News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
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.
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.
Emotional intelligence is a necessity for today’s finance leaders. Understand its pivotal role in leadership and strategic business success.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From cloud adoption to AI integration, how are CIOs navigating and making decisions during this ever-evolving tech landscape? Rogerio Almeida, Workday group vice president of partner sales, discusses these ideas with seasoned executive Dave Smoley, winner of the Workday Customer Lifetime Achievement Award at our most recent Workday Rising.
Discover the top takeaways from NRF25 —including enhanced consumer experiences, AI innovation, frontline worker efficiency, and compliance regulations
Both Texas A&M and LSU faced challenges with their legacy systems, including limitations in data accessibility and reporting capabilities. In a recent Workday podcast, representatives from the universities discussed their experiences transitioning to Workday.
After an invigorating World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, our chief marketing officer shares her takeaways, including thoughts on the digital workforce of the future.
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.
Workday Chief People Officer Ashley Goldsmith discusses new research from Workday on elevating uniquely human skills and what she’s most looking forward to as the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, kicks off.
2024 has been a period of major change across all industries. As we look ahead to 2025, here are four projects that top tech and media leaders are already putting in motion, in their own words.
Employees perform at their best when they are happy at work and feel like their feedback is being met with action and accountability. Learn about the benefits of employee satisfaction for both the business and the individual.
Dallas-based broker Integrity maintains a positive employee culture by focusing on its people—and employee-friendly technology is a big component of that. Integrity’s Chief People and Culture Officer Rachelle McReynolds shares insights.
Employee engagement surveys are about more than employee satisfaction. Our research has identified 14 drivers of employee engagement, each supported with a dedicated question set. Read on to learn more.
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.
David Hudson of Workday interviews Strada SVP of Global Payroll Frank Leistner to explore how payroll can be elevated from an operational necessity to a strategic asset, and the key role of AI in driving this evolution.
Washington University’s Jason Burg discusses how the prestigious St. Louis institution empowered its people with data-driven insights, setting the stage for strategic change and transforming the student experience.
Communication is a two-way process. If you want to improve overall communication in the workplace, you need to create space to listen to your employees.
How does AI technology help foster a more human-centric future of work? Workday leaders Dave Wachtel and Kathy Pham join Steve Boese and Trish Steed to discuss AI’s impact on HR on a special episode of the HR Happy Hour podcast series, recorded on the Workday Forever Forward bus.
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.
The manufacturing industry faces a significant labor shortage, and attracting and retaining the next generation of workers, particularly Gen Z, is crucial for its future success. Here’s how.
Washington State University (WSU) wanted to better forecast grants to support its groundbreaking research. We talked with WSU’s Gerik Kimble and Christine Galbreath about how their modernization project helped streamline inefficient processes to project future expenses and remaining balances on grants.
How can HR leaders ensure their people have the right skills for the future? In this episode, Sharon Wingfelder, CHRO at First American Financial, joined Emma Chalwin, CMO at Workday, to talk trends in HR, getting the most out of AI, and cultivating a positive workplace culture.
Chevron is leveraging technology and a people-centric approach to create a supportive and engaging workplace. In this episode of the Workday Podcast, we explore how that’s ultimately driving both employee satisfaction and organizational growth across Chevron’s global workforce.
Read more on how we’re helping our customers succeed with innovative HR technology.
What keeps the transportation industry moving forward? Let’s dive into trends in this fast-paced industry to see what leaders are doing to stay flexible, innovative, and profitable.
We’re delighted to celebrate retail and hospitality customers who move their business forward by innovating on the Workday platform to create great experiences for their employees and customers. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
We’re delighted to celebrate technology and media customers who consistently find solutions to problems and create great experiences for their employees and customers. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
How deeply should HR understand AI? Workday leaders discuss HR’s role in shaping AI strategy and its golden moment to build trust and solve complex problems across the business.
Chandler Morse, vice president of public policy at Workday, chats with a leader at Opportunity@Work on the progress being made toward skills-based hiring in governments and agencies.
AI-driven talent orchestration revolutionizes talent management by actively aligning employees with career development opportunities. This empowers managers and HR leaders to enhance career mobility, boost employee engagement, and improve retention.
In the current talent market, the tech industry requires an innovative strategy to attract and keep top talent. Learn some of the strategies that are on the rise to help build talent pipelines and keep a step ahead of competitors in attracting talent.
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.
In order for workplaces to thrive, survive, and push the needle forward, employees must feel safe and included. Learn why psychological safety is so important in the modern workplace.
