More Pain than Performance? Betterworks Outperforms Workday for Performance Management
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“Best support service” “[Betterworks] has one of the best customer support teams I have worked with, with quick responses, timely deliveries and easy resolutions.”
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Betterworks is a modern, intelligent performance management solution built for HR leaders who crave agility. Empower employees with intuitive tools for regular feedback and goal tracking, fostering actionable insights to drive engagement, performance, and career development.
People-First, Intelligent Performance Management
Experience a difference with real-time feedback, agile goal-setting, and insightful analytics. Betterworks simplifies performance management, helping maximize people potential and results.
Elevate Your Managers
Strengthen manager-employee relationships, confidence, and success.
Engage Your Employees
Enable clarity and accountability for accomplishment and recognition.
Drive Connection + Culture
Promote trust and transparency whether hybrid, in-office, or remote.
Make Strategic Decisions
Accelerate efficiency and intelligent decision-making with AI and analytics.
Maximize Review Completion and ROI
Enable clarity and accountability for accomplishment and recognition.
Why Workday Customers are Switching to Betterworks
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| Advanced Analytics and Reporting | Embedded, flexible & built-for-purpose, included in enterprise platform | Requires bespoke build, inflexible once built; additional costs to maintain |
| Continuous performance management | Goals, 1:1s, feedback and performance review modules inform each other seamlessly resulting in continuous, rich, structured conversations. | Requires use of workarounds and/or external developers to achieve similar capabilities. |
| Employee-Centric User Experience | Highly focused on engaging and intuitive user experiences, helping employees realize their own value and the value of your performance program | Focus is on HR power users and administrators. End-user experience from non-HR users is routinely rated as very poor. |
| Manager and Employee Effectiveness Tools | Templates, embedded guides, 1-1s , and AI-enhanced tools to streamline processes and maximize impact | Requires use of workarounds and/or external developers to achieve similar capabilities. |
| Flexible Performance Reviews & Calibration | Configurable without coders, yet still adaptable to changing business needs, eliminating spreadsheets and manual processes for HR and people leaders. | Typically requires a bespoke build, that is time-consuming and costly to adjust. |
| Agile Goal Setting and Adjustment | Viewable across the company for greater transparency and alignment, goals can be updated through integrations with Jira, Salesforce, MS teams, Slack and more. | Only visible to the IC and manager, goals can only be updated within the workday platform leading to low utilization. |
| Superior Implementation and Support | Comprehensive support and streamlined implementation process, tailored to each organization’s needs. Configurable platform does not require coders to customize. | Often requires a workday-specific headcount with coding skills to maintain, in addition to third party contractors to support bespoke requirements. |
| Purpose-Built for Performance Management | As a best-in-class point solution for enterprise clients, Betterworks is constantly investing and innovating in its solution with bi-monthly updates. | Broader suite of offerings limits the time and investment of the product team in maintaining and updating performance solutions. |
| Advanced People & Performance Analytics | Embedded, built-for-purpose analytics module provides data-driven insights to help identify top performers, support DEI initiatives, and inform business strategy | Limited performance management analytics, typically hindered by insufficient or poor data due to low end user engagement. |
| Data Security & Compliance | Enterprise-grade security & compliance ensuring your sensitive data is protected from unauthorized access or disclosure. | Enterprise-grade security & compliance ensuring your sensitive data is protected from unauthorized access or disclosure. |
| Flexible Processes for Large Enterprises | Different Business Units and Departments can configure different processes, cadences, and templates which fit their needs. | Entire company must agree on one universal process, resulting in dissatisfied business units, end user frustration, and low utilization. |
* Assessment based on competitive research, surveys, and conversations with Workday users.
What Makes Betterworks Better
Seamless Implementation, Superior Support
Adopting Betterworks is simple. Easily integrate with your current HR tech with minimal disruption and maximum support, a Workday performance management alternative your IT staff will cheer.
Boost User Adoption with Intuitive Design
Betterworks’ user-friendly interface ensures high adoption rates across your organization, enhancing productivity and satisfaction.
Boost Performance and ROI in the Flow of Work
Betterworks integrates with the daily tools employees already use, making performance management a natural part of the daily workflow.
Leading Enterprises Trust Betterworks
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Monica Cabrera,
Manager of Corporate Strategy at Grupo Posadas
We are a global company, and our employee performance programs used to incorporate several different tolls and approaches. Our challenge was to unify all of our performance management activity within one system, and with Betterworks we have been able to do it in the simplest and smoothest way we could find.
Beatriz Henriquez,
Sr. Manager, Talent Echelon Wealth Partners
Betterworks has allowed us to manage our talent programs and initiatives through the appropriate technology, enabling accountability, transparency, insights around potential, coaching and engagement, and facilitating friendly user tools for feedback and recognition. Betterworks has become a book of records that tells the story of our employee’s journey of growth and development through Echelon.
Jeff Andes,
Vice President of Talent Management, University of Phoenix
Within a year we were seeing over 70% participation in check-ins, something we’ve never seen before. We’ve seen employees stay tightly connected with their leaders over this past year, which has led to greater success for the teams overall.
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