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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Opt in to Benchmarking

Opt in to Benchmarking

  • Set up Workday Benchmarking for your tenant.
  • Security:
    Benchmark Management
     domain in the Benchmarking functional area.
You can contribute your Production tenant data for the categories and subcategories you select by opting in to benchmarking. You can opt in to benchmarking for all or individual categories and subcategories for a benchmarking group.
Benchmarks are available only for the Workday services to which you subscribe:
  • To opt in to Recruiting benchmarking, you must be a Workday Recruiting customer. Workday also requires a minimum of 20 job applications in your tenant to opt in.
  • To opt in to Time, Absence, and Payroll benchmarking, you must be a Workday Payroll customer.
You can exclude data contribution by country for categories that support the country dimension. Excluding countries can impact benchmark data visibility if data contribution falls below the minimum participation threshold.
When you set up Workday Usage Metrics security, Workday automatically opts you in to benchmarks in the Workday Usage category and subcategories.
When you opt out of a subcategory:
  • You no longer contribute nor can you view benchmark data for benchmarks in that subcategory.
  • Workday removes your tenant data from benchmark calculations after the next complete refresh of the benchmark dataset.
  1. Access the
    Benchmarking Opt-In
     task.
  2. As you complete the task, consider:
    Option Description
    My Industry Group
    My Industry
    Workday returns benchmark data at the industry group level until enough data is available to return results at the industry level.
    Subscribe to all Current and Future Categories
    Select to opt in automatically to any new benchmarks, categories, and subcategories added in the future.
    Subscribe to all Current and Future Subcategories
    Select to opt in automatically to benchmarks for any new subcategories added to the category in the future.
    Countries Excluded from Data Contribution
    When you exclude data contribution for a country, you can still report on benchmarking data for that country.
Workday makes this data available immediately:
  • Workday Usage category benchmark data, when you've enabled security to Workday Usage Metrics.
  • Benchmark data for opted-in subcategories. This benchmark data doesn't include your data contributions until the next benchmarking processing job runs in your tenant.
  • Actual values for your tenant.
Workday schedules calculation of the non-Workday Usage benchmarks you opt in to for the next scheduled benchmarking processing job. Workday:
  • Collects 12 months of data for opted-in subcategories.
  • Makes data for the previous month available by the sixth of the month.