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Use the Workday MCP with Claude or Cursor to manage payroll, worker profiles, and HR workflows through your AI agent for real-time data.
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Manage your enterprise workforce and payroll data through natural conversation.
Works with every AI agent you already use
…and any MCP-compatible client
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What AI agents can do with Workday MCP: 9 Tools for Workforce Management
Use these tools to query worker profiles, payroll data, and organizational structures via your AI agent.
List workers
Search for specific workers by name, employee ID, or other attributes. This helps you find anyone in your workforce quickly.
Get worker
Get a detailed profile for a specific worker. Use this to see a person's history and current role in one place.
List supervisory orgs
Show org names, managers, and headcounts. It gives you a clear view of how your teams are structured.
Get time off balances
Get time off balances for a specific worker. This lets you see remaining vacation or sick leave instantly.
Get time off requests
Get pending time off requests for a worker. Use this to manage and review team absence requests quickly.
Get payroll results
Get payroll results for a worker. This provides a clear look at compensation and benefit elections.
List job requisitions
List open job requisitions. This helps you monitor your active hiring pipeline and open roles.
Execute raas report
Execute a Workday Report-as-a-Service (RaaS) report. This lets you run specific queries and get JSON results.
Query resource
Query any Workday REST API resource. Use this to find locations, companies, cost centers, or business units.
A Connector is a URL. Vinkius runs it: hosting, security, governance, observability.
You're looking at one of 5,800+ managed Connectors. The real value isn't the catalog. It's the control plane that secures, governs, audits, and manages every interaction between your agents and the tools they use.
No Shadow AI
Every agent action is visible, approved, and auditable. Nothing runs outside your governance.
Absolute agent control
Fine-grained permissions for every agent, MCP, and tool. Instantly revoke access and audit every execution.
Cost control per token
Spend broken down to the token, tool, and agent. Budgets and hard limits. No surprise invoices.
Managed & monitored infra
We operate the runtime, authentication, scaling, retries, and monitoring. Your team manages AI, not infrastructure.
Data protection, DLP by design
Sensitive data is filtered before reaching the model. Access is governed so agents receive only the information they're allowed to use.
Token optimization, real savings
Lower AI costs by delivering the right context instead of unnecessary tools. Better accuracy, faster responses, and fewer wasted tokens.
Workday MCP: Ending the Manual Search for HR and Payroll Data
This is for HR and payroll professionals who are tired of digging through nested menus to find basic headcount or worker data. It's for the people who need to move at the speed of conversation.
HR Business Partner
They use this to answer 'who is in this org?' questions instantly without manual counting.
Payroll Manager
They grab compensation breakdowns and run summaries without building manual reports every week.
Talent Acquisition
They monitor requisition pipelines and candidate status across multiple departments in real-time.
CHRO & VP People
They get a high-level view of attrition, headcount, and compensation trends without digging into the weeds.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I use the Workday MCP to see my team's PTO? +
Yes, you can check vacation balances and pending requests for any team member instantly through your AI agent.
Does the Workday MCP help with payroll summaries? +
Yes, it pulls compensation breakdowns and benefit elections directly into your chat for easy viewing.
How does the Workday MCP help with hiring? +
It lets you monitor your active hiring pipeline and see all open job requisitions in real-time.
Can I run custom reports with the Workday MCP? +
Yes, it supports Report-as-a-Service queries, letting you run specific reports and get the data in a readable format.
Is the Workday MCP good for org structure queries? +
Yes, it can navigate supervisory hierarchies, cost centers, and business units to give you a clear view of your company structure.
Can I use the Workday MCP to find specific employees? +
Yes, you can search for any worker in your workforce using their name or employee ID.
What authentication method does Workday use? +
Workday uses OAuth 2.0 with a registered API Client. You'll need to provide your Client ID, Client Secret, and a Refresh Token — all generated from within your Workday tenant by an administrator.
Can I check PTO balances for my direct reports? +
Yes. The get_time_off_balances tool retrieves current PTO balances for any worker within the security scope configured for your Integration System User. Data is returned per plan type (vacation, sick, personal).
Does it support Workday Report-as-a-Service (RaaS)? +
Absolutely. Use the execute_raas_report tool with your report URL to retrieve any custom Workday report, including those with prompt parameters. Results are returned in JSON format.
Can I navigate the entire organizational hierarchy? +
Yes. The get_org_structure tool fetches supervisory organizations, cost centers, and company hierarchies, allowing you to traverse the full org tree from any starting point.
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