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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BrightHR

    Score3.4 out of 10
    N/ABritish company BrightHR offers a human resources platform which helps replace paper documents with edocuments and contains features for managing employee scheduling and ROTA, sick leave and tardiness, vacation and holiday shift planning, as well as providing employment law legal advice.

    $4.50

    Justworks

    Score5.7 out of 10
    N/AJustworks offers a platform for payroll, benefits, compliance support, with HR tools. As a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), Justworks offers PEO solutions that can bundle payroll, compliance, HR, and benefits under the Justworks umbrella, and help to administer employment-related responsibilities on the user's behalf. With Justworks' group buying power, customers can get access to PEO health insurance and other perks at more affordable rates. The vendor states that as a…

    $59

    per month per user

    Pricing
    BrightHRJustworks
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic
    $59
    per month per user
    Plus
    $99
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BrightHRJustworks
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices start at £4.50 (per employee/per month)—
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    Community Pulse
    BrightHRJustworks
    Considered Both Products
    BrightHR
    No answer on this topic
    Justworks
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    42 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    BrightHRJustworks
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of BrightHR and Justworks
    Feature
    BrightHR
    1.0
    2 Ratings
    155% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Employment history1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organization and location management1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of BrightHR and Justworks
    Feature
    BrightHR
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Pay calculation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of BrightHR and Justworks
    Feature
    BrightHR
    1.0
    13 Ratings
    156% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Approval workflow1.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Balance details1.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment1.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of BrightHR and Justworks
    Feature
    BrightHR
    3.6
    14 Ratings
    77% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    View and generate pay and benefit information1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update personal information1.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    View company policy documentation8.813 Ratings00 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of BrightHR and Justworks
    Feature
    BrightHR
    1.0
    2 Ratings
    153% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built reports1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of BrightHR and Justworks
    Feature
    BrightHR
    1.0
    2 Ratings
    155% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Review reminders1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of BrightHR and Justworks
    Feature
    BrightHR
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score4.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    BrightHRJustworks
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (16 ratings)
    4.5
    (58 ratings)
    Usability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BrightHRJustworks
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BrightHR
    I feel Bright HR is well suited to most small/medium sized businesses where they have a 'straight' forward resource set up. For larger businesses or for complex businesses similar to ourselves, where we operate 24 hours per day, rotational shift patterns, ambulatory staff, locums etc...we have to 'fudge' the way we use the information sometimes to make it work for us.
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    Justworks
    Justworks is a competitively priced product for small businesses and start-ups and, in my opinion, offers a better product and better customer service than larger PEOs competing in the same small-buisiness space (ex. ADP). I believe Justworks would work well for companies up to 200 employees; after that, I believe a bigger PEO may provide an enterprise solution better suited for a larger company (and their HR reporting needs)
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    Pros
    BrightHR
    • BLIP is working very well. Staff find it easy to use and the geo-fencing that can be set up is very useful.
    • Reporting, in particular reporting of Absence. We run this monthly and the information we can download is flexible and useful.
    • Sick analysis - helps in controlling absence.
    • Holiday planning and authorization is very helpful and details including date booked helps manage requests.
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    Justworks
    • Onboarding employees on their first day. We use Justworks to set up the employee calculate the first payroll, and perform the I9 employment verification. The process is seamless and all can be done electronically and automated which makes it very simple
    • Payroll processing. Justworks automatically calculates the payroll earnings, related taxes and withholdings and will automatically withdraw and deposit the funds. This is a seamless experience
    • Customer Service. Justworks is incredibly responsive and helpful. HR related issues can be a nightmare but Justworks make it easier and more efficient since they are always on call to answer your questions and make life easier.
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    Cons
    BrightHR
    • Notifications for requests should be optional based on individual employees. For example an admin won’t necessarily want every staff members leave requests by email and push notification. The settings only currently allow for notifications for everyone or no one. Being assigned as a manager may not allow data viewing required of wider staff.
