Peakon (Workday)

Hear every voice. Act on every insight.

by Workday, Inc. · Employee Engagement & Culture

Executive Summary

Workday Peakon Employee Voice is an AI-powered platform designed for continuous employee listening, enabling HR teams and people leaders to gather and analyze feedback through scientifically designed engagement surveys and open-text responses. It leverages machine learning to analyze data across various segments, surfacing key engagement drivers, risks, and opportunities. Managers receive guided insights and recommended actions to foster a more engaged workforce, improve performance, and reduce attrition.

Use Cases

  • Improving employee engagement and satisfaction.
  • Reducing regrettable attrition and retaining top talent.
  • Developing effective leadership through data-driven insights.
  • Fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
  • Proactively addressing employee health and well-being.
  • Guiding organizational transformation and change initiatives.

Features

Visibility

  • Real-time Analytics Dashboard: Provides interactive, real-time visualizations of key engagement metrics, sentiment scores, and trends segmented by teams, demographics, and departments.
  • Performance Benchmarking: Compares engagement scores against industry benchmarks and historical data to contextualize workforce sentiment and identify areas for improvement.
  • Multilingual Reporting: Offers the ability to view reports and dashboards in multiple languages to support international teams and leadership.
  • Predictive Attrition Risk: Forecasts attrition risk among different employee populations based on real-time feedback and a large standardized dataset.

Intelligence

  • Sentiment Analysis: Advanced analytics interpret open-text responses to detect prevailing feelings, key themes, and emerging issues.
  • Generative AI-Powered Summaries: AI-generated content summaries surface and pinpoint key themes from vast volumes of employee feedback across 60+ languages.
  • Science-Based Survey Templates: Utilizes pre-built survey templates rooted in organizational psychology to ensure valid and reliable feedback collection.
  • Automated Feedback Collection: Streamlines survey distribution and collection to reduce administrative effort and maintain a consistent data flow.

Support

  • Contextual Learning Resources: Provides learning resources based on team priorities and suggested actions to enhance team performance.
  • Deployment & Training Services: Offers services for platform deployment, user training, and onboarding to ensure effective adoption and utilization.
  • Strategic Services: Includes organizational development and data science expertise to help customers maximize insights and drive change.

Technical Specifications

Architecture
Cloud-native SaaS
Deployment
Cloud/SaaS
Authentication
Workday's authentication policy, OAuth 2.0, and SSO are used to secure access.
API Available
Yes
MCP Server
Yes

Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • GCP

AI/ML Stack

  • NLP
  • Machine Learning
  • Generative AI
  • LLM

Integrations

  • Workday HCM
  • Microsoft Teams (survey distribution/notifications where enabled)
  • Slack (survey distribution/notifications where enabled)
  • SAML/SCIM identity providers (e.g., Okta, Azure AD)

Security & Compliance

Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR

Encryption: TLS 1.1 or higher for data in transit; encryption at rest is implied by SOC 2 certification.

Data Residency:

Pricing

Model
Per employee/year, Tiered subscription, Custom enterprise
Starting Price
Contact sales
Target Customer
Mid-market to Enterprise
Contract Type
Annual, Multi-year discounts
Free Trial
Yes, 90 days (credit card required)

About Workday, Inc.

Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded by software visionaries Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield, it offers a cloud-native, SaaS-based system that unifies finance, HR, and operations on one adaptable platform.

Founded: 2005 · Headquarters: Pleasanton, United States · Employees: 10000+ · Public