OptiWorkforce
OptiWorkforce unifies HR and Finance in Workday to optimise spend with AI, balancing cost, capacity and talent. outcomes.
About
OptiWorkforce enables organisations to optimise workforce costs through intelligent, data-driven resourcing decisions across various Workday SKUs.
The application continuously analyses workforce data to assess skills fit, availability fit, and cost fitness, providing actionable recommendations on the most effective workforce actions—such as redeploying existing talent, rebalancing workloads, reducing reliance on contingent labour, or avoiding unnecessary hiring.
By unifying people and financial data within Workday, OptiWorkforce breaks down silos, improves cost governance, and empowers HR and Finance leaders to proactively manage workforce spend while sustaining delivery and talent outcomes.
Features
Proactive Workforce Cost Control: Enables organisations to identify and act on cost-optimised resourcing options early-reducing unnecessary hiring, overtime, and contingent labour spend.
Improved Workforce Utilisation: Helps maximise the use of existing talent by highlighting redeployment and workload rebalancing opportunities before new hires are approved.
Smarter, Data-Driven Decisions: Uses AI-driven insights across skills, availability, and cost to replace intuition and static reports with confident, evidence-based workforce decisions.
Stronger HR–Finance Alignment: Provides shared, real-time visibility into workforce demand and financial impact, improving collaboration, budget adherence, and forecast accuracy.
Benefits
Unified HR and Finance Data Model: Integrates Workday HCM, PSA, Time, Absence, Payroll, Recruiting, and Financials into a single, trusted source of workforce and cost data.
AI-Driven Workforce Intelligence: Analyses skills, availability, and cost in real time to recommend the most effective resourcing actions directly within Workday.
Actionable Recommendations & Scenarios: Provides scenario-based guidance to redeploy talent, rebalance workloads, delay or avoid hiring, and optimise contingent labour usage.
Real-Time Workforce & Cost Dashboards: Delivers shared visibility for HR and Finance leaders into workforce demand, utilisation, cost impact, and budget alignment.