UKG Ready

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What is UKG Ready?

The UKG Ready® software suite is a centralized HCM solution designed for small to mid-sized businesses. It automates and streamlines HR, payroll, benefits, time, talent, and scheduling processes.

UKG Ready's suite of tools offer actionable insights while helping to ensure compliance. Using AI, it draws on work, people, and culture data to boost efficiency and productivity.

For example, UKG Ready streamlines core HR functions by centralizing employee information in a single secure database to give HR teams simplified benefits administration, automated workflows, configurable forms, and real-time access to all their people data in one convenient place to help reduce administrative workload and compliance risk.

When it comes to payroll, UKG Ready calculations run continuously in the background to reduce payroll processing time and provide real-time reports and analytics. UKG Ready’s flexible pay rules engine simplifies different pay scenarios such as shift differentials and employees with multiple positions. And automatic compliance updates keep you current with constantly changing regulatory requirements.

For workforce management, UKG Ready streamlines time and attendance tasks by automating hour tracking, time approvals, and time-off requests. It also simplifies leave and accrual tracking with consistent policy application. In addition, managers can create optimal schedules based on demand, skills, and compliance rules while employees can access self-service tools for shift selection and schedule viewing. And automated expense tracking speeds reimbursement approvals for a better employee experience while offering comprehensive reporting for more informed decision making.

The Great Place To Work® Hub in UKG Ready leverages data from the global workplace culture authority, Great Place To Work, and compares it with insights gathered directly from employees, allowing for the measurement of company performance, with recommendations on improvement opportunities so employees want to stay and grow.

UKG Bryte AI™ is the platform's AI-powered sidekick and the embodiment of UKG’s commitment to help organizations become great places to work by empowering people with insights. With AI driven by people, work, and workplace culture data, users get insights to build trust and deliver personalized experiences that foster meaning and purpose.

All UKG customers receive expert support, on-demand guidance, and anytime, anywhere access to a wide range of resources.

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Direct deposit files
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
Category average: 8.6
Tracking of all physical assets
Tracking of track laptops, pagers, phones, and other company equipment.
Category average: 8.2
Employee demographic data
Administrators have the ability to enter detailed demographic data for each employee.
Category average: 8.1

View company policy documentation
Employees can review company handbook, and corporate policy documents.
Category average: 7.8
Create succession plans/pools
Managers can create and manage pools of potentially high-performing individuals.
Category average: 8
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added
Category average: 7.4

Sabrina LeMay

HR Payroll Manager in Human Resources at Mine Services, Inc (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

UKG Ready is our employee facing portal. It is the option for our employees to log in, update their personal information themselves, onboarding, open enrollment, performance management, and file feeds for insurance. This has helped to make things more efficient for processing, and saving money in the long run ensuring everything has been turned off when it was supposed to be when employees left the company.

Pros

Design and suggestions! When building the portal, they made many suggestions to help with flow.
Project planning-timeline and staying on top of it!
Flexibility. I can adjust things or ask them to.

Cons

Customer service-while their customer service has been awesome so far, everyone can always improve!

Return on Investment

saved on benefits, people not being termed timely
saved on raise requests-shows history in one spot.
helps with tracking applicants for management positions

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Alternatives Considered

CBIZ Advisory Services

leigh baker

Director of Human Resources in Human Resources at TGW Systems Inc. (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are in the middle of implementing UKG Ready with a go live date of 10/1/25. This includes core modules for payroll, benefits, time and attendance, ATS, ESS, reporting and dashboards. We decided to move to UKG because Paycom lacks the functionality to meet our needs now, it can’t scale for the growth we plan, and the customer service is terrible.

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Comprehensive training program
Implementation process well defined with SME’s guiding each step in the process
Excellent communication

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Kyle Stradleigh View profile

EVP People, Safety, Process in Human Resources at Mary Ann's Baking Company (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize the full platform for HR, onboarding, recruiting, learning, timekeeping, benefits administration, compensation management and performance. UKG Ready is flexible, allowing us to customize the platform for our specific needs, work rules, pay rules, etc. The platform allows us to track specific behaviors, assign a point value to these behaviors, and tie the points into a quarterly review to help identify problems that need correction, while rewarding behavior we want. We pay weekly, operating on an alternative work schedule with specific pay rules, which the pay calc configuration allows us to automate. We have recently incorporated Bryte AI to improve self service for our workforce

Pros

Payroll processing is easy to administer, ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing
The open configuration allows you to customize work flows, security, pay rules, and more on the fly.
A very large customer ideas, support and resources that is easily searched for solutions provided by UKG and customers.

Cons

The advanced scheduler could be modified to make mass daily updates or cancellation of shifts easier.
The open shift process could be improved to auto post openings for employees to see.

Return on Investment

Reduced meal break violations.
Attestations help with claims of compliance violations
Increased performance feedback for better role clarity and engagement

Usability

Alternatives Considered

BambooHR® and ADP Enterprise HR

Other Software Used

Awardco

Marqueshia Henry, SHRM-CP View profile

Human Resources Manager in Human Resources at Great Dane (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use UKG Ready for timecard management. Being able to accurately track our employees time keeps us within regulation of compliance pay. We also utilize UKG to track attendance which keeps us consistent with following the standards of our policies and procedures

Pros

Track attendance
Track accurate time stamp

Cons

To review attendance there isn't a way to get a systematic snapshot of someone's attendance details. We typically have to scroll through the attendance detail Data view, which is very inefficient.
Employees do not have access to see the detailed view of their own attendance. They can only see total points

Return on Investment

Increased leadership confidence- Supervisors and Managers are able to support their employees by taking care of their timecards and ensuring that everyone is paid appropriately and timely.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Workday Human Capital Management

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mary lou

HR Manager in Human Resources at Saint Gobain (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for payroll, schedules and maintaining the California compliance reports.

Pros

Reports
Absent
Timecard
Schedule

Cons

Improve reports to the owner instead of standard
Expand on using the schedule for production

Return on Investment

Employee application to view hours and approve their own timesheets

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Oracle PeopleSoft ERP

Other Software Used

Oracle PeopleSoft ERP, Workday Cloud Platform

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Direct deposit files

Tracking of all physical assets

Employee demographic data

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View company policy documentation

Create succession plans/pools

Duplicate Candidate Prevention

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