News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
Australian HR leaders gathered at the 2025 Australian Financial Review (AFR) Workforce Summit, to discuss the trends bringing unprecedented disruption and opportunity.
Companies are rethinking how they hire by placing greater emphasis on skills to find the best talent. Learn how AI opens more doors for candidates and makes skills-based hiring more effective, fair, and scalable.
With more and more services being hosted in the cloud, legacy ERP systems can no longer keep up. Read on to learn how Cloud ERP can ensure your SME continues to grow in the current marketplace.
Emotional intelligence is a necessity for today’s finance leaders. Understand its pivotal role in leadership and strategic business success.
Workday metrics show that employers need to prioritize key talent retention, internal mobility, and clear communication of business goals to successfully navigate the evolving labor landscape.
The competition for top talent is fiercer than ever in 2025—and today’s prospective employees have drastically different priorities. Read on to learn how you can refocus your hiring strategy to win the war for talent.
Skills-based strategies are transforming the workplace into a more dynamic, adaptable, and equitable environment. Learn why business leaders are focusing on skills, what strategies they’re adopting, and how AI is enabling this shift—based on insights from Workday research.
Workday Chief Learning Officer Chris Ernst discusses new research from Workday about why leaders are organizing work around skills, not jobs, in the age of AI, how they’re preparing for a potential talent shortage, and the key strategies they’re adopting.
Organizations across the globe are facing a number of new HR challenges in 2025. Take charge of your HR strategy and overcome hurdles including AI adoption, upskilling, and retaining top talent.
Workday leaders predict the top HR trends for 2025, emphasizing the importance of adaptability, human skills, and upskilling to build a thriving, human-centric workplace.
Read more on how we’re helping our customers succeed with innovative HR technology.
At organisations worldwide, payroll has traditionally been characterised by manual data processing and a focus on operational efficiency. However, this perspective is starting to change, creating opportunities for a more strategic, data-driven approach to this business-critical function.
Chris Ernst, chief learning officer at Workday, shares insights gained through the move toward a skills-based talent strategy at Workday.
We talked to two McKinsey experts about the helix organizational model, and how it can help cultivate a workforce that adapts to the dynamic demands of the business.
The latest insights from Workday Peakon Employee Voice reveal that on average, 27% of employees within an organization are at high risk of burnout. We examine the top drivers for burnout and provide the blueprint for how organizations can avoid the burnout “doom loop” and retain top talent.
Every large organization seems to be going through an HR transformation. But what has the constant refrain of transformation achieved, and has it really fixed anything?
Tom Nesteruk, an HR leader at AdventHealth, shares how his team transformed its HR operating model and leverages AI to take on one of healthcare’s biggest challenges—recruitment and retention of nurses and other critical roles.
Accelerate with Workday makes it easier than ever for companies to get started and see results with Workday—realizing 42% faster time to value. Learn how this new program helps keep organizations moving forever forward.
Metrics from Workday customers indicate the hiring slowdown may be coming to an end. We explore how that impacts organizations’ talent strategies and why that makes “retaining” the new “recruiting.”
The acquisition solidifies Workday as a leader in providing an end-to-end, AI-powered talent acquisition and mobility solution, helping HR leaders meet today’s evolving hiring and talent landscape. Learn more from the company’s founder and CEO—and now GM of HiredScore at Workday.
Augmented workforces aren’t just changing the future of work, they’re shaping the here and now. Learn how your company can benefit by integrating artificial intelligence.
Our global payroll strategy combines Workday technology with an expansive partner ecosystem to provide customers with the solutions that best support their evolving needs.
Closing the talent gap is a persistent issue for organizations, exacerbated by rapid technological advancements. Addressing it requires a flexible talent strategy that includes utilizing the contingent workforce and promoting internal talent mobility.
Payroll has the potential to provide valuable insights for strategic decision-making, creating a big impact on business outcomes and significantly influencing the success of an organization.
Our global survey of 2,600 executives indicates that diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts remain a priority, with many increasing budgets and better utilizing AI and other technologies to achieve DEI goals.
