Connect Workday with Culture Cloud® by O.C. Tanner to automate employee data, payroll workflows, feedback, and employee recognition moments. All done securely, intelligently, and at enterprise scale.
Culture Cloud integrates with Workday across the employee experience—from employee data and recognition activity to payroll, lifecycle journeys, and embedded recognition experiences. The result is a more connected recognition program with less manual effort for HR, payroll, and IT teams.
Keep recognition eligibility, employee profiles, manager relationships, and organizational data aligned with Workday as your system of record.
Recognition activity can be written into Workday Anytime Feedback, helping managers and HR teams see appreciation moments alongside other employee feedback and talent context.
Culture Cloud can send redemption and award data to Workday Payroll as one-time payments, helping simplify payroll workflows and reduce manual reporting.
Bring recognition prompts into Workday Employee Experience through Custom Cards and Journeys that connect recognition to employee lifecycle moments like onboarding, anniversaries, role changes, and manager actions.
For organizations ready to create a more embedded Workday experience, Culture Cloud can support native recognition experiences built with Workday Extend—giving employees and leaders access to recognition workflows inside the Workday environment while Culture Cloud powers the recognition engine behind the scenes.
Write recognition back to Workday
Recognition activity can flow into Workday Anytime Feedback, helping recognition become part of employee profiles and talent conversations.
Capture recognition moments
Employees and leaders give recognition through Culture Cloud, Workday experiences, mobile, collaboration tools, or other connected workflows.
Connect employee data
Sync employee and organizational data from Workday into Culture Cloud to support eligibility, hierarchy, profile accuracy, and program administration.
Automate payroll reporting
Award and redemption data can be sent back to Workday Payroll as one-time payments, reducing manual steps for HR and payroll teams.
Extend recognition into employee workflows
Custom Cards, Journeys, and Workday Extend experiences help surface recognition at meaningful employee moments—without forcing recognition to live in only one place.
“From the start, our vision at Howard Hughes was clear: recognition shouldn’t live in a separate system or require employees to leave the tools they already use. We wanted a recognition experience that felt native to Workday—intuitive, visible, and fully integrated into the flow of work.”
“O.C. Tanner brought the rare combination of enterprise-grade recognition expertise, modern technology, and a true partner mindset. Their APIs gave our team the flexibility and confidence to design a deeply embedded Workday Extend experience without compromising on sophistication, scalability, or user experience.”
Yes. Holidays, birthdays, and events can be scheduled in advance with automated deposits and messages.
The integration can sync employee data from Workday into Culture Cloud, write recognition activity back into Workday Anytime Feedback, send redemption and award data to Workday Payroll as one-time payments, and surface recognition prompts through Workday Custom Cards and Journeys.
Yes. O.C. Tanner supports Workday experiences that can surface recognition actions and prompts inside Workday, including Custom Cards, Journeys, and optional Workday Extend experiences.
Yes. Culture Cloud can send recognition-related award and redemption data to Workday Payroll as one-time payments, helping reduce manual payroll work and support accurate reporting.
Workday Anytime Feedback is a Workday profile-feedback feature. With O.C. Tanner’s integration, recognition given in Culture Cloud can be written back into Workday Anytime Feedback, helping managers and HR teams see recognition in employee context.
Custom Cards are Workday homepage prompts that can surface contextual recognition actions. Journeys are guided employee experience paths tied to lifecycle moments such as onboarding, anniversaries, and role changes. O.C. Tanner can use these capabilities to bring recognition into meaningful moments inside Workday.
Workday Extend is Workday’s platform for building custom apps and integrations inside Workday. For recognition, it can support more embedded experiences where Culture Cloud actions and workflows appear directly inside Workday.
No. Culture Cloud is designed to reach employees across the systems and environments where work happens, including Workday, Culture Cloud, collaboration tools, mobile experiences, and frontline workflows.
O.C. Tanner combines Workday-certified integration, API-enabled architecture, embedded Workday experience capabilities, payroll automation, global rewards, service awards, culture insights, and a complete employee recognition ecosystem. This makes Culture Cloud a strong choice for organizations that want recognition inside Workday and across the broader employee experience.
Bring recognition into Workday,and extend it across the tools, moments, and experiences that shape your culture every day.