
What is Workday Human Capital Management?
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world鈥檚 largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday.
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86 Likeliness to Recommend
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98 Plan to Renew
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84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+88 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Workday Human Capital Management?
Pros
- Respectful
- Client Friendly Policies
- Acts with Integrity
- Efficient Service
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Feature Ratings
Employee Record
Document Management (DMS) Capabilities
Workforce Planning
Talent Acquisition
Talent Management
Performance Management
Payroll Administration
Compensation Planning & Forecasting
Self-Service Applicant Portal鈥
Benefits Administration
Position Management
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Business Value Created
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Breadth of Features
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Workday Human Capital Management Reviews
John F.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2020
Fantastic in HCM management
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Workday Human Capital Management from other similar products?
Its diversified and executes a number of roles and functions from payroll management, HCM and even benefits administration and this ensures that we execute our roles with simplicity all through.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It has helped us get the best out of our human workforce and this enables keep them motivated and working excellently all through. It has digitized the way we manage our employee records and now we are able to keep them safe and ensure that they are not tampered with by malicious third-party. Its stable and has a simple user-interface simplifying how we use it.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes its affected by poor internet connections affecting its usage at times.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Workday HCM platform is stable and will improve the way you manage your employees and bring diversity and ensure everything runs smoothly at all times.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Ramesh D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Utilities
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2020
Easy for End Users, Administrators alike.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Workday Human Capital Management from other similar products?
As I mentioned before SaaS model beats on-premise models in several levels of Administrative costs. It is more secure and user friendly than other SaaS companies.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
So many - Time Entry, Pay Check, all your benefits and enrollments are at one place; no need to navigate dozens of pages to look for information.
What do you dislike most about this product?
We are in the beginning stages, did not explore all the aspects of the product; so some discovery is going on. Very soon we will explore all the options.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Please go for it; with good partner, do evaluation of the vendor. Get several testimonials to avoid delays in the Implementation process.
Pros
- Reliable
- Inspires Innovation
- Caring
- Includes Product Enhancements

Trey M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Transportation
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2021
It's pricey but the have good customer service.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Workday Human Capital Management from other similar products?
Nothing in particular.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Not being involved with the implementarion.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing in particular.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Make sure it's within your price range
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service
- Fair
Cons
- Less Inspiring
- Wastes Time