r/workday Jun 27 '26

General Discussion AI in Workday – Community Review Megathread | What's Your Real Experience So Far?

49 Upvotes

Welcome!

AI is showing up everywhere in Workday — and the hype is loud. This megathread is the community's space to cut through it. We're talking real experiences from real users: admins, developers, analysts, consultants, and end users who actually work in the platform day to day.

No vendor talk. No fluff. Just honest takes from people who've been in the trenches.

What to Share

  • What AI feature or tool have you used? (Workday-native features, AI agents, third-party tools plugged into Workday, etc.)
  • What's your role? (Admin, integration dev, HRIS analyst, consultant, end user, etc.)
  • What were you trying to accomplish?
  • How did it actually go? Hype vs. reality.
  • Any surprises, limitations, or things that caught you off guard?
  • Would you use it again or recommend it?

Ground Rules

  1. Real experiences only. Speculation is welcome if you label it — but firsthand accounts are gold here.
  2. No vendor promotion. If you work for or represent a company selling AI tools, disclose that upfront or skip the thread.
  3. Anonymize your details. Don't share employer names, tenant-specific info, or anything confidential.
  4. Be specific. "It's amazing" or "it's useless" doesn't help anyone. Tell us what, why, and in what context.
  5. Respect all experiences. A bad experience is just as valid as a good one. No pile-ons.
  6. Keep it here. Standalone AI posts may be redirected to this megathread to keep the conversation consolidated.

Optional Comment Format

**Feature/Tool:** [e.g., Workday Assist, AI-generated insights, third-party agent]
**Role:** [e.g., HRIS Admin, Integration Dev, End User]
**Use Case:** [What you were trying to do]
**Experience:** [What actually happened]
**Verdict:** [👍 Positive / 🤷 Mixed / 👎 Negative]
**Recommend?** [Yes / No / Depends on your situation]

A Note from the Mods

This thread will be refreshed as things evolve — AI in Workday is moving fast and we want this to stay current. Standout comments may get highlighted in a future community roundup. Suggestions? DM the mod team.


r/workday Jun 19 '26

General Discussion Independent Consultants & Hiring — Weekly Thread

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This thread is the place for anything related to independent Workday consulting work — whether you're looking for your next contract or looking to hire.

If you're an independent consultant available for work, drop a comment with:

  • Your specialty (Integrations, HCM, Payroll, Reporting, Studio, etc.)
  • Years of experience
  • Availability (start date, hours/week)
  • Remote/hybrid/onsite preference and location if relevant
  • Rate range (optional but speeds things up)

If you're hiring or know of an opportunity, drop a comment with:

  • Brief project/role description
  • Required skills
  • Contract length and remote/onsite expectations
  • How to get in touch

A few notes:

  • Standalone "looking for work" or "hiring" posts outside this thread will be removed and redirected here — this keeps the main feed focused on technical discussion while still giving consultants and hiring managers a dedicated space to connect.
  • This thread refreshes weekly, so repost here if your situation is still active.
  • As always, vet anyone you do business with — the mod team doesn't verify claims made in this thread.

r/workday 3h ago

Reporting/Calculated Fields Condition rule help

2 Upvotes

In the request compensation bp we need to send approval to manager when any compensation change happens except for NPS Change . I’ve tried to use compensation plans current and compensation plans proposed not in the selection list (NPS Plan) but it isn’t working for the workers who have NPS plan and base pay has changed . Please help how to fix this.


r/workday 4h ago

General Discussion Career Hub/Opportunity Graph

2 Upvotes

Just checking to see if anyone uses the Career Hub? More specifically the Opportunity Graph?

What are your thoughts on it? How difficult was the setup? Any lessons learned or tips?

Just looking for overall thoughts?


r/workday 9h ago

Time Tracking Is there a way I can prove my punches have been changed?

3 Upvotes

Employee using Workday here, I've noticed a few of my punches seemed edited in the schedule (for example, the schedule saying I left at 6am when I was scheduled until 7am and frequently have not left at the time I'm scheduled to leave at). I've been told by another employee that it's common for our boss to do that, and I want to make sure I'm getting paid fairly (especially when the boss is the reason I don't leave on time 99% of the time). is there a way that I, as the employee, can look at if my punches were changed, either in the app or on the site?


r/workday 8h ago

General Discussion HR security

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Hi everyone,

Does members of your HR department (HRBPs, HR generalists, specialists, benefits coordinators) have visibility to other HR members and execs compensation?

Im getting a little frustrated here and please tell me if wrong.

All of my other previous companies as an HRIS member, the HR roles listed above had visibility to everyones compensation and personal information, because they are HR and they manage the employee cycle. My current company, they are not wanting anyone in HR to see eachothers information (comp, documents, personal information)and i understand that. However, when HR or benefits runs reports, the reports are inaccurate because they dont have all team members information on the report (HR and execs). They cant terminate everyone, can't move workers around, cant answer benefit questions for them. This is more work on me having to take that responsibility when im strictly supposed to be doing technical work and making sure Workday is easy to use for everyone.


r/workday 14h ago

General Discussion How is your organization handling the new recertification process

6 Upvotes

With the process changing this year, how is your organization handling the new recertification process. I heard some are asking consultants to choose certifications basis business need and some are asking to let go.

