New Research: 5 Federal AI Challenges Workday Solves For
New Workday and GovExec research reveals that federal agencies are moving from AI experimentation to execution, and pinpoints the five gaps they must close for widespread adoption.
Workday News and Culture
Stories on our company, culture, and Workmates.
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Workday Recognized as a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises
Workday has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises. This is the 11th consecutive year we've been recognized as a Leader—to us, a reflection of our commitment to constantly innovate and meet the needs of our customers.
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Agent Adoption Is Up 35% in One Quarter: How the World's Leading Brands Drove Value With Workday AI in Q2
More than 5,500 customers now use one or more Workday agents—up over 35% from just last quarter. Here's how leading brands put Workday AI agents and Sana Enterprise to work across HR, finance, and IT in Q2.
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Introducing Pilot Access to Workday’s Open Developer Platform
We're excited to announce that the waitlist for Workday's Open Developer Platform is now open. Here’s what happened when we let any developer build on our platform for the first time.
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Speaking at Rising 2026: 6 Workday Leaders Share Why This Year Is Different
Workday Rising returns October 12–15 in Las Vegas, with a lineup of speakers you won’t want to miss. Six Workday leaders share why they can't wait to take the stage.
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Research Shows The Best AI Memory Isn’t Bigger. It’s More Selective.
Workday discovered a better method for telling AI what memories to hold onto—and what to forget—driving 12% higher precision and 8% improved memory quality.
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For Better AI Results, Split The Work Across Agents
How can organizations ensure AI answers are high-quality and compliant? New Workday research offers a solution.
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Are AI Explanations Dependable? New Workday Study Puts This Question to The Test
AI can now explain the rationale behind its recommendations in natural language. A new Workday study gives organizations a way to test whether those explanations are dependable: do they shift appropriately when the evidence they’re based on changes?
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Putting Trust First: 5 Best Practices for Governing Workplace AI
As AI takes on a greater role in HR, trust can’t be an afterthought. Workday and the Future of Privacy Forum developed a new framework to help policymakers and employers govern AI responsibly.
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Trust at AI Speed: Five Ingredients of the New Workday
Here's how Workday is delivering innovation at full speed without putting core operations at risk.
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Workday’s Bron Hastings: Why Partners Are Key To Turning AI Ambition Into Action
Bronwyn (Bron) Hastings has joined Workday as our new SVP of global partners. In this Q&A, she shares how AI is reshaping the partner ecosystem—and why she believes this moment is a turning point for partners and customers alike.
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6 Workday Risings Later: Why I Keep Coming Back
Unity’s Global Head of Finance Transformation & Procurement shares what he finds value in: AI insights, community, and peer learning.
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Workday’s Journey to Usage-Based AI Pricing
Learn how Workday—as both a vendor building AI monetization models and as "Customer Zero"—is easing into the AI consumption economy by putting the customer first.
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How Workday’s L&D Team Built Courses 50% Faster With Sana Learn
See how Workday’s L&D team used Sana Learn to increase course completion, cut build times, and localize global training with AI.
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People, Money, and Agents: Two Years of Reinvention
The strategy behind build, connect, unify — and the harder work of evolving who we are.
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Floyd Walterhouse: Don't Fall in Love With Technology
McKee Foods' longest-tenured IT leader on a foundational Workday partnership, the limits of AI enthusiasm, and why the person on the other side of the technology is always the point.
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How Curiosity Powered Miami University’s Workday Journey
When Miami University launched its Workday implementation, the project team shared a unique challenge: not one of them had prior experience with the platform.
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Turning AI Hype Into Real World Builds
Walk the DevCon floor with Kainos to see how hackathon momentum, agents, and developers turned Workday’s new developer tools into real builds.
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DevCon Celebrates The Community Behind The Magic
Catch up on the latest from DevCon and see how Workday is boosting community collaboration to shape the future of tech.
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Building Agents on Workday’s Guardrails
Discover how Workday empowers enterprise agents to operate openly and safely using agent-ready tools, open interfaces, and flexible consumption models.
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Workday Rewrites the Developer Playbook at DevCon
Workday CTO Gabe Monroy: “We’re keeping the trust, but we’re adding the speed.”
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The New Economics of Enterprise AI: Why We Built Flex Credits
Learn how Workday Flex Credits offer the visibility and flexibility you need to manage costs while maximizing your impact.
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Adaptive Decision Intelligence Delivers Free-Form Analysis Across Any Data Set
Adaptive Decision Intelligence delivers conversational modeling and data exploration, breaking the limits of traditional planning environments.
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New Research Reveals the Reason Work Feels Harder Than It Should
Why People Are Doing Work Systems Should be Doing.
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Workday Leads Talent Acquisition Into the Agentic Era
Workday is honored to be recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Talent Acquisition as it continues to help organizations hire faster, improve candidate experiences, and scale recruiting with AI-powered agents.
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2026 Federal Forum Highlights: AI and Skills-First Strategies Drive Success
Discover the top takeaways from the fourth annual Workday Federal Forum, including thoughts on artificial intelligence, skills-based hiring, workforce planning, and elevating the employee experience.
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Honoring Service With Action: How Workday Supports Our Veteran Community
Discover how Workday is bridging the civilian opportunity gap for transitioning service members. From philanthropic investments and dedicated hiring programs to innovative skills translation technology, we’re empowering veterans to thrive in the modern workforce.
