Why Frontline Workers Must Be Part of Your Digital Transformation
Frontline workers are often the first people to represent your brand and help your customers. Here's why it's more important than ever to prioritize their needs and keep them engaged.
Human Resources
News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
-
-
3 Keys to Holiday Retail Success
The holidays can make or break annual profits for retailers. As this important season draws closer, the three things on the collective mind of retail leaders are speed, convenience, and personalization.
-
Organizational Agility: Preparing Your Workforce for Change
Among the findings to emerge from our global survey of 998 business leaders is the importance of understanding the skills across their workforce, and ensuring their people develop the right skills for the future.
-
Organizational Agility: Supporting Adaptable People and Processes
Leading businesses are resilient in the face of uncertainty. Our global survey findings indicate adaptable organizations can quickly put talent where it’s needed and build the business processes to support those people.
-
How Siemens Healthineers is Embracing Disruption in Healthcare
Andre Heinz, global head of human resources at Siemens Healthineers, talks about the changing face of the healthcare industry, the role of technology and people in transforming it, and the importance of a strong culture.
-
Big Bang Theory: HR Transformation in Practice at GfK
When transforming HR, many factors influence whether an organization should take a staggered approach to replacing technology and processes, or if they should go for the “big-bang” and address all areas at once. One customer shares a business case for simultaneously transforming as many elements of HR as possible.
-
5 Things To Know About Workday Credentials and WayTo by Workday
Here's a deeper look at Workday Credentials, a new blockchain-powered credentialing technology for enterprises, and WayTo by Workday, which provides people with a way to manage and share their digital credentials.
-
Workday People Experience: An Advantage in the Changing World of Work
Today we announced Workday People Experience, a personalized, more intelligent employee experience aimed at improving efficiency, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.
-
From Big Gulps to Big Data: How 7-Eleven Is Driving Digital Innovation
As the world’s first convenience store, 7‑Eleven continues to find innovative ways to cater to a new generation of digitally-savvy shoppers. As technology evolves, the company has a vested interest in ensuring it stays two steps ahead of its customer’s needs.
-
When Workplace Tools Help Instead of Hinder, Everyone Wins
As job roles and processes continue to change, organizations must focus on tools and technologies that create positive employee experiences—more streamlined, efficient, and similar to consumer technology experiences.
-
Workday Podcast: Opening Doors to Opportunity at Walmart
Walmart's Gayatri Agnew discusses how one of the world's largest companies is driving change through its Walmart.org philanthropic organization, by opening up opportunities for its associates to grow their careers.
-
Workday Named a Leader for Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises
For the fourth consecutive year, Workday has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises due to our unyielding commitment to customer success.
-
Norconsult Embraces HR Disruption Head On
With continued global expansion, Norconsult, a leading multidisciplinary consultancy firm for social planning, engineering design, and architecture, disrupted its approach to HR to better engage its people.
-
Engaging a Five-Generation Workplace
Up to five generations now coexist in many workplaces, and it's important for each generation to understand the others' perspectives. Greg Pryor shares insights from members of the millennial generation and Generation Z, and what's important to them.
-
How Landit, a Workday Ventures Company, Is Redefining Career Development
Landit, a Workday Ventures software partner, helps companies invest and develop everyone from future leaders to undiscovered talent through its leading customized talent management tool.
-
Travelex: Embracing Continuous Innovation to Stay Ahead
Claire Woolley is head of HR Technology at London-based Travelex, the world’s largest foreign-exchange provider. Woolley discusses business agility, HR innovation, and the company’s plans to stay ahead of its competitors.
-
Why Learning and Talent Mobility Are Key in Today’s Workplace
The No. 1 reason people quit their jobs is the inability to learn and grow, according to the "2019 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends" report. Here's what HR leaders and their businesses are doing about it.
-
3 Ways Financial Services Companies Can Win the Battle for Talent
To win the battle for talent, the finserv industry must adopt an age-old adage: If you can’t beat them, join them. Finserv companies will gain an edge by leveraging the same attributes that draw talent to the technology industry.
-
Adventist HealthCare: Transforming Supply Chain Management
Like other healthcare organizations, Adventist HealthCare faces pressure to improve efficiencies due to changes occurring across the industry. See how they're handling operational challenges and driving innovation.
