HRIS API

Employees

Companies

Departments

Payrolls

Employee Payrolls

Employee Schedules

Time Off Requests

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Workday APIs (REST/SOAP/Graph overview)

Concept: ISU Authentication

Reference: Integrations and Web Service Limits

Partner Program Overview

HR & Organization (HRIS)

Recruiting (ATS)

Accounts Receivable (Accounting)

Accounts Payable & Spend (Accounting)

General Ledger & Reference Data (Accounting)

edge-case

Birth Date

Company ID

Company name

compensation

Country code according to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

Country Code

The date and time when the object was created.

Created at (timestamp)

Created by

medium

When custom mappings are configured on the resource, the result is included here.

Deceased Date

Flag to indicate if the object is deleted.

Deleted

The department the person is currently in. [Deprecated](https://developers.apideck.com/changelog) in favor of the dedicated department_id and department_name field.

Department

Unique identifier of the department ID this employee belongs to.

Department ID

Name of the department this employee belongs to.

Department Name

Description

Indicate the employee's dietary preference.

Dietary preference

Direct reports is an array of ids that reflect the individuals in an organizational hierarchy who are directly supervised by this specific employee.

Direct reports

The name used to display the employee, often a combination of their first and last names.

Display name

The division the person is currently in. Usually a collection of departments or teams or regions.

Division

Unique identifier of the division this employee belongs to.

Division ID

The third-party API ID of original entity

An Employee Number, Employee ID or Employee Code, is a unique number that has been assigned to each individual staff member within a company.

Employee number

An End Date is the date that the employee ended working at the company

Employee end date

Employment sub type

The type of employment relationship the employee has with the organization.

Employment type

A Start Date is the date that the employee started working at the company

Employee start date

The employment status of the employee, indicating whether they are currently employed, inactive, terminated, or in another status.

Employment status

First name

Food allergies

The gender represents the gender identity of a person.

Gender

The initials of the person, usually derived from their first, middle, and last names.

Initials

critical

language code according to ISO 639-1. For the United States - EN

Last name

Email address

The name of the manager, often a combination of their first and last names.

Manager name

Marital status

Middle name

The nationality of the person, represented as a two-letter country code according to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

Nationality

Person

The pass_through property allows passing service-specific, custom data or structured modifications in request body when creating or updating resources.

Photo URL

The name the employee prefers to be addressed by, which may be different from their legal name.

Preferred name

The date that the employee ended their probation period at the company.

Probation end date

The date that the employee started their probation period at the company.

Probation start date

Probation period

Pronouns

Record URL

A binary value used to detect updates to a object and prevent data conflicts. It is incremented each time an update is made to the object.

Row version

A formal salutation for the person. For example, 'Mr', 'Mrs'

A unique identifier assigned by the government. This field is considered sensitive information and may be subject to special security and privacy restrictions.

Social Security Number

When the employee is imported as a new hire, this field indicates what system (e.g. the name of the ATS) this employee was imported from.

Source

Unique identifier of the employee in the system this employee was imported from (e.g. the ID in the ATS).

Source ID

Tax Code

Tax ID

The time zone related to the resource. The value is a string containing a standard time zone identifier, e.g. Europe/London.

Timezone

Job title

The date and time when the object was last updated.

Updated at (timestamp)

Updated by

Indicates if the employee works from a remote location.

Remote

An Company Number, Company ID or Company Code, is a unique number that has been assigned to each company.

Company number

Indicates the associated currency for an amount of money. Values correspond to [ISO 4217](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217).

Currency

UNKNOWN_CURRENCY

Code

Name

Accounting API

Invoices

Bills

Suppliers

Purchase Orders

Customers

Tax Rates

Bill Payments

Payments

Journal Entries

Subsidiaries

Invoice Items

Ledger Accounts

Bank Accounts

Projects

Attachments

Expenses

ATS API

Applicants

Jobs

To avoid request timeouts when fetching all employees, it's recommended to use a limit of 20. Workday can return large amounts of data per employee, and requests exceeding 30 seconds will timeout with an "Endpoint request timed out" error.

Job Level (e.g., Junior, Intermediate, Senior, Principal) is exposed as a custom field `Job_Level_ID` on the Get Employee response only — not on List Employees. It is sourced from a separate `Get_Job_Profiles` SOAP call against Workday's Staffing service and merged into the response.

Job Level is omitted when the worker's job profile does not define `Job_Level_Reference` in Workday (configured per profile), or when the connection's Integration System User does not have access to the Staffing web service. Other custom fields and the rest of the response are unaffected in either case.

This enrichment is intentionally not performed on List Employees to avoid an extra SOAP call per worker.


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Task	You (Customer)	Your Consumer	Apideck
Create Integration System User (ISU)	—	✓	Instructions provided
Create Security Group	—	✓	Instructions provided
Grant Domain Permissions	—	✓	Required domains documented
Activate Security Policy Changes	—	✓	Instructions provided
Provide Credentials	—	✓	Secure connection form
Build via Unified API	✓	—	Maintains connector
Monitor Connections	✓ Via Dashboard	Can revoke by disabling ISU	Logs & alerts

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