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Human Resources
News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
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How Payday Super Can Help You Build a Truly Strategic Payroll Function
If you're a CFO or CHRO for an organisation that employs Australian workers, the new Payday Super legislation coming into effect in 2026 represents a critical inflection point, not just a compliance deadline.
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Top Features to Look for in HR Software for Small Businesses
Small business HR teams often operate lean, but they face the same challenges as any enterprise when keeping pace with modern workforce demands. HR software built with SMBs in mind is the solution.
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The Top 5 Human Resource Management Challenges for 2026
The HR function has become a source of strategic guidance for decisions in every part of the business. But the elevated role also comes with new challenges—learn how to solve them below.
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Winning Workplace Communication Strategies
By empowering leaders to personalize and contextualize information, HR teams can bridge the gap between leadership and employees, transforming a reactive tactic into a measurable business strategy.
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How to Address Top Frontline Worker Challenges
Frontline workers make up the majority of the global workforce, but they often feel less supported than office-based peers. Leaders must act with empathy to address the challenges frontline teams face head-on.
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Future Professions You Need to Skill Up For
The world of work is changing fast. To succeed, leading organizations and future-ready professionals are making a commitment to upskilling and lifelong learning to prepare for new jobs and skills requirements of the future.
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From Rotary Phones to Agentic AI: Is Your Workforce Ready for Gen Alpha?
New research offers insights into how CHROs can leverage the combined skills of five generations to boost productivity.
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Charting a Course: How Two HR Leaders at JLL Are Steering AI-Driven Talent Strategies
JLL's HR leaders, Megan Kleinick and Jane Curran, are strategically integrating AI to enhance employee experience and efficiency, emphasizing strong processes and data quality. They use AI-driven recruitment to manage high applicant volumes and are leaning into generative AI tools and personalized AI agents for various HR functions.
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L&D and HR Leaders Architecting a Skills-First Future of Work
Discover how L&D and HR leaders are architecting a skills-first future of work, focusing on the strategies and challenges involved in this transformation.
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Crafting Your Future-Ready Workforce
Change is happening fast, and organizations must reskill, redesign, and meet the moment—or be at risk of falling behind. With competing priorities running rampant, these three key areas can help build a future-ready workforce of tomorrow.
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The Future of the Workforce as We See It
Today’s workforce is changing in unprecedented ways. Leaders that adapt now can capture opportunities that attract top talent and position their organizations to succeed in the future.
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How JLL is Creating a Culture of Innovation with Humans at its Heart
Ajay Pimpalshende, HR transformation leader at JLL Technology, shares his five principles for fostering a culture of innovation in an AI-powered workplace.
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What Is the Impact of AI on Future Jobs?
The future of AI in the workplace is collaborative for humans and AI. As traditional roles and workflows become more automated, new opportunities are emerging for human workers to use AI tools.
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Workday Recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises
Workday has been recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises. This is the 10th consecutive year we've been recognized as a Leader in this report, and we believe it’s a reflection of our commitment to constantly transform and meet the needs of our customers.
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New Research Signals a Talent Drain Hiding in Plain Sight
We’ve gathered insights from the Workday platform to understand the current state of the workforce. What we found points to a triple threat for talent retention, and leaders can’t afford to ignore this workforce signal.
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How a Skills-Based Approach Unlocks Talent Mobility and Agility
AI is fundamentally challenging old paradigms of success. To realize its potential, we first need to enable our people to be their best selves in all facets of work.
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Candidate Assessment Tools: What to Look For
When competition for talent is fierce, every hiring decision matters. An effective candidate assessment tool delivers precise, skills-focused insights that help teams choose the right people with confidence.
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How Club Med's Leaders Cultivate Happiness Through Connection and Innovation
Club Med provides luxury all-inclusive vacations in global locations, with a focus on delivering personalized experiences through a diverse international staff. They prioritize both guest and employee happiness, using digital tools to optimize staffing and streamline services.
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Accountability in Action: Empowering Managers to Drive Performance
Creating a workforce of high performers is about more than regular check-ins and AI-powered tools; it’s about empowering managers to elevate their team members. With the right mix of priorities, and the permission to focus on developing themselves and their teams, managers will create a culture of high clarity, transparency, trust, and coaching.
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What the Future of HR Management Looks Like
The future of work is evolving rapidly, and HR is leading the charge. As skill needs shift with advances in AI and automation, HR leaders are adopting agile strategies to prepare their workforces for what’s next.
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How a Non-Traditional Career Path Gave Hungry Jack's CHRO an 'On-the-Job MBA'
Jenny McKie, Chief People Officer at beloved Australian restaurant chain Hungry Jack's, shares why she's challenging the traditional norms of career progression.
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The Top Employee Engagement KPIs to Measure
Employee engagement drives productivity, retention, and innovation—but it remains invisible without the right metrics. To make engagement an advantage, HR leaders need the right engagement KPI to turn insights into strategic action.
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Workday CEO and Chief People Officer on Leading Through Disruption
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach and Chief People Officer Ashley Goldsmith sit down with Chief Learning Officer Chris Ernst to discuss the changing role of leadership amidst the rise of AI, where one central truth emerged: It’s never been more important to have a values-driven, human-centric company.
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Elevating HR Management: The Skills You Need for Influence and Impact
The key to landing a director role is understanding the value you bring as a CHRO, and strengthening your commercial, technology and human-centric capabilities.
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AI Agents for HR: Top Use Cases and Examples
AI agents are helping HR teams move faster, work smarter, and support employees with more context and care. Learn how agents are redefining what it means to deliver human-centered HR at scale.