Our bold new documentary, UNTAPPED: Closing America’s Opportunity Gap, examines why business leaders must embrace skills-based hiring versus traditional methods that focus on standard degree attainment. Learn more in our discussion with Carrie Varoquiers, the film’s executive producer.
The transportation industry keeps shelves stocked and homes filled with the goods necessary for everyday life. In this episode, Daragh Mahon, EVP and CIO at Werner Enterprises, sits down with Kalan Comba, Workday CTO of Americas, to talk trends in the transportation industry and how Workday helps Werner move confidently into the future while keeping its employees at the forefront.
Utilizing a vendor management system (VMS) to help your business during periods of high-volume hiring is key to an efficient recruiting strategy.
How can government leaders be better prepared to transform their organizations? We share five distinct but connected strategies that can help these leaders modernize their payroll.
Embracing technology to adapt and grow is essential for insurance companies, but how can they prepare for the big change that comes with it? Bob Toohey, EVP & CHRO at Allstate, shares how AI can help build a better employee experience—and how leaders can help their organizations and people transform.
How is skills-based hiring reshaping the way we think about talent? Carrie Varoquiers, chief philanthropy officer at Workday, chatted about this with the founder of Grads of Life and a Workday program manager who is also an alum from Year Up.
Streamline and improve efficiency with these key global contingent workforce management takeaways from Everest Group’s Vendor Management Systems (VMS) PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024—Global.
A global survey of 1,300 senior decision-makers reveals that payroll departments are sitting on an untapped gold mine of valuable workforce data. Executive buy-in, clear strategic priorities, and better alignment across different departments are the key to turning that data into business outcomes.
Integrating a vendor management system can revolutionize the management of the contingent workforce for healthcare payors, ensuring efficiency and reliable data.
In a new survey from Coresight and Workday, 45% of retail leaders said they believe AI and machine learning (ML) will help them make better business decisions. Read the new report for a deep-dive into why digital transformation is essential for retail growth and sustainability.
Chris Ernst, chief learning officer at Workday, shares insights gained through the move toward a skills-based talent strategy at Workday.
In a new hospitality report from Coresight and Workday, 50% of leaders said training their frontline workers was a big challenge in times of fluctuating demand. Download the new report to learn why optimizing operations is essential for building a foundation for long-term growth.
A vendor management system is designed to support the end-to-end lifecycle of your contingent workers but it can also help you achieve a total workforce strategy that’s streamlined and simple.
After the roller-coaster ride of the last few years, manufacturers are eager to shore up supply chain volatility, retain and upskill talent, and lean on technology to be better prepared for transformative events.
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.
Managing contingent workforce programs becomes simpler when managed service providers (MSPs) partner with the right vendor management system. In this podcast, we talk with two MSP experts about how to form strong partnerships to better utilize the extended workforce.
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.
Discover an easy way to determine which stakeholders can help you identify the right VMS for your business.
How can insurers take advantage of AI, and why is data quality so important? We explore key takeaways from a new report from Celent, including what companies can do to create a modern insurance enterprise.
Workday leaders Neil Jensen, vice president of global product vision and strategy, and Kathy Pham, vice president of AI and machine learning, delve into HR’s AI evolution and the pivotal role of middle managers. Their discussion includes insights into how CHROs can navigate this dynamic field.
Not all cloud-based platforms offer the same level of flexibility and scalability, which affects whether leaders can enable their teams to unlock innovation and drive growth. It can mean the difference between companies that transform and those that stay stagnant.
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?
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.
In a new survey, 46% of retail leaders said improving finance through transformation projects is a top priority. Read the Workday and KPMG report to learn what this means for retail CFOs.
The 2024 PEAK Matrix® report from Everest Group paints a bright future for vendor management systems.
HR and procurement make powerful allies when it comes to the external workforce. See how to foster a strong partnership between these teams to benefit both your business and your contingent workers.
Built for small and midsize local governments, Launch for Government is a new, data-driven approach to deploying Workday that results in an accelerated, more affordable, and lower-risk approach to digital transformation.
The next generation of grocers are constantly adapting to their customers’ needs. Value pricing, smart planning, and leveraging technologies such as AI are all key to an incredible consumer experience.
From tight staffing levels to the public’s expectations for digital experiences, government agencies are dealing with a lot. That’s why they’re embracing new technologies and approaches, such as AI for productivity improvements and skills-based talent management.
Transformative trends promise to impact higher education over the next few years. From AI and digital experiences to the power of data, here’s how higher ed leaders can prepare now for what’s next.
Students on average lose 43% of their credits upon transferring from one institution to another. Learn how higher education leaders can make the credit process more transparent, efficient, and clear so students can more easily complete their degrees.
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.
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.”
