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.
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.
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.
Given the critical nature of the work in healthcare, employee engagement should be a business imperative for healthcare leaders. Organizations must foster a culture that encourages meaningful work and increases the discretionary effort of its workforce. Read more from guest blogger Craig Deao.
Attracting, developing, and retaining the right talent can be a real struggle for midsize companies. This three-part blog series concludes by examining how organizations can improve their talent management strategy and how technology can help support it.
Midsize organizations have a unique advantage over large companies—agility. Yet capitalizing on new opportunities requires effective business planning, and this is not typically an area where the mid-market excels. Learn how to quickly adapt to change in part two of a three-part blog series.
When it comes to job creation, innovation, and economic growth, middle-market companies are the true workhorses. Yet many have greater aspirations—what does it take to reach the next level of success? In part one of a three-part blog series, we examine how midsize companies can improve operational efficiency to support scale and growth.
There are many aspects to the Power of One, but we believe Workday's single architecture truly sets us apart. Watch as Workday Chief Technology Officer Joe Korngiebel explains what makes our technology so different.
Having the right skill sets and backgrounds is important, but even more fundamental to success is having a finance team culture that embraces change and is focused on innovation. Robynne Sisco explains how she's worked to develop this mindset with her team.
In this episode, Steve Bandrowczak, chief operating officer and chief information officer at Alight Solutions, explains how new technologies and changing consumer expectations are disrupting the professional services industry, and how CIOs and IT leaders can position their firms to succeed.
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.
The responsibility to comply with data privacy obligations is not one that our customers, and those considering Workday, bear alone. Barbara Cosgrove, vice president, chief privacy officer at Workday, highlights three features of Workday that directly address GDPR requirements.
In part two of this blog series, we examine three things a CIO must do to overcome resistance within the organization to move to a cloud technology strategy.
The cloud debate is over— businesses are increasingly moving to the cloud because it “just works.” CIOs should lead not just the technology adoption, but the organizational change management required to fully realize the cloud’s advantages. Read more in part one of this two-part blog series.
The Workday Cloud Platform has unlocked an unprecedented level of openness for our company and our customers. By opening up our platform, our goal is to trigger a new era of enterprise innovation and experiences, and to make it possible for customers to leverage Workday's context and insight for any of their applications.
Today, Workday is announcing a unique partnership with Slack that is driven by our mission to continually place people at the center of the enterprise. Learn how Slack and Workday are working together to help people connect and get things done in the most intuitive way possible.
What is top of mind for finance leaders at mid-size organizations this year? Read on for key findings from the “8th Annual CFO Alliance Sentiment Study,” which surveyed more than 500 senior financial executives in the middle market to understand their anticipated challenges and opportunities, and offers insights on how to address them.
Watch and learn about the Power of One community, where Workday partners and customers across the globe ask each other questions, exchange blueprints for new business process frameworks, and suggest features and functionality for upcoming releases.
In the world of professional services, nothing is more vital than having a deep pool of “mad skills” available for clients. Learn how successful firms have accomplished this by having a talent management strategy incorporated into their resource management tools and processes.
There’s a gender imbalance in technology product design, development, and management. What can companies do to recruit and retain more women? How can women grow their careers in tech products? Watch and learn from product leaders at Intuit, New Enterprise Associates, and Workday.