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Three AI-Driven Changes Redefining the HR Function
HR plays a pivotal role in the success of AI within its organizations. These three underrated focus areas will create a competitive edge in the race to realizing the full potential of this technology and position HR as the strategic orchestrator of collective intelligence.
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Talent Acquisition vs. Recruiting: The Complete Guide
Distinguishing between recruiting and talent acquisition unlocks both immediate hiring success and strategic workforce development. Master this balance to plug critical skill gaps and build the relationships that fuel tomorrow’s growth.
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Three Plays for Fostering a Powerful Partnership Between AI and Humans
The growing risk of AI is that employees can prompt algorithms but atrophy the very human skills that enable creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. These three key plays will help organizations form the foundation for a powerful partnership between humans and AI–creating a symbiotic relationship where technology expands our capabilities and humans continue to grow and make progress.
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Managing Hybrid Teams: A Talent Strategy Guide
Enabling success within a hybrid workforce requires a unified talent management strategy that’s synchronized to employee needs. Learn how HR teams can align focus areas and combat challenges to reap the benefits of a hybrid workforce.
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The Ins and Outs of Strategic Workforce Planning
Strategic workforce planning turns uncertainty into opportunity by aligning your talent strategy with evolving business objectives. With a structured framework, companies can anticipate gaps and make data-driven workforce decisions with confidence.
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Future-Proof Your HR Function With These Skills
In a world of constantly changing priorities and shifting business demands, it can be dizzying to determine what skills HR professionals need to acquire in order to strategically adapt. Before beginning to help employees, though, they first need to help themselves.
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Skills and AI: The Symbiotic Relationship Driving the Future of Work
The future of work is not about mastering a static set of skills, but about cultivating the agility to continuously acquire new ones. Explore the implications of shifting to a skills-based organization, and what parts of your talent strategy will experience the biggest transformations.
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AI Usage Is on the Rise in the Enterprise
How can you navigate AI adoption and usage at a large enterprise? Workday’s chief people officer and senior vice president of technology and architecture share their insights.
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Talent Management: The Only Guide You Need
Talent management synchronizes planning, recruitment, development, and evaluation to keep teams agile and engaged. Learn the key roles, frameworks, and metrics that power a robust talent lifecycle.
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Top 7 Tips for Managing a Multigenerational Workforce
Five generations. One workplace. In today’s evolving workforce, engaging employees across age groups isn’t just possible—it’s essential for lasting performance and culture.
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3 Forward-Thinking HR Strategies to Future-Proof Your Workforce
If we can't predict the future, how do we prepare for it? Explore the HR trends impacting Australian workforces in 2025, and discover strategies to help you improve strategic workforce planning and adapt to whatever comes next.
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The Best Hiring Strategy Template for 2025
Hiring is more competitive, more complex, and more consequential in 2025. HR leaders need a clear, flexible, strategic hiring plan to recruit smarter and build a workforce that can stay adaptable.
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Can Agentic AI Lift National Productivity and Mental Health Outcomes in Australia?
Agentic AI presents a unique opportunity to enhance human and business potential, address our nation's slowing productivity, and foster a more empathetic and connected world.
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Workday Recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Talent Acquisition
Workday is thrilled to be recognized as a Leader in the first-ever Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Talent Acquisition. To us, this recognition is an acknowledgement of our innovative spirit, fueling our passion to continue delivering industry-trusted solutions for our customers.
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From Stress to Synergy: HR’s Burnout Imperative
With burnout more prevalent than ever for HR professionals, CHROs are often tasked with fixing burnout issues at the source. Finding balance among competing priorities to move beyond stress is key to unlocking success.
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3 HR Strategies for Mitigating Low Manager Engagement
Keeping your employees engaged is critical for productivity and growth, but without starting at the source, your goals are unreachable. Combatting declining manager engagement is critical to your employee engagement strategy and bottom line.
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Building a Talent Philosophy That Works: Key Principles for Success
Exploring the core principles of a successful talent philosophy, highlighting the elements that drive employee engagement, performance, and growth.
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Top Employee Performance Metrics to Prioritize in 2025
Work has changed—and so has what employees expect from it. To keep pace, organizations need performance management strategies that build clarity, unlock growth, and fuel real impact.
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Top HR Metrics to Prioritize This Year
Tracking the right HR metrics is key for understanding the impact of your people strategy. As the role of HR grows more strategic, prioritizing the correct metric can be the difference between simply reporting and truly leading.
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How to Build an HR Strategy for Your Small Business
A thriving small business starts with a strong people strategy. By building an intentional HR approach early on, your SMB can create the foundation for growth, resilience, and long-term success.
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Tapping Into The Talent of Tomorrow With Skills-Based Hiring
Discover how skills-based hiring unlocks access to a wider range of skilled individuals, helping organizations build more agile and effective workforces. Read about the strategies and benefits of this transition, supported by data showing 86% of leaders are ready for change.
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Why Skills-Based Hiring Is so Revolutionary
The rise of skills-based hiring has turned recruitment on its head. But why has it proved so revolutionary compared to traditional hiring, and how can your business ensure it stays ahead of the curve?
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Top 4 Employee Stressors and What HR Can Do About Them
Heavy workloads and inadequate staffing are just two of the top workplace stressors leading to burnout and high turnover. Learn how you can enable managers to support their teams and improve employee wellbeing.
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Talent Sourcing Done Right in the Age of AI
AI is changing how companies find and engage talent—shifting sourcing from a manual, reactive process to a more strategic function. Is your organization ready to embrace stronger, more scalable hiring pipelines?
