Bringing Our Best Selves to Work at Workday
We’re thrilled to be ranked #5 on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Our Chief People Officer Ashley Goldsmith shares how we’re focused on creating a great place to work for all at Workday.
Workday News and Culture
Stories on our company, culture, and Workmates.
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Workday Ventures Advances with Investments, Leadership
As 2020 kicks into full gear, Workday Ventures now has 21 portfolio companies, and the team is expanding with the addition of Betsy Bland and Erin Yang, Workday veterans with diverse experience across strategy, product management, and marketing for enterprise applications and platform technology.
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Top 10 Workday Podcasts of 2019
Here's a look at some of our favorite Workday Podcasts of the year. Topics include building a collaborative culture, managing risk, charting the future of artificial intelligence, and much more.
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Top 10 Workday Blog Posts of 2019
We have the privilege of providing a place for members of our community to share their experiences and expertise here on the Workday Blog. Here are some of our favorite and most popular stories of the year.
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‘Tis the Season: How Companies Can Change Lives Through Opportunity Onramps
Carrie Varoquiers reflects on Workday's impact in 2019 in creating economic opportunity for all, and shares three ways business leaders can diversify their workforces and join the Opportunity Onramps movement in the year ahead.
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Celebrating Innovation Across the Healthcare Community at Workday Rising
Learn the advice healthcare executives shared with their peers, and which customer organizations were named healthcare innovation award winners, at this year's Workday Rising.
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Workday Rising Europe Daily: Building on Inspiration
As Workday Rising Europe comes to an end in Milan, check out session recaps and great photos from the event that we’ve shared in the Workday Rising Europe Daily.
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Workday Rising Europe Daily: Innovation at Work
Read about the Innovation Keynote, featuring our Co-Founder and CEO Aneel Bhusri, and some of the highlights from our Executive Programme that took place on Wednesday at Workday Rising Europe in Milan.
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Workday Rising Europe Daily: Gathering as a Community in Milan
Welcome Workday community to Milan! Here’s a look at what’s already underway at the conference, including recaps from our Retail and Hospitality and our Financial Services and Insurance Summits on Tuesday at Workday Rising Europe.
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Workday to Acquire Scout RFP: Helping Transform the Office of Procurement
Workday has entered into an agreement to acquire Scout RFP, a leading cloud-based platform for strategic sourcing and supplier engagement. The acquisition of Scout RFP will help accelerate Workday’s ability to deliver a comprehensive source-to-pay solution with a best-in-class strategic sourcing offering, elevating the office of procurement in strategic importance and transforming the procurement function.
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Workday Cloud Platform: How Customers Are Creating Measurable Business Value
The usefulness of Workday Cloud Platform stems from the innovation, evolving business needs, and creativity of the Workday ecosystem—the growing community of users and developers across customers and services and software partners.
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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.
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Workday Rising Daily: Inspiration Keynote and More
In today’s edition of the Workday Rising Daily, we recap a discussion with DeRetta Rhodes, senior vice president and head of human resources for the Atlanta Braves and provide highlights from Thursday morning’s Workday Inspiration Keynote.
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Video: The Most Important News From Workday Rising in 2019
Interested in learning about all the new solutions we announced for our customers at Workday Rising? We've consolidated the Workday Innovation Keynote into a 15-minute video.
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Machine Learning Across Workday Products: Delivering Business Value to Customers
Here's how our customers are using machine learning that's been integrated throughout all of Workday's infrastructure to make better business decisions.
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Workday Rising Daily: Workday Innovation Keynote and More
In today's edition of the Workday Rising Daily, we reveal all the news announced in Tuesday morning’s Workday Innovation Keynote and also provide recaps from several sessions.
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Announcing the Workday and Year Up Internship Training Program
At Workday Rising, we're unveiling the Workday and Year Up Internship Training Program. This new Opportunity Onramps program marries our customers’ desire to make a positive social impact with their talent needs.
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Workday Rising Daily: Welcome to Workday Rising
Welcome to the Workday Rising Daily! Every day this week, we’ll deliver stories and photos that showcase what’s happening this year at Workday Rising in Orlando. See what happened on Monday.
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Taking Action to Build Belonging, Diversity, and Inclusion
Companies are focused on the concept of belonging, to create workplaces where people feel included and psychologically safe to be their most authentic selves. Here’s how Workday is doubling down on belonging, diversity, and inclusion.
