Go all-in on simplification.
Scale your business with enterprise-grade power that fits your business today. Workday GO brings together everything you need to manage HR and Payroll in one AI-powered platform to deliver results faster.
Renowned Australia and New Zealand medium enterprise organisations trust Workday.
75% of our customers are medium enterprises. Here are a few of the businesses shaping Australia and New Zealand's economy by trusting Workday to connect their people and financial performance.
Workday GO: A New AI Era for Mid-Market HR Technology
This webinar introduces Workday GO - an AI-powered all-in-one HCM and Payroll solution designed specifically for the mid-market - and will showcase a product demo, implementation overview, snapshot of like-sized customers, and partners that can support your modernisation.
WHY WORKDAY
The simplicity you need
at the price you want.
Only Workday simplifies your back-office with an all-in-one solution for HR & Payroll without compromising quality and within your budget. Built-in AI accelerates your launch and automates the heavy lifting, helping your team achieve more from day one.
Automate your back office.
Use an all-in-one solution that simplifies without compromising on price, quality, or scalability.
Go live, fast.
Get value from day one with an AI-led activation that gets you live quickly and at a fraction of the cost.
Get an AI advantage.
Do more with less with purpose-built AI agents and low-risk, embedded AI that’s available at go live.
HR AND PAYROLL SOFTWARE
Realise value in less time than ever.
Solve your toughest people problems with actionable, real-time data you can trust. Workday GO combines proven HR and Payroll processes with a team of AI agents in one place, so you can surface what matters, reduce manual work, and act faster to support your business.
One platform, all the simplicity.
Streamline operations and take the busy work out of HR with AI. Workday GO brings together HR, pay, benefits, recruiting, and talent management on the trusted Workday platform, and uses AI agents built into Workday to automate routine tasks so your business runs more efficiently and gets to value faster.
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Automated workflows, driven by AI agents
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Recruiting and onboarding
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Compensation, salary, and incentive plans
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Benefits plans and enrollment
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Time and absence management, including for frontline workers
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User- and role-based security
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Performance reviews and career planning
Pay every employee, everywhere.
Reduce errors and increase efficiency with the Workday GO payroll package that scales to over 75 countries. With HCM, Payroll*, and the Payroll Agent on one platform, you’ll reduce manual work and ensure on-time, compliant payments every cycle.
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Continuous payroll processing
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Global payroll & managed payroll services
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Automated tax and compliance updates
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Retro pay calculations
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AI-powered anomaly detection
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Real-time reporting and analytics
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Self-service employee experience
Elevate your talent.
When all employee data—from pay to skills—is unified in Workday, you see both the talent you have and the talent you’ll need. With Workday GO and built-in AI, managers get clear insight to support performance and growth, while employees get simple tools to steer their own careers.
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Performance reviews
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AI-powered skills management
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Development check-ins & feedback
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Personalized career planning tools
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Talent profiles & pipeline visibility
Hiring made simple.
Give hiring teams a single place to find, engage, and move the right candidates forward faster. With HR and recruiting on the same Workday platform, you get an AI‑driven, trusted experience that makes everything feel simple. No rework and smoother onboarding for you and your applicants.
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Candidate engagement & marketing
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Seamless recruiter & candidate experience
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Apply with LinkedIn integration
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Reporting, compliance, and analytics
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Hiring team collaboration
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Interview management
An effortless experience.
Empower your employees and managers with a simple, personalized experience. The Workday mobile app and Self-Service Agent puts everyday HR tasks—such as payslips, time-off requests, and goals—right in their hands, with AI helping them find answers and get things done faster.
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AI-enhanced search assistance
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Employee and manager self-service
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AI-suggested skills
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Greater transparency of HR information
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Mobile access to essential HR tasks
VALUE CALCULATOR
Calculate the value of Workday GO.
Don’t guess what you could save—see what our solutions can do for your business instead. Use this free value calculator to get a personalised look at how Workday GO delivers value fast.
Equity Trustees is one of Australia’s leading specialist trustee companies with just under 500 employees, introduces next-gen payroll with Workday.
“Shared information among people, payroll, and finance has led to greater collaboration between teams and de-risks key processes such as onboarding and offboarding.
Executive General Manager, People
OUR ACCOLADES
Trusted by organisations around the world.
FAQS
Questions? We have answers.
The built-in AI in Workday GO helps medium enterprise and small businesses adopt enterprise AI affordably and without the complexity of building custom systems. Key benefits of our platform include:
AI-powered workflows that automate many of the routine, time-consuming tasks that are common in human resources and finance.
Built-in AI that helps organisations make more informed decisions by providing predictive insights
AI agents such as Deployment Agent, Self-Service Agent, and Payroll Agent available on day one that help you do more with less.
Flexibility to try and add new AI agents to test environments at no costs.
Not at all. Workday GO actually reduces complexity with streamlined processes, automation, global payroll, and integration. Workday AI agents including BP Optimise Agent, Payroll Agent, Self-Service Agent, and Deployment Agent are also available at go-live to augment your team’s capacity.
Workday GO unifies your data so you get an accurate and complete picture of your business in real time across HR and Payroll—rather than separate, siloed views.
Workday GO delivers its all-in-one solution for HR, global payroll, and finance to medium enterprise businesses through packages designed to fit their business and budget.
While Workday is known for powering the world’s largest organisations, the vast majority of our customers are actually medium enterprises. In fact, over 75% of our customer base has fewer than 3,500 employees. Our cloud solution is built to scale seamlessly, meeting the evolving needs of businesses at every stage of their growth
Workday maximises the potential of your existing resources, making things easier for smaller teams. Automation, coupled with self-service, gives time back to your teams so they can focus on more valuable work, rather than being bogged down. Workday AI frees up IT, HR, and payroll from manual, repetitive tasks. It allows your teams to spend more time advancing new capabilities and less time on routine operations with the easy-to-consume updates and adaptability Workday provides.
*Independent claim made by HG Insights and Workday based on organisations on the 2025 Fortune Future 50™ using one or more Workday products. Fortune has not verified the accuracy of this statement. Fortune is a registered trademark and Fortune Future 50 is a trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited. Used with permission. © 2025 Workday, Inc. All rights reserved. WORKDAY and the Workday logos are trademarks of Workday, Inc.
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