-
Workday Podcast: What’s Code for “Values-Run Business” in German? Mittelstand
In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the Mittelstand—midsize, often family-owned companies—make up a large segment of the economy. Klaus Schatz of KPMG shares economic challenges facing the Mittelstand and how companies are adapting.
-
Workday Podcast: Find, Engage, Retain: Building a Culture of Harmony at Warner Music Group
In the latest Workday podcast, discover how one of the world's largest entertainment and record label companies finds, engages, and retains its employees at a time when the battle for talent makes it really tough.
-
Shifts in Healthcare IT: How CIOs Can Initiate Transformation
To lead digital transformation efforts in healthcare, CIOs and other IT leaders are shifting how they recruit and interact with employees to better engage and retain top talent.
-
Workday Podcast: Modern Professional Services Automation Helps Firms Work Smarter
Margo Visitacion, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, discusses the challenges facing professional services firms, and how technology solutions such as professional services automation (PSA) can help firms work smarter rather than harder.
-
Workday Elevate London: Exploring the Future of Payroll
Due to shifts in technology, payroll is becoming increasingly dynamic. A payroll expert and consultant shares how other payroll professionals can prepare for the future and play a more strategic role in their organizations.
-
Dayton Children’s Hospital: Deploying Supply Chain Management
The corporate director of supply chain at Dayton Children's Hospital shares his team’s experience deploying a new supply chain management system, benefits they’re already seeing, and their collaborative partnership with Workday.
-
Workday Podcast: Providing Opportunity Onramps Through Upskilling
Learn how upskilling programs can help solve the challenge of finding great talent while creating opportunity onramps for people to move into better jobs.
-
Shelter Insurance Brings HR, Financials, and Analytics Together, part 2
The director of accounting at Shelter Insurance shares how his team is using Workday Prism Analytics to increase efficiencies, layer in data, and gain insights into Shelter's workforce and financials.
-
Shelter Insurance Brings HR, Financials, and Analytics Together, part 1
The director of accounting at Shelter Insurance shares his experience of deploying Workday HCM, including benefits they're already seeing from having financials and HR in one system.
-
Workday Ventures: Democratizing Employee Enablement Experiences
The world of work has shifted from "managing" people to enabling them. Greg Pryor talks to Leighanne Levensaler about how Workday Ventures invests in early-stage companies that help our customers build enabling enterprises.
-
Workday eBook: Three Steps to a Stronger Healthcare Organization
How can healthcare organizations decrease costs and improve quality of operations and care? Check out three proven steps.
-
How IT Consulting Firm BNB Has Gained Insights and Increased Profitability
The chief operating officer at Business Network Builders (BNB) explains how using Workday has helped the IT services company increase project profitability, improve employee engagement, gain insights into resource needs, and more.
-
Six Ways to Engage and Retain Top Talent
Check out our new eBook, which shares six effective and proven strategies to help employees develop their careers and to build a more engaged and motivated workforce.
-
Maximizing the Value of HR Digital Transformation, Today and in the Future
By 2025, half of enterprises worldwide will have invested in a cloud-deployed HCM suite for administrative HR and talent management, according to Gartner, and 20 percent will have created an HR innovation practice. Here's a look at what's driving those changes.
-
In Good Company: Faster Onboarding, Greater Success
How can we help people be more successful in their new roles, faster? One of the world’s leading experts in applied social network science, Rob Cross, and Workday's Greg Pryor discuss the results of extensive research with more than 300 companies, and share insights about what creates individual success.
-
Workday Podcast: HR and Shifting to a Culture of Agility
Becky Woodmansee, HR director at Whitbread, the UK's largest operator of hotels and restaurants, talks about how Whitbread transformed HR and redefined its technology and culture to support 50,000 employees and a rapidly changing business model.
-
Experts Address Myths and Truths About the Battle for Talent
Speakers challenge assumptions about Millennials, bust myths about where people want to work, and discuss the importance of cohesive teams during the CNBC Productivity@Work series in New York.
-
Workday Podcast: How Healthcare Leaders Can Innovate in Uncertain Times
Walter Porter, a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP specializing in healthcare, shares what drives healthcare providers to innovate, why culture and back-office systems matter when attracting talent, and how some providers are investing in the future.
