Human Capital Management Software

An HCM system primed for performance.

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WHAT SETS US APART

Innovations for the future of HR.

Meet Workday Human Capital Management (HCM). With Workday AI at its core, it's an intelligent, flexible suite of HR applications that work better together.

An unmatched skills intelligence foundation.

Embedded in the core of Workday HCM, Workday Skills Cloud uses machine learning to automatically align talent with opportunities, allowing organisations of all sizes to drive workforce agility at scale. 

Next-level AI. Next-level productivity.

With an unrivalled dataset of 600 billion plus transactions each year, Workday embeds AI within the platform to automate mundane HR tasks and deliver timely, actionable insights across the talent lifecycle.

People analytics to guide your decisions.

Our augmented analytics surfaces insights from vast data sets, 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 enable you to form plans that meet the needs of all types of workers. So you can give your workforce the rewards they deserve.

Attract, engage, and retain frontline workers.

Reach new levels of engagement with a seamless workforce and enterprise management solution that leverages AI to help you optimise and deploy frontline worker demand and schedules.

A Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites.

What You Can Do

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Optimise your workforce.

Help your workforce thrive with compensation, payroll, scheduling, time tracking, benefits and intelligent skills data.


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Empower your people.

Provide critical and timely insights to set your employees and managers up for success.


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Plan and analyse like never before.

Craft a smarter skills-based people strategy. Understand your people, uncover talent gaps and plan your future workforce.

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 organisation.

HCM consists of a core HR database, skills intelligence foundation, configuration tooling, process automation, workforce management, recruiting, talent, learning, benefits and more.

Look for object-oriented data models and systems that infuse best-in-class technology, as well as ones that utilise skills ontologies and personas.

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.

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.


Get your HCM system up and running today.

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