30+ Workday AI Agents That Transform HR and Finance Workflows

Workday is one of the most powerful platforms in enterprise HR and finance. It centralizes data, supports critical business processes, and helps leaders with decision-making. But despite all its strengths, Workday’s native automation still leaves many everyday requests and updates dependent on manual follow-up. 

Without enough automation, HR and finance teams stay buried in manual work. Employees wait days or weeks for routine requests, managers manually chase down approvals, and case volumes keep climbing. That slows down the business and frustrates the very people Workday is meant to empower.

That’s why Workday is doubling down on artificial intelligence, including its acquisitions like Sana Labs and Flowise and launch of the Workday Data Cloud to expand its capabilities. 

Workday’s new AI agents are a huge step forward. These AI-powered agents can understand context, make decisions, and complete common tasks end-to-end on their own. Early adopters are already seeing the payoff, with recruiter capacity up 54% and FP&A efficiency rising 49%, and Workday is promising another 14 AI agents in 2026.

But why wait? Moveworks gives you access to more than 100 prebuilt Workday AI agents today. These agents plug into your Moveworks AI Assistant, which integrates seamlessly with Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Google Chat. 

Plus, Moveworks connects to hundreds of other enterprise systems, from SAP SuccessFactors and Oracle HCM Cloud to ServiceNow, Zoom, and Salesforce, so your employees don’t just get Workday support — they get enterprise-wide support.  

In this guide, you’ll learn how Workday AI agents can streamline your HR and finance functions, reduce case volumes, and deliver measurable ROI.

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Categories of Moveworks Workday AI agents

Moveworks organizes its 100+ Workday AI agents into categories that align directly with how your teams work. Each category covers repetitive, high-volume tasks that currently take up too much HR and finance capacity.

By automating these with AI agents, you can:

• Free up time for strategic initiatives.
• Reduce case volume and backlogs.
• Speed up cycles like PTO approvals, payroll updates, and onboarding.
• Improve employee experience by giving people answers instantly in Slack, Teams, or Google Chat.

Let’s break down the categories and their impact.

Workday AI agents for employee records

• Agents: Update home address, update legal name, check employee ID, update pronouns, and update emergency contact.
• Use cases: Instead of filing a case or emailing HR for a simple update, employees complete the task themselves directly in chat.
• Example: An employee updates their marital status directly in Slack, and the change flows into Workday automatically.
• Value delivered: Eliminates repetitive HR tickets, saves employees time, and ensures records stay current without bottlenecks.

Workday AI agents for time and absence management

• Agents: Request PTO, approve/reject time off, view PTO balances, and check direct reports on PTO.
• Use cases: Employees get real-time access to PTO balances, and managers approve leave requests without logging into Workday.
• Example: A team lead checks who’s already on leave for a certain week before approving a vacation request, all within Teams.
• Value delivered: Faster approvals, fewer delays, and better visibility for workforce management.

Workday AI agents for payroll and compensation

• Agents: View payslips, update direct deposit, view stock grants, view bonuses, and see total compensation.
• Use cases: Employees resolve payroll questions instantly, rather than opening a case.
• Example: An employee checks their bonus payout in Slack instead of submitting a payroll ticket.
• Value delivered: Reduces payroll case volume, builds through transparency, and shortens resolution times.

Workday AI agents for recruiting and onboarding

• Agents: Look up candidate status, submit job requisitions, view recruiting pipeline, and onboard contractors.
• Use cases: Hiring managers track progress, and HR automates onboarding across existing systems.
• Example: A manager checks the health of their candidate pipeline directly in Google Chat, without needing to log into Workday.
• Value delivered: Accelerates recruiting cycles and removes friction from onboarding.

Workday AI agents for learning and development

• Agents: View assigned trainings, enroll in L&D courses, and get reminders for pending trainings.
• Use cases: Compliance training is completed on time without HR sending manual reminders.
• Example: An employee gets a Slack reminder about a training due next week, along with a link straight to the module.
• Value delivered: Boosts compliance, reduces manual HR reminders, and improves completion rates.

Workday AI agents for performance and goals

• Agents: Set personal goals, set direct report goals, and view performance ratings.
• Use cases: Managers prepare for performance reviews with quick summaries.
• Example: Before a calibration meeting, a manager receives a snapshot of team ratings directly in Teams.
• Value delivered: Reduces prep time, ensures fairness in reviews, and makes performance data more accessible.

Workday AI agents for finance and expenses

• Agents: Look up expense reports, approve reimbursements, check reimbursement status, and view expense line items.
• Use cases: Employees resolve common finance questions instantly, and managers approve reimbursements without delay.
• Example: A manager approves an expense reimbursement in Slack without needing to log into Workday.
• Value delivered: Faster reimbursement cycles, reduced finance workload, and higher employee satisfaction.

While Workday AI agents transform finance and HR, the possibilities don’t stop there. 

With the Moveworks Marketplace, you can add AI agents for IT, sales, and collaboration tools too, spanning platforms like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, Zendesk, Gong, and Zoom. Your Moveworks AI Assistant becomes the single front door for employee support across every department, fueling the future of work.

