Workday Recruiters and Staffing Agencies: 11 Firms Compared

Agilysis's staffing case study, posted in November 2020, describes a Fortune 500 client whose implementation partner was moving its payroll from a legacy mainframe into Workday Payroll, with over 70 integrations for 25,000 employees in the US and Puerto Rico. Agilysis proposed staffing the project with contract-to-hire consultants and backfilling the client's own staff with temporary contractors. The client brought on 11 Workday consultants this way and later hired four of them as permanent employees.

The firm describes itself as an IT consulting firm providing advisory, managed services and staffing "exclusively in Workday", founded in 2015. Its contract staffing page (opens in a new tab) names Workday project managers, functional leads and technical leads, and it also offers contract-to-hire and direct hire. In March 2026 it announced a partnership agreement with Workday as a Workday Services Partner.

Most of Hale's five case studies describe several hires for one client. For a global retailer three months from go-live, it says it spoke to the client on a Friday and had four contractors start on the Monday, then placed Financials, integration and payroll consultants. For a large healthcare business support organization it reports 10 placements in just over a year to build an HRIS team. The clients are unnamed and the case pages carry no posted dates; the healthcare case refers to a January 2022 go-live. On its homepage, a talent acquisition director at a consulting organization says Hale placed over 20 Workday professionals with them in close to three years.

Hale describes itself as a Certified Workday Staffing Partner that supplies only Workday professionals, on contract and direct hire, plus AMS support. Its About page (opens in a new tab), checked in October 2026, reports 2,700+ Workday specialists placed with 800+ organizations across 37 US states, and says contract consultants can start within 24 hours. The firm was founded in 2019. Retained search, which its clients typically use for senior positions or hard-to-find candidates, includes video interviews of each candidate.

Sama's testimonials are attributed by role and type of organization. A director of HRIS at a Fortune 500 retailer says Sama supplied consultants for a complex payroll and benefits rollout, and a Workday program manager at a higher education institution describes consultants who helped meet aggressive project deadlines.

Its direct-hire page (opens in a new tab), checked in October 2026, sets out its terms in detail. It offers contingent or engaged (retained) search with a success-based fee, credits any retainer against that fee, invoices contingent searches on hire, and defines a replacement window in the statement of work. It expects a first shortlist of three calibrated candidates typically within one to two weeks, depending on the role. Its staff augmentation page (opens in a new tab) says it presents contract candidates within 48 to 72 hours.

The firm describes itself both as "100% focused on Workday staffing" and as a boutique consultancy for post-go-live Workday environments. Its homepage FAQ says it does not run full implementations as a consultancy, though its staff augmentation page says its consultants also support new implementations and module rollouts.

Workday Recruiters describes itself as an intentionally small boutique search firm that specializes in placing Workday professionals with US organizations of all sizes, with one consultant assigned to each client. It lists Workday consultants, functional consultants, developers and architects, pre- and post-sales consultants, project managers and trainers among the roles it fills, for permanent, part-time or contract work.

Its homepage and employers page name no client, placement or testimonial and publish no fees, so ask for references from searches like yours.

Alpha Apex Group says it recruits Workday professionals for implementation and ongoing management, matching technical skills and fit to the HR, finance and operational workflows the team supports. It describes technical interviews, scenario-based evaluations and cultural fit analysis, followed by onboarding support and regular check-ins after placement.

The page names no Workday client, placement or case and publishes no fees. The same client logos appear on the firm's homepage, without saying which engagements involved Workday.

GQR's Workday page, checked in October 2026, reports 400+ customers and 150+ projects supported, and an average of under 24 hours to deliver candidate profiles. Its testimonials are attributed by first name and title, without the employer. David, a director of business systems, says GQR "has consistently met our needs", for key internal roles and for contractors with niche skills, and Liam, an associate director, says GQR helped rebuild his team.