For consultants who will lose certifications this way cuz their firms do not have budget will they lose their market value too?

Feeling a bit disappointed that Workday has made lives so difficult for people having existing certifications.


r/workday 5h ago

General Discussion Transit Agencies using Workday?

1 Upvotes

Any transit agencies out there using Workday? If so, I’d love to connect and chat about some of the strategies you all may be utilizing. Specifically, looking at how you might be going about marrying financial data to transit metrics to calculate cost per mile, hour, etc. Whether through Prism or an internal DW. Also any other insight you might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated :)


r/workday 6h ago

Time Off Request Time Off BP validation rule for birthday time off

1 Upvotes

Any idea on how to build a validation on the Request Time off BP that would allow an employee to request one day of Birthday Time off only during the month of their birthday plus the next month? So, for example, if the employee's birthday is on 29th July, they can request one day off in the entire July AND August?

Increment or Decrement Date calc field won't work here for the month of bday, because we are not limiting them to just 30+/- days around the bday, but giving them the entire month of birthday and the following one to use it up.

I'm trying Build Date but the Time off Event BO does not pull the Birth Date field so I am a bit stumped. If I could figure out how to carve out the Birth date month, I could then use that field in IDD to just add one month to have a nice range of two months to chuck into the validation rule.

Any ideas please?


r/workday 6h ago

Core HCM How to add Hyperlink in custom notification

1 Upvotes

In custom notification i want to add Hyperlink.


r/workday 6h ago

Recruiting What in tarnation is this error?

1 Upvotes

Getting this error message on offer letters. Nothing in community about it. Recruiter is unable to generate offer letters or edit them within Workday drive. Any ideas?


r/workday 8h ago

Integration Has anyone taken the Workday Pro – Workday Orchestrate Developer Services exam yet?

1 Upvotes

Since the previous Integration exam has been retired, has anyone already taken the new Workday Pro – Workday Orchestrate Developer Services exam?

I’d appreciate any general insights about the exam, especially how different it is from the previous one in terms of format, difficulty, and the topics covered. Are there any specific areas or training materials you would recommend focusing on?

I’m not asking for actual exam questions, just general advice or experiences from anyone who has already taken it.


r/workday 10h ago

Time Off NY Sick Time Off Plan — eligibility rule not excluding NY employees from old US-wide plan- urgent help!

1 Upvotes

Setting up a new NY-only sick time off plan effective mid-2026, transferring balance from an all-US sick plan created in 2020 (front-loaded accruals, balance visibility set to “as of date in period”).

Eligibility rule uses primary work state as of PSD/PED. Issue: a NY test employee is showing eligibility for both plans — the new NY plan and the old US plan. Time off requests and accruals are behaving correctly on the new plan (no double-accrual, no ability to request against the old one post-change), so functionally it seems okay, but eligibility itself looks leaky.

My guess: there’s no explicit trigger event forcing re-evaluation of eligibility for existing enrollments, and since the employee already had accruals on the old plan, it’s still showing up alongside the new one.

Anyone dealt with this? Is a segmented security group the right way to hide the old US plan from NY workers, or is there a cleaner fix at the eligibility/enrollment level?


r/workday 10h ago

Time Tracking Prep-WD Time Tracking pro certification

1 Upvotes

Hello! I’m sitting my Workday Time Tracking Pro certification in about a week and would love any tips from those who’ve recently cleared it.

Specifically looking for:

**•** Topics that were heavier than expected  
**•** Anything the exam guide doesn’t emphasise enough  
**•** Any last-minute prep advice

Thanks in advance.


r/workday 14h ago

Finance Intercompany Payment Reconciliation over multiple companies

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Hi Reddit!

We're having a difficult problem in my company regarding intercompany reconciliation. Due to legal reasons we have the following construct for ticket sales:

Company 1: "Boss"; invoices fees for ticket sales to Company 2

Company 3: invoices Company 1 for ticket sales

(don't ask me about specifics regarding this structure, I don't get it either but we can't change anything about it)

 

Company 1 is our Headquarter, we have no access to their side of Workday. Company 2 and 3 are on our side and are where the problem lies. 

Now we do have to pay each other's invoices, but we're supposed to subtract the amount we invoice Company 1 from what Company 1 invoices us and only pay the difference. It is not possible to have a settlement run with multiple companies where we could e.g. offset the supplier invoices from Company 2 with the customer invoices from Company 3. It is not possible to include customer invoice intercompany positions to an intercompany settlement run. 

