Workday has been named a Leader in HCM for the 10th consecutive year.

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Elevate your work and your workforce.

Meet Workday Human Capital Management (HCM)—a smart, flexible suite of HR solutions designed to work better together. With AI agents that truly understand work, we’re reimagining how work happens with people at the center.

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Screenshot from Workday’s Manager Insights Hub showing career activity of employees.

Screenshot from Workday’s Manager Insights Hub showing career activity of employees.

Australia & New Zealand’s leading companies trust Workday.

OVERCOMING CHALLENGES

The enterprise AI platform for the new work day.

Learn how Workday HCM can help your business operate efficiently, keep employees engaged, and make faster, better decisions.

Core HCM
Workforce Planning & Analytics
Talent Management
Workforce Management
Experience & Engagement

Future-proof your HRM.

Use a cloud-based system that evolves to meet changing business objectives.

Say farewell to static, impersonal HRM.

Make the right changes to HR processes, deliver personalized experiences, and nurture growth.

Simplify global compliance.

Easily operate internationally while managing locally.

Tackle ever-evolving compliance requirements.

Navigate the complexity with the flexibility to adapt to meet changing industry needs.

Responsible AI and skills.

Quickly understand and act on skills across your entire workforce with AI.

Keep pace with rapid technology evolution.

Lead the way in evolving talent markets, build business agility, and adapt to change with AI.

Help your people find help, faster.

Deliver quick answers to your employees and easy-to-use tools for creating and storing HR knowledge.

Drive employee self-service.

Provide a frictionless, personalized experience so your people can access information, tasks, and support.

Operate with complete context.

Respond quickly to change by transforming your data into actionable insights.

Part ways with insecure data.

Uncover insights quickly by performing analysis in the same system you make decisions.

Put AI to work for people insights.

Uncover key insights you may have missed.

Cut through the data noise.

Discover critical workforce opportunities with powerful, augmented analytics.

Manage an adaptable workforce.

To keep up with business priorities and uncover new opportunities, you need planning that can keep pace.

Leave time-consuming, irregular planning behind.

Model, forecast, and budget your workforce all from the same unified data core.

Establish one complete source of data.

Create one, secure source of organizational truth with financial, operational, transactional and workforce data all in one hub.

Overcome disjointed data.

Gone are the days of data spread across multiple systems.

Align hiring with business needs.

Utilize an agile talent acquisition suite that helps companies adapt.

Acquire top talent.

Manage the full talent acquisition lifecycle and build diverse teams by expanding candidate pools.

Nurture growth.

Develop talent with an interactive learning solution from day 0.

Address skills shortages.

Upskill your workforce, and make learning a part of your people’s everyday lives.

Supercharge candidate experiences with AI.

Save time and resources with AI-driven conversational experiences that keep candidates engaged and interested.

Keep talent on the line.

Gain a competitive advantage by reducing candidate drop-off and speeding up the interview process.

Mobilize your talent.

Tap into the power of your workforce with the insights you need to inform and execute people-first strategies.

Engage the disengaged.

Remove the barriers to internal mobility and help employees upskill, reskill, and succeed.

Payroll right on the money.

Leverage effortless automation to pay people accurately, on time, and compliantly around the world.

Keep up with global payroll regulations.

Deliver flawless experiences across your global workforce that support local regulations.

Get employee scheduling right.

Optimize your workforce with AI-driven scheduling and demand forecasting that empowers your people.

Put employees first.

Match worker preferences with business demands to generate schedules that work for everyone—all powered by our AI.

Easily manage your contractors.

Manage your contingent workforce and get a holistic view of your total workforce.

Ditch disjointed labor management.

Increase operational efficiency with a total workforce solution.

Track time like clockwork.

Simplify time capture for employees, streamline approvals for managers, and gain insights on resource allocation.

Make time tracking, big time.

Reduce labor costs, enhance productivity, and promote worker well-being with time tracking, absence, scheduling, and payroll—unify all your time-track actions.

Make work more personal.

Bring people back to the center and provide everything from career guidance to personalized content.

Create a seamless worker experience.

Deliver an intuitive, personal, convenient worker experience from day 0.

Learn by listening.

Keep a pulse on how your people feel and put plans in place to address their feedback.

Help everyone feel heard.

Ask the right questions at the right time to get the right information to act on.

Enhance employee wellbeing.

Get AI-driven insights to deliver personalized wellness solutions tailored to employee needs.

Unlock a world of wellness.

Curate a best-in-class wellness program with our comprehensive ecosystem of wellness partners.

Create unique apps.

Unlock innovations with low and no-code tooling and confidently create solutions for all your challenges.

Build on Workday.

Create custom solutions with new apps built directly on Workday.

Unlock peak performance with human-AI collaboration.

Workday has been named a Leader for the 10th consecutive year. With a platform that drives human-AI collaboration, you get everything you need to unlock peak performance across your business.

Our Accolades

Trusted by HR professionals around the world.

Why Workday HCM

Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice 2024 Badge 16x9

Capterra Shortlist 2026 Badge 16 x 9

Trust Radius Top Rated 2025 badge

Leader Enterprise Winter 2026 Badge 16 x 9

WHAT SETS US APART

Writing the new playbook for work.

Contextual

Workday surfaces insights based on performance and operational and experiential data from one unified, AI-powered core.

Connected

Our suite integrates smoothly in a broader technology ecosystem and enables next-level extensibility.

Credible

More than 10,000 organizations, 65%+ of Fortune 500 and 70%+ of the Fortune 50 have selected Workday as a partner.

WHO SUCCEEDS WITH US

Our customers have the best stories.

All Customer Stories

Achieved business objectives while transforming HR.

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Digitized HR processes worldwide.

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Engaged employees with an intuitive, seamless system.

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Transformed HR operations to be more efficient.

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Booz Allen Hamilton

Gained visibility into global talent base.

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British Heart Foundation

Transformed the organization and culture.

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The Forever Forward HR Leader

Workday commissioned social research agency McCrindle to conduct a survey of over 1500 business and HR leaders in the APAC and Japan region. We found that HR leaders who are succeeding in today’s business context are proactive, human-centered and leverage technology and data to add strategic value to their organisations.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Human capital management FAQs.

Human capital management is the set of practices for measuring, managing, supporting, and guiding people within your organization.

HCM consists of a core HR database, skills intelligence foundation, configuration tooling, process automation, workforce management, recruiting, talent, learning, benefits, and more.

Look for object-oriented data models and systems that infuse best-in-class technology as well as ones that utilize skills ontologies and personas.

The goal of human capital management is to provide scalable and adaptable tools for businesses to manage, empower, and unlock the potential of their people.

Workday HCM is adaptable, flexible, scalable, and global, and includes Workday Skills Cloud—the world’s most open intelligent skills foundation—to fuel all your data-driven talent strategies.

Human capital management is important to any company because an organization’s business value and competitive edge are ultimately enhanced when employees’ talents are developed and nurtured.

[HCM is more specialized while ERP is more broad; HCM projects carry lower risk than ERP]

Workday HCM is adaptable, flexible, scalable, and global, and includes Workday Skills Cloud—the world’s most open intelligent skills foundation—to fuel all your data-driven talent strategies.

RESOURCES

HR resources just for you.

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Whitepaper Insights for Accelerating a Ready Workforce Read Whitepaper

eBook The Employee Experience Gets Personal Read eBook

eBook Building a Skills-Based People Strategy Read eBook

Customer Story Alight streamlines operations to increase efficiency. See Story

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