Building a Talent Philosophy That Works: Key Principles for Success
Exploring the core principles of a successful talent philosophy, highlighting the elements that drive employee engagement, performance, and growth.
Human Resources
News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
-
-
Top Employee Performance Metrics to Prioritize in 2025
Work has changed—and so has what employees expect from it. To keep pace, organizations need performance management strategies that build clarity, unlock growth, and fuel real impact.
-
Top HR Metrics to Prioritize This Year
Tracking the right HR metrics is key for understanding the impact of your people strategy. As the role of HR grows more strategic, prioritizing the correct metric can be the difference between simply reporting and truly leading.
-
How to Build an HR Strategy for Your Small Business
A thriving small business starts with a strong people strategy. By building an intentional HR approach early on, your SMB can create the foundation for growth, resilience, and long-term success.
-
Tapping Into The Talent of Tomorrow With Skills-Based Hiring
Discover how skills-based hiring unlocks access to a wider range of skilled individuals, helping organizations build more agile and effective workforces. Read about the strategies and benefits of this transition, supported by data showing 86% of leaders are ready for change.
-
Why Skills-Based Hiring Is so Revolutionary
The rise of skills-based hiring has turned recruitment on its head. But why has it proved so revolutionary compared to traditional hiring, and how can your business ensure it stays ahead of the curve?
-
Top 4 Employee Stressors and What HR Can Do About Them
Heavy workloads and inadequate staffing are just two of the top workplace stressors leading to burnout and high turnover. Learn how you can enable managers to support their teams and improve employee wellbeing.
-
Talent Sourcing Done Right in the Age of AI
AI is changing how companies find and engage talent—shifting sourcing from a manual, reactive process to a more strategic function. Is your organization ready to embrace stronger, more scalable hiring pipelines?
-
The Human-Centric Imperative: Why Your Talent Strategy Needs a Heart
Purely data-driven talent management is soon being replaced with workforce programs that emphasize the importance of empathy, trust, and meaningful connections in today's workplace.
-
AFR Workforce Summit Highlights Disruption and Opportunity for Australian HR Leaders
Australian HR leaders gathered at the 2025 Australian Financial Review (AFR) Workforce Summit, to discuss the trends bringing unprecedented disruption and opportunity.
-
From Upskilling to AI Adoption: A Leader's Guide
With AI shifting the world of work, it’s never been more important to upskill your workforce. Taking an employee-centric approach is key to realizing the benefits of AI adoption.
-
Talent Density: A Guide to Building High-Impact Teams
Talent density is becoming a defining factor in how high-performing teams operate and grow. In this article, we explore what it means, why it matters, and how to build it with intention.
-
What Skills-Based Hiring Means in the Age of AI
Companies are rethinking how they hire by placing greater emphasis on skills to find the best talent. Learn how AI opens more doors for candidates and makes skills-based hiring more effective, fair, and scalable.
-
Is Cloud ERP Right for Your SME?
With more and more services being hosted in the cloud, legacy ERP systems can no longer keep up. Read on to learn how Cloud ERP can ensure your SME continues to grow in the current marketplace.
-
Why Emotional Intelligence Is Crucial for Today’s CFOs
Emotional intelligence is a necessity for today’s finance leaders. Understand its pivotal role in leadership and strategic business success.
-
How HR Leaders Can Thrive in a Complicated Job Market
Workday metrics show that employers need to prioritize key talent retention, internal mobility, and clear communication of business goals to successfully navigate the evolving labor landscape.
-
What Should Your Hiring Strategy Be in 2025?
The competition for top talent is fiercer than ever in 2025—and today’s prospective employees have drastically different priorities. Read on to learn how you can refocus your hiring strategy to win the war for talent.
-
Key Skills-Based Strategies for Building a More Agile and Resilient Workforce
Skills-based strategies are transforming the workplace into a more dynamic, adaptable, and equitable environment. Learn why business leaders are focusing on skills, what strategies they’re adopting, and how AI is enabling this shift—based on insights from Workday research.
-
Workday Global Study: Leaders Embrace Skills-Based Strategies to Guard Against Talent Shortages
Workday Chief Learning Officer Chris Ernst discusses new research from Workday about why leaders are organizing work around skills, not jobs, in the age of AI, how they’re preparing for a potential talent shortage, and the key strategies they’re adopting.
