News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
Growth changes everything, especially how you manage people. If your HR systems aren’t built to scale, they’ll start holding you back. Explore how the right HRIS gives you structure, insight, and space to lead with a people-first strategy in place.
Read more on how we’re helping our customers succeed with innovative HR technology.
Mickey North Rizza, group vice president at IDC, shares findings of a 2024 study conducted on behalf of Workday to better understand the needs and plans for business technology across more than 10 industries. Learn how industries are taking on AI, digital transformation, staffing challenges and more.
Chris Ernst, chief learning officer at Workday, shares insights gained through the move toward a skills-based talent strategy at Workday.
We talked to two McKinsey experts about the helix organizational model, and how it can help cultivate a workforce that adapts to the dynamic demands of the business.
The latest insights from Workday Peakon Employee Voice reveal that on average, 27% of employees within an organization are at high risk of burnout. We examine the top drivers for burnout and provide the blueprint for how organizations can avoid the burnout “doom loop” and retain top talent.
Accelerate with Workday makes it easier than ever for companies to get started and see results with Workday—realizing 42% faster time to value. Learn how this new program helps keep organizations moving forever forward.
Metrics from Workday customers indicate the hiring slowdown may be coming to an end. We explore how that impacts organizations’ talent strategies and why that makes “retaining” the new “recruiting.”
Augmented workforces aren’t just changing the future of work, they’re shaping the here and now. Learn how your company can benefit by integrating artificial intelligence.
Closing the talent gap is a persistent issue for organizations, exacerbated by rapid technological advancements. Addressing it requires a flexible talent strategy that includes utilizing the contingent workforce and promoting internal talent mobility.
Payroll has the potential to provide valuable insights for strategic decision-making, creating a big impact on business outcomes and significantly influencing the success of an organization.
Our global survey of 2,600 executives indicates that diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts remain a priority, with many increasing budgets and better utilizing AI and other technologies to achieve DEI goals.
Empower your team to benefit from AI by understanding their perspective. A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Workday, “A Human-Centered Approach to Al in the Workplace,” shares more.
HR leaders are aware of AI’s strategic value—and cautious of its risks. A report from Workday and FT Longitude sheds light on what HR leaders think about AI and how they can effectively embrace it.
Discover how change impacts the manager experience, why perceptions are more positive among senior leaders, and where organizations need to focus their attention in 2024.
Our customers are leveraging Workday AI to understand the skills within their workforce—and connect those insights to skills that fuel their business strategies. Learn more from Workday Chief Customer Officer Sheri Rhodes.
We’re thrilled to be named a Leader in this category for the second time since the category’s inception last year. With artificial intelligence and machine learning built into its core, Workday Enterprise Management Cloud unlocks the potential of our customers’ processes, data, and people.
With the rise of highly skilled contractors, C-suite executives benefit from “borrowing” external talent to nimbly fill critical gaps—and lean into technology to effectively manage the extended workforce.
With employee expectations constantly evolving, internal mobility is a crucial part of a successful talent retention strategy. Learn how to enable talent mobility at your organization.
The first half of 2023 has seen big changes in the labor market, with reverberating effects on the workforce including signs of decreased engagement. Based on metrics from the Workday platform—which shows more applications for fewer jobs and voluntary turnover declining by 20% compared to the same time frame last year—we’ve pulled together key trends and insights to help HR leaders chart their course for the near-term future.
Nothing artificial about it—artificial intelligence is furthering advancements in HR technology, from improving efficiency to enhancing the employee experience. Discover how AI is reshaping HR and, in turn, how HR is putting AI to work.
A new survey underscores the shifting challenges employers face around the world. The good news: multi-country complexities can be strategically managed.
When the global manufacturer couldn’t find HR document management system that suited its needs, the HR transformation team worked with Workday Extend expert, Kainos, to build something completely new and innovative.
Is your company bringing on more contractors, consultants, and gig workers? It might be time to consider how you’re managing your extended workforce.
We are happy that Workday is named a Leader in “The Forrester WaveTM: Human Capital Management, Q2 2023.” Read on to learn more about how our technology enables transformative HR to chart and navigate a new path.
As we face ongoing economic uncertainty, discover HR leaders’ best practices for boosting morale and responding to employee needs.
