Workday...the good and the bad!
March 14, 2018

Workday...the good and the bad!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Financial Management
  • Human Capital Management

Overall Satisfaction with Workday Human Capital Management

Workday is currently used at our company for expense reimbursement, managing and submitting PTO requests, managing and creating yearly employee goals, and leveraging it for the organizational structure at the company (i.e. who works under whom etc.). It is being used across the entire organization.
  • I think the org structure is particularly helpful, especially since it is not available anywhere else at our firm.
  • PTO requests are fairly easy to submit and manage.
  • I also enjoy the B-Day feature, especially in a Management role. This can be used to keep a good working culture.
  • I don't enjoy the expense reimbursement piece of Workday. Previously I used Concur, and I thought that solution that was easier to Manage and less manual. I liked the expense dilution piece of the program, as you put more clients into the expense report, it would dilute the overall per head expense. I also thought inputting clients into Concur was a bit easier and much easier to pull up once submitted for future expense reports.
  • I also didn't enjoy submitting goals on behalf of direct reports. It seemed like that piece of the program did not work at all. I submitted the expenses and they still seemed to be in a draft type mode. This was my least favorite piece of the program.
  • It has helped manage the time off piece for employees so you can fairly approve or reject PTO requests. This balance capture allows you to have an employee honestly assess whether he/she is taking too much time off.
  • Concur Expense
I explained the differences in Workday and Concur in my previous answers. I did not select Workday, someone in Operations did. I liked Concur better from a expensing perspective. However, Workday is overall more robust since it has PTO functionality, org structure, compensation history, and the B-Day feature.
It is great from an org framework and PTO submission perspective. I also enjoy the B-Day feature so you can keep track of that as it relates to your direct reports. It was also nice that it had employee compensation for your direct reports. I did not like the expense reimbursement and goal portion of the program.

Workday HCM Feature Ratings

Employment history
8
Job profiles and administration
7
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
8
Organizational charting
10
Organization and location management
8
Direct deposit files
8
Reimbursement management
8
Approval workflow
9
Balance details
Not Rated
Annual carry-forward and encashment
Not Rated
View job history
8
Performance plans
6
Corporate goal setting
8
Individual goal setting
8
Performance tracking
5