HEADCOUNT AND COST PLANNING SOFTWARE

Collaboratively plan, reconcile, and recalibrate your headcount.

With real-time data and a seamless, collaborative workflow—Workday brings everyone in on your headcount plan. So your workforce plans are on target, on budget, and in sync across your organization. All the time.

Workday Adaptive Planning Workforce Plan dashboard showing KPI for filled positions, including positions added, cost of workforce, and the target cost.
Workday Adaptive Planning Workforce Plan dashboard showing KPI for filled positions, including positions added, cost of workforce, and the target cost.

what you can do

Keep hiring plans moving forward.

Workday seamlessly links your workforce plans to your financial models with real-time headcount plans and related costs. It’s accurate. Easy to use. Makes collaboration simple. All on one platform.

KEY CAPABILITIES
  • Companywide planning

  • Collaborative workflow

  • Bottom-up workforce planning

  • Headcount forecasting and reconciliation

Workday Adaptive Planning Workforce Planning Overview dashboard displaying variances of plan vs budget, trends, costs, and department headcount metrics.

The right plans for your workforce.

Focus on planning, not spreadsheets.Spend less time gathering workforce data and reconciling errors. Spend more time turning insights into workforce models and plans.

Run unlimited scenarios. Find the right plan.Perform what-if analysis on staffing, compensation, changing business models, and more across business units. Then move forward with the right plan.

Continuously monitor and recalibrate.Automatically create approved positions in Workday Human Capital Management. And reconcile your headcount to stay in sync with finance and stay focused on what matters.

“Before Workday Adaptive Planning, we spent a lot of time moving data. Now on one platform, a lot of that’s automated, and it’s freeing up time to do more value-add work.”

Everything you need for better workforce planning.

Companywide planning.

A single planning platform combined with a unified data core helps key stakeholders collaborate easily.

Collaborative workflow.

Distribute feedback from the business through bottom-up plans that keep the whole process on track and on target.

Role-based reporting.

Self-service reporting allows managers to plan and track  people development, hiring plans, and budgets.

Screenshot of Human Capital Management Adaptive Planning dashboard, showing Cost of Workforce, Headcount, and Open Positions.

Companywide collaboration, made easy.

With Workday, workforce plans can be reviewed and approved by finance, HR, and senior management, then sent to HR leaders to kick off their grow, flex, and hire strategies. It’s fast, accurate, and seamless.

Try Workday Adaptive Planning.

Experience how continuous planning works.