Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 63 → 71 of 71
Workday · 3 categories · RankedWorkday Workforce Management
132Judge labels
7First choices
40Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in Workforce scheduling for enterprise buyers
Rank 29 of 78 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 37% of its 27 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Workday Workforce Management →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business76 of 76
0%19 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market29 of 78
0%27 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise4 of 81
6%42 labels
accepted challenger
In workforce management sui · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Workday Workforce Management for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 29 of 78 | 37% | 27 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce scheduling | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 91 of 108 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Time and attendance | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 53 of 86 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Clockify at 12% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Workday Workforce Management held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Workforce management sui · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 25 → 47 of 71
Enterprise▼−6Since September 2026: 12% → 7%, −6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 3 → 4 of 70
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce management sui | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 25 → 29 of 78 |
| Workforce scheduling | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 56 → 91 of 108 |
| Time and attendance | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 53 of 86, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Workday Workforce Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Workday Workforce Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct24 labels3
Paraphrase18 labelsNone
Comparative30 labels5not counted in share
Budget-constrained20 labels4
Scale-constrained14 labelsNone
Negative26 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative132 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 14 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“General enterprise / frontline scheduling / compliance-heavy operations → UKG or Workday” GPT-5.4 mini · Workforce management sui · comparative prompt · first choice
“Best enterprise all-in-one: UKG Pro WFM or Workday WFM” Perplexity Sonar · Workforce management sui · comparative prompt · first choice
“excels for global organizations that want a unified HCM/finance platform with advanced analytics” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Workforce management sui · comparative prompt · alternative
“Large enterprise already standardized on HR/finance suite: Workday or SAP SuccessFactors.” GPT-5.4 mini · Time and attendance · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“"Avoid enterprise platforms like UKG Pro or Workday until you're well into the hundreds of employees"” Muse Glimmer 30B · Workforce management sui · negative prompt · hard negative
“High Caution/Strongly Consider Avoiding ... Often called out as one of the "most hated" HR/WFM tools” Grok 4.1 Fast · Workforce management sui · negative prompt · hard negative
“Workday HCM: Overkill for mid-market; heavy configuration, slow rollout, expensive” Kimi K2 · Workforce management sui · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“100 % negative sentiment in recent AI-labelled reviews (8 of 8 labels negative)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Workforce management sui · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday Workforce Management, over the 132 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Workforce Management was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday Workforce Management, over the 132 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Workforce Management was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Workday Workforce Management. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 128 of the 132 answers that named Workday Workforce Management and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com57
peoplemanagingpeople.com47
g2.com32
workforce.com30
paycor.com29
ukg.com29
forbes.com27
intervue.io27
learn.g2.com27
nowsta.com26
331 of the 331 domain citations in answers naming Workday Workforce Management came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Workday Workforce Management stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Workday Workforce Management stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 110 a month (“workday workforce management”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Workday's site (workday.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 29 of 78 in workforce management sui
Segment leader
17%
Rippling
- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 132 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 128 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Workday Workforce Management
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday Workforce Management; a claim can dispute any of them.
Workday 20Workday HCM 4Workday (HCM/WFM modules) 1Workday WFM 1Workday Workforce Management / Workday Scheduling 1
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The company
Workday is the company behind Workday Workforce Management.ShowHide
The company
Workday is the company behind Workday Workforce Management.
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Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Workday Workforce Management helpt organisaties het juiste talent op het juiste moment in te zetten met personeelsmanagementoplossingen.
- For
- HR-, finance- en operationele leaders; managers; eerstelijnsmanagers; werknemers
- Free plan or trial
- Demo afspelen (2:20) workday.com/nl-nl/products/workforce-management/time.html
- Customers named
- PrimericaLand O'LakesWashington State Education Credit Union
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Workday Workforce Management's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: workday.com/nl-nl/topics/hr/workforce-planning.html, workday.com/nl-nl/topics/hr/workforce-management.html, workday.com/fr-fr/topics/hr/contingent-workforce.html, workday.com/nl-nl/products/workforce-management/time.html, workday.com/nl-nl/products/workforce-management/absence.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Workday Workforce Management is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Workday Workforce Management, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.