AI-POWERED WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT

Workforce management software for complex APAC operations

GaiaWorks helps enterprises forecast labour demand, build smarter schedules, manage time and attendance, control labour costs, and support frontline teams across APAC.

Frontline retail associate using a mobile device
1,800+Enterprise customers
7M+End users
34Countries and regions supported
15+Years of WFM experience
Retail manager reviewing workforce operations

WHO WE ARE

Built for the work behind every shift

Founded in 2009, GaiaWorks provides workforce management software and services for organisations with large, distributed, and operationally complex workforces. Our customers use GaiaWorks to plan workforce demand, build and adjust schedules, capture and calculate working time, allocate labour costs, and connect frontline workflows with the systems that support their operations.

WHAT WE HELP ENTERPRISES MANAGE

From workforce demand to daily workforce decisions

Workforce management is not one process. It connects the questions operations, HR, finance, and frontline managers need answered every day.

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How many people do we need, when and where?

Forecast labour demand by time period, location, and role using demand signals such as sales, footfall, orders, bookings, call volumes, or production plans.

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02

How can we build schedules around staffing requirements?

Create and adjust schedules by matching labour demand with employee availability, skills, roles, and locations, while taking account of working-time rules, rest periods, employee preferences, and fair shift allocation.

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03

How can we track actual hours worked and labour costs?

Record attendance, calculate hours worked, manage exceptions, and allocate labour hours and costs by location, department, project, or cost centre.

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04

How can we improve staffing decisions using workforce and operational data?

Compare planned and actual hours, labour costs, coverage, and business outcomes to refine demand forecasts, labour demand, and schedules while maintaining fair and workable shift patterns.

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THE PLATFORM

A workforce operations layer for enterprise systems

GaiaWorks works alongside enterprise HCM, payroll, and operational systems. It adds the specialised workforce capabilities needed to plan demand, schedule teams, manage working time, understand labour costs, and support frontline execution.

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Smart Scheduling

Forecast demand, create practical rosters, manage shift changes, and give managers visibility into coverage, skills, and configured workforce rules.

Time & Attendance

Capture working time, manage exceptions, calculate time-related results, and produce payroll-ready data for downstream systems.

Labour Cost Visibility & Allocation

Allocate verified time and labour costs by store, project, department, location, contract, job code, or cost centre.

Workforce Analytics

Bring planned and actual labour, overtime, attendance exceptions, workforce costs, and operational signals into reporting and decision-making workflows.

Frontline Workforce Experience

Give employees access to schedules, availability, requests, shift changes, attendance information, and approvals through mobile-first workflows.

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APAC WORKFORCE OPERATIONS

Designed for local operating realities across APAC

Multi-market workforce operations are rarely managed through one standard rule set. Working-time arrangements, public holidays, rest-day treatment, overtime policies, leave rules, approval flows, languages, and payroll interfaces can vary by market, entity, site, and employee group.

Configurable workforce rules

Configure time, scheduling, leave, overtime, allowance, rest-period, and company-policy rules by entity, employee group, location, or work arrangement.

Operational control

Help managers identify exceptions, coverage gaps, scheduling conflicts, and time-related issues before they become larger operational problems.

Enterprise governance

Use role-based access, approval workflows, integration controls, and auditable workforce records to support enterprise review and governance.

CUSTOMER EVIDENCE

Selected customer outcomes

Operational improvements reported by individual GaiaWorks customers.

Alfa Laval70%

reduction in time and attendance processing time

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Global QSR customer75%

less time spent on weekly scheduling administration

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Discount supermarket chain92%

reported gain in scheduling efficiency

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CUSTOMERS

Trusted by enterprises across APAC

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PARTNERSHIPS & INTEGRATIONS

Fit workforce operations into your technology landscape

GaiaWorks connects workforce data and workflows with the enterprise HCM, payroll, finance, point-of-sale, and operational systems already used across your organisation.

Enterprise system connectors

Connect workforce planning, schedules, calculated time data, and payroll-ready outputs with the systems around them.

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SECURITY AND GOVERNANCE

Security and governance for enterprise review

Workforce data is operationally sensitive. GaiaWorks works with customers to review the controls, responsibilities, and deployment requirements relevant to their operating context.

Security credentials

Independent standards and assurance information available for enterprise review.

SOC 2 Type II
ISO/IEC 27001
ISO/IEC 27017
ISO/IEC 27018
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EcoVadis Committed BadgeRecognition for sustainability management.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Common questions about GaiaWorks

For organisations evaluating workforce management software across APAC.

How does GaiaWorks compare with global HCM, WFM, and time and attendance systems?
Global HCM platforms manage core employee and organisational data. Time and attendance systems focus on recording work time and producing payroll inputs. GaiaWorks addresses the workforce operating layer between them: workforce planning, scheduling, attendance, labour cost allocation, workforce rules, and frontline workflows. For organisations operating across APAC, GaiaWorks can be configured for different market, entity, site, employee-group, and policy requirements while integrating with the wider HR and payroll landscape.
Which industries and workforce sizes are best suited to GaiaWorks?
GaiaWorks is designed for organisations with distributed, shift-based, or workforce-intensive operations. It is used across retail, manufacturing, luxury, hospitality, logistics, property and facility management, and other service sectors where staffing decisions affect service levels, production capacity, labour costs, or compliance. GaiaWorks supports more than 1,800 enterprise customers and 7 million workforce users across 34 countries. Selected customers include Eaton, Alfa Laval, Swire Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Schneider Electric, Shiseido, CapitaLand, DFI Retail Group, Mannings, and J&T Express.
Can GaiaWorks integrate with SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, payroll, and existing HR systems?
Yes. GaiaWorks is designed to integrate with enterprise HCM, HR, payroll, finance, point-of-sale, collaboration, and identity systems. Typical data exchanges include employee and organisational records, schedules, attendance, calculated time, and payroll-ready outputs. The integration design is agreed around data ownership, approval requirements, security controls, and local operating processes. GaiaWorks supports ecosystem connections including SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle, ADP, Microsoft Teams, Lark, DingTalk, and WeCom.
Why choose GaiaWorks for workforce management across APAC?
GaiaWorks is suited to organisations that need to manage workforce operations across multiple APAC markets, entities, sites, or employee groups. The platform brings scheduling, working time, labour costs, workforce rules, and frontline workflows into one operating model. It combines local configuration with enterprise governance and integration capability. This helps organisations maintain common standards where appropriate while accommodating the practical differences in local labour rules, calendars, approvals, payroll interfaces, and operating practices.
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