
About Workday HCM
Workday HCM helps managers and HR teams to gain more visibility into all workforce operations, and to prepare organizations for growth and expansion. The system enables users to build strong teams of employees by finding skilled workers through talent searching and job profiles. Workday HCM enables enterprises to manage global teams from hiring through to retirement. Organizational charts and modeling features allow users to structure and visualize the entire organization, manage both employees and contingent labor, as well as configure workflows and define business processes. The HR software also allows users to manage time-off and absences through a self-service employee interface that includes time-off requests and reporting, time-tracking, and time-off rules automation.
Workday HCM includes a number of HR features including organization management, talent and performance management, and Workday absence management, which allows users to manage time-off and absence policies across global offices. Workday HCM also offers a range of recruiting tools to help set up career sites that are compatible with mobile devices and integrated into social media platforms such as LinkedIn.
The talent management tools provided by Workday HCM help recruiters identify top talent and best matches for open positions from existing talent pools of current employees and external candidates. The performance management tools include goal management and alignment for both individuals and departments. Feedback reviews and rewards can also be used to praise performance and goal completion. Succession Planning allows users to monitor the health of the succession pipeline taking into account factors such as successor readiness and a flight risk.
Workday HCM payroll solution includes analytics and reporting to run audits and drill down into payroll details. The global payroll solution provides integration with third-party payroll applications to manage payments in different countries. Workday HCM also facilitates benefits administration by offering employees complete visibility into benefit coverage such as health, retirement, and insurance. Users can use the software to manage and analyze benefit plans, costs, eligibility rules, and more. The Cloud Connect features allow users to connect Workday with 3rd party benefit providers.
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Key benefits of Workday HCM
Workday HCM Big Data Analytics integration: Choose from a range of pre-built analytics templates such as global payroll cost analysis, or use the Report Writer to generate custom visualizations to meet organization KPIs.
Workday HCM reports are multi-dimensional and immediately actionable. Users can see organization health metrics and receive alerts, analyze trends, and use predictive models to plan future decisions.
Workforce Planning: Segment roles and positions to analyze capacity and capability, identify talent pools, and plan actions for succession, recruiting, development, and performance evaluations.
Manage Attendance: Track and report time-off requests in real-time. Automate time-off rules and absence policies. Employees can use the self-service interface to request time-off.
Recruitment Tools: Candidates can search and apply for open positions from their mobile devices. Recruiting analytics allow users to assess the performance of new hires, analyze recruiting demand, and identify talent gaps.
Talent Management: Complete talent pipeline visibility allows employers to see current employees, external candidates, and prospects to identify top talent. Set up talent pools to target specific candidates when new positions open up.
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Markets
Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Thailand, Taiwan, United States, South Africa and 12 others
Supported Languages
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and 2 others
Pricing starting from:
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Total features of Workday HCM: 127
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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: Banking
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best HCM Option
Reviewed on 24/06/2022
Great HCM. By far the best I have worked with in my HR career.
Great HCM. By far the best I have worked with in my HR career.
Pros
Workday is not perfect, but it is the best HCM software that I have used. You can integrate almost every aspect of HR into one platform. The employee self service is easy to use.
Cons
It can be time consuming / a big lift to implement and deploy new modules within Workday, especially if you don't have a knowledgeable Workday team dedicated to the project. I have worked on small Workday implementation teams where we learned as we went along (it's painful) and I have worked with Workday consultants who do all of the work. I highly recommend hiring experts for the implementations. You are paying a lot for the software and want to make sure it is setup properly and getting the full value.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
It's ok overall, but some things are not clear
Reviewed on 11/06/2022
Managing personal development, onboarding, kudos, payslips, holiday and sickness requests and...
Managing personal development, onboarding, kudos, payslips, holiday and sickness requests and suchlike. It's good for most things, but I find the issue with accessing payslips really frustrating!
Pros
The inbox feature is great in alerting me when I have actions to undertake, I like being able to add and receive Kudos through it and it's easy to request holiday and to see how much holiday I have remaining
Cons
The thing which annoys me is that I don't seem to be able to access my payslips easily through this at all. It requires a separate login through my e-pay, which I have only been able to manage through my phone. It really shouldn't require a separate login (different to my Workday one) to view my payslips - surely this could be integrated. I'd also like to be able to delete items entered into my personal development section - this doesn't seem to be possible? Overall the platform is a bit cumbersome and tricky to use.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Ease of Use
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Workday Lifts your HR process
Reviewed on 31/07/2022
It has been great
It has been great
Pros
Almost everything. time tracking, recruitment, employee onboarding, alerts, approvals, etc
Cons
Can customise and improve the Q&A forms. Provide more flexibility
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Features offered were very good
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Workday Review
Reviewed on 01/07/2022
Pros
I liked most about Workday was the ease of use. That I was able to to check my hours and rate of pay whenever I needed or wanted to
Cons
If you get locked out of your account it would take a long while before you was able to get back into the account.
Workday HCM FAQs
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:
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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, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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