-
Workday Podcast: Tapping Human Potential in the Workplace
What's the best way to increase employee engagement and collaboration? Building community can help, though that's easy to say and much harder to do. We delve into this topic with Matthew Hanwell, author and HR leader at a leading Europe-based consumer goods company, Fiskars Group.
-
Workday Podcast: Peeling Back the Layers of Diversity and Inclusion
Carin Taylor, chief diversity officer at Workday, and Mike Dillon, chief diversity and inclusion leader at PwC, share their experiences and inspiring insights in a podcast on what diversity and inclusion means to each of them and their organizations.
-
PUMA: A Front Runner for HR Transformation
Agility and speed is central to the German apparel company PUMA. Like other multinational organisations, PUMA faces the pressures of managing a global workforce while maintaining brand values and culture. Here's what happened when PUMA embarked on a transformation programme to change the way it manages its people.
-
Workday Podcast: Why Great Culture Leads to Greater Business Success
Why is a great work environment and strong culture better for your employees and your business? Michael C. Bush, CEO, Great Place to Work, has the answer. He talks with Greg Pryor, senior vice president, people and performance evangelist at Workday, and offers insights gleaned from years of employee feedback data and conversations with business leaders.
-
The Changing Workplace: Business Is Personal
The voice of the individual continues to gain strength in the workplace. That's why HR and business leaders should focus on diversity, digitalization, and an employee-first culture. Read more from Workday Chief People Officer Ashley Goldsmith.
-
Workday Podcast: Redefining Engagement at Work
Dan Schawbel from Future Workplace and Erin Yang from Workday talk about the role of leadership in addressing loneliness in a technology-enabled workplace. They also discuss how millennials are redefining engagement at work to focus more on social connections.
-
Professional Services Outlook 2019: Q&A with Jeanne Urich of Service Performance Insight
What four key trends will impact the professional services industry this year? Jeanne Urich of Service Performance Insight (SPI) shares these and more ahead of SPI's publication of the 2019 Professional Services Maturity Benchmark.
-
Workday Receives Top Healthcare Ranking for Second Year in a Row
We’re proud to announce that for the second year in a row, we’ve been named Best in KLAS in ERP for our finance, HCM, and supply chain management solutions for healthcare, and a leader in talent management. Here's a look at some enhancements we've made based on healthcare customer feedback, and how we're building an even stronger community together with our customers.
-
Workday Podcast: The Importance of the Employee Experience at GE
Paul Davies, employee experience leader, GE, talks with Workday's Greg Pryor about what the employee experience really means to GE and the impact of digitalization in human resources.
-
What’s Wrong with Hiring Today, and How Pymetrics Is Trying to Fix It
Meet Frida Polli, co-founder and CEO of pymetrics, a Workday Ventures partner company. In this two-part video series, Polli talks with Leighanne Levensaler about problems with the state of hiring today, why cognitive and emotional traits are better indicators of a candidate's future success than a resume, and how pymetrics is using neuroscience to fix the career search process.
-
PwC Report: An Imaginative, Incisive Take on Four Future Worlds of Work
PwC's "Workforce of the Future, The Competing Forces Shaping 2030" reveals four possible worlds of work for 2030. The papers' authors marry facts-based business reporting with the imagination of science fiction to illustrate not just what’s possible, but what’s probable depending on the choices we make, and even include some specific pointers for HR leaders. Read more in this brief review.
-
Our Vision for a Frictionless Talent Marketplace
Workday is on a mission to help mitigate the effects of the skills gap by connecting job seekers and organizations seeking talent. While we’ve made great strides, we also realize that we need to do more. Learn how we're applying artificial intelligence to foster a true talent marketplace.
-
Roche and Workday on the Science Behind HR Transformation
Roche Group is a pharmaceuticals and diagnostics company that operates in over 100 countries and employs more than 94,000 people worldwide. With a rapidly changing business environment demanding more flexibility across systems and processes, the company’s leaders decided to launch a strategically important transformation in HR. Read our interview with Margaret Greenleaf, head of group HR strategic initiatives at Roche.