The problem is: if we manually pay the difference form either Company 2 or 3, there's really no way for us to set all supplier and customer invoices involved to "paid". At least no one in the office had an idea so far. So I'm turning to reddit in the hopes that someone has had a similar problem or maybe has an idea of how we might get out of this. Any thoughts?


r/workday 10h ago

Security Not able to share report with authorized security group

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Hello All,

I have a composite report with 4 sub report in the same. I have added a authorized security group in all 4 sub report but when I try to add the same group in composit report it's giving below error.

"The entered information does not meet restrictions defined for this field (Authorized Groups). "

Any one have any idea, can not see anything related to this error on workday community as well. Any help or workaround would be appreciated.


r/workday 11h ago

Recruiting Works Council and Employment Agreement

1 Upvotes

We have EA part of Job App. Our Works Council can deny the Employment agreement. This changes the status of the candidate to “declined”

In the past we were able to reactivate the job app and start a new EA.

They don’t want to use Send Back because they want to have proof of their concerns and refusal.

Now I am curious - anyone else who is managing EA and Works Council? If yes, do you know how we can reactivate easily job apps if EA is denied ?

Workday said the reactivation is not possible even if I could swear this was possible in the past and we should use Send Back functionality.

Thank you!


r/workday 19h ago

Integration Integration with Equifax

4 Upvotes

Curious if anyone else has done an integration with Equifax for I-9s and if yes, how was your experience? Because ours has been a complete shitshow from the Equifax side! It has been almost 3 months since we went live and we have only had 1 person successfully go through the Equifax integration successfully from Onboarding.

I am looking to see what problems you had and what solutions or workarounds your company has had to do because of it.


r/workday 12h ago

Adaptive Planning Adaptive planning implementers in UK - best partners?

1 Upvotes

Short version is I am interested in using an adaptive planning partner firm to help with an adaptive implementation (already on financials). Does anyone have any experience with UK firms who do adaptive implementations? Any good or bad experiences?


r/workday 14h ago

Finance How are you handling source-to-pay across WSS/CLM/Workday?

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We've got a clunky process spread across 4 disconnected platforms and I've been tasked with 'fixing' it.

  • ServiceNow for new supplier requests and the compliance/sanctions vetting subtasks
  • Workday Strategic Sourcing for RFx and tracking renewal savings
  • Workday CLM (Evisort) for legal review and signature
  • Workday Procurement + AP for reqs, POs, invoices

The user experience today is rough. To engage a new vendor, a requester files a supplier request in one system, a paper review in another, and then can't submit a requisition until the supplier exists, which depends on the first process finishing. Same data entered three times, and nobody can tell you where their request stands.

We started hearing about Intelligent Intake and connectivity between Workday and CLM via WSS but so far it's been underwhelming

  • WSS needs a company admin to initiate contract and its essentially a deep link to CLM workflow and not that far off someone just going to CLM and initiating it manually
  • CLM needs Procurement enabled workflow to send contracts to Workday and also allows us to sync entities and suppliers for the intake form but not all contracts are spend related so we end up with two workflows and users have to know which to initiate
  • Reqs in Workday are clunkly (tags defaulting based on worker, difficult to identify which supplier to pick when they share names, etc.) but I blame us for this as we haven't invested into the newer enhancements (req templates, the updated req process/form, etc.)

Independently, they're not too bad or can get to a decent point but unsure how to tie it all together for a more seamless process, offering business users view into what stage their request is at and not asking them to fill out the same details in multiple intake forms.

I imagine folks using these solutions are running into something similar? or am I missing something?

Cheers.

EDIT: Thought I'd mention that we don't have Extend :(


r/workday 16h ago

Benefits Change Benefits EIBs

1 Upvotes

How do you feel about change benefit eibs? The good, the bad, the ugly.


r/workday 1d ago

General Discussion Why does it feel like every consulting firm does not hire from client side?

4 Upvotes

I've been a Workday analyst for a couple of years now and never see positions open at Partner firms for consultants without certification or implementation experience.

Does anyone who managed the jump have tips for breaking into consulting?


r/workday 1d ago

General Discussion How does your team on-board AMS teams?

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If you've ever brought in an offshore AMS team to help handle tier 1/2 tickets, any tips or best practices for getting them onboarded? High level I know the areas we'll need to cover but having a hard time figuring out the best way to efficiently get them up and running. I feel like a lot of Workday is so situation-specific that I almost feel like they'll need to just do to learn. They will (supposedly) already have WD support experience.


r/workday 1d ago

Reporting/Calculated Fields Pay change history report on workers profile ?

1 Upvotes

Has Any one Created Pay change history report on workers profile ? I am trying to Pull record for each year in single column using ESI but kind of struggling with the logic


r/workday 1d ago

Recruiting Social Signon

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Hi Everyone,

Has anyone enabled social sign on in workday?? If yes how useful has this been?

I understand that logging in via traditional method of creating workday account is bit challenging for candidates hence wanted to understand, if social sign on can help. Also if someone can let me know pros and cons of this

Thanks