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’s 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
97 Plan to Renew
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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+90 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
- Acts with Integrity
- Efficient Service
- Client Friendly Policies
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Feature Ratings
Employee Record
Workforce Planning
Talent Management
Talent Acquisition
Payroll Administration
Time and Attendance
Document Management (DMS) Capabilities
Position Management
Compensation Management
Performance Management
Benefits Administration
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Quality of Features
Breadth of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Implementation
Ease of IT Administration
Availability and Quality of Training
Vendor Support
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Customization
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Workday Human Capital Management Reviews
RaviShankar S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2025
Great Enterprise Tool for managing Employee data
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Workday Human Capital Management from other similar products?
Workday Platform is the single HCM Solution used by Global Fortune 500 Enterprise organizations for Job Posting, Recruitment,Hiring, Resource , onboarding new resources, Attendence system, Performance systems for Goal setting, Goals tracking, employee appraisal system, BGV process., internal referals
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Unique Solution for Employeee Capital management includes Hiring, onboarding, performance management, appraisal, training tracking
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cost involved in renewal time, support timelines, time to add / modify additional functional features
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Use Workday for managing your enterprise HCM solution
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Shivani T.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2025
Human Capital, Powered by Intelligence
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Workday Human Capital Management from other similar products?
It's a cloud-first platform. Provides real-time updates. An integrated finance system to manage everything at one place.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Real-time reporting and analytics with Seamless updates. It enables better strategic workforce planning.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Customization is somewhat complex and requires in-depth expertise in the user interface. You need a certified Workday expert for the simplest change. Very time consuming process,
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This is a wonderful tool for organisations with more complex financial and HR needs. It provides asssitsant with various feature like,HR, payroll, finance, IT, and business planning.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Divyam O.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2025
Essential HR tools capabilities
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Workday Human Capital Management from other similar products?
1. Extremely intuitive platform with ease of implementation and usage, 2. Very powerful and customizable reporting options available. 3. Product is extremely smooth and best for talent management as it has number of inbuilt features and pre training schedules.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Product looks and Easy UI management.
What do you dislike most about this product?
1. It's very annoying sometime but it will pass many verifications to reach one place which cause little delay and make system to crash. 2. Little bit confusing to understand the pages in start and navigate those. 3. Setting up reports or navigating more advanced tools can still feel a little complicated.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Good HR and employee management platform
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
