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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Concept: Workday Benchmarking Reports

Concept: Workday Benchmarking Reports

You can use Workday-delivered reports or create custom reports to view benchmarking data.
Workday enables you to filter benchmarking data by dimension, including:
  • Absence Policy.
  • Benchmark.
  • Country.
  • Gender.
  • Industry.
  • Industry Groups.
  • Size, which is number of employees.
  • Workday Tenure, which represents the length of time in years between the current date and the move-to-production date for your tenant. If you don't have an active Production tenant, you won't see any values for this dimension.
  • Worker Type.
For benchmarking reports, Workday precalculates and displays benchmarking percentile data based on the number of participants. Workday displays:
Participants
Data Returned
Fewer than 6.
No percentile data for row.
6 to 11 inclusive.
25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles.
More than 11.
10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles.
Benchmarks are only available for full calendar months. If you select a benchmarking period start or end date for any day of a month, Workday delivers benchmarking data that represents that entire calendar month.

Workday-Delivered Benchmarking Reports

Benchmark Definitions Report
With this report, you can view:
  • The calculation that Workday uses to determine the benchmark value.
  • Which dimensions are available for each benchmark.
  • Your opt-in status for the benchmark subcategory.
  • The countries that you've excluded from data contribution.
Benchmark vs. Actual Reports
You can use these reports to compare your actuals to benchmarks in the categories and subcategories you opt in to:
  • Benchmark vs. Actual
    .
  • Benchmark vs. Actual by Period Range
    , for a maximum 12-month range.
Workday returns benchmarks based on the dimension values you select.
For your actuals to display correctly, the fiscal period specified in the
Maintain Trended Workers
 task must align with a standard monthly schedule. That is, your fiscal periods must begin on the first day of a month and end on the last day of a month.
Benchmark Values as a Source for Scorecard Report
Workday enables you to use benchmarking data in your custom metrics that use the WD Matrix Report calculation type. The
Benchmark Values as a Source for Scorecard
 report is a matrix report, based on the
Trended Benchmark Values
 report data source (RDS). With this report you can:
  • Copy and edit report data. Example: You can remove benchmarking percentile fields from your custom report definition.
  • Use as the source matrix report. Set up your metric calculation on the
    Calculation Configuration
     tab on the
    Edit Custom Metric
     task.
When you set up metrics based on benchmarking data, consider:
  • The metric calculation must reference a custom report based on the
    Benchmark Values As a Source for Scorecard
     report.
  • Workday returns the benchmark value at the tenant, not organization, level.
  • Workday calculates benchmarks based on standard benchmark definitions and dimension values that you select.
  • Workday only returns data for the latest benchmarking period.
  • When creating a scorecard composite report, you must set the
    Target
     to
    Benchmark Value
     on the KPI Card Layout setting.

Custom Benchmarking Reports

Workday enables you to create simple or advanced custom reports from these benchmarking RDSs and enable them on custom or Workday-delivered dashboards:
  • Benchmark Definitions
  • Benchmark Values
  • Trended Benchmark Values
For reports based on these RDSs:
  • Benchmark Values
  • Trended Benchmark Values
Workday doesn't support:
  • Drill down on actuals.
  • Effective-dated reporting.