Governed Workhuman Reference Architecture

Overview

Define explicit authority, trust, data, financial, and recovery boundaries so Workhuman complements rather than silently replaces HCM and customer systems.

Prerequisites

• Tenant products, program goals, systems inventory, data classes, regions, and owners
• Current Workhuman and customer implementation contracts
• Service levels, retention, financial-control, incident, continuity, and audit requirements

Tool Discipline

Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inspect system topology and contracts, WebFetch for current first-party context, and Write or Edit for diagrams, decision records, mappings, and redacted evidence.

Current Contract

Workhuman publicly positions Workday as authority for foundational and organizational worker data in its certified integration, with Workhuman managing recognition and rewards. It also provides workplace integrations and an open API. Exact customer boundaries, routes, fields, schedules, and capabilities remain contract-specific.