9 best Workday integrations to improve employee experience

As companies continue to use an ever-growing list of cloud-based and on-premise technologies, reliance on software for human resources management (HRM) continues to grow. In fact, it is estimated that the human resources management market size will reach $56.15 billion by 2030, with HRM technologies and software primarily driving this growth.

One of the many high-quality HRM software solutions available today is Workday — a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) platform designed for streamlining and automating a range of HR tasks. While Workday comes out of the box equipped with plenty of useful features for storing, organizing, and analyzing employee data, it's a platform that is all the more powerful when paired with the right integrations.

That said, let's take a look at nine of the top Workday integrations you should consider and how they can help upgrade the employee experience at your company.

How Workday integrations will benefit your organization

Workday is a SaaS platform with numerous features and functionalities, including tools for financial management, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and HR management. With Workday, you get automated time tracking, performance management, goal management, onboarding tools, recruiting tools, and a lot more.

Another capability that Workday provides is the ability to store and manage detailed employee information. This is where the value of Workday integrations really comes into play. By integrating the other tools your HR team uses with Workday, you can automatically import employee data from Workday into those tools. This eliminates the need to manually enter data for each software solution while also populating those solutions with the accurate, up-to-date employee data required to operate at their full potential.

1. Pyn

Pyn is a cloud platform designed to streamline and automate employee communications while maintaining a personal touch. With Pyn, you can plan out your employee journey from pre-onboarding messages to career reviews and promotions, sending automated yet targeted and personalized messages every step of the way.

Pyn's seamless integration with Workday allows you to automatically import employee data that is accurate and up to date. This ensures that everyone at your company receives the right messages at the right time in a way that feels wholly personalized.

In a recent survey, 33% of HR managers cited a lack of open, honest communication as the number one factor negatively impacting employee morale. But with Workday's Pyn integration, you can ensure that your employees receive the messages they need to feel informed, motivated, and engaged.

Key capabilities and benefits

• Targeted messages based on department, position, location, and more
• Deep integration with Workday and other human resource information systems (HRIS), as well as other apps such as Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, and Slack
• Behavioral nudges for scaling company values
• HRIS data leveraging to automate employee communications at scale without sacrificing personalization

2. BetterUp

Today, 72% of organizations offer some type of leadership coaching for talent development. If you would like to take advantage of the benefits that one-on-one coaching can provide, BetterUp is a great platform. With BetterUp, you can connect your employees with talented business coaches who can provide coaching specifically tailored to each employee and their unique abilities and goals.

Of course, one way that BetterUp matches employees with the appropriate coach is by analyzing employee data — which is why integrating BetterUp with Workday is beneficial. With this integration, you can populate BetterUp with accurate employee data so that each employee you provide with coaching gets the coach best suited for them.

Key capabilities and benefits

• Personal assessments that measure employee leadership skills and areas for development from multiple angles
• BetterUp Care connects employees with mental health professionals
• People Analytics Dashboard that showcases how employees are growing in key mindsets and behaviors

3. ADP

ADP is an all-in-one platform for managing payroll, tax compliance, benefits programs, and new employee onboarding, enabling HR departments to automate many of their most tedious and time-consuming HR tasks. Integrating ADP with Workday means that your HR staff will be able to access all of these time-saving features without manually entering data for each employee.

Key capabilities and benefits

• Self-service tools that provide employees access to W2s, timecards, paychecks, onboarding, benefits enrollment, and more
• Automatic updates that sync to payroll, benefits, and dozens of other systems, eliminating the need for manual data entry
• Automated notifications and alerts help prevent costly errors
• Team of specialists to actively monitor regulatory changes to help you stay on top of your compliance requirements

4. Udemy Business

Udemy Business is an online learning platform where employees can access a wide range of specialized training programs. From leadership development programs to training to help transition to the remote work model, Udemy Business offers programs and resources organizations need to upskill your teams. 

With Udemy Business's Workday integration, you can easily assign courses to specific employees or teams while giving team members access to those courses from within their Workday account.