Managing your AI agents like a digital workforce

When you think about Moveworks 100+ Workday AI agents, it helps to picture them as part of your digital workforce. Just like human employees, they need structure, oversight, and measurement to deliver their best work. 

Without oversight, they’d be no different from the scattered bots and scripts that IT teams have struggled to manage for years. But with Moveworks, you get a central system that treats these agents like a coordinated team — one that’s secure, reliable, and audit-ready.

Here’s what that looks like in practice:

• Agent provisioning and registration: Bringing new agents online isn’t just about “turning them on.” It’s about assigning the right responsibilities from the start. Moveworks makes sure every Workday agent is registered, documented, and ready to step into its role — within your existing workflows, without adding manual setup work.
• Access management and permissions: Sensitive data is always a concern in HR and finance. Moveworks AI agents follow the same access rules as your employees in Workday. Each agent only sees and does what it’s authorized to handle, ensuring the right balance between security and productivity.
• Monitoring performance: With human employees, you track output and performance. With AI agents, you measure things like time saved, cases avoided, and adoption rates. Moveworks provides clear dashboards so you can see the impact of each agent, which helps you prove ROI and catch potential issues early.
• Lifecycle management: Work doesn’t stop, and neither should your agents. Sometimes they need updates to handle new processes, retraining to adapt to policy changes, or retirement when their role is no longer relevant. Moveworks makes lifecycle management part of the process, ensuring your AI workforce always stays aligned and effective.

The difference compared to traditional bots and scripts is night and day. Instead of piecing together scattered automations that no one owns or monitors, Moveworks provides a single system of record. This centralized governance means your AI agents are secure, compliant, and always audit-ready, while reducing the overload for IT and HR.

Overcoming implementation challenges in Workday agentic AI

Enterprises often hesitate to deploy AI agents because of concerns about security and compliance, the willingness of their workforce to actually adopt the solutions, and their ability to integrate agents smoothly with their existing infrastructure and data.  

Their concerns aren’t unfounded — and that’s why Moveworks tackles these challenges head-on.

• Data quality: AI agents need clean, accurate records to provide the right answers. Moveworks agents are built to work with Workday as the single source of truth, helping flag inconsistencies and minimizing the manual cleanup that slows HR and finance teams.
• Security and compliance: With sensitive employee and financial data, security can’t be an afterthought. Moveworks encrypts all data in transit and at rest, provides detailed audit trails, and ensures that agents inherit Workday’s role-based permissions — so employees only access what they’re entitled to.
• Change management and adoption: Trust is often the biggest hurdle. Moveworks meets employees where they already work — in Slack, Teams, or Google Chat — so adoption feels natural. Nearly two-thirds of senior leaders report seeing productivity gains after implementing AI agents, and Moveworks is designed for rapid, friction-free adoption across global teams.
• Integration complexity: Connecting Workday to the rest of the tech stack is usually a heavy IT lift. Moveworks simplifies the process with prebuilt integrations across HR, IT, and finance systems, enabling faster deployments and reducing reliance on custom scripts. Organizations using Moveworks report 95% success moving agents into production through its Agent Studio platform.

Moveworks’ safeguards mean you don’t have to trade innovation for risk. Instead, you gain AI agents that employees trust, leaders can audit, and IT can scale — for faster adoption and measurable ROI.

Transform HR with Moveworks Workday AI agents

Deploying Workday AI agents isn’t about enabling a few isolated automations. It’s about building a cohesive digital workforce that reshapes how HR and finance operate — removing friction, speeding up decisions, and giving employees the support they need without extra effort.

To maximize ROI, roll your AI agents out strategically:

• Start small: Begin with high-volume use cases like PTO requests or payroll questions to build trust from day one.
• Build momentum: Use quick wins, like faster approvals and benefits enrollment, to expand adoption and show clear ROI.
• Expand strategically: Once you start seeing measurable value, add agents for compliance, finance, and recruiting.
• Measure continuously: Track metrics like case deflection, resolution speed, and employee satisfaction to prove value.

The good news? You don’t have to overhaul how your teams work today. With the Moveworks AI Assistant, employees get access to 100+ Workday agents right inside Slack, Teams, Google Chat, or the web. Instead of learning another new system, they get the support they need right in the tools they already use.

Moveworks enhances Workday agent deployments with:

• Unified interface: Employees can access over 100 Workday agents directly in Slack, Teams, Google Chat, or the web, without switching tools.
• Cross-system orchestration: Agents connect Workday data with IT, finance, and collaboration platforms to streamline end-to-end workflows.
• Enterprise search + reasoning: Employees get precise answers in natural language across Workday and related systems without switching between portals.
• Custom agent development: With Agent Studio, you can build tailored workflows for unique needs, like automating compliance checks.

With Moveworks’ Agentic Automation Engine and Agent Studio, you’re not limited to just a handful of built-in Workday agents. You gain access to 100+ ready-to-go agents immediately, transforming Workday from a transactional system into an enterprise-ready AI layer that drives real outcomes.

Explore Moveworks’ Workday integration and see how AI agents can optimize your HR and finance workflows.