Workday People Analytics

What Workday People Analytics is

Workday People Analytics applies AI and augmented analytics to workforce information, surfacing prioritized insights about trends, risks, and opportunities. Its Storyteller engine examines data combinations and presents notable results as focus insights. The product can also write natural-language narratives and send email summaries covering trends, KPIs, and focus areas. Workday’s datasheet describes more than 40 visualizations and 70 metrics, including prebuilt metrics and KPIs.

Analysis topics include retention and attrition, organization composition, hiring, diversity and inclusion, talent and performance, skills, and the VIBE Index. People Analytics centralizes people data from HCM and other Workday applications. Its Employee Sentiment topic connects through an API to Workday Peakon Employee Voice, and insights can be brought into Discovery Boards for further analysis. Security can be configured with role-based access and field-level restrictions for sensitive data. Workday places Analytics and Reporting within the scope of its ISO 27001, 27017, and 27018 information-security certifications and ISO 27701 privacy certification. Initial setup involves a Workday consultant configuring security, topics, fields, population filters, prompts, and data history. Workday says at least four months of transactional worker data are needed for successful analysis. The paid product is web-based, with pricing on request.

Who it suits

People Analytics may suit organizations using Workday HCM that want summarized workforce trends and focused analysis across topics such as hiring, retention, skills, and diversity. It is also relevant to teams that need configurable access controls and a consultant-led initial setup.

Limits

Workday says successful analysis requires at least four months of transactional worker data. Initial setup requires a Workday consultant to configure the product.

Getting started

1. Visit the Workday People Analytics product page.
2. Contact Workday to request pricing.
3. Work with a Workday consultant on initial setup.
4. Configure security, topics, fields, population filters, prompts, and data history.
5. Ensure at least four months of transactional worker data are available for analysis.

Verdict

Consider Workday People Analytics if you want automated workforce insights, narrative summaries, and analysis across its listed people topics. The data-history requirement and consultant-led configuration are important considerations, and pricing must be requested.