Two Very Different Worlds - Anonymous employee UKG Employee Review

1.0
Jan 23, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay, fairly good benefits

Cons

Workforce Central and Workforce Ready must be two different worlds. Kronos continues to win awards for being a best place to work - that must be Workforce Central. In Workforce Ready, management boasts about how much money is being made, year over year, then give us embarrassing annual pay increases - even after we surpass the productivity goals set. In Workforce Ready, employees are "killed off" constantly, by the tremendous workload, once you are "ramped up". Workforce Ready jobs require 50 to 60 hours per week, every week to keep up.

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1.0
Jun 25, 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

There was once a great company named Ultimate Software, it was destroyed by a hostile takeover from H&F, a private equity firm, and a merger with Kronos to become UKG. There are very few Pros since that time.

Cons

When this company was Ultimate Software, prior to the takeover from H&F and the merger with Kronos, it was a world class company with top shelf people. The company Motto was "People First" and they truly lived by that motto, never a layoff, great working environment and stealer benefits. Since the takeover and subsequent merger with Kronos, to become UKG this company has taken a path of "Money First", which is understandable given the greedy nature of Private Equity Firms like H&F. They have systematically closed most of the offices across the US and have been expanding their footprint in Noida India, for obvious reasons. The leadership that has been put in place by H&F is clearly focused on IPO. And we all know what that means, clean up the books and make the company look as good on paper as possible. Can you say "Lipstick on a Pig". This was once a great company when it was run by Scott and Viv but now it has gone the way of the Private Equity management and is heading for a great fall.

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