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Migrate from Workday HCM to Rippling with a structured data transfer that preserves workforce records and ensures payroll continuity from day one.
A Workday HCM-to-Rippling migration moves the system of record from Workday to Rippling, transferring employee records, payroll history, org hierarchy, and HR configurations to Rippling's platform. This migration is common in mid-market organizations that adopted Workday at enterprise scale and are now right-sizing their HR tech stack, or in subsidiaries spun out from larger enterprises that no longer have Workday licensing.
The migration preserves the workforce data and configurations that HR and payroll teams depend on while enabling Rippling's broader capabilities — IT provisioning, app management, and workflow automation — that Workday doesn't offer at mid-market price points.
Workday migrations are underestimated in scope because Workday's data model is complex and its export formats don't map cleanly to Rippling's templates without transformation. Teams that attempt Workday migrations without a data mapping workbook routinely discover data gaps at go-live that delay payroll cutover by weeks.
thePeopleStack runs Workday HCM-to-Rippling migrations with a structured extraction, transformation, and validation process. We build data mapping workbooks for employee records, compensation history, and benefits configurations, and run parallel payroll before cutover. Our experience with Workday's export formats reduces the transformation work that typically extends these projects.
Workday HCM migrations for thePeopleStack clients typically involve US payroll and HR as the primary migration scope.
Canadian and cross-border operations: for organizations with Canadian employees on Workday, we configure Rippling's Canadian payroll — CRA setup, TD1 forms, provincial configurations — as part of the same migration project, rather than treating Canada as a follow-on phase.
A Workday HCM migration typically takes 6–12 weeks depending on record volume, payroll complexity, and benefits configuration scope. Organizations with international employees or complex org hierarchies should plan for the longer end of this range.
Core transfer includes employee records, payroll history, compensation configurations, benefits elections, time-off balances, org hierarchy, and HR documents. Workday's custom objects and calculated fields require manual mapping to Rippling equivalents.
Mid-market companies migrate from Workday to Rippling primarily because of cost and complexity. Workday is built for enterprise scale; at mid-market headcounts, the per-employee cost and configuration overhead outweighs the platform's capabilities. Rippling provides comparable HR and payroll features at lower TCO, plus IT provisioning and app management that Workday doesn't offer.
Rippling provides migration support and templates for Workday migrations. Given Workday's complex data model, implementation partners like thePeopleStack typically build custom data mapping workbooks to handle the transformation between Workday's export formats and Rippling's import templates.
Yes. Organizations often migrate Workday HCM to Rippling while retaining Workday Recruiting, configuring an ongoing integration between the two systems for new hire data flow. This is covered in detail on the Workday Recruiting integration page.
