Workday IncWorkday named a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workforce Management Technology for its WFM suite and agentic capabilities.
Workday has been named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workforce Management Technology, the company announced. Workday's workforce management suite brings time tracking, absence management, scheduling, and labor optimization together within Workday Human Capital Management, giving frontline leaders one system to manage labor costs, compliance, schedules, and time. The suite includes agentic capabilities powered by Sana, Workday's agentic experience, including a Workforce Management Agent that automates schedule changes, time tracking, shift swaps, and demand-based staffing; early-adoption customers saw up to a 90% reduction in time spent managing shift schedule changes, a 65% improvement in process automation on average, and a 75% reduction in manual time entry errors. Automotive services retailer Valvoline cut the time managers spend generating weekly schedules from more than two hours to about 15 minutes, while health and fitness company Life Time reached 95% mobile app adoption after rolling out Workday Scheduling, saving managers over 50,000 hours each year and realizing $1 million in annual labor savings and a 50% reduction in overtime costs. The Gartner report, by Sam Grinter, Ranadip Chandra, Kelsie Marian, and Anand Chouksey, was published on 14 September 2026.
Workday IncWorkday named a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workforce Management Technology for its WFM suite and agentic capabilities.
Life Time Group Holdings IncLife Time cited as a Workday Scheduling customer achieving 95% mobile adoption, 50,000 hours saved, and $1M labor savings.
Valvoline IncValvoline cited as a Workday customer cutting weekly schedule generation from over two hours to about 15 minutes.
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