GQR describes itself as a Certified Staffing, Advisory, and Referral Partner of Workday that holds Implementor and Pro certifications. It says it can transfer and maintain Implementor certifications for independent consultants and Pro-certify customer-side staff, which matters if your project requires active certification. It staffs projects from the RFP and Phase 0 through Phase X, and recruits permanent HRIS directors, analysts, payroll managers and total rewards professionals. Workday is one of several practices; others cover healthcare, life sciences, technology, professional services and financial services.

KORE1's Workday page, checked in October 2026, says its recruiters fill most Workday roles in an average of 17 days from intake to signed offer, with a 92% one-year retention rate. Its Why KORE1 page (opens in a new tab) gives similar figures for the whole firm: a 92% 12-month retention rate and a 17-day average time-to-hire for IT roles. The Workday page names no Workday client or placement.

The page describes a 60 to 90 minute intake call and a certification check before candidates are submitted. Most HCM, Financials and developer roles get a shortlist in three to six business days, niche searches in one to three weeks, and KORE1 checks in at 30, 60 and 90 days after the start. Contract staff are employed on KORE1's W-2 with an option to convert. Workday is one desk in a national IT, engineering and finance staffing firm founded in 2005.

NewConfig lists full-time and contract staffing for Workday analysts, HCM specialists, conversion leads, managers, developers, consultants, benefits analysts, payroll staff and trainers. It describes a process that runs from the job specification through screening and a shortlist to interviews and offer management, with free advice and a free quote.

Its founder, Dmitry Nulman, a former certified SAP consultant, writes that his work with SAP, Salesforce, PeopleSoft, Oracle and Workday showed him how often recruiters miss whether a candidate can deliver. NewConfig recruits across executive, IT, legal, construction and finance roles, and the client list on its About page (opens in a new tab) covers the whole firm. No Workday client or placement is named on the pages read.

Named clients give the testimonials on Procom's Workday page: Sarah Clayton of Red Hat, Griffin Webster of the Alberta Energy Regulator and Jenn Furlano of PWC Companies. They praise its account management, vetting and responsiveness and do not mention Workday. Its firm-wide figures include 72 average hours to a shortlist for priority roles and a client NPS of +81. Its Workday FAQ, checked in October 2026, says it can often connect clients with Workday professionals within 24 to 48 hours.

The page covers Workday consultants, developers, integration specialists, analysts, project managers and administrators across HCM, Payroll, Financials and Recruiting, vetted through certification and skills checks, references and technical assessments. Procom is a broad IT staffing firm that also provides employer-of-record and agent-of-record services. Its homepage (opens in a new tab) says contract rates are hourly and direct-hire fees are percentage-based, with a cost breakdown that includes its margin; it publishes no rates or percentages.

The Planet Group's case studies include the country's largest customer-owned health insurer, which had just gone live on Workday when it acquired a company and began a second implementation. The case says the insurer's Big 4 implementation partner and Workday both recommended The Planet Group, which provided nine contract resources, four of them actively certified, across Core HCM, security, compensation, recruiting, reporting, integrations, learning and position management.

Its Workday page reports 2,000+ placements, nearly 300 customers supported and a 61% repeat-client rate, without saying whether these cover only Workday work. It describes the firm as a Workday Services Partner and "Workday's first global staffing and AMS partner across North America and Europe" since 2019. It describes a certified network of 400+ professionals and a mix of US-based and nearshore specialists. OmniPoint Staffing, an ERP staff augmentation firm, joined The Planet Group and now operates under that name (opens in a new tab). Workday is one practice in a firm that also staffs engineering, finance, creative and other roles.

Tier2Tek's homepage (opens in a new tab), checked in October 2026, publishes its terms: a direct-hire fee of 18% of the candidate's first-year base salary, no upfront fee, and a 90-day replacement guarantee subject to the recruiting agreement. Its Workday page, read in October 2026, said its recruiters assessed implementation history, production support experience, troubleshooting methods and configuration decisions, and listed the questions they put to candidates.

Tier2Tek recruits only for permanent positions, so it suits an internal Workday team; for project contractors, look at the other firms. The case examples and testimonials on the pages read cover CAD, cloud and IT support hiring; none describes a Workday placement.