Headquarters
Chicago, ILFounded
2012CEO / Founder
Jake PhillpotEmployees
51-200Funding
BootstrappedProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.5/10Website
www.workforce.com/Profile updated
Workforce.com is a workforce management software company headquartered in Chicago, with additional offices in Australia, the United Kingdom, and Southeast Asia. Originally founded in 2012 in Brisbane, Australia as Tanda by Josh Cameron, Jake Phillpot, Tasmin Trezise, and Alex Ghiculescu, the company rebranded to Workforce.com in 2019 after acquiring Human Capital Media's Workforce publication, an industry HR journal with roots dating to 1922.
The company's platform integrates employee scheduling with AI-driven labor forecasting, time and attendance tracking, payroll processing with automated tax compliance, and HR management functions including onboarding, HRIS, performance management, and applicant tracking. The platform serves more than 6,000 customers across approximately 80 countries in 10 languages, targeting shift-based workforces in hospitality, retail, healthcare, and care industries.
Workforce.com is independently owned and was built without significant external funding, growing through organic revenue from a bootstrapped base. The company employs approximately 51 to 200 people globally and continues to operate Tanda as a separate Australian entity in the domestic market while marketing internationally under the Workforce.com brand. According to a Forrester study cited by the company, customers report a 5% improvement in labor efficiency and an 80% reduction in time spent on employee scheduling.
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Who Workforce.com competes with, and how they differ.
Also Australian-founded and targets the same hourly-shift scheduling, time-and-attendance and labor-compliance niche across retail, hospitality and healthcare -- a direct head-to-head rival rather than an adjacent product.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedUKG's Workforce Central/Dimensions products (from the Kronos lineage) serve large enterprises' time, attendance and labor-compliance needs -- genuine overlap with Workforce.com's compliance engine, but sold as part of a much larger enterprise HCM suite rather than a scheduling-first product for hourly teams.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedPurpose-built for restaurants, bundling shift scheduling, tip pooling and labor-cost tracking specifically for hospitality operators -- overlaps with Workforce.com's hospitality vertical but without its retail/healthcare breadth.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedFocuses on shift-based team scheduling and messaging for hourly/deskless workforces, with a lighter built-in payroll and labor-law layer than Workforce.com -- competes mainly on ease-of-use for smaller multi-location businesses.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedTargets large enterprise retail and QSR chains with AI-driven demand forecasting and scheduling, competing most directly with Workforce.com's AI-forecasting features but aimed at bigger operators at a higher price point.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedBundles scheduling, time tracking and basic payroll for small, single/few-location hourly businesses -- competes with Workforce.com mainly at the small-business end rather than its larger multi-location retail/healthcare accounts.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedKey milestones in Workforce.com's history, with sources.
Tanda invests AU$3.6M in ASX-listed Xref Limited via placement
Via investment vehicle EPICapital, Tanda committed to a placement of 27.9 million Xref (ASX:XF1) ordinary shares at AU$0.13 each -- about AU$3.6 million -- a 4% premium to Xref's last close before its March 20, 2025 trading halt.
itiger.comWins UDRP domain dispute filed by Workforce Software
Workforce Software (operator of WorkforceSoftware.com) filed a UDRP cybersquatting complaint over the Workforce.com domain -- by then repurposed by Tanda from an HR-news publication into its own workforce-management software -- and lost, as reported by Domain Name Wire.
domainnamewire.comAcquires Human Capital Media, takes over the Workforce.com domain and brand
Tanda, the Brisbane-based time-and-attendance and scheduling company, acquired Chicago's Human Capital Media -- publisher of the long-running Workforce magazine, Chief Learning Officer and Talent Economy -- and retained HCM's former Workforce brand and domain, which the software company has operated under as Workforce.com since.
chieflearningofficer.comFounded as Tanda in Brisbane, Australia
Josh Cameron and university friends founded the company as Tanda in Brisbane to help manage hourly employees, building scheduling and time-and-attendance software with no external funding before expanding to the US in 2019 under the Workforce.com name.
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