Valuable software but at a hefty price
February 22, 2020

Valuable software but at a hefty price

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ADP Workforce Now

We use ADP Workforce Now across our entire organization for things like time-keeping, payroll, recruiting, time-off tracking, onboarding, I-9 management, benefits enrollment. This platform allows our organization to house the majority of the HR/payroll activities in one place instead of multiple.

Pros

  • Benefits enrollment makes it easy to remind eligible employees and allows them to do everything online which eliminates paper forms.
  • Time-off policies with tracking for federal & state sick leave would be a hassle for us to do manually. ADP does a great job of making it easy to set up and automatically granting time earned.

Cons

  • Customer Service - Half of the time you get someone that speaks broken English making it difficult to communicate with them. The other issue with their customer service is always getting someone different on the phone, which results in having to explain your unique situation EVERY time you have to call in.
  • I really wish they would implement a "preview user" mode so that you can see what your employees see on their screen.
  • We have offices in NY and FL so ADP Workforce Now helps to stay consistent with all employees.
  • It's allowed us to use ADP Workforce Now for almost everything HR & payroll-related, and it's all housed in the same software making it easy to find.
ADP Workforce Now definitely offers a variety of components that are extremely helpful for anyone in a Human Resources or payroll position. You could honestly use this platform to house all of the HR and payroll activities so that it's a one-stop-shop making your organization more organized and things easier to find.
  • Talent Platform
  • Document Cloud
Talent Platform is helpful so you can post your job, have your applicants come through and then move them to onboarding if you hire them.

Document Cloud is nothing like I thought it was going to be. It's literally just a place to store documents. You cannot assign areas to be filled out by the employee and then have them sign the document. It's really quite pointless for the amount of money that you spend on the product.
  • BambooHR and ADP Resource (Discontinued)
BambooHR is extremely user-friendly and is significantly cheaper than the add-ons available with ADP. The HR functions like getting employees to sign policies and fill out forms are really easy to navigate and track. I also really liked their verbiage in that software--not robot-sounding. The only reason that software would not work for my organization is that it doesn't incorporate time and attendance.
I think ADP Workforce Now has most of the HR areas offered, but they can be extremely costly to add individual components. They really need to work on their customer service--every company should have a designated person to talk to about their account on each platform so that they understand our needs. I know this is an option, but it requires upgrading and spending even more money than we already do for what we have.

ADP Workforce Now Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
10
Employment history
8
Job profiles and administration
Not Rated
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
8
Organizational charting
8
Organization and location management
10
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
10
Pay calculation
10
Support for external payroll vendors
5
Benefit plan administration
8
Direct deposit files
10
Salary revision and increment management
10
Reimbursement management
Not Rated
Approval workflow
8
Balance details
8
Annual carry-forward and encashment
9
View and generate pay and benefit information
10
Update personal information
10
View company policy documentation
10
Employee recognition
Not Rated
Report builder
8
Pre-built reports
9
Ability to combine HR data with external data
Not Rated
Performance plans
Not Rated
Performance improvement plans
Not Rated
Review status tracking
Not Rated
Review reminders
Not Rated
Multiple review frequency
Not Rated
Corporate goal setting
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
Not Rated
Line-of sight-visibility
Not Rated
Performance tracking
Not Rated
Job Requisition Management
9
Company Website Posting
Not Rated
Publish to Social Media
8
Job Search Site Posting
9
Applicant Tracking
6
Notifications and Alerts
7

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