create succession plans/pools
- Supported: Candidate ranking
- Supported: Candidate search
- Supported: Candidate development
Onboarding Features
- Supported: New hire portal
- Supported: Manager tracking tools
Performance and Goals Features
- Supported: Individual goal setting
- Supported: Performance tracking
Recruiting / ATS Features
- Supported: Job Requisition Management
- Supported: Company Website Posting
- Supported: Publish to Social Media
- Supported: Job Search Site Posting
- Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
- Supported: Applicant Tracking
- Supported: Notifications and Alerts
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UKG Ready Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | Australia, Canada, UK, Belgium, Mexico, Netherlands, France |
Supported Languages | English (US &UK), French (Canada & France), Spanish, and Dutch |
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Kronos Workforce Ready Timekeeping
- Kronos WFR does a good job managing our accrual policies once it has been configured.
- The reporting is better than most timekeeping systems I have used before.
- Kronos WFR is great for small to medium sized companies.
Cons
- WFR does not have the Historical Edits feature that Workforce Central has. Once a timesheet has been locked and processed in payroll you should not go back and modify that timesheet. What you need is the ability to make a correction on the current timesheet for a previous pay period so that you can process the correction with the payroll but for reporting you can have the corrected hours reflect in the pay period in which it should have been processed.
- When reviewing timesheets I would like to be able to lock the timesheets that have been approved and ready for processing instead of having to wait until all timesheets in the pay period have been completed to lock the pay period.
- I would like to have a sandbox of my system to test new configurations in instead of having to do it in my live system and creating test employees.
No IT Coding Required to Customize Your Settings. HR can Build and Update Without Support! Sadly, Not Suitable for Staffing Companies.
- Onboarding customization
- Checklist steps for admin steps/tracking
- Timecard customization options
- Basic ESS functions
Cons
- I would like to be able to process past pay period timecards. In staffing, we need to be able to process a prior pay period timecard with the current timecard. This is impossible.
- Modernizing onboarding to include video tutorials, and a better UI as workers get stuck a lot [...] requires a lot of IT troubleshooting from my HR team.
- I would like it if it could modernize the branding opportunities. We have to use noreply@kronos.com in order for our reports to be received. We can't include images in messages/notifications unless they have a URL from an image hosting site [that] is outdated.
May be better suited for other companies, we had many complications.
- Has the capability to collect and store a lot of information.
- Customizable.
- Keeps time decently.
Cons
- Can be overly complex for our current needs.
- At times will not correctly keep time within pay periods. Not sure why this happens but an employee's Sunday shift will roll back and tie in with his/her Saturday shift. Our pay periods end on Saturday, however in a couple of cases the employee has been paid for Sunday in that same pay period - the next pay period will not include the Sunday. The system still documents correct hours but has at times appropriated the hours into an incorrect pay period.
- We have had MANY issues implementing our pay rules in terms of shift differentials, into our time clock so that it translates correctly to our payroll program.
- Does not translate well into secondary payroll system.
- Spent a countless number of hours before AND after our go-live date working with multiple Kronos employees - over the phone - to make sure that our employees hours were being properly allotted to match up with our pay code system. These problems caused many, many issues with our payroll since we have gone live with Workforce Ready.
- Overall, felt that our initial Kronos "team" did a poor job working on our company's system in order to assure that no major payroll issues would occur. Seeing as the system took over 4 months to prepare, and another almost three months after implementation until we now feel somewhat comfortable that most issues are resolved, in hindsight it seems like we should have looked into other time keeping options since we ultimately rebuilt our timekeeping system from scratch even though we previously had a Kronos system as our time clock program.
Kronos WFR Adequate but not Outstanding
- Promotes employee self-service for completing new hire paperwork and making changes to payroll related settings eliminating administrative burden for a manager to complete.
- Our previous system could only be changed and updated centrally by a few managing employees. Kronos has given us the ability to delegate this access to a few managers at different branches spreading the responsibility.
- Kronos has allowed us to move from separate systems for recruiting and applying, scheduling, and payroll to one system that does all of these functions.
Cons
- Kronos is not always intuitive and can make it difficult to accomplish tasks that were previously simple in our legacy systems.
- Kronos has too many settings that have to be manipulated, even if your organization is not going to use those settings.
- Anything can be accomplished in Kronos, but you may have to build it out yourself. Many reports were automatically generated in our legacy systems but we have had to learn how to build those reports in Kronos.
- I feel like those the sales team for Kronos over promises and under delivers. I believe we had higher expectations going into the implementation and in reality are not much better off than with our previous systems.
Ease of using UKG Ready
I really do not have many cases that I need to open for Pro or for Workforce Ready. 90 % of cases related to Payment Services
- Self Service
- Ease of process
Cons
- Payment Services is getting so much better- don't let up!