HR Trends to Watch in 2025: Building the Human-Centric Workplace
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.
Human Resources
News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
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Workday Recognized as a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises
Read more on how we’re helping our customers succeed with innovative HR technology.
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3 Ways to Accelerate Your Skills Journey: What We’re Learning in Our Transformation
Chris Ernst, chief learning officer at Workday, shares insights gained through the move toward a skills-based talent strategy at Workday.
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Rewire the DNA of Your Business for Speed and Agility
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.
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Workday Voice of the Employee Report: Burnout “Doom Loop” Undermines Engagement and Loyalty
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.
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Why HR Needs an AI-First Mentality
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?
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How AdventHealth Uses AI to Improve Hiring and Talent Retention
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.
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Introducing Accelerate with Workday
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.
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Workday Hiring Trends Report: The “Big Stay” Is Poised to Become the “Big Leave”
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.”
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Workday's Acquisition of HiredScore: A Conversation With Athena Karp on AI
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.
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How Tech Investments During Downtimes Lead to Quicker Growth in Boom Times
Discover how Workday can help Canadian businesses make smarter decisions, improve employee retention, and support a remote workforce.
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Using AI to Empower an Augmented Workforce
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.
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Workday’s Global Payroll Strategy: A Connected HR and Payroll Experience
Our global payroll strategy combines Workday technology with an expansive partner ecosystem to provide customers with the solutions that best support their evolving needs.
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Bolster Your Talent Strategy With a Flexible Workforce: 3 Crucial Tips
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.
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Why HR Leaders Must Get More Strategic About Payroll
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.
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Workday DEI Landscape Report: Business Leaders Remain Committed in 2024
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.
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What Are Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)?
An SME is a company that has employees, revenue, and assets below a set threshold, but defining that threshold can be difficult. Discover how different regions define an SME, and how your small or medium-sized company can play to its strengths.
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How Do Employees Feel About AI at Work, and What Can You Do?
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.
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Global CHRO AI Indicator Report: How HR Leaders Can Enable AI Strategy
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.
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Employee Experience Trends 2024: Empowering Managers to Drive Successful Transformation
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.
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How Companies Use Workday AI to Accelerate Upskilling
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.
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Video: Q&AI: How Will Artificial Intelligence Impact the Role of the CHRO?
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.
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The Future of Work in Canada: Trends and Insights from Workday
Companies need agile and adaptable technology to support their growth. Learn how Canadian businesses are using Workday to address talent management challenges and build diverse, engaged, and skilled teams ready to compete in global economies.
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Workday Named Leader for 8th Consecutive Year in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises
We continue to innovate to help our customers thrive.
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Workday Podcast: The Keys to Strategically Enabling a Global Contingent Workforce Program
As Workday continues to operationalize the contingent workforce around the world, we sat down with Kerry Kiley, the mastermind behind Workday’s global contingent workforce program, to talk enablement and strategy.
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Workday Again Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises
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.
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Contingent Workers: The Secret to Better Skills-Based Hiring
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.
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What Is Internal Mobility, and Why Is It Important?
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.
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First Half 2023 Hiring Trends: Slowdown and Stagnation
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.
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The AI Revolution: Reshaping HR Functions for Success
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.
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3 Ways To Get Ahead Of Global Payroll Complexity
A new survey underscores the shifting challenges employers face around the world. The good news: multi-country complexities can be strategically managed.
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Hilti’s HR Transformation Unlocks End-to-End Efficiencies
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.
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Why Does My Company Need a Vendor Management System?
Is your company bringing on more contractors, consultants, and gig workers? It might be time to consider how you’re managing your extended workforce.
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Why Does My Company Need a Vendor Management System?
Is your company bringing on more contractors, consultants, and gig workers? It might be time to consider how you’re managing your extended workforce.
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Revolutionizing HR Business Strategy: Unleashing the Power of Transformative Technology
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.
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Introducing Workday VNDLY: One Workforce, Working Together
We caught up with Shashank Saxena and Mariana Santiago, co-general managers of Workday VNDLY, to discuss the latest developments for our extended workforce and vendor management system—and its role in powering the future of work.
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Top 3 Ways to Boost Engagement During Economic Uncertainty
As we face ongoing economic uncertainty, discover HR leaders’ best practices for boosting morale and responding to employee needs.
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5 Reasons the Rapidly Expanding Contingent Workforce Is a CIO Priority
CIOs and IT leaders have valuable insight into what’s needed to create an extended workforce talent strategy that powers the future of work.
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Supporting Your Global Workforce With an Innovative Vendor Management System
The use of contingent workers is growing. Here are six ways our vendor management system (VMS) supports global contingent workforce operations.
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The Contingent Workforce: A Strategic Lever to Drive Resilience and Sustainable Agility
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.
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What Is an HRIS? How IT and HR Are Evolving Together
More than ever, the companies that succeed are those where HR and IT work in conjunction. A human resources information system, or HRIS, is the perfect tool to bring those departments in sync.
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4 Reasons an Employee Engagement Solution Is Key in Periods of Uncertainty
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.
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Why Intelligent Resource Management Matters
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.
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How Listening to Your Employees Unlocks the Engagement Edge
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.
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Accenture CEO: 5 Forces That Will Define Leaders’ Priorities in the Next Decade
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.
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Workday Global Study: Leaders, Do You Know How Your People Feel?
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.
