Dictate in any app · HR
Performance reviews are the most-dreaded writing in corporate life, and Workday is where they happen. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Workday exactly where your cursor was.
This is a vendor guide from the makers of Typally. Anything we say about Workday is worth verifying — third-party features change without notice.None. Review text, goals and feedback boxes are typed.
Review season means every manager writing paragraphs about every report, all in the same fortnight, on top of their actual job. The result is vague, hedged text that helps nobody and takes hours to produce.
In practice people use it for: Performance review narratives, goal descriptions, feedback for colleagues, and justification text on requisitions.
There is no Workday extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
Windows or macOS build, signed in once.
Make sure Workday has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
Workday sessions time out and long forms can lose unsaved text. Save frequently when working through a long dictated review.
Typally types into review narratives, goal descriptions and feedback boxes, so a manager with nine reports can speak each review as if the person were sitting opposite. That framing keeps reviews concrete where typed ones drift into corporate abstraction. Employee data is confidential — check your HR and IT policy first.
A manager with nine direct reports blocks two hours in review season and talks through each one as if they were sitting opposite. The reviews are longer, more specific, and done in one sitting rather than four evenings.
Say what you would tell the person in a one-to-one, then edit for the record. Written-first reviews drift into corporate abstraction; spoken-first ones stay concrete.
Workday sessions time out and long forms can lose unsaved text. Save frequently when working through a long dictated review.
No. Every text field is typed.
Speak them as if talking to the person, then edit. The specificity that makes a review useful is what typing tends to remove.
Employee data is confidential and often subject to data protection law. Audio goes to a third-party service, so check your HR and IT policy first.
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