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# workforce optimization
What is workforce optimization?
Take workforce management to a whole new level. Workday combines automation and skills-based talent strategies so you can support a more agile workforce. See how we optimize scheduling and labor.
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## the path to workforce optimization
### Elevating workforce management.
Creating a truly optimized workforce doesn’t happen overnight. We have solutions for wherever you are in your .
Start with a solid foundation.
Get full visibility into your workforce with one source for data. Gain control of costs and productivity, and then move toward driving greater agility.
Graduate to workforce optimization.
Once you’ve mastered the basics, you can automate processes and decision-making, forecast demand, and upskill and redeploy workers with ease.
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It’s difficult to determine true labor costs with manual processes and disparate data. We streamline the hire-to-pay process so you can make more precise workforce decisions. See how our business process framework makes it possible.
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## resources
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IDC: Optimizing the Workforce for a New World
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Hidden Costs Within Workforce Management
Empathy and Empowerment: the New Frontline Experience
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Payroll and Workforce Management
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# WORKFORCE ANALYTICS AND PLANNING
See what it takes to be agile.
To thrive in today’s world, your workforce and business must be able to adapt quickly. Uncover powerful insights with Workforce Analytics and Planning to make confident decisions, faster.
## OVERCOMING CHALLENGES
Unleash your data’s full potential.
Data lets you understand your workforce so you can adapt and accelerate growth. But only if it’s the right data. With AI and ML at the core of our platform, we help you seize every opportunity.
Leverage data that’s accessible, reliable, and secure to build more strategic plans and gain the upper hand.
Access all your data—even external sources—in one place to plan and make decisions more efficiently and confidently.
Break free from never-ending reactive cycles with proactive tools made to help you get—and stay—ahead of what’s next.
## HOW WE SOLVE YOUR CHALLENGES
Data is the key to smarter decisions and plans.
Workday analytics and planning surface actionable insights and place a multidimensional planning engine at your fingertips to help you build a nimble workforce and fuel business growth.
1. Core Reporting and Analytics
2. People Analytics
3. Prism Analytics
4. Adaptive Planning
5. Employee Voice
Build a robust analytics foundation.
Included with Workday HCM, this powerful analytics and reporting toolkit makes it easy to analyze your data in the same system where you make decisions and plan.
Self-service reporting, at your service.
Visualize your data and perform ad hoc analysis with detailed reports and prebuilt, configurable dashboards.
Private, secure data, all in one place.
Role-based access gives you peace of mind when sharing sensitive worker and business data with necessary stakeholders and decision-makers.
Put a stop to information overload.
AI and ML help you gain clarity and make decisions confidently by showing you exactly what to focus on with personalized insights about top drivers, risks, and opportunities.
Get the story behind the numbers.
Get to the heart of your data with auto-generated, easy-to-understand narratives to help build a unified story of what’s going on in your business.
Make proactive decisions with confidence.
Uncover valuable insights and trends—including ones you may have missed—with our self-service application to meet business goals, faster.
Transform your data. Transform your planning.
Create a holistic view of your workforce by blending Workday and non-Workday data to get the context you need to drive decisions.
Reduce error-prone, manual work.
Embed your data into any business process and automate the analysis to reveal richer insights and make plans and decisions with confidence.
Real-time analysis, anytime.
Secure, self-service access to your data removes bottlenecks by giving you the ability to analyze your information when you want, how you want.
Turn data into action.
Bring HR, finance, and operations together in one place to streamline workforce planning and meet changing needs quicker than ever.
Model any and everything.
Our patented Elastic Hypercube Technology lets you compare as many scenarios as you want, at the same time, without sacrificing performance.
Plan together, with a single click.
Simplify the collaboration process to get company-wide alignment as you optimize your workforce by adapting plans to evolving business needs.
Identify trends. Adapt accordingly.
Increase engagement, reduce unwanted attrition, and benchmark against global and industry peers to measure progress and stay on track.
Empower leaders to take action.
Personalized, easy-to-use dashboards provide every manager in your organization with specific recommendations for boosting engagement.
Drive more meaningful change.
Get the real-time sentiment of your people with our continuous listening platform that collects and analyzes employee feedback.
## WHO SUCCEEDS WITH US
Our customers achieve amazing results.
Enhances collaboration between finance and HR.
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Moves to a fully agile way of working.
$1 million in annual labor savings.
Gains strategic advantage in workforce planning.
## RESOURCES
Workforce analytics and planning resources just for you.
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Employees count on HR for relevant answers in real time. Workday can help you provide the support they need to be self-sufficient and boost productivity.
Curate personal, relevant experiences.
Answer questions before they become cases.
Connect in applications used every day.
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Employees thrive when they feel understood. Workday allows you to engage and inspire your employees with personalized support to meet their unique needs.
Curate experiences to support employees.
Manage cases with contextual worker information.
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Workday makes it easy for employees to request help and HR teams to provide it. That way, you can resolve cases quickly and spend more time on complex support needs.
Help people find answers faster.
Streamline case management and workloads.
Continuously enhance the support experience.
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Help, knowledge, and case management.
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All-in-one knowledge and case management solution.
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