The Top 5 Human Resource Management Challenges for 2026
The HR function has become a source of strategic guidance for decisions in every part of the business. But the elevated role also comes with new challenges—learn how to solve them below.
Human Resources
News, trends, and insights for HR leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers.
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Winning Workplace Communication Strategies
By empowering leaders to personalize and contextualize information, HR teams can bridge the gap between leadership and employees, transforming a reactive tactic into a measurable business strategy.
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The CHRO's Moment in Time: Why 2026 Workforce Strategy Starts Now
HR has a vital mandate to move past automation and focus on the human implications of AI—specifically defining new skills, designing ethical partnerships, and ensuring a shared vision across the enterprise.
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The Strategic Pivot From Manager to Coach
The modern workplace's overwhelming complexity is driving a critical talent gap and threatening organizational resilience. By leveraging technology to automate the mundane, we empower a new archetype of leader who can focus on cultivating a culture of growth and coaching over traditional management styles.
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How to Address Top Frontline Worker Challenges
Frontline workers make up the majority of the global workforce, but they often feel less supported than office-based peers. Leaders must act with empathy to address the challenges frontline teams face head-on.
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Future Professions You Need to Skill Up For
The world of work is changing fast. To succeed, leading organizations and future-ready professionals are making a commitment to upskilling and lifelong learning to prepare for new jobs and skills requirements of the future.
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Charting a Course: How Two HR Leaders at JLL Are Steering AI-Driven Talent Strategies
JLL's HR leaders, Megan Kleinick and Jane Curran, are strategically integrating AI to enhance employee experience and efficiency, emphasizing strong processes and data quality. They use AI-driven recruitment to manage high applicant volumes and are leaning into generative AI tools and personalized AI agents for various HR functions.
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L&D and HR Leaders Architecting a Skills-First Future of Work
Discover how L&D and HR leaders are architecting a skills-first future of work, focusing on the strategies and challenges involved in this transformation.
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Charlie Spitzer: The Pioneer Behind GoDaddy’s Payroll
Charlie Spitzer, a top collaborator in the Workday Community and veteran developer at GoDaddy, has spent over 50 years working alongside the inventors of the internet, relational databases, and spreadsheets. Today, this quiet pioneer helps power GoDaddy’s global payroll operations while giving back to the Workday Community.
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The Future of Hospitality: 5 Trends Changing the Industry
Hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality businesses are facing a huge number of changes in 2025 and beyond. Learn how your business can be best prepared for the next market shift.
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Crafting Your Future-Ready Workforce
Change is happening fast, and organizations must reskill, redesign, and meet the moment—or be at risk of falling behind. With competing priorities running rampant, these three key areas can help build a future-ready workforce of tomorrow.
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The Future of the Workforce as We See It
Today’s workforce is changing in unprecedented ways. Leaders that adapt now can capture opportunities that attract top talent and position their organizations to succeed in the future.
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What Is the Impact of AI on Future Jobs?
The future of AI in the workplace is collaborative for humans and AI. As traditional roles and workflows become more automated, new opportunities are emerging for human workers to use AI tools.
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Study Finds Quality of Hire Translates to Faster Growth
In a first-of-its-kind benchmark report, Workday partner Crosschq analyzed nearly 4 million new hire records across Fortune 500 companies to understand the impact that quality of hire has on growth.
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Workday Recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises
Workday has been recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises. This is the 10th consecutive year we've been recognized as a Leader in this report, and we believe it’s a reflection of our commitment to constantly transform and meet the needs of our customers.
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The Hidden Cost of Overlooking Frontline Worker Wellbeing
Frontline workers are the closest to customers, and the human personification of organizations. So why are they often overlooked in employee experience programs? In order to harness the potential of a strong frontline, we first need to close the experience gaps at the source.
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Elevating Human Potential: Building the Skilled Workforce of Tomorrow
The Workday Foundation is helping to close the skills gap by supporting the global nonprofit Generation, an organization pioneering new training models that connect untapped talent with transformative career opportunities.
