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Last Updated: 2026-02-06
Forecast Labor Demand

Forecast Labor Demand

Administrators and managers can forecast labor demand for a week. They can also modify the forecast manually when needed.
  1. Access the
    Schedule Workers
     report.
  2. From the scheduling organization picker, select an organization for which you’ve already uploaded metrics.
  3. Access the
    Forecast
     tab.
  4. Click
    Edit Metric Forecast
     to manually update metric forecasts.
  5. Click
    Generate Labor Demand
     to add labor demand values based on your forecast.
  6. Click the
    Review Labor Demand
     button to review the labor demand values that Workday populated.
  7. Click
    Save
     to save changes.
Access the
Schedule
 tab to generate a schedule that meets the labor demand Workday generated.