Workforce Planning

Plan for the skills you need today and tomorrow.

Workforce planning dashboard showing bar graphs for skills analysis.

What You Can Do

Build workforce plans as agile as your business.

To keep up with business priorities and uncover new opportunities, you need planning that can keep pace.

That’s why Workday Adaptive Planning empowers HR, finance, and business leaders to collaboratively plan—and quickly put those plans into action.

KEY CAPABILITIES
  • Strategic workforce planning
  • Head-count planning
  • Compensation planning
  • Skills planning
  • Talent planning
  • Talent acquisition planning

“As we see our business scaling around the world, I see our workforce planning environment scaling along with it.”

Plan for what’s next with deep insight.

Planning your workforce takes a lot of data—and an understanding of what the data means. We help you make sense of it all to uncover rich, actionable insights.

Workforce planning dashboard showing graphs and numerical information regarding headcount.
Know your workforce, inside and out.

Take stock of transfers, planned hires, skills, attrition, part-time versus full-time, contingent workers, and more.

Identify areas for opportunity or uncover concerning trends before they grow into larger issues.

Monitor and analyze costs, see unfilled positions, and break down your workforce geographically—all using easy-to-use dashboards.

Two people climbing pie charts.

Model all kinds of workforce scenarios.

Model virtually anything by department, cost center, level, location, position, skills, and more—and map it to how you run your business.

You can also compare multiple scenarios in real time to forecast what could happen next, predict impact, and choose the best plan from there.


Reduced staffing forecast variances from 20 percent to 2 percent.

Make the right hiring decisions—together.

Provide insights.

Give your team current and forecasted data as well as metrics for recruiting, training, transfers, and attrition.

Plan as a team.

Model and share what-if scenarios to plan whether to build, borrow, or buy the talent you need.

Stay aligned.

Sync your workforce and financial plans, see real-time impact of updates, and work together to adjust variances.

Workforce planning screen showing recruiting dashboard with numerical information for hires and talent pool.

Put your plans into motion.

Got your plans where you want them? Now see them through. Simply publish your approved positions inWorkday HCMfor your recruiting team to initiate their candidate search. Then monitor how the team is executing against the hiring plan and adjust as needed.


See Workday Adaptive Planning in action.

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