UKG Ready Reviews & Pricing

Key Features

• Payroll: Supports unlimited payroll runs, ensures information is always up to date, manages a variety of components like tax considerations and garnishment processing, and provides self-service access for employees. Surfaces relevant data via standard and ad-hoc reporting, equipped with filters, grouping and customization. 
• HR Management: Access a unified database for tracking and managing employee information. Configuration settings and the ability to build processes help workflows match internal requirements. Also offers: 
  • Onboarding: Streamlines processes with checklists, task assignments, automated reminders, forms with e-signature and more. 
  • Benefits: Includes employee self-service tools for selecting plans and updating information, configurable reports, and support for multiple plan types. Also shows data on costs, enrollment statuses and more. 
  • Training: Enables building courses, scheduling internal classes, reporting on learning outcomes, assigning training to employees, tracking completion and more. 
• Workforce Analytics: Improves decisions and strategies by collecting and visualizing real-time workforce data. Uses AI to assess trends and identify risks to make predictive recommendations. 
• Talent Acquisition: Simplifies the application process with custom application options, including populating from a LinkedIn profile. Also helps: 
  • Create a career site and integrate with more than 8,000 free and premium job boards.
  • Set up workflow approvals for job requisitions.
  • Manage recruitment processes in one place and sort candidates using criteria-based filters.
  • Configure email templates and pre-screening questions.
• Employee Development: System administrators can define training courses, schedule classes and assign employees to take the classes. Managers are able to monitor open seats and gain visibility into employee participation and performance within the courses. 
• Time Keeping: Automates many time and attendance processes, including alerts when employees cross leave limits and breach company policies related to attendance. Real-time data updates support accurate payroll and compliance. 
• Performance Management: Delivers performance data that aids employee development efforts. Also includes: 
  • Goals tied to organizational objectives.
  • Unlimited profile types for the company, department or job level, offering weighted or numerical ratings and customizable criteria.
  • Automated review cycles, which include alerts, real-time status tracking and configuration options to set review dates and frequency.
  • Custom reports showing employee skills and required training, which aid succession planning.
• Scheduling: Provides auto-generated schedules based on company needs, along with automatic employee sorting using preset conditions such as skills and availability. Other features include call lists for filling unexpected openings, employee self-scheduling, automated workflows and forecasts to anticipate demand. 
• Compensation (Add-On): Simplifies compensation tasks by removing the need for manual tools and processes. Offers configurable cycles, automatic approval workflows, a budgeting interface, security settings and mass finalization of proposals. 
• Attestation: Sends prompts to employees reminding them to confirm they’ve taken mandatory breaks for purposes of legal and internal compliance. Also offers: 
  •  Several course options: build-your-own courses, over 400 premade courses from the library and third-party content thanks to SCORM compatibility. 
  • Configuration of prompts to capture relevant information.
  • Automatic notifications alerting employees if they’ve missed attestation.
  • Reports that help validate compliance and aid attestation tracking.
  • Ability to attest time from the mobile or web time tracking app.
• Accruals: Reduces errors through automated accrual tracking. A variety of criteria are available to configure accruals. Reports show thorough summaries of each employee’s accrual data for every type of PTO. 
• ACA Management: Dashboards show real-time and historical data, with the ability to view individual employees for full visibility. Alerts help managers track schedules and employment changes, as well as let employees know about benefits eligibility. 
• Payroll Service: Seamlessly integrates with the payroll module to ensure compliance, process garnishments, remove the need to manage tax paperwork and provide accurate information for tax filing. 

Limitations

• Difficult to navigate and find things.
• Not user-friendly in terms of some features and the interface design.
• Occasionally lags or freezes.
• Takes some time to get used to due to a steep learning curve.
• Problems surrounding time tracking, including difficulty when multiple managers need to sign off on a timesheet, not enough specific reporting and lack of notifications when timecards are ready to approve.

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