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 76 → 82 of 82
16 categories · RankedWorkday
415Judge labels
76First choices
116Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
16Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
47% in Employee onboarding for enterprise buyers
Rank 24 of 87 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 33% of its 18 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Workday →By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business or mid-market.
Small business92 of 92
0%11 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market24 of 87
0%18 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise1 of 113
47%62 labels
endorsed leader
In employee onboarding · 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employee onboarding | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 24 of 87 | 33% | 18 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Leave and absence management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 21 of 95 | 18% | 17 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| HR compliance and policy management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 82 of 97 | 30% | 10 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Org charts and org design | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 28 of 95 | 29% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 30% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Payroll software | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 39 of 58 | 43% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 20% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Staffing agency platforms | Talent acquisition | 0% | 134 of 136 | 75% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Recruit at 22% | |
| Flexible benefits and lifestyle spending accounts | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 18 of 90 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Compt at 40% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Frontline employee apps | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 61 of 106 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 49% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 84 of 98 | 67% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| 360 feedback | Performance and talent management | 0% | 60 of 73 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 34% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Candidate assessment | Talent acquisition | 0% | 56 of 118 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 52% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Compensation benchmarking data | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 137 of 148 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 19% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Contingent workforce management | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 57 of 121 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by VectorVMS at 16% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Mentoring software | Learning and development | 0% | 60 of 77 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Together at 28% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| PEO providers | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 41 of 53 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Justworks at 24% | |
| Technical hiring assessments | Talent acquisition | 0% | 69 of 71 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by HackerRank at 17% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Workday held within the floor in all sixteen categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Employee onboarding · 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 19 → 26 of 80
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 49% → 49%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
49%from 49% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 1 of 106, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employee onboarding | 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 19 → 24 of 87 |
| Leave | 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 73 → 21 of 95 |
| HR compliance | 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 79 → 82 of 97 |
| Org charts | 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 73 → 28 of 95 |
| Payroll software | 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 16 → 39 of 58 |
| Staffing agency tools | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 134 of 136, unchanged |
| Flexible benefits | 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 74 → 18 of 90 |
| Frontline employee apps | 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 47 → 61 of 106 |
| Workforce planning | 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 83 → 84 of 98 |
| 360 feedback | 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 72 → 60 of 73 |
| Candidate assessment | 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 94 → 56 of 118 |
| Compensation benchmarkin | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 137 of 148, unchanged |
| Contingent workforce man | 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 89 → 57 of 121 |
| Mentoring software | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 60 of 77, unchanged |
| PEOs | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 41 of 53, unchanged |
| Technical hiring assessm | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 69 of 71, 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 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 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 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 |
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
Direct64 labels30
Paraphrase72 labels27
Comparative102 labels33not counted in share
Budget-constrained47 labels16
Scale-constrained38 labels3
Negative92 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative415 labels in all, every segment counted; 76 of the 112 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.
“Known for its intuitive user interface and real-time predictive analytics on turnover and hiring needs.... Workday was built as a unified system where financials and HR share the same database” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce planning · comparative prompt · first choice
“while enterprises benefit from Workday's comprehensive capabilities” MiniMax M2.5 · Leave · comparative prompt · first choice
“Already standardized on a large HCM platform? Check Workday or UKG before adding a separate tool.” GPT-6 Luna · Leave · comparative prompt · alternative
“Full HCM suite; AI-driven workflows, analytics, global compliance... Large orgs... pricier/complex.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Employee onboarding · 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.
“A high-profile class action against Workday alleges its AI-driven hiring tools systematically discriminated against Black applicants, older workers and people with disabilities.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · HR compliance · negative prompt · hard negative
“What to Avoid - Workday: Overbuilt and overpriced for mid-sized companies” Kimi K2 · Employee onboarding · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“B2B means strong client portals/CRM—avoid general HR tools like Workday.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Staffing agency tools · direct prompt · hard negative
“Ongoing class-action discrimination lawsuit” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday, over the 415 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday, over the 415 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday 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. 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 383 of the 415 answers that named Workday and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com152
guideflow.com115
g2.com105
forbes.com82
worldmetrics.org82
rippling.com69
adp.com67
firsthr.app65
gitnux.org65
hrcloud.com62
864 of the 864 domain citations in answers naming Workday came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
workday.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Workday takes 0% of first choices and Rippling takes 25%.ShowHide
Search and answers
workday.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Workday takes 0% of first choices and Rippling takes 25%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “onboarding platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “employee onboarding software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,220,000 a month (“workday”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 23,848 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 2,213,450 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 69,259 · 7,130 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 28,599
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 24 of 87 in employee onboarding
Segment leader
25%
Rippling
- First choices
- 76 across its categories
- Named in
- 415 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 383 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on workday.com
11,325
subdomains included
Content
4,000
counted in the table below
Documentation
7
Product · Integration
1,116 · 59
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study | 2,489 | 0 | 2026-02-26 | ||
| Blog | 1,125 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 117 | 3 | 2026-07-30 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 84 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 50 | 0 | 2025-06-18 | ||
| Comparison | 46 | 1 | 2026-07-02 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 43 | 0 | 2026-06-23 | ||
| Conference or event | 18 | 0 | 2026-06-22 | ||
| Template or tool | 16 | 2 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| News or press | 12 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Create audit readiness checklist template or tool
- 2026-08-31Create audit readiness checklist template or tool
- 2026-07-30Future work podcast helen tupper squiggly careers podcast or video
- 2026-07-29Future work podcast copy paste economy podcast or video
- 2026-07-29Future work podcast copy paste economy podcast or video
- 2026-07-02Lawless ai vs true transformation comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page workday.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Workday
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday; a claim can dispute any of them.
Workday HCM 8Workday Benefits 2Workday (native) 1Workday Absence Management 1Workday HCM/Payroll 1Workday Org Chart 1Workday/SAP native modules 1workday 1
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The company
Workday is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Workday is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Enterprise AI Platform for HR, Finance, and IT
- For
- HR, Finance, and IT
- Customers named
- 7-ElevenBetterUpMedtronicCognizantJabilNetAppChipotleGreat Wolf Lodge
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Workday's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: workday.com, trust.workday.com, workday.com/en-se/products/suite.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Workday by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Workday 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, 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.