Workday - a solution to all your HR problems!
August 27, 2019

Workday - a solution to all your HR problems!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Human Capital Management

Overall Satisfaction with Workday Human Capital Management

We used Workday for all employee reviews, compensation details, and bonus announcements in our organisation. It actually consolidated a lot of manual processes and outdated documents. It now was one stop to see the performance of an employee and their ratings by superiors, view compensation details as well as a repository of useful onboarding policies and procedures for communication from HR.
  • Employee review formats and criteria are customisable and easy to understand
  • Repository for policy and frameworks
  • Seamless communication between HR and all employees for various announcements
  • The updates to certain tabs for example compensation, did not automatically send a real time notification to employees. This makes crucial times such as annual appraisal announcements a bit of let down with employees constantly refreshing the portal as opposed to relying on an email notification.
  • Although I'm not sure this was specific to my organisation but the rating scales were a bit too detailed and often had to make you fill things up over and over again.
  • It largely depends on which modules your organisation chooses to integrate with the firm. In my organisation a lot of modules with regard to leave, recruitment etc., were not activated leading to a slightly incomplete integration.
  • Our HR team was able to trim down its external vendors significantly once Workday was implemented.
  • I personally saw as an employee the before and after of Workday so I know how relieved HR was that they did not have to get involved in processes that were prone to manual error such as release of compensation data at the same time to everyone via email.
I would say this because I was not an absolute fan of the overall interface. While it is clean, it is not particularly user-friendly. Additionally the non real time emails of updates with regard to release of compensation data was particularly disappointing.
I had only one interaction with support when my goal setting was not getting updated in time. It was a quick resolution with an email to HR and Workday and the glitch was resolved subsequently.
I've only used BambooHR and used an internally developed software before and those did not have half the features of Workday. That's why we switched to Workday.
It's great for global organizations since especially in consulting when you work across the board with people from other offices and countries, you can use one consolidated portal to record all activity and performance details.

Workday HCM Feature Ratings

Employment history
7
Job profiles and administration
8
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
7
Organizational charting
8
Organization and location management
Not Rated
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Not Rated
Pay calculation
6
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
7
Direct deposit files
8
Salary revision and increment management
5
Reimbursement management
Not Rated
View and generate pay and benefit information
Not Rated
Update personal information
7
View job history
7
View company policy documentation
9
Employee recognition
7
Not Rated
Report builder
Not Rated
Pre-built reports
Not Rated
Ability to combine HR data with external data
Not Rated
Performance plans
8
Performance improvement plans
8
Review status tracking
8
Review reminders
8
Multiple review frequency
Not Rated
Create succession plans/pools
Not Rated
Candidate ranking
Not Rated
Candidate search
Not Rated
Candidate development
Not Rated
New hire portal
9
Manager tracking tools
8
Individual goal setting
9
Line-of sight-visibility
Not Rated
Performance tracking
9
Job Requisition Management
Not Rated
Company Website Posting
Not Rated
Publish to Social Media
Not Rated
Job Search Site Posting
Not Rated
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Not Rated
Applicant Tracking
Not Rated
Notifications and Alerts
Not Rated