The Power and Promise of HR Automation
Human resource departments are shifting their focus to value-creating activities. New technology solutions will play a crucial role as leaders step up strategically.
Human Resources
News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
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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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How Inter IKEA is Embracing Technology To Transform the Customer and Employee Experience
Amela Delic, digital transformation manager for Inter IKEA Group, illustrates how the organisation leverages modern technology for both its customers and its employees.
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3 Insights for Driving a Holistic, Multi-Dimensional Employee Experience
To meet employees’ rising and shifting expectations, organisations are tapping dynamic insights underpinned by rich, unified data and sophisticated analytics.
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3 Signs It’s Time to Rethink Well-being in the Wake of Changing Worker Expectations
Workplace well-being is never a one-and-done consideration. At Workday Rising, Dan Rogers and Miikka Åkerman argue that people leaders would be wise to consider whether their approach to employee well-being—and the systems that support them—are keeping pace with this modern moment.
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How the UK Public Sector Can Tap the Vast Potential of Digital Enterprise Solutions
A Workday survey of civil servants responsible for workforce management uncovers the current state of HR, finance, and enterprise planning systems within government—and tracks the progress in transforming these systems.
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Hilti’s HR Transformation Unlocks End-to-End Efficiencies
When the global manufacturer couldn’t find 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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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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Workday Podcast: How Bolt is Leveraging Technology to Steer Through Hypergrowth
On this episode, Andy Turnbull, Head of People Technology at Bolt, talks about the challenges of managing the workforce at one of the fastest-growing companies in the world, how Bolt’s technology helps it stay flexible and efficient, and the power of being honey badgers.
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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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How CHROs Are Embracing the Power to Adapt Through the Evolution of Work
At Workday Rising Europe, CHROs and leaders from Air Liquide, Ofcom and Puma discussed how they’re embracing more flexible ways of working, retaining and reskilling employees and, in doing so, creating highly adaptive organisations.
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Workday Podcast: How Global Fleet Management Services Company Leaseplan Turned Siloed Data into Effective Insights
Thanks to change management that empowered local teams, a modernised HR function at LeasePlan has visibility on the entire employee experience and can drive business decisions.
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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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Change-Makers Share 5 Ways to Champion Change
Change brings a whirlwind of opportunities and risks. At Workday Rising Europe, Salumeh Companieh, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Cushman & Wakefield; Christine Leitgeb, Head of Finance for Europe and APMEA at Designit; and Noa Perry-Reifer, Chief People Officer at On Running, discussed how they avoid analysis paralysis and harness the power of digital transformation.
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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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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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Advocating for Women in Tech: A Conversation With Michelle Carroll From GSK
Michelle Carroll came from a non-technical, HR background, but with her Workday expertise, she grew into a Senior Technology Leader at a multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company.
This article is taken from Vol. 7 of SmarterCIO.
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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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Report: Rethinking Finance and Human Resources in Hospitality
Find out how your hospitality business can rise to the challenges disruption brings in our whitepaper with IDC. You’ll learn how to create excellent customer experiences and why rethinking your finance and HR digital strategies is key.
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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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Innovate UK: A Public Sector Perspective On Digital Transformation
Innovate UK is the UK's innovation agency. It drives productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas. At Workday Elevate London, Doug Ward, deputy director of business systems and insight at Innovate UK, spoke with Carolyn Horne, President EMEA at Workday. He gave his perspective on digital transformation and offered advice to those on a similar path to change.
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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.
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How Workday Is Delivering Next-Generation Skills Technology at Scale
At Workday, we believe understanding employees’ skills is essential to operating a business and imperative for the future of work. We’re introducing next-generation technology that amplifies the impact of Skills Cloud, helping our customers strengthen their foundation as a skills-based organization.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Workday Elevate Madrid: Leaders Discuss Focus Areas for Business Competitiveness
At our Workday Elevate event in Madrid, Fermin Peleteiro, senior vice president, global field operations at Workday, discussed how businesses are embracing agility and handling the new hybrid world of work in a conversation with Alberto Torres, partner at McKinsey Digital.
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Connecting Retail’s Front and Back Office
Learn why the connection between retail’s front and back office is essential for solid decision-making.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
