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.
Human Resources
News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
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3 Most Common Challenges With On-Demand Pay—and How to Fix Them
On-demand pay is becoming a competitive differentiator in attracting in-demand talent and retaining employees. Companies can enable their payroll teams to implement on-demand pay, an innovative approach to payroll that may become a mainstay in the workplace.
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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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VNDLY Named a Leader in Everest Group PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022
A new report from Everest Group features VNDLY, a Workday company, in the top category of the vendor management system (VMS) space for the second year in a row.
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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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Father’s Day: Learning From Loss and Leading With Empathy
Ashley Goldsmith, chief people officer at Workday, reflects on her own recent loss and shares insights on how employers can support employees through personal challenges.
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Workday Global Study: CHROs Are Champions of Change
As ways of working and employee expectations change, the role human resources (HR) leaders have in how their businesses adapt to those changes is more important than ever.
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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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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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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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Governments: 5 Things They Aren’t Telling You About Your Legacy System ‘Upgrade’
Lift-and-shift cloud migrations don’t save governments money over the long term—they hamstring transformation and waste precious public funds. Will Greer, vice president, government, at Workday, shares how there’s a better way.
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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.
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Workday Podcast: A European Perspective on How HR Leaders Became Change Champions
Ciara Lakhani, chief people officer at technology platform Dashlane, joins us to talk about the results of our latest global study and the multifaceted world of today’s HR function. She also draws on her experiences from Europe to discuss the latest in workforce transformation trends.
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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.
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How Flexibility Can Drive the Great Retention of Frontline Workers
Workplaces that employ hourly workers aren’t always known for flexibility. But technology, powered with artificial intelligence and machine learning, can help workplaces be more attractive to frontline talent. Enter flexible scheduling for frontline workers.
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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.
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Be More Podcast: Love 'Em or Lose 'Em With Bev Kaye
Beverly Kaye, author, speaker, and one of the most influential HR thought leaders of the past 40 years, shares her career journey and thoughts on employee development, engagement, and retention.
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Global Study: Workforce Skills and Data Access Are Barriers to Digital Transformation
Our global survey on digital acceleration finds that business leaders took a more measured approach in 2021 compared with the previous year. Read on to learn more about what respondents ranked as the top barriers to digital transformation.
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Best Practices: Optimizing Analytics for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Organizations everywhere understand they must do more to take a disciplined approach and prove tangible progress in hiring, retaining, and promoting diverse talent—while also fostering a culturally aware workforce. In a recent webinar, HR leaders discussed how providing real-time data on businesses’ progress can help, pushing leaders to take direct, timely action to create a more diverse workplace.
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Machine Learning Enables Employers to Gain More Insights on Skills
Human resources researcher and author Ben Eubanks explains how artificial intelligence can be deployed in unexpected ways to accomplish HR tasks.
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Building a Better Employee Experience
The pandemic and Great Resignation have made employee experience a business imperative for companies everywhere. Pete Schlampp discusses how we’re striving to better meet employees’ evolving needs, including using data and technology to personalize experiences and ensure people feel supported in moments that matter.
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How IT Leaders Can Create a Competitive Employee Experience
At Workday’s Conversations for a Changing World, Accenture’s Penelope Prett discussed what it will take to keep the hybrid workforce engaged.
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Be More Podcast: The Seven Characteristics of a Highly Meaningful Career
For many, the idea of career development has shifted from gaining more seniority to having more meaningful work experiences. Author and career specialist Julie Winkle Giulioni talks about how managers can help workers achieve those experiences.
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A Focus on Employee Experience: From the CIO Lens
Work is more remote, decentralised, and digitised than ever before and employers are under great pressure to attract and retain top talent. Penelope Prett, CIO of Accenture, shared her insights on how technology can help create a vibrant new type of employee experience and keep workers energised.
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How Workday’s Vaccine Management Solutions Enable HR to Forge Ahead Amid Unpredictability
There isn’t a proverbial playbook for developing a vaccine policy. But HR leaders who’ve leaned into agility have been able to create vaccine management approaches that meet the needs of their organizations and tight compliance deadlines, yet are adaptable if and when government guidance changes.
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Uncovering Industries With an Elevated Risk of Employee Attrition
Learn more about how the pandemic has impacted the risk of employee attrition in different industries and regions based on a sample of over 1 million employees across 250 organizations worldwide.
