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Dayforce (formerly Ceridian) is a global human capital management (HCM) platform that transforms the employee experience. It unifies data from across the entire employee lifecycle to enable better decision-making at every level. Dayforce is a comprehensive cloud platform that combines HR, payroll, benefits, workforce management, and talent management in a single application. Our scalable platform is built with a single, flexible rules engine combined with real-time updates and calculations that help address complex regulatory requirements.
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Dayforce Ratings
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86 Likeliness to Recommend
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98 Plan to Renew
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80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+81 Net Emotional Footprint
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How much do users love Dayforce?
Pros
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
- Continually Improving Product
- Friendly Negotiation
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Score 8.5
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Benefits Administration
Score 8.3
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Score 8.3
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Dayforce Reviews
Jessica H.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2024
Streamlining Operations with Swiss Precision.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Dayforce from other similar products?
The platform's versatility is truly impressive, covering essential functions like HR, payroll, benefits, and time management, while also offering additional features such as labor tracking, reporting, recruiting, learning, and performance management.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
One of the standout advantages of Dayforce is its user-friendly interface and comprehensive functionality. It serves as our HR system of record, providing consistency, stability, and reliability in our day-to-day operations and workforce management. The customer service offered by Dayforce has improved significantly over the years, becoming more proactive and responsive to our needs
What do you dislike most about this product?
Navigating through certain features, like the timesheet function, can indeed be cumbersome at times.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Dayforce remains a data-rich solution that seamlessly integrates various critical modules essential for business operations. Its comprehensive employee database stands out, providing easy access to crucial information and streamlining HR tasks such as onboarding, performance reviews, and employee development.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
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Rachel M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2023
Excellent tool to manage all areas of HR
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Dayforce from other similar products?
One of Dayforce's strongest points is its ability to automatically calculate payroll. Payroll has been greatly simplified and accelerated by this new functionality. In addition, they provide a unified platform for all HR needs, including but not limited to recruitment, personnel records management, benefits administration, and more.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Dayforce helped us fix an issue we were having with the hiring process for supervisors. Our application procedure is now more streamlined, and the involvement of managers has been maintained. I've always admired the intuitive design of hiring tools. It streamlines the application and screening procedures.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The UI is very confusing for managers because of the multiple timesheet views. Even after extensive training of staff and management, we continue to run into difficulties.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
We're switching to an electronic system from one based on paper. With the help of the document management and library features, we can keep track of all of our employees' information in a safe and organized manner.
Pros
- Reliable
- Efficient Service
- Client Friendly Policies
- Transparent
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Sumitra M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2026
Suitable for large companies
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Dayforce from other similar products?
I think Dayforce is designed for large organizations that manage multiple departments simultaneously.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Its multi-user support and role-based access control are quite impressive.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Its cost may be too high for small businesses.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Small organizations should first compare their needs with Dayforce's features.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Effective Service
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