Work Enters a New Era: AI Takes Center Stage at Innovation Summit
Artificial intelligence took the spotlight at the Workday Innovation Summit, where the company outlined its vision for the future.
Workday News and Culture
Stories on our company, culture, and Workmates.
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Our Commitment to Our European Customers
Empowering our global customers to thrive has always been at Workday’s core and in today's dynamic geopolitical and AI regulatory landscape, particularly in the European Union, we are focused on providing customers with the tools and assurances they need to confidently adapt to today’s uncertainty.
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Announcing Our 2025 Workday Partner Award Winners
These Workday Partner Awards recognize the exceptional contributions of our partners, honoring their innovation and unwavering dedication to delivering outstanding value to our joint customers. This achievement is a testament to the power of our partnership and the incredible results we can accomplish together. Read on to learn this year’s winners.
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People-Powered AI: How HiredScore's Secret Weapon Is Empowering Its Team
HiredScore's story is one of big vision and even bigger heart, transforming how businesses approach talent. Discover how their commitment to human-centric AI resonates at the heart of their team.
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Workday Podcast: The Rise of the CIO, from the Cloud to AI
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.
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Working to Ensure Public Policy Builds Trust and Drives Innovation Forever Forward
In 2025, we see tremendous opportunities in the technology policy arena and are excited to share our focus areas for the coming year.
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4 Projects That Are Top of Mind for Tech and Media Leaders
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.
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It’s Time to Elevate Climate Action: Climate Week NYC
Workday Chief Sustainability Officer Erik Hansen shares takeaways from Climate Week NYC with insights from Workday Chief Philanthropy Officer Carrie Varoquiers and other leaders who are making an impact on the climate crisis.
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Workday Celebrates Global Ethics Day
To recognize the importance of ethics in the workplace, Workday leaders share how integrity and ethical behavior impact how they show up as leaders and influence their approaches to innovation and transformation. We also celebrate Workday’s receipt of the 2024 World’s Most Ethical Companies Award.
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Q&A With AI Innovator and Evisort Founder and CEO Jerry Ting
To mark the close of Workday’s acquisition of Evisort, an AI-native document intelligence platform, we spoke with its founder and CEO about the impetus and vision behind his company.
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UNTAPPED: Workday-Developed Documentary Explores Skills as the Modern Currency of Work
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.
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Workday Rising: 5 Top Innovations to Help Organizations Move Forever Forward
Workday Rising was a 72-hour whirlwind that showcased exciting new AI technologies, customer innovations, partner collaborations, and more. Check out five key takeaways from the event that will drive positive change for organizations well into the future.
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Workday Rising: A Celebration of Customers, Partners, and AI Innovation
Workday Rising is about celebrating customers—learn who won the North America Customer Awards and the Workday Customer Lifetime Achievement Award. News announcements included AI-powered Workday Wellness, an expansion of the Industry Accelerators partner program, and Workday Ventures’ AI investments.
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Rising to the Top: Unveiling Our Workday Customer Award Winners
At our Community Keynote at Workday Rising, we announced this year’s Workday North America Customer Award Winners. Read on to learn how these organizations are creating value and innovating to drive their organizations forward.
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Workday Rising: Introducing Workday Illuminate, the Next Generation of Workday AI
During the Innovation Keynote, Workday leaders shared how Workday Illuminate will accelerate manual tasks, provide real-time assistance, and transform entire business processes.
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Workday Rising: Continued Innovations in Finance for 2024 Highlight AI Benefits of a Unified Platform
Workday is introducing enhancements across an array of products focused on hyper-automating processes for financial management, planning, and spend management while improving the speed and accuracy of data insights.
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Largest Workday Rising Ever: Forever Forward With Workday
Kicking off Workday Rising 2024, CEO Carl Eschenbach set the tone by previewing Workday Illuminate, the next generation of Workday AI. Read on to learn more.
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Workday Illuminate: The Future of Enterprise AI Is Here
At Workday, we believe that AI can fundamentally transform the enterprise. Here’s why.