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Announcing Our 2026 Workday Partner Award Winners
The Workday Partner Awards recognize the exceptional contributions of our partners, honoring their innovation and unwavering dedication to delivering outstanding value to customers. This recognition is a testament to the power of our ecosystem and the incredible results we deliver together to fuel their best work. Read on to meet this year’s winners.
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Workday Delivers Next Wave of Agentic AI to Power the New Work Day
With hundreds of new AI capabilities and agents, we’re helping HR, Finance, IT, and Legal teams trade mundane, repetitive tasks for the work that really matters.
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Workday Recognized as One of the 2026 World’s Most Ethical Companies®
To dig into what this honor means and how Workday approaches ethics and integrity in practice, we sat down with Rich Sauer, Workday’s chief legal officer and head of corporate affairs.
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A Better Way to Work: A Day in the Life With Sana
Discover how Workday employees use Sana to automate the mundane and reclaim their workday.
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The Power of Listening: Dan Duane’s Midlife Reinvention
In this installment of our Workday Foundation’s “Switching Gears” series, discover how former journalist Dan Duane navigated a midlife reinvention, pivoting from a 30-year writing career to finding new purpose and connection as a therapist.
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Workday Leader Joins the NRF Foundation Board
Joshua Secrest’s new role represents a continuation of his long-standing commitment to the retail sector and underscores the foundational importance of designing effective people programs for high-volume, frontline organizations.
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Building the Business Case for AI (That Your CFO Will Approve)
Is understaffing killing your revenue? Learn how to calculate the cost of “not doing” and build a winning business case for AI automation at an NRF 2026 workshop led by Workday's Josh Secrest.
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A New Era: Workday Ventures Portfolio Founders Share Their Vision for Agentic AI
Innovative leaders are amplifying human capability with the next wave of technology.
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Service, Skills, and Support: Veteran Voices From Workday
In honor of Veterans Day, three Workday colleagues share their personal journeys from military service to the corporate world, highlighting a culture of unwavering support and a "skills-first" hiring philosophy.
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Why Human Connection Is Our Most Important Investment in the Age of AI
Recognizing that AI has the potential to further amplify feelings of loneliness and isolation, the Workday Foundation is proud to welcome the U.S. Chamber of Connection as a new partner in our ongoing efforts to strengthen human connection and increase trust to support flourishing in our communities.
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The Great Strategic Reset: Mastering New Rules in Professional Services
The traditional professional services playbook is obsolete. In an era where AI and evolving client demands are rewriting the rules in real time, firms must strategically pivot their operations to master this new game.
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Workday + Sana: Unlocking the New Front Door for Work
Workday’s definitive agreement to acquire Sana will power a new Workday experience where knowledge, data, action, and learning come together as one and create the new front door for work. Sana CEO and founder Joel Hellermark discusses the strategic move.
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Workday + Paradox: Redefining the Frontline Candidate Experience
Workday's acquisition of Paradox is set to transform talent acquisition by making hiring faster, smarter, and more personal through its AI-driven redefinition of the frontline candidate experience.
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Powering Purpose-Driven Organizations: Supporting the American Cancer Society
Lionel Liniger highlights how Workday supports the American Cancer Society in its mission to end cancer, demonstrating how modern technology empowers purpose-driven organizations to efficiently manage operations and focus on their core goals.
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From Vision to Impact: Celebrating Our 2025 North America Customer Award Winners
At our Community Keynote during Workday Rising, we unveiled this year’s North America Customer Award winners. Their stories highlight how our customers use our solutions to create new value, spark innovation, and move their businesses forward in a changing world.
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Workday Rising: Celebrating the Community
Focusing on inspiration, day three of the event shined a spotlight on the Workday community, highlighting the continuous growth and innovation of several Workday customers.
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Workday Rising: Driving Business Forward Faster
At the keynotes kicking off Workday Rising, leaders including CEO Carl Eschenbach and Gerrit Kazmaier, president of product and technology, shared the company’s bold vision for the future of work.
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Introducing Workday Build: The Developer Platform to Build the Future of Work with AI
Workday Build is a new, comprehensive developer platform that empowers organizations to create and scale AI-powered solutions for the evolving world of work. Learn how Workday is enabling developers to leverage advanced AI and agentic tools, creating a dynamic marketplace, and growing a vibrant developer community to foster innovation and collaboration.
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Lighting the Future: What to Expect at Workday Rising 2025
Join us to learn about the ways AI will redefine the way we work and the opportunities it can help unlock for finance, HR, and IT leaders.
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Why Yasmeen Ahmad Is Excited To Lead Workday Data Cloud’s Next Chapter
Workday's new SVP of Data Cloud on how agentic AI is reshaping the enterprise, why data is key to driving scalable AI value, and what she's looking forward to at her first Rising.
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Brené Brown Headlines Workday Rising—A Human-Centered Lens Toward the Future
At Rising this year, Brené Brown will bring a fresh take on how we work and lead. She’ll help you see what strong leadership looks like in high-pressure, fast-moving environments, and how to bring those behaviors into your team, your culture, and your day-to-day.
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Rio to Rising: Duran Duran's Sonic Evolution
Style icons, sonic pioneers, and now headliners of the Workday Rising 2025 Customer Appreciation Party on September 17, Duran Duran personify the themes of innovation, agility, and transformation that define this event. From the dawn of MTV to the birth of AI, their legacy proves that the future belongs to the bold.
