Shiftboard vs. Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)

Shiftboard is very well suited for service industries—restaurants, hospitality, etc. In those workplaces, Shiftboard should have enough ability for customization, and its mobile accessibility should be advantageous. For TV and other production environments, particularly those with frequent schedule changes, Shiftboard does not work as well, as it requires too many clicks to change a schedule.

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UKG Dimensions provides an extensive feature offering for advanced scheduling in non-procedural clinical settings and administrative operations. Although EZ-Call can be used for procedural areas the lack of out the box integration with [UKG] Dimensions creates an undesirable experience for departments needing both products. UKG [Dimensions] can increase customer adoption by offering a more integrated experience for clinical settings requiring both products.

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• It shows the user exactly what time a meeting starts and ends.
• It shows the user exactly what time a break starts and ends.
• Searchable by group.

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• rule analysis- the rule analysis in this product is much cleaner and easy to follow compared to WFC
• The level of granularity on FAPs is very helpful for configuring access compared to other platforms
• UI is very easy to follow and intuitive

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• Shiftboard can be difficult to navigate, and when an agent bookmarks the tool it stays on their schedule for that specific date, often causing confusion. For example, mine is stuck on January 27th, 2017.
• It's difficult to get to your specific schedule.
• The overview of schedules within one week is also very difficult to read.

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• Integrations need to be more accessible to the administration and more flexible in change adoption.
• Performance Reviews need to be flexible on the cycles. We don't offer PR all on one focal date. We review employees on their anniversary dates.
• Attendance Tracking needs to deliver more real-time notifications and correct itself real-time when exceptions or incidents are fixed.

Incentivized

UKG Dimensions is very user-friendly from an employee and supervisor standpoint. It is very robust on an admin level and can get complicated; however, you can do so many things with it that is outweighs the complexity. The security for UKG Dimensions needs to be revamped however. It is very cumbersome and not user-friendly.

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I never sought out Shiftboard support.

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• Kronos Workforce Dimensions a new product, and it has a lot of scope for improvement, with future releases. One of the best tools to perform time tracking.
• Their support team is very knowledgeable, and their SLA's are pretty tight. Any query raised would be addressed in a few hours.
• Timeclock configuration can be complicated; however, their support team knows the processes and guidelines.

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We have not used another product like Shiftboard at our company.

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WorkForce Software has a solid foundation for enterprise scaled employee counts of 100,000 employees and supports multiple assignment configurations, i.e. one employee can have multiple timesheets that multiple managers can own. UKG has one employee to one timecard. It makes it hard for companies that have employees that can have multiple jobs within the organization that can have separate timecards that report to multiple managers. UKG works well for medium size employee counts, once over 10K employees, you start to see the system have performance issues. WorkForce was able to handle 80K employees and process an employee demographic file in 2 hours, while UKG with 26K employees takes 6 hours. WorkForce lacks end-user configuration documentation, while UKG has great documentation and training materials. UKG's user community is top-notch, while WorkForce's has before 3 years, there has been no improvement. UKG has a better support model for end-user support. Workforce provides database access and the ability to write javascript for integrations. UKG has no access to the database and uses APIs that are not [flexible] to retrieve data. End-user configuration for UKG does not require a programmer or IT professional, while WorkForce has a powerful rules engine policy editor that makes it highly [flexible].

Incentivized

• Lower overtime costs.
• The ability to access schedules remotely.
• More flexibility in the scheduling process.

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• Employee can now pickup open shift without us calling them
• Employees can request PTO from the Web and mobile app without email and manual time entry
• We are still constantly struggling and dealing with scheduling employees with multiple jobs
• Without a working business structure automation, we are spending much more time dealing with department and job changes on the business structure

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