Lever vs. Workday Human Capital Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lever
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Lever is a Talent Acquisition Suite designed to help talent teams to reach their hiring goals and to connect companies with top talent. Lever provides ATS and applicant CRM capabilities, in LeverTRM. The Lever Hire and Lever Nurture features allow leaders to grow their people pipeline, build long-lasting relationships, and source the right people. Lever Analytics provides customized reports with data visualization, see offers completed and interview feedback, and it informs strategic decisions…N/A
Workday HCM
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Workday Human Capital Management is a cloud-native system offering a globally consistent user experience. Workday HCM is part of an intelligent, unified system with other Workday products.N/A
Pricing
LeverWorkday Human Capital Management
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LeverWorkday HCM
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
LeverWorkday Human Capital Management
Considered Both Products
Lever
Chose Lever
Lever is more visually intuitive. It is a faster platform since it requires less clicking around to accomplish tasks.
Workday HCM

No answer on this topic

Features
LeverWorkday Human Capital Management
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Lever
9.1
34 Ratings
14% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.3
49 Ratings
8% above category average
Job Requisition Management9.231 Ratings8.146 Ratings
Company Website Posting9.231 Ratings8.439 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.221 Ratings8.634 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting9.223 Ratings8.540 Ratings
Customized Application Form9.229 Ratings00 Ratings
Resume Management9.232 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.230 Ratings7.740 Ratings
Candidate Search9.233 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking9.232 Ratings8.140 Ratings
Collaboration9.232 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation9.222 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Templates8.628 Ratings00 Ratings
User Permissions8.631 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts9.232 Ratings8.444 Ratings
Reporting9.230 Ratings00 Ratings
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.4
97 Ratings
4% above category average
Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.382 Ratings
Employment history00 Ratings8.692 Ratings
Job profiles and administration00 Ratings8.494 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings9.189 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings9.288 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings8.885 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings6.760 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.8
80 Ratings
8% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings8.468 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings8.656 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings9.818 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.363 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.669 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings9.066 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings9.243 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.5
75 Ratings
4% above category average
Approval workflow00 Ratings8.574 Ratings
Balance details00 Ratings8.474 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings8.760 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.4
95 Ratings
2% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.884 Ratings
Update personal information00 Ratings8.693 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings7.673 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings7.957 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings8.884 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.2
25 Ratings
3% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings8.225 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.3
79 Ratings
9% above category average
Report builder00 Ratings8.875 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings8.477 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings7.865 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.5
57 Ratings
6% above category average
New hire portal00 Ratings8.452 Ratings
Manager tracking tools00 Ratings8.753 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.4
61 Ratings
4% above category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings8.651 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings8.660 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.851 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings8.559 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.8
64 Ratings
11% above category average
Performance plans00 Ratings8.963 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings8.855 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings8.759 Ratings
Review reminders00 Ratings9.058 Ratings
Multiple review frequency00 Ratings8.851 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
7.8
41 Ratings
0% above category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings9.235 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.436 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings7.839 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings6.837 Ratings
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User Ratings
LeverWorkday Human Capital Management
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(35 ratings)
8.7
(131 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
7.7
(15 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
6.6
(8 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
1.1
(5 ratings)
8.0
(27 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(6 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(11 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
LeverWorkday Human Capital Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Employ Inc.
I think Lever is great for any sized company, but especially strong for smaller, growing teams. It's a very simple system, but clean, sleek, and very useful in any scenario. They have great support whenever you need it so those with smaller HR or People teams could easily benefit from their help. Can't think of too many scenarios where Lever wouldn't be well-suited, but maybe once you grow to International growth and hiring, it may be better to have a more Enterprise style business, set up for larger scaling.
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Workday
I would say it's well suited in every environment because I think it does so much. It's like the holy grail of HRIS systems is what I like to call it because thinking about all parts of the employee lifecycle, it lives here in Workday Human Capital Management. So I love the fact that you can do the people data analytics, you can store employee records, the talent acquisition pieces there. I'm thinking I can't think of anything negative right now except for the fact that I can't drill down into the data for the people analytics side. Other than that, I think it's literally, yeah, the holy grail of HRIS systems, I love it and I would highly recommend it.
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Pros
Employ Inc.
  • Great integration: Keeps a list of Outlook email communication along with LinkedIn and other data sources
  • Is fairly lively, not too much lag between screens even though it is looking through a lot of data.
  • Has excellent reporting on how well each email message is working.
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Workday
  • Groups employees in management hierarchies and creates Org Charts that are easy to navigate and allow for visualizing management chains regardless of employee locations
  • Intuitive and easy to use. The Workday search functionality works very much like Google; one can search for anything that they have access to in the database and drill down into the various details. All information is connected through hyperlinks and users can easily keep digging into the details for as far as their security access would take them.
  • Tasks such as to do, review or approve items are sent to the user's Workday Inbox, very much resembling email. Notifications about outstanding "to do" items are also sent to each the user's work email address on a daily basis.
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Cons
Employ Inc.
  • [In my experience,] terrible customer support - pay more to get less...
  • Integrations are spotty and can break without reason
  • Lever has so much potential, but their Roadmap is lacking in ways that will really help customers succeed
  • Focuses on the number of candidates and not the company's need to build talent in a cost effective, data driven and collaborative way
  • Overpromised and underdelivered in [the] capability of the tool. [I believe that you should] not trust your sales team.
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Workday
  • Should have more option in time sheet like choose project code or something.
  • On The pay page, it should have options to view past salaries; it may be there already but not in the version that I use.
  • The employee information page does not have a back button to navigate to the previous page.
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Likelihood to Renew
Employ Inc.
No answers on this topic
Workday
It is work to make one system the source of truth for our data, but now that it is done, there is less work involved in staying on this path. This means for us that maintaining and/or implementing new modules like performance, finance, talent, etc. is simple. It's a no-brainer
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Usability
Employ Inc.
It isn't difficult to use for the applicant processing, but [I feel] if you want to pull reports or use their tools, good luck!
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Workday
Workday's on a great path in terms of user experience. Their goals is to deliver a use experience that doesn't require training or instruction, like Amazon on the consumer side for example. That's hard to do when you're talking about complex business processes and important and sensitive employee information, but they're doing it well
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Reliability and Availability
Employ Inc.
No answers on this topic
Workday
In 2014, Workday has changed the update process. There will be two updates a year; the updates will be delivered to customers typically in a 24 hour window during these two weekends a year. They also keep the Community up-to-date about any planned outages, etc. There is weekly scheduled downtime on Friday night.
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Performance
Employ Inc.
No answers on this topic
Workday
From my perspective, the system runs like a well oiled machine and I have not had any issues with customers complaining about speed. If a report is taking long to run, the report can run in the background and you can go about your business. For larger enterprises, there is additional space and machines to process the application in what Workday refers to it as Extended Configuration Tenant
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Support Rating
Employ Inc.
What support? - Add a ticket and get links to [I believe] their unhelpful user guide. Add a charge if you want better support - afterward just got those links faster...
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Workday
Workday is still learning about the needs of higher education. I have seen rapid improvement in support and knowledge over the last year so am confident this will continue to improve. Overall however, I have found the Support Team to be extremely responsive and Workday offers the advantage of having support across several timezones so that we never wait more than a few hours for a response.
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In-Person Training
Employ Inc.
No answers on this topic
Workday
Some training is offered online. Cost is per-person. This also gets quite expensive. Training doesn’t follow a logical path A to B. Starts in middle. When you try to do it afterwards at your desk, difficult.
• Training scenarios are not very real
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Online Training
Employ Inc.
No answers on this topic
Workday
I have done for report writing and mass imports (EIBs). They give materials and you run through examples, i.e. you don’t just watch them do tasks, so that is helpful. Training is expensive – a single reporting writing class is $600 per person for virtual training
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Implementation Rating
Employ Inc.
No answers on this topic
Workday
It was implemented before my joining the company. At my last company, we used Workday professional services.

