WorkAxle is a workforce management platform that covers the full operational cycle: demand forecasting, scheduling and rostering, time & attendance, leave and absence, compliance enforcement, and payroll export in one connected system. It sits between your HR system and your payroll system, running the operational layer they both leave open, and it is built for enterprises with multi-jurisdiction labor laws, union agreements, and industry-specific regulations.
Forecasting to payroll.
One platform.
One source of truth.
Most WFM tools cover one stage of the cycle and hand the rest to a spreadsheet. WorkAxle covers all of it: forecasting through scheduling, time capture, compliance, and payroll export, on connected data. The rules are enforced at every step, and the logic stays in your hands instead of a vendor's backlog. Built for multiple CBAs within one organization.
A forecast becomes a roster. The roster becomes a verified timecard. The timecard becomes a clean payroll export. Each step inherits the rules from the one before it.
Forecasting & Optimization
Predict staffing needs from historical data and business drivers.
Scheduling & Rostering
Generate compliant schedules from forecasts with auto-assignment.
Time & Attendance
Capture every clock-in with identity and location verification.
Leave & Absence
Vacation, sick, parental, comp, one workflow across every CBA.
Compliance & Rule Engine
Labor laws, union rules, and certifications checked automatically. Warnings surfaced in real time.
Payroll Export
Pre-classified time data delivered to payroll. No reconciliation.
Modular by design. Pick what you need. Each module solves a specific problem. Together they close the loop.
Forecasting & Optimization
You're either overstaffed and burning budget or understaffed and burning people. Without a forecast, next quarter's roster is a guess defended in a meeting.
Ingests your historical demand data. Tests multiple time-series models in parallel; your team selects the best fit per location. Every run lets our customers get tighter with their operations. The forecast feeds straight into scheduling at matching granularity.
Scheduling & Rostering
Multiple skill types, multiple union agreements within one organization, and a budget that won't flex. Building that schedule by hand takes days, and you are the compliance engine, holding every rule in your head and hoping you didn't miss one.
Generates draft schedules from the demand forecast and auto-assigns employees by skill, certification, availability, and labor rule. The rules are checked continuously during auto-assignment and again on every interactive edit a manager makes. The system builds the structure. Managers handle the edge cases.
Time & Attendance
Buddy punching, missed clock-ins, rounding errors, time classified by hand. Every gap in the time data is money you can't account for and an exposure you can't defend in an audit.
Captures every clock-in with identity verification (facial recognition) and location validation (Bluetooth beacons, geofencing). Classifies overtime, premiums, and differentials automatically. Timecards build themselves, totaled by time type.
Compliance & Rule Engine
It's 10 AM. A certification expired. A rest-period rule was broken. A union clause was missed. You're fire-fighting compliance issues the system should have caught, because the rules live in your head instead of in the software.
You codify the rules once, labor laws, union agreements, certifications, overtime limits, rest periods, and the engine enforces them across scheduling, time capture, and assignment while the schedule is being built. A no-code visual rule builder lets you pick from a catalog, configure through guided forms, drag to reorder, and simulate the rule before you publish it.
Payroll Export
Every pay cycle, someone on your team spends hours pulling data, cross-checking it against schedules, applying overtime by hand, and reformatting it for the payroll system. Then they submit it and hope the numbers match.
Exports pre-classified time data straight to your payroll or accounting system. Overtime, premiums, and differentials are already calculated upstream. No re-entry, no reconciliation, every hour verified and classified before it arrives.
Leave & Absence
Vacation, sick days, parental leave, and comp time, tracked by hand across multiple CBAs and jurisdictions. That means errors, compliance risk, and employees who can't see their own balances calling you to ask.
Handles multiple leave types and leave accruals, request, approve, and cancel flows, statutory holiday auto-grants, and calendar conflict and coverage management. It runs on the same compliance engine as scheduling and time.
How the platform fits the stack you already run.
"Does it work with what we already have?" Ripping out the existing stack isn't realistic. WorkAxle connects through an API-first architecture, so your HRIS, payroll, and ERP stay exactly where they are.
Workday Innovation Partner (Silver), Design Approved. Listed on Workday Marketplace.
SAP PartnerEdge partner, listed on the SAP Store since 2022. Compatible with SAP BTP deployments.
Oracle HCM: API-based enterprise integration for employee data and time export.
API, GraphQL, REST, SFTP, XML. Whatever your stack speaks, we cover it. Deploys to multi-tenant cloud or dedicated regional infrastructure.
One platform for the whole workforce cycle.
Exclusively workforce management.
WorkAxle does workforce management and only workforce management. The architecture was designed around scheduling, time, and compliance complexity from the first line of code. Workday and SAP partner with WorkAxle for complex workforce management.
You configure the logic, and the change takes effect immediately.
The compliance engine bends to your operations: multi-jurisdiction labor law, multi-union agreements, industry-specific regulations. You configure the logic yourself, with no scripting and no vendor release cycle, and a change you make takes effect immediately.
Forecasting to payroll. One loop.
Data flows forward through every module, compliance is enforced at every step, and every record traces back to one source of truth. One system to implement, one to maintain.
Results from production deployments.
Your questions, answered.
What is WorkAxle?
An enterprise workforce management platform covering demand forecasting, scheduling and rostering, time & attendance, leave and absence, compliance enforcement, and payroll export. Built for organizations with multi-jurisdiction labor laws, union agreements, and industry-specific regulations. Workday and SAP integrations. Deployed in production across multiple regions worldwide.
What industries does WorkAxle serve?
Industries where compliance complexity runs highest. Verticals with dedicated industry solutions: airport operations, public sector, retail, guarding/security, construction, port operations, healthcare, and manufacturing.
How is WorkAxle different from legacy WFM vendors?
WorkAxle is purpose-built for workforce management. It is a WFM specialist, where the legacy options are full-stack HR/payroll suites that added scheduling later. The configurable compliance engine handles multi-jurisdiction, multi-union complexity without scripting or months of training. We implement 4 to 5x faster than legacy systems. WorkAxle partners with your HR and payroll stack rather than competing with it.
How long does implementation take?
Enterprise deployments measure in months, not years. We implement 4 to 5x faster than legacy systems, and every client has reached positive ROI within the first few payroll runs. Less complex environments go faster with productized industry solutions.
Does WorkAxle replace our HRIS or payroll system?
No. WorkAxle sits between HR and payroll, handling scheduling, time capture, and compliance. Employee data flows in from your HRIS (Workday, SAP, Oracle); validated time data flows out to payroll. WorkAxle handles the complex middle that generic HR platforms can't.
Want to see how it handles your complexity?
See it for your industry.
Productized solutions for airport operations, security, retail, public sector, and construction. Find your vertical and see what "purpose-built" looks like in your context.
See why teams switch from legacy vendors.
The architectural and operational differences between WorkAxle and the platforms you're evaluating or trying to leave.
Bring your hardest scheduling problem to a 30-minute demo.
We'll walk you through each module with your industry, your rules, and your edge cases in mind. Bring it.