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    HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT (HCM) 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 centre.

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    Join over 1,000 companies worldwide that succeed with our HCM platform.

    Master your organizational management with Workday.

    Are you struggling with outdated HR systems? Workday streamlines your processes, saves time and effort, and delivers fast, accurate business insights.

    Managing a large workforce presents immense challenges. That is precisely why the Workday HCM solution was developed. Our platform optimizes your operations, reduces manual tasks, and analyzes business impacts in real time.

    Workday’s modern HCM technology helps you optimize processes such as:

    Making decisions

    Advanced analytics support data-driven decisions regarding time tracking, scheduling, personnel costs, and more.

    Driving growth

    Flexible, cloud-based solutions simplify workforce management and compensation planning.

    Increasing profits

    Automated workflows reduce labor costs and administrative expenses.

    Developing skills

    AI-powered tools improve how you attract, train, and retain employees. A strong team positions you for success.

    Protecting data

    Robust security measures prevent data breaches and fraud.

    PImproving compliance

    Real-time monitoring keeps you up to date with changing regulations.

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    WHAT SETS US APART

    The future of workforce planning

    Discover Workday Human Capital Management. Built with AI at its core, it is an intelligent, flexible suite of HR applications that work seamlessly together.

    An unmatched skills foundation

    Embedded within Workday HCM, Workday Skills Cloud uses machine learning to automatically connect talent with opportunities. This enables organizations of all sizes to foster workforce-wide agility.

    Setting new standards in AI and productivity

    Leveraging an unparalleled dataset of over 600 billion transactions annually, Workday integrates AI into its platform to automate routine HR tasks and deliver actionable insights into organizational management.

    A unique user experience

    Our HCM platform helps you incorporate employee feedback and boost motivation through an engaging user experience.

    Workforce analytics for informed decisions

    Our augmented analytics technology derives insights from vast datasets and presents current trends—and their underlying causes—in easy-to-understand "stories."

    People-first workforce management

    We offer intelligent automation and key insights across the entire employee lifecycle—from recruiting to compensation—helping your workforce be more productive.

    HCM software for flexible compensation programs

    Our compensation and benefits tools allow you to design programs that meet the diverse needs of your workforce, ensuring you can appropriately reward employee performance.

    Recruiting, motivating, and retaining talent

    Drive engagement to new levels with a seamless workforce and enterprise management solution that uses AI to optimize and execute workforce planning and scheduling.

    Workday HCM unlocks 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.

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    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.

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    Future-proof your HRM

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

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    Say farewell to static, impersonal HRM.

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

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    Simplify global compliance

    Easily operate internationally while managing locally.

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    Tackle ever-evolving compliance requirements.

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

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    Responsible AI and skills

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

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    Keep pace with rapid technology evolution.

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

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    Help your people find help, faster

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

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    Drive employee self-service.

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

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    Operate with complete context.

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

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    Part ways with insecure data.

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

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    Put AI to work for people insights.

    Uncover key insights you may have missed.

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    Cut through the data noise.

    Discover critical workforce opportunities with powerful, augmented analytics.

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    Manage an adaptable workforce.

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

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    Leave time-consuming, irregular planning behind.

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

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    Establish one complete source of data.

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

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    Overcome disjointed data.

    Gone are the days of data spread across multiple systems.

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    Align hiring with business needs

    Utilise an agile talent acquisition suite that helps companies adapt.

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    Acquire top talent. 

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

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    Nurture growth.

    Develop talent with an interactive learning solution from day 0.

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    Address skills shortages.

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

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    Supercharge candidate experiences with AI.

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

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    Keep talent on the line.

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

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    Mobilise your talent.

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

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    Engage the disengaged.

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

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    Payroll right on the money.

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

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    Keep up with global payroll regulations.

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

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    Get employee scheduling right.

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

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    Put employees first

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

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    Easily manage your contractors.

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

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    Ditch disjointed labour management.

    Increase operational efficiency with a total workforce solution.

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    Track time like clockwork.

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

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    Make time tracking, big time.

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

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    Make work more personal.

    Bring people back to the centre and provide everything from career guidance to personalised content.

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    Create a seamless worker experience.

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

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    Learn by listening.

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

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    Help everyone feel heard.

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

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    Enhance employee wellbeing.

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

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    Unlock a world of wellness.

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

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    Create unique apps.

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

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    Build on Workday.

    Create custom solutions with new apps built directly on Workday.

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    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.

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    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 organisations, 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

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    FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

    Human capital management FAQs

    What is human capital management?

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

    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 utilise 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.

    HCM SaaS (Human Capital Management Software as a Service) is a cloud-based subscription platform that allows organizations to centrally manage HR functions such as payroll, recruitment, employee benefits, and performance tracking.

    Workday includes both, serving as a comprehensive cloud ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) platform that includes a robust HCM (Human Capital Management) suite as one of its core foundational modules, united by powerful AI systems.

    RESOURCES

    HCM 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
    Customer Story Alight Streamlines Operations to Increase Efficiency Read Story

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