Workday Reviews

I am into consulting where I suggest products for my clients.

I can tell you about my research on Workday. Upon my initial research, I found that Workday is something we might want to proceed with. I will be submitting my analytics to them and will see how it goes from there. They might want to connect with you based on my report.

I am knowledgeable about the Workday tool as I am there to get an overview of it.

I will be using Workday as a research analyst. The client is an organization of around 1500 people, operating in growing organizations within the retail sector.

What I appreciate best about Workday is the recruiting component. Recruiting has been a challenge for them according to what they told us. From the recruiting point of view, they are looking for solutions. They have a pool of candidates that in the past they might have neglected or did not have the requirement for that kind of talent. Now they are doing mass recruitment, and I think they will need those talent pools.

The tool is easy to use based on the videos I have seen. One of my friends works in Accenture, and they have been using their services. Accenture is a consulting firm and Workday is a partner of Accenture.

Comparing Workday to other products, I am taking a positive note about Workday and it is the first priority that I suggested compared to Oracle or other products.

I feel there is a technology shift away from Oracle. I feel Workday is much more user-friendly. And moreover, it's codeless. Anyone can even learn it, like a layman can learn it in a day. It's not like other big things that we do.

We only work with SA partners who do the implementation for the company, and then we do testing. That is where my role ends.

I'm happy with what features Workday offers. But in particular, Core HCM is the best. It's not complicated.

Workday has financial products, but I don't use them. I work only in HCM.

Workday has definitely been an easy-to-use solution for most of my clients' legacy systems. The solution is easy to use and provides great flexibility and security.

If you want to add more features to your subscription, Workday becomes expensive.

I was in charge of HR operations at the time; I did operational things like approving documents, issuing them in the system, and also trying to recruit nicely. 

Sometimes, I also handle some pre-onboarding tasks, like collecting data or documents and approving parts of the onboarding process.

It really helped our team. Especially for me, I could feel that my workload as an HR operation manager was cut by 50%.

Since the data was very organized in Workday, it was convenient for me to see specific employee datasets. The advanced analytics features have become better over time.

Workday's integration capabilities with other systems benefited our work. We combined Workday with LinkedIn Learning. It worked well for the learning management part.

I am referring to a specific use case in terms of implementation. We are currently implementing Workday as our entire HRMS solution. This means that all employee-related data will be stored in Workday.

Internally, we are currently using ReadyHR. However, we plan to migrate all employees to Workday so that we can manage their entire hire-to-retire lifecycle on a single platform. This includes onboarding, compensation, transfers, and other employee-related activities and events.

The goal is to manage our entire workforce on Workday. At this point in time, payroll processing is handled internally by another application. However, we plan to implement the Workday payroll module in the future. This will allow us to process payroll directly through Workday.

However, for our global go-live, we will only be implementing the core HR modules.

The most valuable feature of Workday is its user-friendliness. I like that you do not need to do a lot of coding to use Workday, unless you are using Studio. Even in Studio, you only need to write code for heavy integrations.

I also like that Workday is hierarchy-based and business object-based. This makes it easy to understand and use. Previously, when we used PeopleSoft, we needed to have knowledge of SQL (NPL SQL) to create integrations or reports. However, this is not required with Workday. We just need to apply the right logic, and Workday will do the rest.

I also appreciate that Workday is well-organized. There is a step-by-step process that we need to follow to configure the system. This makes it easy to implement and use.

I have a genuine fondness for this tool. It's user-friendly and has been immensely beneficial in creating a unified repository for all our work-related information. Whether it's vendor selection procedures or simplifying our lives through data analysis and comparisons, it undeniably adds substantial value to our work, aiding us in strategic decision-making.

In the process of obtaining representative sites in NaviNet, it assists us in facilitating decision-making and taking action.

I used Workday mainly for day-to-day operations, particularly on the functional side. In Africa, I played a central role during its implementation, training HR business partners on how to use it. After moving to Canada eight years ago, my first job here also involved Workday implementation.

The most helpful Workday features for our HR processes were in HCM, particularly in areas like talent, compensation, benefits, and learning.

The primary use case of the solution is to manage our HR items, such as talent and learning, professional development, compensation, requesting time off, PTOs, and sick days.

The solution has improved our organization because it's much simpler to navigate. On the learning and talent side... I work for a bank, we have to do continuous compliance education, so we have to do a ton of different learning things. Our learning situation, our learning set up before was distributed, it was done in a bunch of silos. There was an initial landing page that took you to multiple different websites where you absorbed the content and then you confirmed or acknowledged that you've actually studied the content or you took a test. With this solution, it's really nice. All of the learning content is there. It's much easier to consume. I don't feel like I'm jumping around between different platforms.