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Workday Changes Product Release Naming Convention and Schedule
Workday is changing the naming convention and schedule of product releases to make it easier for everyone to understand the timing of Workday’s planned releases, and to better accommodate business timelines.
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Workday Ventures: Investing in the Connection Between People and Technology
At Workday Ventures, we find new, cutting-edge solutions that are complementary to Workday offerings and useful for our customers. Here's a look at our portfolio companies, which you can learn more about at Workday Rising.
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Q&A with Rich Sauer, Workday’s New General Counsel
Jim Shaughnessy, who has moved into the role of executive vice president, Corporate Affairs, chats with Rich Sauer, who has joined Workday's legal team as executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary.
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First-Person View: How Opportunity Onramps Changed My Hiring Practices
A Workday people leader shares her experience hiring talent through Opportunity Onramps, a movement dedicated to creating economic opportunity for all.
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Key Highlights From Our 2019 Global Impact Report at Workday
At Workday, we're proud to announce the release of our 2019 Global Impact Report, which highlights our commitment to sustainability, giving back, and celebrating diversity.
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5 Incredible Takeaways from VIBE Week
VIBE stands for “value inclusion, belonging, and equity for all." At Workday, we recently brought those words to life by spending a week at offices across the globe learning more about how to VIBE every day.
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Workday Named Supplier for Government of Canada’s NextGen HR and Pay Project
Workday is pleased to be named a successful bidder on the Next Generation HR and Payroll Services (NextGen HR and Pay) project with the Government of Canada.
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How Diversity Drives Innovation: Q&A with Frans Johansson
Frans Johansson—author, speaker, and CEO at The Medici Group—has made it his life’s work to help businesses understand how they can accelerate innovation and growth through diversity. Read our interview with Johansson.
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Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion at Workday VIBE Week
During VIBE Week, June 3-7, we learned more about how to value inclusion, belonging, and equity for all with more than 125 events scheduled across 25 global Workday locations.
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Workforce Week: How One Job Seeker Beat ‘Imposter Syndrome’ to Succeed as an Engineer
A Workday employee shares his experience dealing with imposter syndrome, and how his opportunity with Year Up, a track within our Opportunity Onramps program, changed his life.
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Built from the Ground Up: Announcing Workday’s New Headquarters
Today we’re celebrating the opening of our new Workday Headquarters in Pleasanton, Calif., with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Here's how we designed the property to support our core values.
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Workday Chief People Officer: Supporting Each Other as Caregivers
Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate and support women in their roles as caregivers. Ashley Goldsmith reflects on being a “sandwich generation” caregiver—simultaneously caring for elderly parents and children—and shares tips and resources.
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Celebrating Earth Day: An Inside Look at Our New Clean Energy Deal
We've joined Bloomberg, Cox Enterprises, Gap Inc., and Salesforce to pioneer the first clean energy deal of its kind. Learn how this uniquely collaborative investment in a new solar farm will provide electricity to Workday data centers and much more.
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Welcoming Workday’s New CIO
Our CIO Diana McKenzie has decided to pursue some long-time personal passions and will be departing Workday in April. We are excited to share that Sheri Rhodes will join the Workday family as our new CIO. Read more from Workday Chief Operating Officer Jim Bozzini.
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Building a Great Place to Work in Ireland
Workday's European headquarters is in Dublin, and we're thrilled to be named the best large workplace in Ireland in 2019. Our commitment to workplace culture in Ireland has done more than win awards—it’s improved our business. Read more from one of our longtime leaders in Dublin, Chris Byrne.
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Workday Chief People Officer: Nurture Moments That Matter
We're very honored to be ranked #4 on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. This recognition is about all of our 10,000+ Workmates across the globe, who nurture our special culture. Our Chief People Officer Ashley Goldsmith shares more, including a short video where several Workmates share their moments that mattered.
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Personalizing Wellbeing: How to Support Every Aspect of Employee Health
Every employer has a responsibility to support the wellbeing of the whole employee, including recognizing mental health needs, supporting their physical and nutritional health in fun and engaging ways, reducing stress, increasing joy, and much more.
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Workday Ventures: Partnering to Drive Enterprise Innovation
In early 2018, we launched the $250 million Workday Ventures fund. As we reflect on the past year, we want to share several broad themes related to our investments in portfolio companies. Here's one: they support a strong, inclusive future.