-
What Are the Biggest HR Challenges of 2025?
Organizations across the globe are facing a number of new HR challenges in 2025. Take charge of your HR strategy and overcome hurdles including AI adoption, upskilling, and retaining top talent.
-
HR Trends to Watch in 2025: Building the Human-Centric Workplace
Workday leaders predict the top HR trends for 2025, emphasizing the importance of adaptability, human skills, and upskilling to build a thriving, human-centric workplace.
-
Workday Recognized as a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises
Read more on how we’re helping our customers succeed with innovative HR technology.
-
Unlocking Payroll's Strategic Power: ANZ Businesses Are Leading the Way
At organisations worldwide, payroll has traditionally been characterised by manual data processing and a focus on operational efficiency. However, this perspective is starting to change, creating opportunities for a more strategic, data-driven approach to this business-critical function.
-
3 Ways to Accelerate Your Skills Journey: What We’re Learning in Our Transformation
Chris Ernst, chief learning officer at Workday, shares insights gained through the move toward a skills-based talent strategy at Workday.
-
Rewire the DNA of Your Business for Speed and Agility
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.
-
Workday Voice of the Employee Report: Burnout “Doom Loop” Undermines Engagement and Loyalty
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.
-
Why HR Needs an AI-First Mentality
Every large organization seems to be going through an HR transformation. But what has the constant refrain of transformation achieved, and has it really fixed anything?
-
How AdventHealth Uses AI to Improve Hiring and Talent Retention
Tom Nesteruk, an HR leader at AdventHealth, shares how his team transformed its HR operating model and leverages AI to take on one of healthcare’s biggest challenges—recruitment and retention of nurses and other critical roles.
-
Introducing Accelerate with Workday
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.
-
Workday Hiring Trends Report: The “Big Stay” Is Poised to Become the “Big Leave”
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.”
-
Workday's Acquisition of HiredScore: A Conversation With Athena Karp on AI
The acquisition solidifies Workday as a leader in providing an end-to-end, AI-powered talent acquisition and mobility solution, helping HR leaders meet today’s evolving hiring and talent landscape. Learn more from the company’s founder and CEO—and now GM of HiredScore at Workday.
-
Using AI to Empower an Augmented Workforce
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.
-
Workday’s Global Payroll Strategy: A Connected HR and Payroll Experience
Our global payroll strategy combines Workday technology with an expansive partner ecosystem to provide customers with the solutions that best support their evolving needs.
-
Bolster Your Talent Strategy With a Flexible Workforce: 3 Crucial Tips
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.
-
Why HR Leaders Must Get More Strategic About Payroll
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.
-
Workday DEI Landscape Report: Business Leaders Remain Committed in 2024
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.
-
How Do Employees Feel About AI at Work, and What Can You Do?
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.
-
Global CHRO AI Indicator Report: How HR Leaders Can Enable AI Strategy
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.
-
Employee Experience Trends 2024: Empowering Managers to Drive Successful Transformation
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.
-
How Companies Use Workday AI to Accelerate Upskilling
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.
-
Video: Q&AI: How Will Artificial Intelligence Impact the Role of the CHRO?
In the second installment of the Q&AI video series, Sayan Chakraborty, co-president of Workday, explains how artificial intelligence is changing the world of HR.
-
Workday Named Leader for 8th Consecutive Year in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises
We continue to innovate to help our customers thrive.
-
From Transactional to Strategic: How Payroll and HCM Together Drive Business Performance
Two Workday leaders—Cristina Goldt, general manager of workforce and pay for products developed for the office of the CHRO, and David Hudson, vice president of product management for Workday’s payroll products—share why organizations need to rethink their global payroll strategy and explain what organizations need to make the shift.
-
Workday Again Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises
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.
-
Contingent Workers: The Secret to Better Skills-Based Hiring
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.
-
What Is Internal Mobility, and Why Is It Important?
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.
-
First Half 2023 Hiring Trends: Slowdown and Stagnation
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.
-
The AI Revolution: Reshaping HR Functions for Success
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.
-
3 Ways To Get Ahead Of Global Payroll Complexity
A new survey underscores the shifting challenges employers face around the world. The good news: multi-country complexities can be strategically managed.
-
Hilti’s HR Transformation Unlocks End-to-End Efficiencies
When the global manufacturer couldn’t find an 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.
