WORKDAY RESOURCE SCHEDULING
Match the right people to the right work—every time.
Workday Resource Scheduling helps professional services firms optimize staffing across projects with speed and precision.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Staff by fit—not just availability.
Use a native, unified workflow to view demand, understand true workforce capacity, and confidently assign the right resources.
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Centrally controlled resource scheduling
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Real-time insight into your true workforce capacity
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Live visibility into open roles and staffing needs
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Smart matching based on resource requirements and availability
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Add further contextual details to refine staffing
Find the Best-Fit Talent Instantly
Find the best-fit talent instantly.
Surface the best-fit workers based on role requirements and availability, with the flexibility to adjust criteria and expand options.
Surface top candidates faster.
Bookmark or favorite workers for a role to keep top candidates front and center for every search.
Make Strategic and Holistic Decisions
Add context to every scheduling decision.
Capture public or private notes at the project, demand line, or worker level to inform and guide scheduling decisions.
Model different scheduling scenarios.
Toggle projects on and off to explore different scheduling scenarios instantly see how changes impact a project worker’s schedule.
Optimize and Balance Workloads
Track workload trends over time.
View how resource workloads trend over weeks or months to better plan and adjust staffing.
Keep workloads evenly distributed.
Model assignments to balance workloads by shifting work from overutilized workers to those with available capacity.
Resolve scheduling conflicts faster.
Toggle conflicts on or off to quickly identify and resolve scheduling clashes.
OVERCOMING PAIN POINTS
Minimize risk and maximize margins.
Increase utilization.
Unlock hidden capacity and eliminate costly bench time by matching the best talent to each role using real-time worker data.
Accelerate delivery and mitigate risk.
Remove operational bottlenecks and reduce time to staff with a unified, native workflow.
Protect margins.
Improve project margins by ensuring the right talent is on every job and minimizing overruns.
“Resource Scheduling is the number one challenge reported by professional services firms.”
—Mickey North Rizza, Group Vice President, Enterprise Software, IDC, 2025
FAQs.
Workday Resource Scheduling is designed to address the resource scheduling needs of professional services organizations.
Workday Resource Scheduling is a purpose-built resource scheduling experience that leverages a best-in-class optimization engine and utilizes in-context, rich, real-time Human Capital Management and Professional Services Automation data, providing a unified experience to match project demand with project resources.
Workday Resource Scheduling solves the leading operational challenge faced by professional services firms: efficiently matching people to work.
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