Transparency Triumphs: Why Openness Is Key to Unlocking Talent Success
An examination of how transparency in performance reviews, career paths, and compensation fosters trust, accountability, and a culture of continuous improvement.
Human Resources
News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
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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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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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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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How to Choose the Best ERP System for Small Businesses
Business leaders know they need modernized ERP systems to stay competitive and keep pace with market and customer demands—but the challenge of deployment is a barrier for many. These seven steps can help you choose an ERP aligned with your unique needs and deploy with speed and confidence.
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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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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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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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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 bottomline.
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Choosing the Best HRIS Systems for Midsize Companies
Growth changes everything, especially how you manage people. If your HR systems aren’t built to scale, they’ll start holding you back. Explore how the right HRIS gives you structure, insight, and space to lead with a people-first strategy in place.
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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.
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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.
