Dayforce unveils AI-driven workforce planning with Agentnoon integration
Dayforce has launched Strategic Workforce Planning, an AI-driven tool that folds Agentnoon's planning platform into the Dayforce ecosystem. The goal: give HR teams a faster, collaborative way to connect headcount, skills, and cost to business outcomes inside a single data model.
"Dayforce Strategic Workforce Planning meets the moment - arming leaders with an easy-to-use, collaborative tool to anticipate change, sharpen decisions, and drive returns," said Joe Korngiebel, Chief Strategy, Product & Technology Officer at Dayforce.
The release follows Dayforce's acquisition of Agentnoon, a move aimed at replacing fragmented spreadsheets and ad-hoc models with a shared, live view of workforce data. The result is a simpler planning experience without sacrificing rigor.
What HR leaders can do with it
- Compress planning cycles: move from weeks of manual processing to minutes with live workforce and cost data.
- Model scenarios: forecast hiring, attrition, reskilling, and cost trade-offs across locations, orgs, and time horizons.
- Align HR, Finance, and the business: build shared plans that tie roles, skills, and budgets to targets.
- Use conversational interactions: speed up what-if analysis, reporting, and collaboration across teams.
- Plan across all worker types: permanent, contingent, and gig workers in one model.
Why this matters for HR, Finance, and IT
CHROs get a clearer view of skills needed for AI adoption, automation, and expansion into new markets, with the ability to act on gaps faster. CFOs can link workforce decisions directly to financial outcomes with up-to-date forecasts and scenario modeling. CIOs benefit from consolidation-fewer integrations, faster time-to-value, and consistent data governance.
Agentnoon's impact
"Agentnoon recognised the key to unlocking successful organisational transformation: modern, intelligent workforce planning," said Ali Nawab, Founder and CEO of Agentnoon. "We are incredibly proud to embed our tooling within the Dayforce suite and scale."
Customer feedback mirrors that focus on clarity and speed. "Agentnoon helps leaders see the consequences of their decision in real-time - in an intuitive, visual, and collaborative way," said Eric Cornu, Head of Organisational Design and Change Management at Nestlé.
30-day playbook to capture value
- Audit your data: confirm a single source of truth for headcount, comp, skills, locations, and cost centers.
- Define 3 core scenarios: base plan, efficiency plan, and growth plan with clear hiring, attrition, and reskilling assumptions.
- Map cost drivers: salary, benefits, contractor rates, onboarding, and productivity ramp times.
- Set a skills view: define critical skills for AI, automation, and priority roles; tag them across jobs.
- Create planning guardrails: approval workflows, scenario versioning, and audit trails.
- Run a pilot: pick one function or region, test assumptions, and compare plan vs. actual monthly.
- Train planners: standardize templates, naming, and reporting to reduce rework.
- Track 5 metrics: time-to-plan, variance to budget, vacancy time, internal mobility rate, and skills coverage.
Questions to ask before rollout
- How does the tool source, clean, and synchronize workforce and financial data?
- Can we model permanent, contingent, and gig labor in one scenario with consistent costing?
- What controls exist for approvals, versioning, and audit history?
- How are assumptions documented and compared across scenarios?
- Are APIs available to feed plans into HRIS, ERP, and analytics tools?
- What privacy, security, and compliance standards are supported?
Availability
Dayforce Strategic Workforce Planning is available now as part of the Dayforce platform, integrating planning with where you already store workforce data and make key decisions. Learn more at Dayforce.
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