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Take 5 With Ashley Goldsmith: Focus on the Front Lines
Ashley Goldsmith started her human resources career working alongside front-line retail workers, where she learned important lessons on the value of skills, inclusion, humility, and respect. Our chief people officer discusses why we’re investing in skills at Workday, how we’ve supported Workmates through the pandemic, and what it means to have an employee-first culture.
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Delving Deeper: Harnessing the Employee Voice
How can leaders deploy the best people-centric experiences to attract and retain the best talent? Experts from Workday share how technology can enable organisations to delve deeper with active employee listening and take meaningful action.
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Be More Podcast: Proactive Retention With Julie Turney
Today, organizations worry about the Great Resignation. We talk with Julie Turney, an HR coach who works with businesses around the world to help them to tackle this challenge.
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Embrace the Opportunity to Reinvent, Reimagine, and Reenergize Your Workforce
Leena Nair, chief human resources officer at multinational company Unilever, spoke with Ashley Goldsmith, chief people officer at Workday, about the opportunities ahead to pioneer the needs of a changing workforce.
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Where Is HR Heading in 2022? What 4 Workforce Trends Reveal
Stacey Harris, chief research officer and managing partner at Sapient Insights Group, shares how workforce trends are shaping strategic priorities for human resources professionals.
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Understanding the Whole Consumer: Digital Monetization for Media and Entertainment
Media and entertainment companies work hard to paint a complete picture of consumers, build loyalty, and satisfy their ever-changing desires. It’s all part of an effective digital monetization strategy.
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Retail Workforce Management and the Great Resignation
The Great Resignation is hitting home in the retail industry. Here’s why a renewed focus on workforce management (with worker-first scheduling leading the way) could help stem the tide.
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Be More Podcast: Proactive Retention with Julie Turney
Julie Turney, Founder, and CEO at HR@HEART Consulting, outlines how talent acquisition has changed in the past 24 months, and the value of placing an active focus on talent retention.
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Introducing Workday Peakon Employee Voice: Why Businesses Thrive When Employees Are Heard
We spoke to David Somers, Workday’s group general manager of product for the office of the CHRO, and Phil Chambers, general manager for Peakon, to hear about Peakon’s new name, our vision for it, and why listening to your employees has become so critical.
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Why the Skills Imperative Is a Post-Pandemic Business Priority for European Businesses
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the skills businesses will need to thrive in the future? This article looks at how organisations across Europe must embrace the skills imperative and provide continuous development of their workforce to be successful in the post-pandemic world.
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Be More Podcast: Attracting Top Recruitment Talent with Dualta Doherty
To attract top talent, you need recruitment talent. How do you find and retain the best recruiters? Dualta Doherty, advisor, community builder, podcaster, and managing director at Dualta Doherty & Partners, shares his views on these topics and more.
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Technology, Media, and Entertainment Companies Explore the Future of Hybrid Work
At Conversations for a Changing World, leaders from Cisco and Accenture talked about the future of hybrid work for technology, media, and entertainment companies.
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Be More Podcast: Recruiting Diverse Talent with Torin Ellis
Torin Ellis, founder of Torin Ellis Bran and board advisor at Get-Optimal, joins us to discuss talent in the workplace with a focus on hiring and retention.
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Cloud Technology Helps Federal Workers Make a Meaningful Impact
For U.S. federal agencies looking to attract and retain talent and modernize human resources operations, moving to the cloud is the logical choice. Learn more about how to empower employees, make HR a more strategic partner, and bring predictability to budget cycles.
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From Workforce Management to Optimization: The Evolving Roles of HR and Operations
What may seem like a tipping point in the labor market has, in reality, always been a constant: change. Navigating this change in the moment requires a strong partnership between operational and HR leaders.
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Workday Named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises
With human resources playing a critical role in nearly every strategic business decision this past year, we’re honored to once again be recognized as a leader in the human capital management (HCM) market for our completeness of vision and ability to execute.
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What Is an ERP System, and Why Workday Is Different
Companies must think beyond a “lift and shift” of their current ERP system to the cloud. Instead, they must uplift and re-shift their systems and processes to align with achieving business goals in the digital age. That’s why Workday, as an enterprise management cloud solution, is different.
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Be More Podcast: Talent Acquisition in 2021 with Katrina Collier
On this episode of Be More we're joined by Katrina Collier, facilitator, mentor, author, speaker, and podcast host. She discusses her experiences with talent acquisition in the age of the internet, and how we can all be kinder during the recruitment process.