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Workday Podcast: The Benefits of Skills-Based Hiring for Businesses and Employees
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.
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Workday Foundation: Going Upstream to Address Root Causes
Learn about the Workday Foundation’s Upstream Grant Fund. This fund supports investments in prevention initiatives, including nonprofits that help build unified communities, reduce the severity of disease and pandemics, and drive disaster and resilience response.
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Meeting Customers Right Where They Are to Drive Business Forward
We’re hitting the road this summer to spend some face time with our favorite people—customers, prospects, and leaders—to better understand their challenges, strengthen trusted relationships, and help them navigate the age of AI.
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Get Ready to Rock at Workday Rising
Workday Rising 2024 will bring us together to build invaluable connections, preview AI innovations, and discuss cutting-edge strategies to take business forever forward. Learn more from Workday Chief Marketing Officer Emma Chalwin.
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Making an Impact Forever Forward: Insights From Our Global Impact Report
We’re pleased to share highlights from our “2024 Global Impact Report” and how we’re moving forever forward.
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Maximizing Our Climate Impact Through Multi-Year Offtake Agreements
At Workday, we focus on what we can do within our own walls to support our planet and also create partnerships that enhance innovation to generate significant climate impact. With this in mind, we share our new partnership with Patch, an organization focused on helping corporations support long-term change and contribute to cutting-edge climate solutions, and we highlight our first-of-its-kind agreement with Tradewater, an organization addressing orphaned oil and gas wells.
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Workday Hits a New Milestone: A Conversation With Carl Eschenbach
Workday has joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time, ranking us among the largest U.S. companies by revenue. We sat down with our CEO Carl Eschenbach to talk about this milestone and how Workday will continue to move the world of business forever forward.
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Unleashing the Power of Innovation with Public Cloud
Today we announced we've expanded our public cloud offerings. Workday technology leader Campbell Webb explains how this supports our commitment to deliver unique value to our customers—regardless of their size, region, or industry.
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Announcing Our 2024 Workday Partner Innovation Award Winners
These awards honor select services and software partners for their commitment to our customers’ success, demonstrated by their innovative extensions of Workday solutions. Read on to learn this year’s winners.
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Best in KLAS: Serving as a True Partner for Our Healthcare Community
For the seventh year in a row, KLAS Research has ranked us as Best in KLAS in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management, and Workday Supply Chain Management for Healthcare based on feedback from our customers.
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Top 5 Workday Podcast and Videos of 2023
2023 was full of inspirational conversations we captured on podcasts and videos. Our amazing guests shared insights on topics including the impact of AI, creating a sense of belonging in hybrid work environments, and elevating the employee experience, to name a few. Check out our top 5 podcasts and videos for 2023.
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Top 5 Workday Blog Articles of 2023
We selected 5 articles from this year that capture what’s shaping the future of work. Read on to learn about the enormous impact of AI, how businesses across industries are overcoming tough challenges, innovations in our customer community, and more.
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Power the Future of Healthcare: Start With Innovation
Workday leaders share insights on how AI and ML, supply chain disruption, and cost constraints are impacting healthcare.
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Workday Shares AI and Skills Expertise With Congress
Workday's VP of productivity technology, Josh Lannin, recently testified before U.S. Congress to share his insights on AI and its role in enhancing workplace collaboration.
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Culturally Responsive Care: Making Mental Health Accessible to All in the Workplace
Employers are prioritizing and enhancing employee mental health benefits. In this post, part of our VIBE Voices series, we explore the next step forward in making mental health accessible to all: culturally responsive care.
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Workday Rising Daily: Conversations With Customers and Partners
We’ve wrapped our second full day of Workday Rising! Watch the highlights, including the latest on our partnerships with ADP and AWS. Also hear from customers who are realizing the benefits of the full Workday platform.
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Collaboration Sparks Innovation: Expanding Our Partner Ecosystem
Workday’s partners play a critical role in delivering the tools and expertise customers need to not only adapt, but thrive in the future of work. At Workday Rising, we shared how we’re innovating with our partners to do just that.
