
About Workday HCM
Workday HCM - a single, cloud-based solution for workforce planning, talent management, and payroll processes helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications are built with artificial intelligence and machine learning at the core to help organizations around the world embrace the future of work. Workday is used by more than 10,000 organizations around the world and across industries—from medium-sized businesses to more than 50% of the Fortune 500.
Key benefits of Workday HCM
Workday HCM helps your people meet their full potential by delivering the greatest possible impact with a workforce primed to perform. Explore our artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to learn how we help you do just that.
Experience Management: Deliver an intelligent experience employees will love. Powered by ML, our personalized, intuitive experiences keep people engaged at every step in their careers. Empower, support, connect, and inspire your entire workforce with our experience solutions.
Skills-Based People Strategy: Attract and develop the right skills across your workforce. Workday Skills Cloud, the world’s most open, intelligent skills foundation, empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions around talent and staffing, and to enable leaders to plan their immediate and future workforce.
Workforce Optimization: Maximize your people’s performance. Optimize, augment and support your people with ML-enabled process automation and AI-powered decision support. See the impact of pairing people with technology to unlock the value of your total workforce.
HR Service Delivery: Deliver smarter, best-in-class support.
Put people at the center of HR. Enabled by AI, our service delivery solution helps you personalize HR services for each worker, pre-empt case creation with on-target answers, and lighten the load on your team.
Belonging and Diversity: Build a workplace where everyone belongs. Go beyond good intentions and reach your belonging and diversity goals. With our VIBE™ (Value Inclusion, Belonging, and Equity™) approach paired with the pristine data in Workday, you can get detailed insights to build better workplaces for all.
Evolution of Work: Predict and prepare for what comes next. The future of work has arrived, transforming every aspect of the workplace. Forward-thinking organizations are already using AI-technology embedded in Workday to help deliver better employee experiences, improve operational efficiencies, and provide insights for faster, data-driven decision-making. Workday helps you support new workforce imperatives, adapt to what comes next, and lead the evolution of work.
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Review for Workday
Reviewed on 30/06/2022
I am using Workday regularly for applying leaves, tracking them, viewing my salary slip, tracking...
I am using Workday regularly for applying leaves, tracking them, viewing my salary slip, tracking change in compensation, providing IT declaration, updating shift and stand by hours. Also, I have used Workday for requesting various letters from my organization automatically like experience letter, compensation letter, etc. The mail notification feature of workday enables me to receive notification whenever there is an update to my compensation or change in my role or on promotion.
Pros
Workday is a centralized workforce management tool that is used in my organization. In Workday, all the important day to activities of an employee can be performed like applying for leaves, getting them approved by manager, viewing and downloading salary slips, providing IT declaration, providing beneficiary info, address info, education info and many more. Various important letters like Offer letter, experience letter, etc can also be directly requested using Workday. It is a cloud based tool and can be accessed from anywhere.
Cons
It is an expensive tool that can only be used by big enterprises. Also, the workday UI can be confusing for new users who will find it difficult to navigate and find the required sections in workday.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Outstanding Experience with Workday HCM
Reviewed on 17/02/2023
Overall, I have had a great experience with Workday HCM. It provides a comprehensive and powerful...
Overall, I have had a great experience with Workday HCM. It provides a comprehensive and powerful platform to manage employee data and gain valuable insights from analytics.
Pros
Workday HCM provides an incredibly user-friendly and intuitive interface which makes it easy to navigate and manage employee data. Its powerful analytics capabilities allow us to gain invaluable insights into our workforce.
Cons
Workday HCM can be slow and unresponsive at times, and it can be difficult to troubleshoot issues.
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Good Tool
Reviewed on 06/09/2023
Pros
I like how much information Workday displays to its users. I also like that it's straight forward, and the user interface is aesthetically pleasing.
Cons
I dislike that there's a lot of information "hidden" in the user profile, instead of just being accessible from the main portal menu.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Workday Recruiting - You'll set back your recruiting function years behind
Reviewed on 21/06/2017
integration w/ Workday HR - not enough benefit to outweigh the functional negatives
integration w/ Workday HR - not enough benefit to outweigh the functional negatives
Pros
Graphical Interface - cool graphics is the only positive
Yes it integrates candidate data with HR (if you have Workday HR) but that benefit isn't worth the flaws
Cons
Workflow is too restrictive - nice in theory but you have to go back to you in-box to move the candidate to the next step
Offers take forever and if you make a mistake you have to resend to leader for approval
Everything is effective dated - if you have a recruiter who started after a req is opened they can't take action on a candidate who applied before that date (terrible for vacation coverage/new hire recruiters).
Can't search by candidate name (e.g. you are looking for John Smith - Names tha thave J or S in them come up in no particular order - also can't use the ATS as a sourcing database (we had a progressive sourcing team and they couldn't use it)
Recruiters in a high volume environment will hate it - it takes literally 4x the time to hire a candidate in the system. There are too many steps and flaws.
There are many more issues - My company met with Workday User Experience Leader and they listened to the feedback and in a year - no changes were made. These aren't configuration issues people - these are architectural design flaws. Run don't walk from this software - It's at least 5 - 10 years away from anything on the market.
You will impact recruiter morale in high volume recruiting shops. If you have very low volume recruiting then I guess you could live with it.
Reporting functionality is almost nil - doesn't come with any really useful canned reports - very limited.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Very User Friendly!
Reviewed on 17/07/2023
Pros
Workday is very easy to maneuver through, you can self-teach yourself pretty much how to do anything in this software. The categories are self-explanatory, its easy input/output for reports, great for payroll and timecard management. I highly recommend Workday to all businesses.
Cons
At this point in time, I cannot think of anything that I didnt care for with this product.
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Below are some frequently asked questions for Workday HCM.Q. What type of pricing plans does Workday HCM offer?
Workday HCM offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from:
- Free Trial: Not Available
Please contact Workday directly for pricing information.
Q. Who are the typical users of Workday HCM?
Workday HCM has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Workday HCM support?
Workday HCM supports the following languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
Q. Does Workday HCM support mobile devices?
Workday HCM supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Workday HCM integrate with?
Workday HCM integrates with the following applications:
Boomi
Q. What level of support does Workday HCM offer?
Workday HCM offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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