Workday HCM vs Freshteam: Which is a better fit?

Christos: My name is Christos. I am a senior compensation analyst, and I work for Braze Incorporated. And the headcount, I can give as well, which is 1,500 employees. Workday HCM, I would give a four out of five. Workday HCM is used for our payroll services within the company as just a generality. We use it to keep track of leave of absence, time off, bonus requests, just various different HR systems, things that we need. However, now we are using it to store salary bands, and that's more of where I come into play, where we're building out bands and storing them within job descriptions and job profiles within each individual employee and department. I just really enjoy the user-friendliness of the platform. It's really easy to navigate between the landing pages. Even for the compensation team, we have our comp dashboard, which allows us to pull this various reports that we're looking for, so that's very helpful and intuitive. But even as a user of just even being an employee of the company, it's very easy to go through my compensation, my pay history, my pay stubs, my bonus cycles, even just my managerial tree. It's an easy to navigate system, which I can appreciate. Especially if someone hasn't seen it before, it's easy to teach. I'm not necessarily the systems expert when it comes to loading in data and whatnot, but we do use a separate system for our comp cycles, which I understand can happen in Workday. However, from my experience, the reason why it wasn't a five out of five is just the way that the two systems read off each other. For me, Workday, even though it's intuitive when it comes to loading data, it's very fickle in certain circumstances since I've used it for the last three years, and I would just like to see a little bit more improvement in being able to be more modified towards these new systems that we're using, like the AQMS and the Oracles. I just found it rather difficult to... It's been the same for a while. I'd like to see a little bit more uplift when it comes to the loading of data. However, with that being said, I know there's room for improvement just from the platform's perspective on that, from a system side.

Tara: Hi, my name is Tara. I am the Marketing Manager at Impact Technology Group. We are an IT firm for businesses and I give Freshteams a rating of four out of five. So we used BambooHR before switching to Freshteams. We ended up switching because their prices were increasing and they weren't adding any kind of value, so we switched from them over to Freshteams. So we chose Freshteams because they had many of the different features we were looking for. We wanted an applicant tracking system as well as an HR system. So it's the best of both worlds with incoming candidates and also keeping track of our employees and their time off requests. So their onboarding was fairly easy. They did supply a lot of the information we needed to get started. Once we plugged in all of our information and our job descriptions, it was pretty much just plug and play. So it was a pretty simple onboarding process. When considering switching to Freshteams, you could also look at the different integrations that they have because they do have integrations with other applications you may already use, whereas other HR systems may not have those integrations. So definitely check those out as well as the value for the price that you're paying.