Building a Talent Philosophy That Works: Key Principles for Success
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Human Resources
News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
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The EU Pay Transparency Directive: Why Pay Equity Is Finally Becoming a Competitive Imperative
The new EU directive on pay transparency obliges companies to be more open – and could trigger a profound cultural change in the world of work.
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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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ERP for Midsize Companies: Features to Look For
As midsize businesses grow, the cracks in siloed systems start to show—making enterprise resource planning (ERP) essential. Identify the best ERP for midsize companies with our helpful guide.
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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?
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The Human-Centric Imperative: Why Your Talent Strategy Needs a Heart
Purely data-driven talent management is soon being replaced with workforce programs that emphasize the importance of empathy, trust, and meaningful connections in today's workplace.
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What Skills-Based Hiring Means in the Age of AI
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.
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Is Cloud ERP Right for Your SME?
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.
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Why Emotional Intelligence Is Crucial for Today’s CFOs
Emotional intelligence is a necessity for today’s finance leaders. Understand its pivotal role in leadership and strategic business success.
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How HR Leaders Can Thrive in a Complicated Job Market
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.
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What Should Your Hiring Strategy Be in 2025?
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.
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Key Skills-Based Strategies for Building a More Agile and Resilient Workforce
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.
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Workday Global Study: Leaders Embrace Skills-Based Strategies to Guard Against Talent Shortages
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.
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5 Essential Skills for Leaders in the Age of AI
AI is changing the way we think about leadership. In workplaces transformed by technology, the human touch has never been more important.
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Workday Podcast: The Tech Talent War and the Secret Weapon
In an era of constant change, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. In this installment of the podcast series Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward, we talk with Circle’s chief people officer about the talent management challenges shaking up the financial services industry.
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What Are the Biggest HR Challenges of 2025?
This article outlines six of the biggest challenges facing HR leaders and teams in 2025 and strategies to overcome them. Challenges include AI adoption, upskilling, meaningful DEI, and retaining top talent.
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HR Trends to Watch in 2025: Building the Human-Centric Workplace
Workday leaders predict the top HR trends for 2025, emphasising the importance of adaptability, human skills, and upskilling to build a thriving, human-centric workplace.
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Workday Recognised 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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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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Skills-Based Workforce: 5 Essential Things to Know
Workday-developed documentary UNTAPPED: Closing America’s Opportunity Gap hits Netflix in the US this October. To celebrate, we’ve pulled together everything you need to know to start your journey to becoming a skills-based-workforce.
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The State of Industries: Top 3 Findings from New IDC Research
Mickey North Rizza, group vice president at IDC, shares findings of a 2024 study conducted on behalf of Workday to better understand the needs and plans for business technology across more than 10 industries. Learn how industries are taking on AI, digital transformation, staffing challenges and more.
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AI: The Multi-Billion Pound Key to Unlocking UK Productivity
A new report from Workday uncovers large businesses in the UK could save 7.9 billion employee hours per year through the use of ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI). Find out how you can embrace the future of work and consign productivity problems to the past.
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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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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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Workday Podcast: How Signify’s Approach to HR Makes Progress With Process
In this episode of the Workday podcast, Signify’s global head of HR systems, Jacqueline van Gerwen, shares how Signify uses innovation to better the lives of its consumers and employees.
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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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Everest and Beyond: Six Surprising Things We Learned About Generation Z From Mountaineer Adriana Brownlee
On this episode of the Workday Podcast, mountaineer Adriana Brownlee joins us to talk about conquering Everest at the age of 20, what motivates climbers to keep returning to the world’s most dangerous summits, misconceptions about Gen Z, and what business leaders can expect from the next generation.
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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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UNHCR: Unlocking the Value of Workday HCM
Learn how UNHCR transformed HR with Workday HCM, enhancing inclusion, diversity, and change management for better operations.
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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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Professional and Business Services Firms Realised up to €2 Million Worth of Savings Over Three Years with Workday, Forrester Consulting Finds
Forrester Consulting conducted The Total Economic Impact™ of Workday for Professional and Business Services Firms study, on behalf of Workday.
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HR Transformation at Philips: A Single Source of Truth Gives Organisations the Foundation to Innovate
In this podcast, Philips HRIS Solutions Architect Efthymios Zindros discusses how the global company transformed its operations.
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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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Workday Podcast: Retail and Hospitality’s Path to Success
What’s the positive path forward for the retail and hospitality industries? Keith Pickens, managing director of retail and hospitality at Workday, shares his perspective in this installment of our Industrious podcast series.
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Workday Podcast: A New Era for Tech and Media
In this episode of our Industrious podcast series, it’s all about challenges and opportunities for the tech and media industries, featuring special guest Randy Rasmussen, Workday managing director for tech and media.
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Workday Video: How AI is Transforming HR
As the world of work continues to evolve, HR can’t afford to stand still. Discover how HR leaders assess the challenges and opportunities created by technology —and how AI can transform the employee experience.
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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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Leadership Lessons From the Premier League: Six Things We Learned When We Spoke to Footballer Paul McVeigh
In this episode of the Workday podcast, we speak to footballer-turned-psychologist Paul McVeigh about his career in football, the psychology of high-performing teams, and what business leaders can learn about workplace culture from the Premier League.
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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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NRF 2024 Recap: The Future Is Today
Explore the standout insights, trends, and technological innovations from NRF 2024: Retail’s Big Show. Hear stories from Workday customers on how they’re reimagining the future of retail and delivering extraordinary customer experiences.
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How AI Can Help Solve the Insurance Industry’s Talent Crisis
The insurance industry is facing a steep talent shortage. One way industry leaders can shore up a growing skills gap? By leveraging AI and machine learning (ML) to power automation and deliver insights to evolve workforces.
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Global Study: EMEA Sets Itself Apart on AI Adoption
EMEA organisations are leading the global pack in AI preparation and adoption, new Workday research shows. But while finance and IT have made greater strides, HR has more ground to cover.
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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.