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Workday Rising Daily: Innovating With Workday AI
Watch highlights from the opening of Workday Rising with our Co-CEOs Aneel Bhusri and Carl Eschenbach. Learn how we’re leading the enterprise software world with generative AI—including the new Workday AI Marketplace.
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Workday Rising: Join Us to Explore How the Future Works
At Workday Rising September 26-29, we’ll gather as a community to guide business transformation in this next productivity frontier. Learn more from Workday Chief Marketing Officer Emma Chalwin.
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Video: Maximizing the Benefits of AI With Smart Public Policy
Smart public policy is key to utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) ethically and responsibly. Two Workday executives share insights into the realm of AI and how it’s impacting policy matters.
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6 Highlights From Our 2023 Workday Global Impact Report
Erik Hansen shares takeaways from Workday’s “2023 Global Impact Report” highlighting customer successes, environmental sustainability, employee engagement, belonging and diversity, social impact, and responsible AI and ML and governance.
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Workday VNDLY Named a Leader in Everest Group’s Vendor Management System PEAK Matrix® Assessment
We’re honored to share that the 2023 PEAK Matrix® report from Everest Group features Workday VNDLY as a Leader and a Star Performer in the vendor management system (VMS) space.
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Workday DevCon 2023: Building the Future of Work Together
It’s been an exciting week at Workday DevCon 2023. Check out highlights from our developer conference, including new tools and platform capabilities, partnership announcements, and how Workday is using AI and ML to help developers create applications that drive business growth.
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Workday Podcast: Creating a Sense of Belonging in a Hybrid Work Environment
As organizations continue to navigate the shift toward hybrid work models, creating a sense of belonging among remote and in-office employees has become more important than ever. That’s why we spoke with Erica Dhawan, author of “Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection No Matter the Distance,” to get her insights on how companies can foster a culture of inclusion and collaboration in this new era of work.
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Inspire, Learn, and Build at Workday DevCon 2023
Workday DevCon 2023 is almost here—the place for developers to refine their skills, collaborate, and test new apps with the Workday community.
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Workday Podcast: Diversity and Inclusion: Closing the Strategy Gap
In this edition of the Workday Podcast, we spoke with Daniela Porr, solutions marketing lead at Workday, about the driving forces behind diversity and inclusion, what the strategy gap is, and much more.
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Workday to Support Accelerating the Development of Carbon Removal
We’re proud to announce our new membership with Frontier, an advance market commitment that’s accelerating the development of carbon removal technologies.
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Announcing Our 2023 Workday Partner Innovation Award Winners
The Workday Partner Innovation Awards honor select services and software partners for their commitment to powering our customers’ success by extending key Workday solutions. Read on to learn this year’s winners.
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Upholding Ethics and Integrity to Fuel Innovation and Technology Excellence
For the third consecutive year, Workday has been named one of The World’s Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere Institute, an honor we share with more than 50 Workday customers and partners. Chris Fedrow, chief compliance officer at Workday, discusses the importance of integrity.
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How Workmates Are Celebrating International Women’s Day: 24 Hours of Perspectives and Reflection
Workmates across our global offices are making the most of International Women’s Day on March 8 by hosting an event every hour for 24 hours, reflecting on the multidimensional aspect of the annual commemoration.
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Celebrating Healthcare Innovation Award Winners
The Workday Healthcare Innovation Awards honor customers who are driving transformation to better serve their patients and communities.
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Workday Wins Best in KLAS for ERP for Sixth Year Due to Outstanding Customer Feedback
Our healthcare customers and KLAS Research have ranked us as Best in KLAS in enterprise resource planning (ERP) for Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management, and Workday Supply Chain Management for healthcare, and Best in KLAS for Talent Management.
Retaining Talent: Why We Need to Talk About Menopause at Work
Recognizing World Menopause Day this October 18, we’re resharing our VIBE Voices article focused on menopause care. Addressing this need, both with conversation and action, can help business leaders improve retention of midlife workers and create inclusive measures to better support multiple generations of employees, now and into the future.