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Five Ways We’re Building Opportunity Onramps in the Workday Community
Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. Here are some of the things we’ve been doing to help close the opportunity divide, and look forward to accomplishing even more at Workday and within all the communities we’re a part of in 2019.
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Workday’s Career Accelerator Program for Military Veterans: Report from the Front Line
Chris McCane is a senior associate business systems analyst at Workday and a graduate of our Career Accelerator Program (CAP), a paid internship that helps military veterans transition into civilian careers. McCane discusses his military experience, what he learned from the CAP program, and the unique perspectives military veterans bring to the business world.
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Key Takeaways from the Global Climate Action Summit
To quote poet and environmentalist Wendell Berry, “The Earth is what we all have in common.” Erik Hansen, senior sustainability manager at Workday, shares three takeaways from the Global Climate Action Summit. That includes Workday's joining of the Step Up Declaration alongside 20 other tech companies, and how we'll participate as part of the coalition.
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Video: Destigmatizing Mental Health Conditions in the Workplace
Mental health issues do not discriminate: Approximately one in five individuals experience a mental health condition in their lifetime. Watch our panel discussion to learn how to reduce the stigma associated with mental health.
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Workday’s ‘A Partner Like No Other’ Global Brand Campaign: Q&A with Chief Marketing Officer Christine Cefalo
This week, Workday launched a new global brand campaign centered on how we’re a finance, HR, and planning partner like no other. At the heart of the campaign is a commercial featuring pro golfer Phil Mickelson as a “business caddie.” Workday Chief Marketing Officer Christine Cefalo shares how the campaign came to life, why every company needs a “business caddie,” and where to experience the campaign across the globe.
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Chief Diversity Officer Carin Taylor: Celebrating Our Differences at Workday
Diversity and inclusion is about helping people become comfortable enough to have a dialog about their experiences—including times when they have felt like an outsider, says Workday Chief Diversity Officer Carin Taylor. Read our profile of Taylor to learn how she advocates for value, inclusion, belonging, and equity for all (VIBE), shaped by her own experiences encountering and confronting biases.
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Q&A with Workday’s Carolyn Horne on Becoming a Top UK Workplace for Women
Workday was recently ranked number one on the 2018 Great Place to Work “Best Workplaces for Women UK” list, medium-sized business category. We spoke to Carolyn Horne, regional vice president of UK, Ireland, and South Africa at Workday, on how the company supports women in the workplace, Workday’s culture, and her advice for other organisations.
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Workday Advances Into Augmented Analytics with Stories.bi Acquisition
Workday is excited to announce that we are taking another step forward in our analytics journey with the acquisition of Stories.bi, one of the most innovative players in the augmented analytics space.
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Getting to Know Workday Ventures’ Newest Team Member: Q&A with Brittany Skoda
Innovation is critical to the success of our customers and our company, which is why Workday invests big in innovation, recently announcing a $250 million fund for Workday Ventures. Brittany Skoda, who just joined our team as vice president of investments, shares her thoughts on Workday Ventures, the need for diversity in the venture capital community, and why you’d better bring your game if you get the opportunity to golf with her.
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Three Important Announcements at Workday Opportunity Onramps
Millions of active job seekers in the U.S. struggle to find positions that offer thriving wages and meaningful work. At Workday Opportunity Onramps yesterday, participants gathered to share ideas and solutions to this serious problems. In addition, companies including Google, LinkedIn, Okta, PwC, Salesforce.org, Symantec, Walmart, and Workday announced new initiatives.
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Why Companies Should Hire for Potential over Pedigree: Q&A with Byron Auguste
We’ve all heard about the problem of the “skills gap.” Yet Byron Auguste, CEO and co-founder of Opportunity@Work, is convinced there are plenty of unemployed and underemployed people with great skills. In this interview, Auguste discusses what's wrong with today's hiring processes and what employers can do differently.
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An Inside Look at the Workday Green Team Leadership Program
All of us have purpose and passion for something. At Workday, some of us have channeled our purpose and passion into improving the environment. In this Q&A, Erik Hansen, senior sustainability manager at Workday, shares what participants love about the Workday Green Team program, why it’s important to appoint local leaders, and what team members around the world are doing in celebration of Earth Day.
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Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion at the Great Place to Work for All Summit
Workday recently celebrated workplace diversity and culture at Great Place to Work’s summit, where participants shared stories about problems they faced, how they discovered them, and what changes they decided to make for the better.
