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Splitting H-P: A Global-Sized HR Challenge

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In HR, that meant keeping Workday for information systems and Taleo for recruitment in both new companies. For HR, among the most important first steps was allocating employees to their new companies and roles — and doing it quickly, for the sake of other departments that needed that information to do their own planning.

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Workday Community Voices: Rolls-Royce Deploys Global HR System Overnight

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A companywide, global HR implementation conducted in one single overnight deployment might sound like a scary prospect for some. But that’s exactly what Workday customer Rolls-Royce did in October 2015, when the business deployed a cloud-based HR system covering employees across 46 countries.

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Caterpillar’s transformative CHRO is the 2023 HR Executive of the Year

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Under Johnson’s leadership, Caterpillar turned to Workday as its new HCM provider. There was “no opposition” from the C-suite to moving forward, and the organization went live with Workday globally in January 2021. Shook, chief leadership and HR officer, Accenture. Then came March 2020.

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