Name: Workday Human Capital Management
Rating: 4.4 (1124 reviews)

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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.

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.

Human Resources Associate

3B - 10B USD, Energy and Utilities

CRITICAL

“Platform Lauded for User-Friendly Design Yet Falls Short on Global Compliance Needs”

3.0

Mar 25, 2026

I really love the design and feel of this platform, but ultimately felt it lacked the functionality we needed to be able to continue in the sense of integration, global compliance, and customization.

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

About Company

Company Description

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

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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Workday Human Capital Management Likes & Dislikes

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.

I love how user-friendly the platform is. Workday is intuitive, straightforward, easy to navigate and all our employees enjoyed that aspect, including the look and feel of the product as well.

Workday Human Capital tool brings together processes that are simple to implement and easy to use for users who are new to the platform. The feature I like most is that each feature is well placed within the platform GUI which makes it easier to navigate through different sections. In case the user is not familiar with the flow process, the user can use the search bar at the top with basic search to extract the links.

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.

Workday lacks robust support for complex, country-specific regulations/languages/currencies, which makes it difficult for large and global enterprises like ours. It also misses the mark for me on deep functionality and customization with its limited configuration options in talent modules and HR processes.

One of the items that can be improved rather than disliked is that the approval process sometimes can be multilayered which makes users to navigate to all the sections to view the status. Same can be streamlined by making it a simple view for easy understanding. Another area of improvement would be to make the deployment process more documented when implemented in large enterprises.

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1B-10B USD

Energy and Utilities

Review Source

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

Director Quality Engineering

10B+ USD

Banking

Navigating Workday's User Interface Is Easy, Multilayered Approvals Require Improvement

Mar 30, 2026

Workday Human Capital Management is a great tool that supports a cloud-based solution. Helping large enterprises to efficiently manage different business processes related to Human Resources, Payroll and onboarding of the talent. Overall experience makes the organization more streamlined in terms of planning and managing organizational resources.

CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER

50M-1B USD

IT Services

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

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.

Platform Lauded for User-Friendly Design Yet Falls Short on Global Compliance Needs

Product Manager

<50M USD

Real Estate

Workday Interface Provides Organized Task Management and Streamlined Navigation Experience

Mar 6, 2026

My overall experience with Workday has been good. The Platform is easy to navigate and helps manage tasks and information efficiently.

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

“Platform Lauded for User-Friendly Design Yet Falls Short on Global Compliance Needs”

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Workday Human Capital Management Reviews and Ratings

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

Navigating Workday's User Interface Is Easy, Multilayered Approvals Require Improvement

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

Platform Lauded for User-Friendly Design Yet Falls Short on Global Compliance Needs

Workday Interface Provides Organized Task Management and Streamlined Navigation Experience

4.4

(1124 Ratings)

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