News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
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.
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.
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.
For successful workforce planning, organizations must rethink their talent strategies to minimize skills gaps, maximize hiring investments, and better align talent with corporate objectives.
Traditional categories in media and entertainment are quickly melting away. How can leaders in these industries thrive when everything is changing all the time?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Human resources researcher and author Ben Eubanks explains how artificial intelligence can be deployed in unexpected ways to accomplish HR tasks.
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.
At Workday’s Conversations for a Changing World, Accenture’s Penelope Prett discussed what it will take to keep the hybrid workforce engaged.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stacey Harris, chief research officer and managing partner at Sapient Insights Group, shares how workforce trends are shaping strategic priorities for human resources professionals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At Conversations for a Changing World, leaders from Cisco and Accenture talked about the future of hybrid work for technology, media, and entertainment companies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Andrew Dubowec, chief growth officer at League, and Cristina Goldt, general manager, talent optimization at Workday, discuss how the pandemic dramatically upleveled the importance of the employee experience and how employees use their benefits—all the way up to the C-suite.
Laura Mazzullo, human resources (HR) recruiter and owner of East Side Staffing, joins us to discuss the changing face of HR recruitment.
Now more than ever, we understand how critical mental health is to our overall wellbeing. Two Workday leaders—Carin Taylor, chief diversity officer, and Ben Carter, vice president of total rewards—discuss the importance of destigmatizing conversations about mental health, what organizations can do to support their employees’ wellbeing, and the theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day, Mental Health in an Unequal World.
Mary Barra sets ambitious hiring and environmental goals for the storied automaker—and illustrates the associated benefits—as part of Workday’s Conversations for a Changing World digital event.
Seven out of 10 human resources (HR) leaders say the function is ready for reinvention, but shifting the way we work isn’t easy. In a conversation with Greg Pryor, executive director at Workday, Amy Wright, managing partner of IBM’s talent and transformation practice, shares illuminating survey results about the pandemic, HR 3.0, and the critical imperatives for HR.
In a recent episode of the Workday Podcast, Daniela Porr joined Steve Dunne to discuss current research about the state of equality, diversity, and inclusion in Europe.
Elena Valentine, CEO and co-founder of Skill Scout, shares an astounding story about vulnerability, reality, and how we can grow stronger by retaining and attracting talent.
Two executives from Gammon Construction discuss their experience with their digital transformation journey so far, as well as the benefits they will gain from it.
Tom Stewart, chief knowledge officer at AchieveNEXT, discusses key insights from the global “2021 CFO-CHRO Sentiment Study,” including what’s top of mind for finance and people leaders in the coming year.
In this podcast we’re joined by Wendy Axelrod, executive coach, author, speaker, and mentor at Wendy Axelrod PhD.