Workday, Inc.

Workday Workforce Planning

7.2 /10

What is Workday Workforce Planning?

Create strategic workforce plans. Get the collaborative tools and insight your organization needs to build smarter workforce plans. With workforce planning from Workday, you can make better decisions and meet your business goals.

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Awards & Recognition

Workday Workforce Planning won the following awards in the Workforce Management - Enterprise category

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7 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2023

4 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

2022

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2021

Workday Workforce Planning Ratings

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82 Likeliness to Recommend

88 Plan to Renew

75 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+80 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 Workforce Planning?

8% Negative

17% Neutral

75% Positive

Pros

Security Protects
Reliable
Trustworthy
Saves Time

Feature Ratings

Average 76

Workforce Planning and Forecasting

Attendance Management and Policies

Workforce Scheduling

Time Capture Physical

Shift Management

Absence Management

Labor Costing and Splitting

Workforce Dashboards and Reporting

Rate Policies

Staffing

Time Capture Virtual

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 75

Business Value Created

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Workday Workforce Planning Reviews

Githatu W.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2022

My Experience With Workforce Planning

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Workday Workforce Planning from other similar products?

When it comes to designing a workforce plan, Workforce Planning offers best tools and insights. It helps in making better decision that will lead to increased productivity

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like that using Workforce Planning is easy and that it offers amazing tools and insights for better work plab design. The software is not expensive besides offering best features

What do you dislike most about this product?

Workforce Planning had been great with no major flaws

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For work planning and management, Workforce Planning is the tool you need. Very powerful and resourceful. It makes increasing productivity easy

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Unique Features
Efficient Service

Lori S.

Role: Human Resources
Industry: Manufacturing
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2021

"Fantastic product!"

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Workday Workforce Planning from other similar products?

The product is super user friendly

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ease of access

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing come to mind

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Nothing comes to mind

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity

Lilian R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2021

Powerful Workforce Processing Platform.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Workday Workforce Planning from other similar products?

The planning functionalities are effective and stable for the easy workforce planning, and excellent solution with great capturing capability and the dashboard is amazing.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Workforce Planning is an easy software to all users, and the most planning tool used on processing of workforce, and the analytics are better.

What do you dislike most about this product?

No dislike or any problem regarding this platform, everything perfectly working and the tool features are powerful and simple.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Perfect and flexible planning solution, coordination provided is amazing as well as its capturing ability is the best and the data easy analytics and great scheduling.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Workday Workforce Planning

What is Workday Workforce Planning?

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Awards & Recognition

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Workday Workforce Planning Ratings

82 Likeliness to Recommend

88 Plan to Renew

75 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+80 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Workday Workforce Planning?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Workforce Planning and Forecasting The ability to forecast and plan for labor requirements based on historical, heuristic, and other parameters.

Attendance Management and Policies The ability to configure rules related to types of hours, job requirements, thresholds, and eligible employees.

Workforce Scheduling The ability to configure work schedules for hourly and salaried employees and teams (e.g. crew, car, vessel), including rotations and recurring shifts.

Time Capture Physical The use of physical clocks (swipe, key, biometric, retina) to clock-in/out of a shift or a role.

Shift Management The ability for employees to exchange and bid on available shifts, rotations, and schedules.

Absence Management The ability to configure absence policies and types, call-ins, and provide visibility into absences.

Labor Costing and Splitting The ability to report on the cost of labor for schedules, resources, and work types against other reporting dimensions.

Workforce Dashboards and Reporting The ability to report on both in-range (day, week, month, quarter, etc.) events as well as aggregate views of labor.

Rate Policies The ability to configure or integrate with rate policies for jobs, resources, and other identifying attributes.

Staffing The rostering or assigning of resources to a shift or schedule based on a pre-defined set of criteria.

Time Capture Virtual The use of device-agnostic methods to clock-in/out of a shift or role.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Workday Workforce Planning Reviews

Githatu W.

My Experience With Workforce Planning

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Lori S.

"Fantastic product!"

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Lilian R.

Powerful Workforce Processing Platform.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Workforce Planning and Forecasting

Attendance Management and Policies

Workforce Scheduling

Time Capture Physical

Shift Management

Absence Management

Labor Costing and Splitting

Workforce Dashboards and Reporting

Rate Policies

Staffing

Time Capture Virtual

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness