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Landing Platform vs Workday: HR without the enterprise build
Workday HCM is built for large organisations, and its midsize package, Workday GO, is designed for 500 to 3,500 employees. Landing gives a growing team records, leave, rota, timesheets and reviews, joined to projects, clients and invoices, and we set it up with you.
Landing suits you if
- You are well under 500 people and growing
- You want to go live in weeks, set up with you
- You want HR joined to the work and the money
Where enterprise HR gets heavy.
Workday is powerful. It is built for a much bigger company than yours.
Sized for the enterprise
Its midsize package is designed and priced for 500 to 3,500 employees. Below that, you are buying for a company you are not yet.
An implementation project
Workday advises budgeting for setup, training and data migration on top of the subscription.
The client work sits outside
Projects, CRM, marketing and client billing are still other systems your people log into.
Landing Platform vs Workday, line by line.
Landing covers the people work a growing team needs, and joins it to everything else.
| Feature | Landing Platform |  Workday |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Builders for the people who run it every day; everyone else is a Member, at £4 to £9 a month | Subscription, contact sales |
| Getting started | Set up with you and moved one tool a month; billing starts when it is proven ready | Implementation with setup, training and data migration |
| Records and org chart | One record per person: role, manager, contract, documents and emergency contacts, with an org chart that draws itselfCore | Core HR |
| Time off | Balances, carryover, bank holidays and part-time patterns per person, approved in one click from the email, and approved leave lands on the timesheet by itselfCore | Time and absence tracking |
| Shift rota and clock-in | Rota per branch with open shifts, swaps, kiosk PIN clock-in and UK Working Time checks, including the 17-week averageCore | Check with Workday |
| Reviews, progression and pay | Reviews, goals and pay bands, and progression plans that apply the promotion and pay rise when every goal is metGrowth | Performance and development |
| Timesheets | Filled overnight from each person's Outlook calendar, with approvals and reminders that go out on their ownCore | Time tracking |
| Hours to profit | Real salaries cost every hour worked, so margin per client, project and person is read off the pageGrowth | Not included |
| Projects and capacity | Boards, Gantt, capacity and workloads, using each person's own working weekCore | Not included |
| CRM, quotes and invoices | Contacts, deals, quotes with e-signature, and invoices from hours, milestones or retainersCore | Not included |
| Single sign-on and audit log | IncludedScale | Included |
Plan tags show where a feature starts on Landing: Core, Growth or Scale. Workday details reflect its publicly available plans as of 2026; check current details on its own site.
What it costs, side by side.
Workday is sold by subscription through its sales team, with implementation on top. Landing publishes its price: Builders for the few who run it, Members for everyone else.
Workday, as it lists it
How Workday is sold, as its public pages describe it.
And still to buy separately: projects, client timesheets, a CRM and invoicing.
a month on Landing, billed yearly, ex VAT
Includes HR records, leave, rota, timesheets, reviews and pay bands, progression plans, projects, profit per client, CRM and dashboards.
Work out your own priceExample company: four people who run HR, finance and operations every day, one hundred and sixteen who book leave, log time and approve. No marketing contacts. Single sign-on and a full audit log come on Scale. Credits for AI, SMS and lookups come from a shared pool each Builder adds to.
Switching is our job, not yours.
We move you over one tool a month, against success criteria we agree with you up front. You don't pay until we prove each one is ready.
We map how you run people today
Records, policies, approval routes and reports. We agree what "ready" means before you commit.
We move your people across
We move your data as part of the switch: records, history, balances and documents, checked before anyone books leave.
You sign it off
Billing starts only once it meets the criteria you set. Then we move the next tool, one a month.
But Workday is the safe choice.
Fair. Here are the questions growing teams ask us when they weigh it up.
Will Landing pass our security review?
Named access profiles, enforceable two-factor sign-in, audit trails on every signature, UK GDPR controls and a published list of sub-processors. Single sign-on and a full audit log come on Scale.
How long does it take to go live?
We move one tool a month against criteria you agree up front, and billing starts only when each switch is proven ready. No year-long project.
Can Landing handle several companies in a group?
Yes. Several brands run from one account, each with its own logo, domains and emails, and separate legal entities are on Scale.
Who counts as a Member?
Anyone who books leave, logs time, approves and sees dashboards without working in Landing all day, from £4 a month.
Checking holiday allowances?
Use the free holiday entitlement calculator for full-time and part-time staff.
“We were running PR, social scheduling and the rest of our marketing across half a dozen tools that never talked. Now we plan, schedule and measure from a single screen.”
HR your size, joined to everything else.
Thirty minutes on your own setup, with your price worked out before you hang up.