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UKG Pro Workforce Management

30Judge labels
16First choices
3Negative labels
9 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
12% in Workforce management sui for enterprise buyers
Rank 93 of 95 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 100% of its 2 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In workforce management sui · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named UKG Pro Workforce Management for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Workforce management suitesCore HR and payroll0%93 of 95100%2under 10 labels · led by ADP Workforce Now at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for UKG Pro Workforce Management yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated UKG Pro Workforce Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00011
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct10 labels7
Paraphrase7 labels7
Comparative6 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained2 labels2
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 18 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Common pitfalls: Poor customer support (endless tickets), steep learning curve, not intuitive” Grok 4.1 Fast · Workforce management sui · negative prompt · hard negative
“incredibly complex to configure... Extremely poor mobile app experiences” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce management sui · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as UKG Pro Workforce Management, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and UKG Pro Workforce Management was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Dayforce15 of 301Not in the top three
Workday Workforce Management11 of 301Not in the top three
Deputy8 of 300Not in the top three
ADP WorkForce Suite6 of 300Not in the top three
Rippling6 of 300Not in the top three
Homebase5 of 301Not in the top three
When I Work5 of 301Not in the top three
Workday5 of 300Not in the top three
Connecteam4 of 300Not in the top three
Legion WFM4 of 300Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named UKG Pro Workforce Management. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 23 of the 30 answers that named UKG Pro Workforce Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com12
peoplemanagingpeople.com12
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com10
learn.g2.com10
worldmetrics.org10
ukg.comYour site9
g2.com7
gartner.com7
hr.software6
softwareadvice.com6

Eighty of the eighty-nine domain citations in answers naming UKG Pro Workforce Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as UKG Pro Workforce Management

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as UKG Pro Workforce Management; a claim can dispute any of them.
UKG Pro WFM (ex-Kronos) 1UKG Pro WFM (formerly Kronos) 1
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