Insights From Climate Week: Discussing Our Climate Commitments
At Climate Week 2022, our team shared insights on our sustainability journey at Workday and discussed best practices for other organizations looking to expand their climate efforts.
Creating a Seamless Employee Experience
Three Workday leaders share how the company is delivering on its mission to make work effortless.
Top 10 Workday Blog Articles of 2022
Our top 10 blog posts from the past year cover topics that are as popular among business leaders now as on the day they first published. We’ve included some of our favorite Workday customer and community stories, too.
Workday Podcast: Real Talk From a DEI Trailblazer
As part of our VIBE Voices series, Workday Chief Diversity Officer Carin Taylor and Lily Zheng, a diversity, inclusion, and equity strategist and consultant, have a frank discussion about the state of equity in organizations, how data can paint a picture of your workplace, and how everyone has the power to make change.
Latinx and Hispanic People Embody Their Diverse Cultures to Thrive at Workday
As the United States celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month, Latinx and Hispanic people at Workday throughout the world reflect on how their cultural backgrounds have played a role in their lives and careers. Read on to learn about their views in our latest edition of VIBE Voices.
The People of Workday Rising: A Personal Experience
At Workday we talk about how people are at the center of business. My connections with three people at Workday Rising—a customer, a prospect, and a Workmate—are reminders that the conference is all about people and our Workday community.
Workday Rising Daily: More Inspiring Stories From Our Customer Community
In our final edition of the Workday Rising Daily, read inspiring stories from leaders in financial services, healthcare, higher education, the public sector, and more. Also discover discussions at Workday Rising on the latest in ESG initiatives, women in finance, employee experience, and effective financial planning.
Workday Rising Daily: Stories of Shared Learnings Across Our Customer Community
In this edition, we bring you stories about how business leaders across multiple industries are addressing some of today’s most pressing challenges. We also showcase takeaways from a session on how organizations can move beyond the status quo with their diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Workday Rising Daily: Innovating for Customers in a Changing World
Learn what Workday leaders shared in our Innovation Keynote at Workday Rising, including new solutions for our customers. You’ll also find recaps from conference sessions on the challenges and opportunities facing finance, HR, and IT leaders in our changing world. Read more in the Workday Rising Daily.
Riding the Wave of Innovation at Workday to Deliver a Seamless Experience
Jeff Gelfuso, Workday’s chief design officer, shares how our redesigned user experience is helping customers adapt in a changing world.
Workday Rising Daily: Welcoming Our Customers Back to Workday Rising
We’re excited to welcome customers, partners, and others in our community back to Workday Rising, our marquee customer event. Learn what we announced on the eve of the conference, including our plan to donate $1 million to organizations that reskill people for in-demand jobs in a low-carbon economy.
Continuing Our Commitments to Creating a More Sustainable Future at Workday Rising
At Workday Rising, we’re creating experiences aligned with our pillars of sustainability: measuring carbon impact, partnering with sustainable supply chains, waste reduction, and engagement.
3 Reasons Why You Should Join the Workday Rising Digital Experience
Workday Rising is back in-person and virtually through a new digital experience, September 12-15. Learn about the exciting opportunities we’ve created for virtual attendees from our Chief Marketing Officer Christine Cefalo.
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.
Workday Rising: Made for the Changemakers
After three years Workday Rising is back and brighter than ever. At this year’s event we’ll celebrate Changemakers, and attendees can choose from two digital paths to access hundreds of sessions at our flagship customer conference. Learn more from our Chief Marketing Officer Christine Cefalo.
Workday and McKinsey Team Up to Unleash the Power of Finance and People Data for Businesses
This global alliance provides clients with innovative solutions that transform the way their businesses operate.
Take 5 With Christine Cefalo: Marketing From the Heart Wins Minds
Christine Cefalo credits her early entry into the workforce for helping to instill a strong work ethic, a quality she’s carried throughout her life. Our CMO discusses her career and shares some of the lessons she’s learned over the past 14 years at Workday.
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.
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.
