News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
Keeping your employees engaged is critical for productivity and growth, but without starting at the source, your goals are unreachable. Combatting declining manager engagement is critical to your employee engagement strategy and bottomline.
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.
Exploring the core principles of a successful talent philosophy, highlighting the elements that drive employee engagement, performance, and growth.
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.
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.
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.
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?
As midsize businesses grow, the cracks in siloed systems start to show—making enterprise resource planning (ERP) essential. Identify the best ERP for midsize companies with our helpful guide.
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.
Driving businesses forward in the modern world of work requires your talent to operate at their full potential. By leaning into the full portfolio of human skills within your workforce, you’ll unlock new levels of growth.
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?
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.
Human resources certifications help professionals build expertise, gain credibility, and stay competitive in a rapidly evolving field. Navigating which ones align to where you want to be is critical for your career goals.
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 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.
Discover the top takeaways from the third annual Workday Federal Forum, including thoughts on IT modernization, talent, efficiency, and artificial intelligence.
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.
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.
The terms employee retention and employee engagement share far more than a first word. Learn why employee retention is a top concern for companies and how the right engagement strategy can prove decisive.
Emotional intelligence is a necessity for today’s finance leaders. Understand its pivotal role in leadership and strategic business success.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Discover the top takeaways from NRF25 —including enhanced consumer experiences, AI innovation, frontline worker efficiency, and compliance regulations
Both Texas A&M and LSU faced challenges with their legacy systems, including limitations in data accessibility and reporting capabilities. In a recent Workday podcast, representatives from the universities discussed their experiences transitioning to Workday.
After an invigorating World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, our chief marketing officer shares her takeaways, including thoughts on the digital workforce of the future.
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.
Workday Chief People Officer Ashley Goldsmith discusses new research from Workday on elevating uniquely human skills and what she’s most looking forward to as the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, kicks off.
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.
Employees perform at their best when they are happy at work and feel like their feedback is being met with action and accountability. Learn about the benefits of employee satisfaction for both the business and the individual.
Dallas-based broker Integrity maintains a positive employee culture by focusing on its people—and employee-friendly technology is a big component of that. Integrity’s Chief People and Culture Officer Rachelle McReynolds shares insights.
Employee engagement surveys are about more than measuring employee satisfaction. Our research has identified 14 drivers of employee engagement your survey needs to capture the most valuable data.
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.
David Hudson of Workday interviews Strada SVP of Global Payroll Frank Leistner to explore how payroll can be elevated from an operational necessity to a strategic asset, and the key role of AI in driving this evolution.
Washington University’s Jason Burg discusses how the prestigious St. Louis institution empowered its people with data-driven insights, setting the stage for strategic change and transforming the student experience.
Communication is a two-way process. If you want to improve overall communication in the workplace, you need to create space to listen to your employees.
How does AI technology help foster a more human-centric future of work? Workday leaders Dave Wachtel and Kathy Pham join Steve Boese and Trish Steed to discuss AI’s impact on HR on a special episode of the HR Happy Hour podcast series, recorded on the Workday Forever Forward bus.
In an era of constant change, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. In this installment of the podcast series Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward, we talk with Circle’s chief people officer about the talent management challenges shaking up the financial services industry.
The manufacturing industry faces a significant labor shortage, and attracting and retaining the next generation of workers, particularly Gen Z, is crucial for its future success. Here’s how.
Washington State University (WSU) wanted to better forecast grants to support its groundbreaking research. We talked with WSU’s Gerik Kimble and Christine Galbreath about how their modernization project helped streamline inefficient processes to project future expenses and remaining balances on grants.
How can HR leaders ensure their people have the right skills for the future? In this episode, Sharon Wingfelder, CHRO at First American Financial, joined Emma Chalwin, CMO at Workday, to talk trends in HR, getting the most out of AI, and cultivating a positive workplace culture.
Chevron is leveraging technology and a people-centric approach to create a supportive and engaging workplace. In this episode of the Workday Podcast, we explore how that’s ultimately driving both employee satisfaction and organizational growth across Chevron’s global workforce.
Read more on how we’re helping our customers succeed with innovative HR technology.
What keeps the transportation industry moving forward? Let’s dive into trends in this fast-paced industry to see what leaders are doing to stay flexible, innovative, and profitable.
We’re delighted to celebrate retail and hospitality customers who move their business forward by innovating on the Workday platform to create great experiences for their employees and customers. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
We’re delighted to celebrate technology and media customers who consistently find solutions to problems and create great experiences for their employees and customers. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
How deeply should HR understand AI? Workday leaders discuss HR’s role in shaping AI strategy and its golden moment to build trust and solve complex problems across the business.
