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Workday Human Capital Management

byWorkday
in
4.4
2025
Market Presence: Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises (Transitioning to HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises), Talent Management Suites (Transitioning to Employee Performance Management Systems)

Overview

Product Information on Workday Human Capital Management

Updated 30th July 2025

What is Workday Human Capital Management?

Workday HCM helps customers master the transition to a new era of work, unlocking engagement and executing for growth. It's a comprehensive, global HR suite, including core HR, talent, and benefits, designed to help companies transition with confidence. Workday HCM is adaptable, flexible, scalable, and global, and includes Workday Skills Cloud for data-driven talent strategies. Workday AI, embedded within the Workday architecture and leveraging 600B+ transactions, helps customers re-invent work. Workday provides clean, coherent data and is transparent about its ML models, ensuring human control over final decisions to elevate human capabilities in finance and HR. Workday helps companies unlock engagement by empowering employees and managers with simplified, unified experiences, leading to increased retention and performance. It also allows organizations to execute for growth by providing a unified, extensible foundation that automates processes and proactively manages compliance.

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Overall experience with Workday Human Capital Management

Manager, Human Resources
3B - 10B USD, Energy and Utilities
FAVORABLE

“The Workday HR Application is best-in-class amongst its peers”

5.0
Jan 12, 2026
The Workday HR application is the best HR application I have ever used. It just provides features and functionality that outperform its competitors. These features include its best-in-class use of AI, modern cloud technologies, robust security, easy configuration, the ability to customize using Workday Extend, modern reporting and analytics capabilities and a great mobile experience for our employees and leaders.
Communications Associate
Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees, Education
CRITICAL

“Profile and Document Updates Streamlined, Naming Convention Remains a Point of Frustration”

3.0
Feb 24, 2026
confusion with titles and naming conventions compared to what we used to use.

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2025
For Market:
Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises (Transitioning to HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises)

About Company

Company Description

Updated 13th October 2025

Workday is the AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. Workday unifies HR and Finance on one platform with AI at the core to empower people at every level with the clarity, confidence, and insights they need to adapt quickly, make better decisions, and deliver outcomes that matter. Workday is used by organizations around the world and across industries.

Company Details

Updated 13th October 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2005
Head office location
Pleasanton, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://www.workday.com

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Like

Other than the product itself, which is great, what I like most about Workday is the community. Workday has built a website where all of the Workday customers can collaborate, share best practices, create FAQs, provide videos/training, allow enhancement requests and has a great forum for questions and answers. This really ensures that you are able to properly configure and leverage the full amazing capabilities of the Workday application across all of its modules including Workday HCM, Talent, Recruitment, Onboarding, Reporting, Time/Absence, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation and more.

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a one-stop shop for all information about employment, and one place to update your profile and get all the documents

Like

For me, the most standout feature of Workday Human Capital Management is its format of reporting and insights. Human Resources department can easily generate reports regarding the employees performance, track their promotion and also can see organizational charts without any problems. Second, Workday Human Capital Management has strong security controls. It is very difficult to breach its security and temper or leakage of important information like audit trails and other company related information. Third, you don't need an office desktop to use Workday Human Capital Management. You can access the system on your mobile or laptop while at home.

Dislike

Workday has been actively purchasing and integrating additional applications into their platform including Sana (UX AI), Paradox (Recruitment AI), HiredScore (Candidate Sourcing AI), Adaptive Planning (Financial Planning), Evisort (Contract AI), and Flowise (AI Agents). Some of these technologies are still being seamlessly integrated into the Workday platform which can cause some challenges initially. But over time that integration keeps getting more and more seamless.

Dislike

naming convention

Dislike

While using the Workday Human Capital Management system, I find that its interface is very clunky and looks very old fashioned. And sometimes it is very hard to find what you need as there are too many tabs.

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Workday Human Capital Management Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(1105 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
42%
4 Star
48%
3 Star
9%
2 Star
1%
1 Star
0%
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Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

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4.3

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4.4

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  • Manager, Human Resources
    1B-10B USD
    Energy and Utilities
    Review Source

    The Workday HR Application is best-in-class amongst its peers

    5.0
    Jan 12, 2026
    The Workday HR application is the best HR application I have ever used. It just provides features and functionality that outperform its competitors. These features include its best-in-class use of AI, modern cloud technologies, robust security, easy configuration, the ability to customize using Workday Extend, modern reporting and analytics capabilities and a great mobile experience for our employees and leaders.
  • CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    The Workday Human Capital Management system is very good for employee performance tracking and reporting but it has clunky interface and has too many tabs that increases difficulty to find what you need

    5.0
    Nov 4, 2025
    For me, the Workday Human Capital Management system is working superbly as I can update all my details by myself and also I can see many important things easily including time off requests and pay stubs etc. While using it, there is no need to use any other system as it is alone useful to manage the tasks such as time tracking, payroll, performance and benefits of the employees.
  • Senior Director Of Workforce Development
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Workday HCM Centralizes HR Tasks but Interface Complexity Remains a Challenge

    4.0
    Dec 27, 2025
    Workday Human Capital Management is one of the most capable HR software, especially for medium to large organizations. Because these companies want one system that can handle human resources, salaries, benefits and time management of the employees. Workday HCM is also very beneficial for the employees as well as they can see their attendance record, payment information and they can also update their personal information by themselves without requesting the HR department.
  • FREIGHT AUDIT AND DATA SERVICES MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    Workday Interface Simplifies Team Time Tracking and PTO Schedule Management

    5.0
    Oct 13, 2025
    Workday has been a great tool for managing and reviewing my teams time week to week to make sure everyone is properly logging their time worked as well as their PTO schedules.
  • Director of Human Resources
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Implementation of Workday Proves Smooth with Integrated Features for Organization

    5.0
    Dec 9, 2025
    Workday is a superior product. We have enjoyed using Workday and quickly realized we made the right choice in selecting Workday. The implementation definitely went as smooth as it possibly could.
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