Key capabilities and benefits

• Enterprise-wide training
• Tech team training
• Leadership development training
• Remote and hybrid team training

5. Achievers

Achievers is a platform designed to promote employee satisfaction and engagement by enabling you to create customized employee recognition programs. With Achievers, you can create recognition programs, custom polls, and surveys to gather valuable employee feedback. Integrating Achievers with Workday allows employees to view their Achievers redemption data within their Workday account.

Key capabilities and benefits

• Ability to create employee recognition programs customized to your brand and localized by region
• Custom rewards catalogs where employees can redeem their Achievers points for a variety of rewards
• Toolkit for collecting employee feedback that includes polls, quizzes, surveys, forms, and other templates

6. Workhuman

Similar to Achievers, Workhuman is another excellent employee recognition platform designed to boost employee satisfaction and engagement. With Workhuman, you get an impressive range of features like social recognition tools that let employees easily send thank-you notes to their colleagues and a platform for celebrating important moments and life events. 

Along with plenty of features for recognizing employees, Workhuman also provides an advanced employee pulse survey tool called Moodtracker that collects employee feedback in real time.

By using the Workhuman connector, organizations can effortlessly sync data between the two platforms without having to build custom integration solutions. This automated data integration ensures that employee data from Workday is constantly synced to Workhuman and that awards data from Workhuman is constantly synced to Workday.

• Workhuman Conversations lets employees provide or request feedback at any time.
• Workhuman Community Celebrations provides a platform for celebrating shared interests, events, and milestones.
• Workhuman Moodtracker provides polls and surveys for gathering employee feedback in real time.
• Workhuman Service Milestones lets you celebrate career milestones and create custom employee rewards programs. 

7. Slack

Slack is a platform used by organizations all over the world for the purpose of organizational communications. With Slack, you can create dedicated spaces called "channels" where employees can collaborate on projects and message one another in real time.

One key benefit of Slack is the long list of integrations it supports. Slack's integration with Workday enables employees to perform many tasks within Workday using Slack instead: requesting time off, providing peer feedback, and looking up coworker information. Slack's integration with Workday also makes it easy to assign employees to Slack channels based on their department.

Key capabilities and benefits

• Slack Connect for easy collaboration with teams at other companies
• Workflow builder that lets you automate routine actions and communication
• Over 2,2000 integrations with other tools and services

8. League

Managing employee benefits programs can be time-consuming, but thankfully, it's a task that League helps streamline. Along with assisting with benefits administration, League also serves as a portal where employees can speak to healthcare professionals, manage their healthcare needs, and engage with their health benefits. 

League's Workday integration automates the transfer of employee data from Workday to League. This further streamlines the business process of benefits administration while also providing employees with a consistent and seamless experience across the two platforms.

Key capabilities and benefits

• Lets you easily build and deploy healthcare experiences designed to improve employee well-being and engagement
• Provides real-time health data insights to inform future HR investments
• Pulls in data from health assessments, wearables, and goals provide each employee with a holistic view of their health and needs

9. Unum HR Connect

Unum is an insurance provider specializing in ancillary benefits (disability, life insurance, dental, vision, etc.). Along with these benefits programs, Unum also offers a tool called Unum HR Connect that lets you connect Unum to your existing HRIS.

Unum HR Connect works with ADP, UKG, and Workday. Connecting your Unum benefits to Workday via Unum HR Connect's suite of API-enabled connections eliminates manual data entry while unlocking various new capabilities. This includes enabling employees to enroll in Unum’s voluntary benefits products within Workday, automated absence management and return to work processes, and integrating with other Workday functions (like payroll).

Key capabilities and benefits

• Enables employees to manage ancillary and voluntary Unum benefits from within their Workday account
• Syncs employee data from Workday to Unum and leave and absence data from Unum to Workday
• Includes comprehensive leave and absence services with online evidence of insurability (EOI), an intuitive admin, and automated billing

Revamp the employee experience with Pyn's integration with Workday

Workday is a great tool for storing and managing employee data in a way that will reduce your HR department's administrative burden. The wide range of Workday integrations available today really lets you guide the employee experience and create an employee journey optimized for engagement, productivity, and retention.

Want to leverage your Workday data sets to create personalized employee journeys? Turn to the Pyn integration to give your employees the targeted information they need every step of the way.

To see how Pyn and its integration with Workday allow organizations to seamlessly revamp the employee experience, schedule your Pyn demo today!