Total Rewards AI Agent
Full-circle support for pay and benefits.
Total Rewards Agent delivers custom benefits guidance, monitors pay equity, and streamlines comp cycles—freeing your team to focus on people strategy.
Unlock new possibilities for your total rewards strategy.
Grounded in your policies and processes, Total Rewards Agent works securely in Workday to deliver real-time compensation insights and benefits guidance.
Maximize benefits value.
Help employees surface relevant programs, unused balances, and key deadlines.
Choose with confidence.
Provide plan comparisons grounded in employee needs and options.
Simplify the merit cycle.
Put your complex merit cycles and bulk budget updates on autopilot.
Evolve with market shifts.
Flag minimum wage and market shifts with instant modeling for US and Canada.
Meet Sana. AI that gets work done right.
Sana is the agentic experience across all of Workday. Just describe what you need, and Sana orchestrates expert agents—like Total Rewards Agent—to take care of it, with every action grounded in Workday data, permissions, and governance.
Total Rewards Agent use cases
More employee support. Less HR workload. Everyone wins.
Take a look at some of the ways that our Total Rewards Agent can reinvent your compensation cycles.
Life’s big moments, made simple.
Jennifer is having a baby and needs clarity around benefit selections. She asks Sana and Total Rewards Agent conversationally outlines changes created by this life event, grounded in actual plan options. Jennifer feels confident making new elections—no HR ticket needed.
Merit planning minus spreadsheets.
Compensation manager Ben describes a budget scenario. Sana routes the question to Total Rewards Agent, which models the distribution, flags pay-equity drift, and costs out localized minimum-wage impacts. Ben skips the spreadsheet grind and focuses on retention strategy.
Total rewards with total ease.
Total Rewards Agent quietly runs specialized sub-agents in the background, empowering your teams to achieve more.
Benefits Agent
Early Access
Turn complex plans and life events into personalized guidance in a single conversation—helping employees confidently choose the right coverage while maximizing your organization’s benefits ROI.
Compensation Agent
Coming Soon
Put your compensation strategy on autopilot by using Workday to model total rewards, handle merit rollouts, and instantly adapt to market shifts.
“[The Benefits Agent] ... is helping our employees understand. It pulls everything it needs right from the system, and we can see it providing real value.”
—Senior Manager, HRIS Systems, Optro
Total Rewards Agent FAQs.
What is Total Rewards Agent?
Total Rewards Agent is an AI that operates inside your Workday environment to turn your policies into real-time compensation modeling, benefits guidance, and 24/7 pay equity monitoring.
How does Total Rewards Agent support merit planning?
Compensation managers can describe a budget scenario and the agent instantly models the distribution, flags pay-equity drift, and costs out localized minimum-wage impacts.
Which geographies are supported for minimum wage modeling?
The document specifies instant modeling for minimum wage shifts in the US and Canada.
How do Benefits Agent and Compensation Agent relate to Total Rewards Agent?
Total Rewards Agent runs specialized sub-agents in the background: Benefits Agent (Early Access) provides personalized guidance for complex plans and life events, and Compensation Agent (coming soon) supports modeling total rewards and handling merit rollouts.
How can benefits decision support help employees choose the right benefits?
Benefits decision support helps employees choose the right benefits by turning complex plan information into clear, personalized guidance. The Total Rewards Agent compares options based on each employee’s needs, preferences, and life circumstances; explains costs and coverage in simple terms; and recommends relevant programs.
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