Workday Human Capital Management

Workday allowed us to move to a single sign-on system which reduced the complexity of accessing users personal data. With the implementation of Workday HCM/Payroll (New hire forms, HR job change forms, time sheets and time off requests), our company reduced paper usage by 60,000 pieces per year. Position control and open position capabilities in Workday allow our HR team and the department leaders to efficiently manage their teams. Finally, Workday has given us API integration capabilities with our HR vendors that were not available with our previous system.

The user interface has a modern visual design

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.

It's not a dislike necessarily, but reporting at implementation will take longer than you think it will. The Workday language and terms are different and users need a little time to adjust, but we think that would be the case with any new system.

Certain links are made available to the users that do not provide useful information. Unintuitive design leads users to click multiple things in order to find what they are looking for. Booking vacation is more difficult through Workday because it shows the vacation time accrued. Additional maneuvering is required to see the total vacation time for the year. More confusingly, you are able to book and take vacation before accruing the hours, so this design makes it difficult to track how much vacation you have left. There is also no notification to let you know if your vacation has been approved, and there is also a delay in managers getting the vacation request. Workday also do not seem to provide managers with a good consolidated view of vacations for their teams. Rollout was buggy from a user perspective with certain features not working

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.