Workday Just Gave HR Teams 300 AI Skills for Free — Here's What That Means

Workday just shipped over 300 AI skills for HR teams and didn't charge a dollar extra. The new Sana Self-Service Agent handles employee self-service — benefits questions, PTO requests, pay slips, personal info updates — through a single conversational interface that actually takes action, not just answers FAQs. In this episode, we dig into what this really means for HR teams, plus two other features worth knowing about: Workday's new fraudulent application detection (a direct response to the AI application flood hitting recruiters in 2026), and a Performance Agent in early access that drafts manager reviews based on real-time contribution signals. The bigger picture here is a platform shift. Workday is betting that agentic HR is no longer a premium add-on — it's becoming the baseline expectation bundled into the core subscription.