My Work

Review by eFreeware

If your employer runs ADP Workforce Manager, My Work is the app most likely to end up on your phone. It is built for the people already inside that system: managers who approve timecards and juggle schedules, employees who clock in and out and ask for time off, and payroll practitioners who keep the process moving. The app is free, carries no ads and offers no in-app purchases, so there is nothing to weigh on cost before installing it.

What it gives them is the everyday side of workforce management in a mobile form rather than a desktop one. Instead of waiting until you are back at a computer, you can look at attendance, adjust a schedule or approve a timecard from wherever you happen to be. The developer describes it as a companion to ADP Mobile, which tells you where it sits: not a replacement for the wider ADP setup, but the piece that handles the work you would otherwise put off.

What managers get out of it

For anyone responsible for a team, the app covers the tasks that tend to pile up during the day. Attendance can be checked while you are on the move, and overtime can be monitored without sitting down at a desk. Both matter most in workplaces where staffing changes quickly and someone needs to know before the shift is over rather than the morning after.

Schedules can be updated from the app, and timecards can be approved with a tap. That combination is what makes the mobile angle useful rather than decorative: a manager who notices a gap in coverage can adjust the schedule and then clear the timecard that follows from it, without switching between systems or waiting for a laptop.

I would expect this to appeal most to managers who are rarely at a desk, or who supervise shifts across more than one location. The value is in the small decisions made in the moment, not in deep reporting or configuration, which is not what the app sets out to do.

For employees: clocking, shifts and time off

Employees get a narrower but very practical set of tools. Clocking in and out is presented as a matter of seconds, which is the right ambition for something you do at the start and end of every shift. Schedules can be checked, and shifts can be swapped when plans change, so a swap does not have to wait for a manager to be free.

Time off can be requested from the app as well. For hourly and shift workers, that covers most of what they actually need from a workforce system: knowing when they work, recording that they turned up, changing a shift when something comes up, and asking for a day off. Nothing here is aimed at people who mainly want to review pay history or benefits, and I would not judge it on those grounds.

The practical benefit is that these actions stop being tied to a shared terminal or a manager's office. The developer's claim that clocking takes seconds is the sort of thing that depends on the workplace, but the direction of travel is clear enough.

The practitioner side and payroll

There is a third audience that gets less attention but is worth naming: practitioners. Employees can handle timecards and track payroll progress from a phone. That is a different job from approving a single timecard, and it is the part of the app that speaks to payroll staff who need to confirm things are on track rather than sit in front of the full system.

This is where the app's scope becomes clear. It is a companion for people with defined roles inside Workforce Manager, not a general-purpose tool for anyone curious about workforce management. A mobile companion can reasonably help these roles communicate and stay productive.

What you need before it is any use

The requirement is stated plainly: the app is available only to employees of organizations that use ADP Workforce Manager. Sign-in uses your existing ADP username and password.

That exclusivity is the main trade-off, and it is a real one. Someone whose employer uses a different payroll or scheduling system will not get anything from this app, however good the idea sounds.

Installs sit above 500,000, with a 4.2 average from 3,784 ratings. For an app that only reaches people inside a specific client base, that is a healthy sign of the audience it is meant for. The app dates back to July 2019 and was last updated on May 29, 2026, with the recent changes described simply as minor updates and bug fixes, which suggests upkeep rather than reinvention. It is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases.

Who it fits, and who it does not

My Work suits people whose working day already runs through ADP Workforce Manager and who need to act on it away from a computer. That includes shift managers who approve timecards between other jobs, employees who want to clock in without hunting down a terminal, and payroll practitioners who need to confirm a process is running while they are elsewhere.

It is a focused tool rather than a broad one, and that focus is the point. The three roles it names each get a short list of actions, and there is no attempt to be a general workplace app. If your employer does not use Workforce Manager, the app is not for you.

For everyone inside that boundary, the appeal is straightforward: the tasks you would otherwise defer until you are back at a desk can be handled in the moment. That is a modest promise, but it is one the app is built specifically to keep.

A practical companion for ADP Workforce Manager users

I would recommend My Work to anyone whose employer uses ADP Workforce Manager and who finds themselves handling schedule, timecard or time-off matters away from a computer. Managers get attendance, overtime, schedule changes and timecard approvals; employees get clocking, schedules, shift swaps and time-off requests; practitioners get remote timecard processing and a view of payroll progress. It costs nothing, shows no ads and asks for no purchases.

The condition attached to all of it is access. The app is limited to employees of ADP Workforce Manager clients and signs in with an ADP username and password, so it is only worth installing if that describes your workplace. Within that group, it is a sensible addition to a phone: small, specific and aimed squarely at the tasks people actually need to finish during a shift.

What's new in version 5.06.06.0060

• Minor updates and bug fixes