Based upon my experience at my last company, I would rate the implementation experience an 8/10. There are different ways to set things up and we had different people telling us different things. It set us back a couple of times.

Regarding configuration advice, we could set things up where every manager has supervisory organizations, or have it financially based i.e. aligned to cost center/department. We chose the individual manager path and I think we should have chosen a department route. Going down the individual manager path, to maintain the information, we have to inactivate a supervisory org whenever a manager changes/leaves.
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Alternatives Considered
Employ Inc.
Lever is comparable to Greenhouse in its basic recruiting functions. I have found it to be WAY better than Bullhorn (clunky and overly-complicated with a very dated and non-intuitive interface) and Jazz HR (slick and pretty, but limited in its functions). The best ATS I've used is the proprietary tool at Meta, but alas, that tool is for internal use only
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Workday
Workday is an incomplete product, by this I mean it must work alongside other products and does not work by itself. Trying to make several different products work smoothly together becomes very challenging. As compared to ADP products, when purchased all together work very well all together. Also, ADP has extensive Training programs and extensive Customer Support. So ADP's products are far superior to Workday's products in my opinion.
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Scalability
Employ Inc.
No answers on this topic
Workday
Workday has released Financials and is continuing to develop it's Human Capital Management footprint with the addition of Workday Recruiting. I think customers will find that is easy to add on additional functionality in the system. Workday does make it easy for customers to make changes without relying on IT resources. The Business Process framework is a visual tool that allows functional resources to make changes and see the flow of the transaction
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Return on Investment
Employ Inc.
  • Lever provides an enormous ROI by getting us in front of the right candidates that are going to make us more money and more successful as an org.
  • I think that both the quality and quantity of new hires has gone up ever since we started using lever and involving the entire org in the process.
  • It also saves us a lot of time because we don't need to send referrals via email, while saving/attaching resumes and such.
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Workday
  • Positive ROI, we were one of the first organizations that went with Workday HCM, and we received numerous discounts. Cloud systems are the way to go and we feel the system is stable for our growing work force.
  • The user conferences have been helpful to network and learn more deepness in the modules and functionality.
  • Right off the bat, our implementation costs were lower than budgeted and we had less 'billing' surprises.
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ScreenShots

Lever Screenshots

Screenshot of where to identify the top origin and sources of candidates in all stages, the Offer stage, and the Hired stage.

Workday HCM Screenshots

Screenshot of Workday Human Capital Management HomepageScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management Manager Insights HubScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management HR Partners HubScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management Expense AnalysisScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management Skills DashboardScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management HR Operations and Compliance Dashboard