Workday People Analytics

Spec sheet

Purpose

Workday People Analytics uses AI and augmented analytics to surface prioritized workforce insights, trends, risks, and opportunities.Read 4 Oct 2026 · workday.com

Integrations

People Analytics centralizes people data from HCM and other Workday applications, and its Employee Sentiment topic connects to Workday Peakon Employee Voice through an API.Read 4 Oct 2026 · doc.workday.com

Security

Workday supports configurable security for People Analytics, including role-based access and field-level restrictions for sensitive data.Read 4 Oct 2026 · doc.workday.com

Compliance

Workday lists Analytics and Reporting within the scope of its ISO 27001, 27017, and 27018 information-security certifications and ISO 27701 privacy certification.Read 4 Oct 2026 · workday.com

Headquarters

Pleasanton, California, United StatesRead 23 Sep 2026 · workday.com

Founded

2005Read 23 Sep 2026 · workday.com

Maker

Workday was founded in March 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.Read 4 Oct 2026 · newsroom.workday.com

Analysis topics

The datasheet lists retention and attrition, organization composition, hiring, diversity and inclusion, talent and performance, skills, and the VIBE Index among its topics.Read 4 Oct 2026 · workday.com

Automated analysis

Its Storyteller engine searches data combinations and presents significant findings as focus insights.Read 4 Oct 2026 · doc.workday.com

Data requirement

Workday says People Analytics requires at least four months of transactional worker data to analyze successfully.Read 4 Oct 2026 · doc.workday.com

Further analysis

The datasheet says People Analytics can bring insights into Discovery Boards for further analysis.Read 4 Oct 2026 · workday.com

Metrics and visualizations

The datasheet describes more than 40 visualizations and 70 metrics, including prebuilt metrics and KPIs.Read 4 Oct 2026 · workday.com

Narratives and summaries

The product generates natural-language narratives and delivers email summaries of trends, KPIs, and focus areas.Read 4 Oct 2026 · workday.com

Setup and support

Initial setup involves working with a Workday consultant to configure security, topics, fields, population filters, prompts, and data history.Read 4 Oct 2026 · doc.workday.com

Where Specifiction places it

• People Analytics#14 of 196.2
• Workforce Analytics Software#27 of 276.1