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Workday News and Culture
Stories on our company, culture, and Workmates.
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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The traditional professional services playbook is obsolete.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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Introducing Workday Flex Credits: A Smarter, More Flexible Way to Access AI Innovation
Flex Credits put the power in your hands: giving you control, flexibility, and predictability to align costs directly with the value you receive from Workday.
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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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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.
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The Secret to AI Optimism and Adoption Is Setting Boundaries
Our latest report reveals humans are much more confident about AI agents when roles are clearly defined and guidelines are set. Discover how to transform your AI strategy to empower employees and accelerate innovation.
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Get the Green Light to Attend Workday Rising
In a year when every budget item is under the microscope, sending employees to a conference might feel like a luxury. But Workday Rising in San Francisco isn’t just another industry event—it’s a smart investment in maximizing the full value of your Workday platform.
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Illuminating Progress, Inspiring Action: The Workday 2025 Global Impact Report
Workday is driving a sustainable future through our integrated environmental, social, and governance initiatives. Dive into the 2025 Global Impact Report to explore our progress and the core values shaping our commitment to a better world.
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Introducing Workday GO: Designed for the Bold, Ready to Scale
The AI platform for HR and finance simplifies operations today—so you can go big tomorrow.
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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.
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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.
