Paycor vs. Workday Human Capital Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Paycor
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Paycor provides core HR functions scaled towards small and mid-sized businesses. Paycor offers an integrated benefits platform for interfacing directly with insurance carriers and an adaptable time management platform.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
PaycorWorkday Human Capital Management
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PaycorWorkday HCM
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPaycor's pricing for small, mid, and enterprise companies varies based on product bundle and company size. Because Paycor HR software is built to help businesses scale and grow, plans are based on the mix of HR products needed, and company size. Payroll is at the core of Paycor's offering, and their products are sold as a part of their payroll and HR platform.
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Community Pulse
PaycorWorkday Human Capital Management
Considered Both Products
Paycor
Chose Paycor
The system is very cost effective. The implementation team makes their customers feel welcome and helps takes of a burden of this huge project. They will run various scenarios to help
determine what is best and not only what is best today but best for the future of growth as well.
Chose Paycor
Paycor's main advantage over the other managing tools I have used is how fast I learned how to use it and that the information is easy to access while not cluttering the screen. I didn't personally choose to use Paycor; by chance, I got to use it in a new campaign, and I'm very …
Chose Paycor
I launched all 3 of the above and they were all hands-on with training, implementation, and issues. This group answers emails and calls when they want and did a several web meetings. 90% of the work was on me.
Workday HCM
Chose Workday Human Capital Management
UKG can have some security issues with new user profiles on personal experience and its harder to adapt for elderly users. We had many situations where support was slow to respond to our tickets as the platform glitched or failed sometimes, unlike Workday HCM where all users …
Features
PaycorWorkday Human Capital Management
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Paycor
8.1
394 Ratings
2% below category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.8
80 Ratings
8% above category average
Pay calculation8.4382 Ratings8.468 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors8.25 Ratings8.656 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment8.1178 Ratings9.818 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.6271 Ratings8.363 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.8377 Ratings8.669 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management7.9314 Ratings9.066 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.6101 Ratings9.243 Ratings
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Paycor
-
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
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Paycor
-
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
Paycor
-
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
Paycor
-
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
Paycor
-
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
Paycor
-
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
Paycor
-
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
Paycor
-
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
Paycor
-
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
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Paycor
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.3
49 Ratings
8% above category average
Job Requisition Management00 Ratings8.146 Ratings
Company Website Posting00 Ratings8.439 Ratings
Publish to Social Media00 Ratings8.634 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings8.540 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.740 Ratings
Applicant Tracking00 Ratings8.140 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings8.444 Ratings
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PaycorWorkday Human Capital Management
Small Businesses
Dayforce Powerpay
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Score 9.4 out of 10
Dayforce Powerpay
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Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Paypro Workforce Management
Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.7 out of 10
Paypro Workforce Management
Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Infor Human Resources
Infor Human Resources
Score 7.1 out of 10
PeopleStrong
PeopleStrong
Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
PaycorWorkday Human Capital Management
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(418 ratings)
8.7
(131 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.9
(21 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Usability
7.8
(387 ratings)
7.7
(15 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(3 ratings)
6.6
(8 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(3 ratings)
7.3
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
4.4
(58 ratings)
8.0
(27 ratings)
In-Person Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.6
(6 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(3 ratings)
7.0
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(19 ratings)
8.0
(11 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(4 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(3 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(2 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(2 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
PaycorWorkday Human Capital Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Paycor Inc
The Open enrollment tool is excellent. They need to improve the reporting tool and speed up the use of AI. I've seen other system demos and their integration of AI seems sophisticated in comparision to Paycor's. Paycor has integrated some AI into analytics but it lacking in terms of what it can do
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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
Paycor Inc
  • With the click of one button Paycor Recruiting will seamlessly post a position to multiple job boards directly from their platform! We also post our job openings to our company careers page and our internal careers page which are included in the single click to post along with Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and ZipRecruiter.
  • The customized workflows in the applicant tracking system are excellent for staying organized and allowing both recruiters and hiring managers to quickly assess where each candidate is at in the hiring process. This helps ensure no candidates are getting duplicate calls, emails, or requests from those involved in the recruiting process.
  • The customizable templates are a huge time saver! You can create specific job templates to make posting position faster. You can create email and texting templates to make sure communication with candidates is consistent across the board. You can create offer letter templates and thank you letter templates as well so the information doesn’t have to be typed up from scratch every time. These features all make the recruiting process seamless and ensures that’s each candidate is getting the same great experience!
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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
Paycor Inc
  • Support is really challenging and takes a long time to follow-up on and resolve issues.
  • Scheduling is very cumbersome and does not have adequate controls to ensure that team members that should not be able to edit schedules cannot change them.
  • They have limited solutions to problems and frequently say there is a work around which means the software is just not developed enough and they are aware of it.
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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
Paycor Inc
Price point is the biggest driving factor. Paycor has made some strides in the customer service area and we've seen enough improvements that renewing our contract has become more a reality than a pipe dream. The system functions well and our employees are familiar with how it works, so to make a change would be a huge lift for our team
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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
Paycor Inc
Glitches. So many glitches. The customer service number provides basic troubleshooting, which doesn’t help; some issues take weeks to resolve, with no apparent reason why they occur. The system does not work on Safari. We have dealt with Payroll not working, which has caused a manual payroll to be run. Paycor representatives do not provide any assistance.
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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
Paycor Inc
I feel like Paycor is always up and running! If they are planning downtime, they communicate it clearly. Every once in a while, I get something that says the system isn't working but it is usually back up within the hour. I typically find by the time that the employees complain about it, that it is resolved within the system.
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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
Paycor Inc
For the most part, everything moves super fast. There are a few sections (Expense Management) that sometimes take a bit to load correctly. Or if they are interesting, it takes a minute to talk to each other! But reports are quickly downloaded and available! Even data heavy reports run fairly fast!
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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
Paycor Inc
I feel like support will transfer you back and forth between departments and put you on hold forever. I believe it is very difficult to see the status of an open ticket. During my experience, it feels like the client has to push all communication and request updates from support regularly.
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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
Paycor 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
Paycor Inc
The online trainings are super helpful. They have user guides that you can read through, interactive training that will walk you through it as well as plain web based ones. I've actually never had an in-person training but all of the information you need can be found online. They also will do individual support training if you are struggling with a certain area.
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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
Paycor Inc
Implementation of any new software is going to be challenging, especially if you are maintaining an existing program concurrently. When it is time for dual-processing (both old and new software) prior to going live, be prepared to be stressed. But trust the process and it will be over soon.
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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
Paycor Inc
They seemed similar but Paycor was cheaper at the time. However, Paycor has so many fees they tack onto every invoice that may not be the case anymore. The support services supposedly were better at ADP but that was an unknown
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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
Paycor Inc
I gave it a 10 because we only use it across one organization. However, it has allowed us to break it into multiple departments and layers of management. It is also easy for us to utilize across different locations but still under one master company. They have always provided us support when we decide to change something on an organizational level
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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
Paycor Inc
  • Number wise, this takes field employees LESS time to execute their process THUS saving money in the field.
  • This takes the office staff MORE time to process what the field is doing and costing MORE money on an executive level as opposed to an hourly or field level.
  • The ROI was not considered while joining as the amount of employees involved necessitated a change in the previous system.
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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

Paycor Screenshots

Screenshot of the real-time data insights that support critical business decisions.Screenshot of Paycor's expense reportingScreenshot of the recruiting processes streamlined in PaycorScreenshot of workforce scheduling in PaycorScreenshot of Paycor's mobile app, that allows employees to punch in and out from their phonesScreenshot of the Paycor Home Screen

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