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Software used to manage hiring, headcount, compensation, performance and employee data across an organisation.
Workday's Rob Enslin said the C1.ai acquisition makes Workday the identity governance layer for people, money and agents. The customers on stage, BMO and Intermountain Health, framed their own agent controls as scope, spending and sign-off.
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Workday made Sana Home the starting point for work and put Agent Harness into general availability, with both priced on Flex Credits. Agents built on it run in isolated environments over finance and HR data, Constellation Research reported.
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Workday has put Recruiting, HiredScore, Paradox, messaging and candidate engagement under one general manager, Adam Godson. He says recruiters must now "really recruit", yet the results he cited measure scheduling and speed.
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Workday announced Work Intelligence on Oct. 13, an early-access tool that analyzes tasks inside jobs using a 75,000-skill ontology. TechRepublic notes its recommendations will be only as good as the platform's records of employees' skills and workloads.
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Workday made its Sana agent interface the default home screen for all users at its Rising event in Las Vegas. For HR and finance teams the day now starts at a prompt. Who reviews what the agents do is still unsettled.
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About a third of organizations in a 1,719-person McKinsey survey passed on at least one software purchase because they could build it with AI. The exposure is vendors' add-on revenue. Each builder also takes on upkeep a vendor would otherwise carry.
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A Forbes Tech Council piece by Avature's chief executive argues the Act's high-risk hiring rules now set the benchmark for global employers. The survey behind the argument is his own company's, and it finds most are still piloting.
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HiBob asked 1,200 business leaders how AI proficiency enters talent decisions. Two-thirds link it to promotion and half to performance ratings, while 36 percent of those counting on managers to coach it call them highly prepared.
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A Gartner survey found 87% of employees thought an algorithm could judge them more fairly than their manager. The tools large employers deployed draft and edit the review instead, so the governance question is authorship.
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AWS has made its AI hiring service generally available in two US regions. The rubric and the evidence trail are the parts an HR team can audit, and the adaptive questioning is the part it will have to explain.
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The July survey behind the AI coaching pitch reports CEO impressions and manager self-reports as one gap. Its most useful figure is how few managers say they want to prepare for a hard conversation unaided.
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Klarna cut 700 support agents and hired them back. An Entrepreneur column argues the costly error is rebuilding into the old chart, and the thinner truth is that nobody has priced the round trip.
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