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Workday Named as a Leader for 7th Consecutive Year in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises
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.
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Does Your Talent Marketplace Foster Internal Mobility? 3 Ways to Know
An internal talent marketplace can help with internal mobility, but the solution’s effectiveness depends on how it leverages skills data to remove barriers that discourage employees from seeking opportunities.
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Why Technology Companies Are Choosing Workday
Tech companies face a litany of challenges to stay competitive. Here’s why Salesforce chose Workday Financial Management to drive its next generation of growth.
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What Is Quiet Quitting and How Is It Linked to Engagement?
“Quiet quitting” is a new name for an old phenomenon—employee disengagement. Find out more about what quiet quitting means for your business and why a focus on employee engagement is the solution.
How Rising Rates of Burnout Risk Are Impacting Different Industries in 2022
Discover how increased levels of burnout risk are affecting different industries and regions in 2022, based on an analysis of de-identified employee survey data from 1.5 million employees across more than 600 companies around the world.
Workday and VNDLY: Our Vision for the Future of Total Workforce Management
With Workday and VNDLY, a Workday company, organizations can create a holistic talent strategy that maximizes their extended pool of talent.
Understanding the Basics: What Is Employee Experience?
Employee experience has been a global business priority for several years, but its scope is constantly evolving. Learn the fundamentals of employee experience and how to develop a successful companywide strategy.
Connecting Retail’s Front and Back Office
Learn why the connection between retail’s front and back office is essential for solid decision-making.
How IT Can Advance the Business Case for Cloud Computing
Making the business case for moving to the cloud is often about developing strong partnerships across the C-Suite and establishing internal trust in an organization. Christoph Frank, head of process and technology solutions and strategy at LGI, talks about his organisation’s shift to the cloud, and how companies should think about its return on investment.
CFOs and CHROs Identify Top Factors in Building Sustainable Growth
Finance and HR leaders in midmarket companies say landing key talent and improving operational efficiency are critical for success, according to a new AchieveNEXT survey.
State of Engagement 2022: A Breakdown of Employee Experience Performance by Industry
Each year we analyze changes in employee engagement to help identify focus areas for organizations in the year ahead. Learn more about the key areas we’ve identified for 17 industries based on changes in the employee experience throughout 2021.
The Secret to Employee Retention Is Employee Engagement
The terms “employee retention” and “employee engagement” share far more than a first word. In this article, we explore why employee retention is such a top-level concern for companies and how the right engagement strategy can make a massive difference.
Embedding Authenticity and Sustainable Change Into Pride
What can businesses do to ensure their approach to Pride Month is sincere and sustainable, especially in fraught times with growing polarisation among communities? We spoke with Rogerio Almeida, vice president of global field alliances at Workday, for his personal insight into the LGBTQ+ community.
Workday Experts Discuss HR Insights From Online Workplace Reviews
There’s been an upward trend in employees posting negative reviews about their employers on public sites. Workday’s Lauryn Bissell, senior business psychologist, and Gabriel Dizon, manager of customer success, joined a podcast with Nick Ciavatta at Argyle Insider to discuss what’s motivating this movement and how businesses can respond.
Does Your Approach to Skills Management Strengthen Upskilling and Employee Retention?
Learn why skills management is different from a skills-based approach, and why both are necessary for an organization to effectively engage, upskill, and retain employees.
Workday Podcast: Elevating the Employee Experience With Mobile
In order to deliver a positive employee experience, businesses must embrace an “anytime, anywhere” philosophy. Berea Schaffer, Workday’s vice president of mobile, shares insights on how businesses can increase employee satisfaction by delivering an engaging end-to-end mobile app experience.
Beyond Shareholder Value: Strategy and Vision for the Office of the CFO
Companies are asking more of their CFOs than ever before. They’re expected to lead environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives, oversee digital transformation projects, and ensure their teams have the right skills for the future. That’s why finance leaders need the right technology.
A Future-Ready Workforce Calls for Companywide Planning
For successful workforce planning, organizations must rethink their talent strategies to minimize skills gaps, maximize hiring investments, and better align talent with corporate objectives.
How Media and Entertainment Leaders Can Thrive Through Transformation
Traditional categories in media and entertainment are quickly melting away. How can leaders in these industries thrive when everything is changing all the time?
How Thomson Reuters Made Self-Identification Initiatives Work for Its Employees
Self-identification is essential when prioritizing belonging and diversity, but how do you make it work across a global team? Discover how Thomson Reuters expanded belonging and diversity self-identification capabilities to 68 countries.
The Power of the Employee Voice in Successful Business Transformation
Successful business transformation initiatives can be difficult to manage, especially when employees aren’t aligned with leadership. The best way to close that stakeholder gap is by empowering the employee voice.
Understanding the Basics: What Is Employee Engagement?
The term “employee engagement” is a popular HR topic, but what does it actually mean? In this article we’ll cover the essentials, including the relationship between employee engagement and employee experience, and how people leaders can measure engagement.
Making Sense of Employee Expectations in 2022
How have employee expectations evolved? Learn what our research reveals following an analysis of 19 million comments submitted in Workday Peakon Employee Voice throughout 2021 by nearly 1.8 million employees.
Think Like a Scientist: Q&A With Organizational Psychologist Adam Grant
In the final event of our CHRO Connect series, we spoke with Adam Grant about how businesses can plan for unanticipated circumstances, and how to enable people leaders to schedule in unstructured time.
