Sift, the people intelligence platform that gives organizations clearer visibility into their workforce through org charts and employee directories, today announced the launch of Sift Org Planning. The new capability lets HR leaders and business leaders build, compare, and share proposed org structures, starting from current, HRIS-synced data, before committing to a change, as organizations face simultaneous pressure from AI-driven role transformation, M&A acceleration, and the shift to skills-based workforce design.
Three forces are reshaping how organizations are designed in 2026. Artificial intelligence is eliminating and transforming roles faster than traditional job structures can accommodate, and many HR leaders don't have a clear picture of what their people can actually do to make confident redeployment decisions. M&A deal volume is accelerating, and the window between deal close and integration pressure is shrinking. Leading HR organizations have stopped planning around job titles and headcount, turning instead to skills and capabilities as the primary unit of organizational design.
These forces share a common gap: tools HR teams use to plan organizations weren't built for how work actually happens. Reorgs are modeled in PowerPoint slides that go stale the moment someone changes teams. Integration scenarios are built in spreadsheets disconnected from HR systems of record. Skills-based planning requires data that lives in multiple systems and a team of analysts to assemble into something actionable.
Sift Org Planning is built on Sift's org chart and connected to Sift's employee profiles. When planning a change, a planner can click from any person in a scenario into their full Sift profile, including skills, experience, and current projects, without leaving the plan, bringing context inside the planning experience.
Every Scenario starts from a copy of current org chart, kept separate from live org chart, so plans are built on current data rather than static export. Capabilities include Scenario Management to create multiple scenarios from existing data or blank canvas with co-editing, Drag-and-Drop Editor where people and positions move together, Create New Nodes for net-new positions for M&A and hiring-surge planning, Import Live Data from Workday, UKG, CSV or ATS integrations, The Bench to hold employees for later placement, Scenario Summary with automated rollups of headcount and compensation impact, Change History logging every edit, and Commenting to flag issues like skills gap directly in context.
Sift Org Planning gives HR leaders a shared, confidential canvas where CHROs, HR business partners, and business leaders can visualize and shape proposed changes together in real time. A head of engineering can see how consolidation affects their function, finance can watch labor cost shift as changes are made, and HR can flag skills gaps before announcement, without risk of premature announcement or version-controlled PowerPoint chain.
The foundation matters as much as the features. Sift holds certified integration partnerships with Workday, UKG and Microsoft, ensuring every scenario starts from current, accurate people data rather than manual export.
About Sift
Sift is the people intelligence platform that shows organizations how they actually work — who knows what, how teams connect, and where talent lives. Sift's live org chart, employee directory, skills-enriched profiles, and org planning capability give HR leaders and their organizations a single, always-current picture of their workforce, built to complement the HRIS systems they already run. Sift serves mid-market and enterprise organizations and holds certified integration partnerships with Workday, UKG and Microsoft.
