Achieved business objectives while transforming HR.
HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Empower high-performing teams.
Meet Workday Human Capital Management (HCM)—a smart, flexible suite of HR solutions designed to work better together. Powered by Workday Illuminate™, our next-gen AI, we’re freeing teams up to work faster, easier, and smarter.
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WHAT SETS US APART
Always innovating for the future of HR.
An unmatched skills intelligence foundation.
Embedded in the core of Workday HCM, Workday Skills Cloud uses machine learning to automatically align talent with opportunities.
Next-level AI. Next-level productivity.
With an unrivaled dataset of 800B+ transactions each year, Workday embeds AI within the platform to automate mundane HR tasks and deliver timely, actionable insights.
People analytics to guide your decisions.
Our augmented analytics surfaces insights from vast datasets, explaining what’s happening—and why—in stories you can understand.
An employee journey that puts people first.
We deliver intelligent automation and critical insights across the entire attract-to-pay journey, empowering your people to be their most productive.
Flexibility to set the right rewards.
Our compensation and benefits tools allow you to form plans that meet the needs of all types of workers. So you can give your workforce the rewards they deserve.
A Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites
What You Can Do
Optimize your workforce.
Help your workforce thrive with compensation, payroll, scheduling, time tracking, benefits, and intelligent skills data.
Empower your people.
Provide critical and timely insights to set your employees and managers up for success.
Plan and analyze like a pro.
Craft a smarter skills-based people strategy. Understand your people, uncover talent gaps, and plan your future workforce.
WHO SUCCEEDS WITH US
Our customers have the best stories.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Human capital management FAQs.
What is human capital management?
Human capital management is the set of practices for measuring, managing, supporting, and guiding people within your organization.
What are the elements of human capital management?
HCM consists of a core HR database, skills intelligence foundation, configuration tooling, process automation, workforce management, recruiting, talent, learning, benefits, and more.
How do I choose the right system?
Look for object-oriented data models and systems that infuse best-in-class technology as well as ones that utilize skills ontologies and personas.
What does human capital management do?
The goal of human capital management is to provide scalable and adaptable tools for businesses to manage, empower, and unlock the potential of their people.
What are the benefits of Workday HCM?
Workday HCM is adaptable, flexible, scalable, and global, and includes Workday Skills Cloud—the world’s most open intelligent skills foundation—to fuel all your data-driven talent strategies.
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