CIOs and IT leaders have valuable insight into what’s needed to create an extended workforce talent strategy that powers the future of work.
Businesses increasingly depend on contingent workers for workforce agility and flexibility. Leaders from Everest Group explain how vendor management systems (VMS) have evolved with this trend and can deliver advanced technology capabilities to manage the contingent workforce.
For businesses to remain competitive during times of uncertainty and transformation, understanding employee sentiment is critical. That’s where employee engagement software gives you the edge.
For professional services firms facing a tight talent market and far-ranging industry pressures, the usual ways of pairing people and projects require a rethink. We talk with Workday’s Patrice Cappello and Justin Joseph to learn more about how intelligent resource management can help.
When businesses prioritize employee engagement as a strategic initiative, the benefits compound to create what we’ve termed the “Engagement Edge.” Discover the potential benefits here.
During the “Changemaker Keynote: Customer Perspectives on Embracing Change” at Workday Rising, Accenture Chair and CEO Julie Sweet shared how leaders can guide their organizations amid massive change.
A positive employee experience isn’t just good for morale: Half of the HR leaders in our global study say that it’s crucial to accelerating transformation across the business. And CFOs are the most likely of the C-suite members to name empathy as the skill most needed to meet the demands of the business.
We’re thrilled that Workday has been named as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises. We believe being named as a Leader for the seventh consecutive year demonstrates that we consistently enable our customers with the power to adapt.
An internal talent marketplace can help with internal mobility, but the solution’s effectiveness depends on how it leverages skills data to remove barriers that discourage employees from seeking opportunities.
Tech companies face a litany of challenges to stay competitive. Here’s why Salesforce chose Workday Financial Management to drive its next generation of growth.
“Quiet quitting” is a new name for an old phenomenon—employee disengagement. Find out more about what quiet quitting means for your business and why a focus on employee engagement is the solution.
At Workday, we believe understanding employees’ skills is essential to operating a business and imperative for the future of work. We’re introducing next-generation technology that amplifies the impact of Skills Cloud, helping our customers strengthen their foundation as a skills-based organization.
Discover how increased levels of burnout risk are affecting different industries and regions in 2022, based on an analysis of de-identified employee survey data from 1.5 million employees across more than 600 companies around the world.
With Workday and VNDLY, a Workday company, organizations can create a holistic talent strategy that maximizes their extended pool of talent.
Employee experience has been a global business priority for several years, but its scope is constantly evolving. Learn the fundamentals of employee experience and how to develop a successful companywide strategy.
Learn why the connection between retail’s front and back office is essential for solid decision-making.
Making the business case for moving to the cloud is often about developing strong partnerships across the C-Suite and establishing internal trust in an organization. Christoph Frank, head of process and technology solutions and strategy at LGI, talks about his organisation’s shift to the cloud, and how companies should think about its return on investment.
Finance and HR leaders in midmarket companies say landing key talent and improving operational efficiency are critical for success, according to a new AchieveNEXT survey.
Each year we analyze changes in employee engagement to help identify focus areas for organizations in the year ahead. Learn more about the key areas we’ve identified for 17 industries based on changes in the employee experience throughout 2021.
The terms “employee retention” and “employee engagement” share far more than a first word. In this article, we explore why employee retention is such a top-level concern for companies and how the right engagement strategy can make a massive difference.
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.
There’s been an upward trend in employees posting negative reviews about their employers on public sites. Workday’s Lauryn Bissell, senior business psychologist, and Gabriel Dizon, manager of customer success, joined a podcast with Nick Ciavatta at Argyle Insider to discuss what’s motivating this movement and how businesses can respond.
Learn why skills management is different from a skills-based approach, and why both are necessary for an organization to effectively engage, upskill, and retain employees.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our report on organizational agility and digital acceleration showed how leading organizations can better position themselves for success—even in the face of extraordinary pandemic-related challenges. With skills and culture cited as key challenges to achieving digital revenue goals, CHROs play a critical role.
Skills are the currency of the modern organization, and companies have the opportunity to add value and objectivity to every practice that involves skills data. Guest author and HR thought leader Ben Eubanks shares his insights.
By taking a skills-first approach to job roles, organizations can unlock much more agility, ingenuity, and performance in their workforces and create more inclusive job and career advancement opportunities.