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New Research Signals a Talent Drain Hiding in Plain Sight
We’ve gathered insights from the Workday platform to understand the current state of the workforce. What we found points to a triple threat for talent retention, and leaders can’t afford to ignore this workforce signal.
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5 Retail Trends: Redefining Shopping Beyond the Checkout
The retail industry is evolving rapidly, driven by five key trends, including a deep focus on personalization and the paramount need for organizational agility. For retailers to thrive and succeed in today's ever-changing market, they must embrace these business-critical shifts.
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How a Skills-Based Approach Unlocks Talent Mobility and Agility
AI is fundamentally challenging old paradigms of success. To realize its potential, we first need to enable our people to be their best selves in all facets of work.
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Candidate Assessment Tools: What to Look For
When competition for talent is fierce, every hiring decision matters. An effective candidate assessment tool delivers precise, skills-focused insights that help teams choose the right people with confidence.
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HR Leaders Need a Seat at These 3 Tables
HR is transforming, and one area ripe for a shift is collaboration. HR leaders who invest time and resources into their relationships with these three functions will be uncovering a competitive edge.
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5 Ways Law Firms Are Using Technology to Outpace Competitors
To thrive in today’s evolving legal landscape, modern law firms are leveraging integrated tech in five critical ways to attract top talent, boost productivity, and drive sustained growth.
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How Club Med's Leaders Cultivate Happiness Through Connection and Innovation
Club Med provides luxury all-inclusive vacations in global locations, with a focus on delivering personalized experiences through a diverse international staff. They prioritize both guest and employee happiness, using digital tools to optimize staffing and streamline services.
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Accountability in Action: Empowering Managers to Drive Performance
Creating a workforce of high performers is about more than regular check-ins and AI-powered tools; it’s about empowering managers to elevate their team members. With the right mix of priorities, and the permission to focus on developing themselves and their teams, managers will create a culture of high clarity, transparency, trust, and coaching.
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Debunking Generational Myths: 3 Surprising Workforce Trends
One workforce. Three generations. Approaching your talent and engagement strategies through the limiting generational lens may be costing you. These insights can help you determine what the biggest shared drivers are across your entire workforce.
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What the Future of HR Management Looks Like
The future of work is evolving rapidly, and HR is leading the charge. As skill needs shift with advances in AI and automation, HR leaders are adopting agile strategies to prepare their workforces for what’s next.
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How Human Connection Drives Innovation in the Age of AI
An unexpected business imperative, relationship building has many positive implications.
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The Top Employee Engagement KPIs to Measure
Employee engagement drives productivity, retention, and innovation—but it remains invisible without the right metrics. To make engagement an advantage, HR leaders need the right engagement KPI to turn insights into strategic action.
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Workday CEO and Chief People Officer on Leading Through Disruption
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach and Chief People Officer Ashley Goldsmith sit down with Chief Learning Officer Chris Ernst to discuss the changing role of leadership amidst the rise of AI, where one central truth emerged: It’s never been more important to have a values-driven, human-centric company.
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AI Agents for HR: Top Use Cases and Examples
AI agents are helping HR teams move faster, work smarter, and support employees with more context and care. Learn how agents are redefining what it means to deliver human-centered HR at scale.
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Three AI-Driven Changes Redefining the HR Function
HR plays a pivotal role in the success of AI within its organizations. These three underrated focus areas will create a competitive edge in the race to realizing the full potential of this technology and position HR as the strategic orchestrator of collective intelligence.
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Talent Acquisition vs. Recruiting: The Complete Guide
Distinguishing between recruiting and talent acquisition unlocks both immediate hiring success and strategic workforce development. Master this balance to plug critical skill gaps and build the relationships that fuel tomorrow’s growth.
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Transparency Triumphs: Why Openness Is Key to Unlocking Talent Success
An examination of how transparency in performance reviews, career paths, and compensation fosters trust, accountability, and a culture of continuous improvement.