    • Toil should automatically be accrued into a balance if the employees clocked in time amounts to more than the target hours. It shouldn’t have to be calculated and requested.
    • When reviewing hours worked for the week, the history calculation should take into account approved leave and sickness etc. I have a staff members target of 37 hours, but if their hours show 29 hours worked then I have to work out why they worked less. It should account for this if the absence is approved.
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    Justworks
    • JustWorks couldn't accurately track our PTO. We use an accrual system that maxes out at 88 hours. We incentivise our employees with additional PTO hours based off of goals met. The JustWorks platform allowed our employees to accrue far more PTO than what was offered. They didn't have a feature that offered a Cap and accrual.
    • When using the JustWorks reports for 401K, if not using their integrated 401K provider, the reports give you every employee regardless of whether or not they contribute. This makes it difficult when adding the contributions in separately.
    • JustWorks tracks historical data for employees. Whenever there is a salary change made, it keeps track. However, it shows a salary adjustment made on the day they are entered into JustWorks which can be very confusing. We switched from another PEO mid year and it looked like I made salary changes on the beginning date. This made it difficult to differentiate an actual salary adjustment.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BrightHR
    It's not entirely my decision - we are members of a 'community' of veterinary practices who have signed up to the contract with pensinusla and have bright hr as part of that contract however, I am usually involved in the tender process as I am one of the biggest users of both bright hr and the services from peninsula
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    Justworks
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    BrightHR
    It is quite good. Has alot of useful features such as the inbuilt learning / trainings. I really like the clock in function where admin can update or edit staff clock in times. I love the easily accessable annual leave section where we can easily see wat annual leave a staff has. However what would be useful is for 0 hour staff due to them not automatically having 17/28 days annual leave, if it can calculate itbased on hours they work
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    Justworks
    Justworks is a really good platform for payroll and even vendor payments. There are some areas of improvement that Justworks could make in the area of bulk processing, to decrease administrative time as well as reporting. There are no reports we currently use from the Justworks platform as we have not found them useful.
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    Support Rating
    BrightHR
    The team are proactive, having an advocacy team is just amazing and a great way to really understand their product roadmap and have input into useful features or feedback
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    Justworks
    Justworks offers many different options for customer service. You can contact them via email, phone or Slack. They are quick to resolve issues and if your Account Manager is out of office, they have other Managers covering your account who are knowledgable and ready to support. They also have an office in New York, which makes their support even more localized.
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    Implementation Rating
    BrightHR
    it was fairly easy to do but timely as i had to enter everything from scratch - i didn't at the time realise how important it was to set up the variable or fixed working pattern correctly given future changes as this is very tricky once it has been set up and i wished i had been aware that sometimes you can't make future changes without deleting the whole profile and starting again
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    Justworks
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    BrightHR
    I chose BrightHR as it offered a one-stop platform for HR management for which we have dedicated UK and ROI HR specialists who not only give HR advice but also write policies and handbooks, etc. They are a one-stop-shop, which was very important as when I signed the contract I did not have an HR person in my team and they were essentially my back office. Also, by signing up, I got access to Bright Safe too; which is great as again it's a one-stop-shop for Health and Safety in the workplace. So I can roll out toolbox talks, training, and accident management.
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    Justworks
    Justworks is a much simpler platform with better pricing. I remember ADP's cost was tied to a certain percentage of the total payroll, which is not ideal if you have highly compensated employees. Though ADP offered more ancillary benefit options and group employee discounts, we feel Justworks suffices and meets our daily HR needs.
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    Return on Investment
    BrightHR
    • Able to reduce one member of staff in personnel from 5 days to 3 days.
    • Able to reduce time spent by payroll on holiday records significantly and improve accuracy significantly.
    • Able to improve control of sick absence and improve record keeping.
    • BLIP meant we did not need to buy expensive attendance software.
    • Looking at possible use of payroll and other aspects of Bright HR not used at present.
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    Justworks
    • We're still new to Justworks, but for nearly everyone on our team, this is the dealmaker. Benefits plans are worth more than salaries to the best hires.In fact, part of the process we used to choose Justworks was to send their offering, in advance, to our team to approve of, first.
    • Dealmaker for great hires!
    • Financial security for their families!
    • Compliance management.
    Incentivized
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