2020: The Pandemic, the Chaos, and the Impact on our Interactions
There’s no other way to put it, 2020 has brought about unprecedented times, circumstances, and hardships. We’re missing our families, our friends, and human interaction on levels we’ve previously taken for granted. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted how we learn, how we work, how we …
Using Workday Surveys and Campaigns to Communicate with Your Workforce
PART I: THE STRUGGLE IS REAL It’s such a common struggle in the human resources technology game – company needs to know something from employees, but how to go about it? What mechanism is best to request and receive the information? Here’s the specific problem …
Bad data – it’s kinda like putting cheap oil in your brand new performance car…
Bad data, lack of validation procedures, lack of attention to detail… as a veteran of over 50 Workday projects, it’s a theme I’ve seen repeated over and over again. On every project, there is a high level of focus on design and execution of configurations, …
If a picture is worth a thousand words, why aren’t we using them?
Being a tenured member of the ERP community, I’ve done a lot of reporting in my day. A lot. Starting out as a PeopleSoft developer, the tools available to report on enterprise data were plentiful. The options for making that data visually impactful, however, were …
Workday Rule-Based Business Process Configuration
If you’ve ever had to configure business process definitions in Workday, you likely know what it’s like trying to accommodate a myriad of use cases and conditions with one configuration. As much as possible, we as implementers attempt to streamline and standardize the organization’s approach …
The Ultimate Team Sport
Formula 1 may not be everyone’s cup of tea when it comes to spectator sports. In fact, it wasn’t my cup of tea until a few years ago. I would say “Who watches that? It’s a bunch of machines going around a track. How is …
Workday’s Report Fields and Values: the tool to find the data you need
My colleague recently wrote about one of Workday’s lifesaver features. I decided to compliment that with a favorite of my own: Report Fields and Values. Back in 2014, I was one of the first ecosystem partners to get certified in Workday’s then fledgling recruiting product. …
