HRIS and payroll

Turn every Workday event into an employee moment people remember.

Hires, promotions, transfers and manager changes in Workday start the right journey on the right channel. No list exports, no tickets to IT.

Workday
Integration details
Category
HRIS and payroll
Connection
Read, or read and write for fields you approve
Setup
About 2 weeks with SSO
Security
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR
Built by
ChangeEngine
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What connects

The data your programs run on.

Workday is the human capital management system many large and global employers run their workforce on, from hiring and job changes to organization structure and payroll. It is usually the single source of truth for who works where and who they report to.

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Fields you can use

Worker, position, job profile, supervisory organization, manager, location, cost center, hire date, worker type, preferred language and your custom fields.

You stay in control

You pick the fields that sync and whether the connection is read-only or also writes approved fields back to Workday. Sensitive fields report coverage only, never values, when your team asks an AI assistant about them.

Who sees it

Editors only see what their role allows, and every change is logged.

Triggers

Events that start programs on their own.

When something changes in your system of record, the right people hear about it on the right channel. Nobody on the People team presses send.

Hire

Preboarding starts the day the hire is recorded: welcome email, first-week plan and a manager prep checklist.

Job change

A promotion or new job profile triggers a congratulations message and a heads-up to the new team.

Location change

Someone moving sites gets the local welcome, parking and safety details for their new location.

Supervisor change

The new manager gets a handoff note and the team member gets an intro, so nobody is left guessing.

Work anniversary

Milestone years trigger a message from their manager and, if you want, an e-gift on the day.

Termination

Offboarding steps go to the leaver and their manager, and they drop out of every audience after their last day.

What you can do

Six jobs your team stops doing by hand.

Audiences built on supervisory orgs

Target by supervisory organization, cost center or job profile, so a message can reach one org, one region or every people manager in Workday.

Audiences that keep themselves current

Every department, location and manager in Workday becomes a live audience. New hires are in on day one, and leavers drop out on their last.

Onboarding that starts on its own

A start date in Workday kicks off preboarding, day one and the first 90 days, with manager nudges built in.

Milestones nobody forgets

Work anniversaries and promotions recorded in Workday trigger a message, a manager prompt or an e-gift on the day.

Messages that sound personal

Merge first name, manager, location and role into every email, Slack/Teams post and text, so a company-wide update reads like it was written for one person.

Results by team, site and manager

Every read and click rolls up by the Workday fields you already track, ready for leadership without a spreadsheet.

In detail

How it works, in practice.

From Workday record to live audience

Every person in Workday becomes one ChangeEngine profile. Departments, locations, managers and custom fields turn into audiences you can combine, and they update on every sync.

Built for large and global employers

Large organizations get audiences by legal entity, region, business unit and manager chain, so a policy update reaches one country and a leadership note reaches every people manager, from one draft.

Read, or read and write

Most teams start read-only. If you want ChangeEngine to send data back to Workday, you approve write access for specific fields, every change is logged, and you can switch it off at any time.

Setup

Live in about two weeks.

Your services team runs the setup with IT. When you need something that is not in the box, your forward deployed engineer builds it.

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01

IT approves the connection

Your Workday admin approves access for ChangeEngine, read-only or read and write. We send the exact permission checklist ahead of the call, so IT knows what it is signing off on.

02

We map your fields together

On a working call, we map the Workday fields you want to use: supervisory organization, location, manager, job profile and hire date. You choose what comes across and what stays in Workday.

03

Programs go live

Audiences fill themselves from Workday, your first journeys switch on, and you see every person who could not be placed so you can fix the record at the source.

IT and security

Why IT says yes.

Your People team moves fast. Your IT team keeps control of every connection.

Certified

SOC 2 and ISO 27001. GDPR compliant, with data residency in the US, EU or Canada.

Access

Single sign-on over SAML or OAuth, with optional two-factor authentication for editors.

Provisioning

SCIM provisioning, and content shown by HRIS attributes like role, location and employment type.

Encryption

Employee data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and editors only see what their role allows.

Governance

Word-level audit logs, role-based editors, and AI providers contractually barred from training on your data.

Your domain

Run your hub on your own subdomain, like central.yourcompany.com, with a couple of DNS records.

SOC 2 certified
SOC 2
ISO 27001 certified
ISO 27001
GDPR compliant
GDPR
FAQ

Questions teams ask before they connect

Does ChangeEngine work with Workday supervisory organizations?

Yes. Supervisory organization, cost center, location and job profile all map into ChangeEngine as audience fields, so you can target a single org or everyone under a leader.

Can we use our custom Workday fields?

Yes. Custom fields map the same way as standard ones, so you can target, personalize or trigger a program on anything your team already keeps up to date in Workday.

Can ChangeEngine write data back to Workday?

Yes, if you want it to. Most teams start read-only. You can turn on write access for the specific fields you approve, every change is logged, and Workday stays your system of record.

How long does it take to connect Workday?

Most teams are live with HRIS and SSO in about two weeks. IT approves the connection, we map fields with you on a call, and your audiences fill themselves.

Is our Workday data secure in ChangeEngine?

Yes. ChangeEngine is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, you choose US, EU or Canadian data residency, and AI providers are contractually barred from training on your data.

Can we use Workday data from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot?

Yes. Connect your assistant to the ChangeEngine MCP and ask it to build an audience from your Workday fields or pull read rates by team. It acts with your permissions, and a person publishes every send.

Run it from your existing AI

Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot to do the work.

The ChangeEngine MCP connects the assistant your company already approved. Build audiences from this integration's data, draft a send or pull last week's read rates in plain words. A person on your team publishes every send.

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