Empower your team to benefit from AI by understanding their perspective. A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Workday, “A Human-Centered Approach to Al in the Workplace,” shares more.
HR leaders are aware of AI’s strategic value—and cautious of its risks. A report from Workday and FT Longitude sheds light on what HR leaders think about AI and how they can effectively embrace it.
Discover how change impacts the manager experience, why perceptions are more positive among senior leaders, and where organizations need to focus their attention in 2024.
Our customers are leveraging Workday AI to understand the skills within their workforce—and connect those insights to skills that fuel their business strategies. Learn more from Workday Chief Customer Officer Sheri Rhodes.
In the second installment of the Q&AI video series, Sayan Chakraborty, co-president of Workday, explains how artificial intelligence is changing the world of HR.
We continue to innovate to help our customers thrive.
Two Workday leaders—Cristina Goldt, general manager of workforce and pay for products developed for the office of the CHRO, and David Hudson, vice president of product management for Workday’s payroll products—share why organizations need to rethink their global payroll strategy and explain what organizations need to make the shift.
We’re thrilled to be named a Leader in this category for the second time since the category’s inception last year. With artificial intelligence and machine learning built into its core, Workday Enterprise Management Cloud unlocks the potential of our customers’ processes, data, and people.
With the rise of highly skilled contractors, C-suite executives benefit from “borrowing” external talent to nimbly fill critical gaps—and lean into technology to effectively manage the extended workforce.
With employee expectations constantly evolving, internal mobility is a crucial part of a successful talent retention strategy. Learn how to enable talent mobility at your organization.
The first half of 2023 has seen big changes in the labor market, with reverberating effects on the workforce including signs of decreased engagement. Based on metrics from the Workday platform—which shows more applications for fewer jobs and voluntary turnover declining by 20% compared to the same time frame last year—we’ve pulled together key trends and insights to help HR leaders chart their course for the near-term future.
Nothing artificial about it—artificial intelligence is furthering advancements in HR technology, from improving efficiency to enhancing the employee experience. Discover how AI is reshaping HR and, in turn, how HR is putting AI to work.
A new survey underscores the shifting challenges employers face around the world. The good news: multi-country complexities can be strategically managed.
When the global manufacturer couldn’t find an HR document management system that suited its needs, the HR transformation team worked with Workday Extend expert, Kainos, to build something completely new and innovative.
Is your company bringing on more contractors, consultants, and gig workers? It might be time to consider how you’re managing your extended workforce.
We are happy that Workday is named a Leader in “The Forrester WaveTM: Human Capital Management, Q2 2023.” Read on to learn more about how our technology enables transformative HR to chart and navigate a new path.
As we face ongoing economic uncertainty, discover HR leaders’ best practices for boosting morale and responding to employee needs.
CIOs and IT leaders have valuable insight into what’s needed to create an extended workforce talent strategy that powers the future of work.
Businesses increasingly depend on contingent workers for workforce agility and flexibility. Leaders from Everest Group explain how vendor management systems (VMS) have evolved with this trend and can deliver advanced technology capabilities to manage the contingent workforce.
For businesses to remain competitive during times of uncertainty and transformation, understanding employee sentiment is critical. That’s where employee engagement software gives you the edge.
For professional services firms facing a tight talent market and far-ranging industry pressures, the usual ways of pairing people and projects require a rethink. We talk with Workday’s Patrice Cappello and Justin Joseph to learn more about how intelligent resource management can help.
When businesses prioritize employee engagement as a strategic initiative, the benefits compound to create what we’ve termed the “Engagement Edge.” Discover the potential benefits here.
During the “Changemaker Keynote: Customer Perspectives on Embracing Change” at Workday Rising, Accenture Chair and CEO Julie Sweet shared how leaders can guide their organizations amid massive change.
A positive employee experience isn’t just good for morale: Half of the HR leaders in our global study say that it’s crucial to accelerating transformation across the business. And CFOs are the most likely of the C-suite members to name empathy as the skill most needed to meet the demands of the business.
We’re thrilled that Workday has been named as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises. We believe being named as a Leader for the seventh consecutive year demonstrates that we consistently enable our customers with the power to adapt.