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Three Plays for Fostering a Powerful Partnership Between AI and Humans
The growing risk of AI is that employees can prompt algorithms but atrophy the very human skills that enable creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. These three key plays will help organizations form the foundation for a powerful partnership between humans and AI–creating a symbiotic relationship where technology expands our capabilities and humans continue to grow and make progress.
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How to Choose the Best ERP System for Small Businesses
Business leaders know they need modernized ERP systems to stay competitive and keep pace with market and customer demands—but the challenge of deployment is a barrier for many. These seven steps can help you choose an ERP aligned with your unique needs and deploy with speed and confidence.
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Managing Hybrid Teams: A Talent Strategy Guide
Enabling success within a hybrid workforce requires a unified talent management strategy that’s synchronized to employee needs. Learn how HR teams can align focus areas and combat challenges to reap the benefits of a hybrid workforce.
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The Ins and Outs of Strategic Workforce Planning
Strategic workforce planning turns uncertainty into opportunity by aligning your talent strategy with evolving business objectives. With a structured framework, companies can anticipate gaps and make data-driven workforce decisions with confidence.
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Future-Proof Your HR Function With These Skills
In a world of constantly changing priorities and shifting business demands, it can be dizzying to determine what skills HR professionals need to acquire in order to strategically adapt. Before beginning to help employees, though, they first need to help themselves.
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Workday Government: Modernizing HR and Finance in the U.S Government
Workday has launched Workday Government, a new wholly owned subsidiary dedicated to serving the U.S. Government, to better address its specific needs and accelerate modernization efforts. This move aims to enhance the employee experience for government workers while adhering to strict security and compliance standards.
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AI Usage Is on the Rise in the Enterprise
How can you navigate AI adoption and usage at a large enterprise? Workday’s chief people officer and senior vice president of technology and architecture share their insights.
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Skills and AI: The Symbiotic Relationship Driving the Future of Work
The future of work is not about mastering a static set of skills, but about cultivating the agility to continuously acquire new ones. Explore the implications of shifting to a skills-based organization, and what parts of your talent strategy will experience the biggest transformations.
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Talent Management: The Only Guide You Need
Talent management synchronizes planning, recruitment, development, and evaluation to keep teams agile and engaged. Learn the key roles, frameworks, and metrics that power a robust talent lifecycle.
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Top 7 Tips for Managing a Multigenerational Workforce
Five generations. One workplace. In today’s evolving workforce, engaging employees across age groups isn’t just possible—it’s essential for lasting performance and culture.
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Building a Skills-Centric Future: Insights From Our Reddit Discussion
Workday’s Director of Skills-Based Organization Josh Tarr recently hosted a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) on how organizations can shift to a skills-based approach. For HR professionals tasked with future-proofing their workforce, the conversation yielded several crucial takeaways.
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7 Lessons in Entrepreneurship from a Startup Leader
Mike Duffield’s path from leading the first sales team at Workday to founding a company offers a clear view into what it really takes to build and scale a business. In this conversation, he shares candid insights on early-stage challenges, growth missteps, and the mindset shift required to move from founder to operator.
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The Best Hiring Strategy Template for 2025
Hiring is more competitive, more complex, and more consequential in 2025. HR leaders need a clear, flexible, strategic hiring plan to recruit smarter and build a workforce that can stay adaptable.
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Workday Recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Talent Acquisition
Workday is thrilled to be recognized as a Leader in the first-ever Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Talent Acquisition. To us, this recognition is an acknowledgement of our innovative spirit, fueling our passion to continue delivering industry-trusted solutions for our customers.
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From Stress to Synergy: HR’s Burnout Imperative
With burnout more prevalent than ever for HR professionals, CHROs are often tasked with fixing burnout issues at the source. Finding balance among competing priorities to move beyond stress is key to unlocking success.
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3 HR Strategies for Mitigating Low Manager Engagement
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.