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.

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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.

01

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
EcoVadis Committed Badge
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 complement our global HCM, payroll, and time and attendance systems?
Workforce Operations Layer. Global HCM platforms typically manage core employee and organisational data, while payroll and time and attendance systems focus on work-time records and payroll inputs. GaiaWorks adds the workforce operating layer for demand planning, scheduling, attendance, labour cost allocation, workforce rules, and frontline workflows. It can be configured for different APAC markets, entities, sites, employee groups, and policies while working alongside your existing HR and payroll landscape.
Is GaiaWorks suitable for large, distributed, labour-intensive, or shift-based workforces?
Designed for Operational Complexity. GaiaWorks is suited to organisations with large, distributed, labour-intensive, or shift-based operations. It supports industries such as retail, manufacturing, luxury, hospitality, logistics, and property and facility management, where staffing decisions affect service levels, production capacity, labour costs, or compliance.
Can GaiaWorks integrate with SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, payroll, and other enterprise systems?
Enterprise Integration. Yes. GaiaWorks can work alongside enterprise HCM, payroll, finance, point-of-sale, collaboration, and identity systems. Typical data exchanges include employee and organisational records, schedules, attendance, calculated time, labour costs, and payroll-ready outputs. The integration approach is defined around your systems, data model, access controls, and regional operating requirements.
What APAC workforce management requirements can GaiaWorks support?
Configurable APAC Workforce Rules. GaiaWorks supports configurable rules for working time, public holidays, rest periods, overtime, leave, allowances, approvals, and company policies. Rules can be applied by market, entity, location, employee group, or work arrangement, helping regional teams manage local operating requirements while maintaining appropriate governance across the organisation.
How does GaiaWorks support enterprise security and workforce data governance?
Security and Governance for Enterprise Review. GaiaWorks supports role-based access, approval workflows, integration controls, and auditable workforce records. Security and assurance information available for enterprise review includes SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, and ISO/IEC 27018 certifications, together with sustainability-related recognition such as the EcoVadis Committed Badge.
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