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Workday and Microsoft announced about their collaboration at May . Month after that there was an advertisement video also available at Youtube , and have to say, it looks really neat. Together with Workday assistant self services are right on your hands at Teams. Workday journey on natural Workspaces looks really something to get to know better. More information about Workday for Microsoft Teams visit: https://nw.myworkday.com/microsoftteams/

Workday announced that it will expand Launch for Large Enterprices too in U.S. with plans to reach additional countries next years. Workday Launch provide a set of pre-configured items target to reach shorten implementation time such as 4 month. Launch definitely will give a head start for implementation with pre-configured items combined with pre-loaded data, but will also demand a lot from customer project team. Functional side need to make company to adapt new ways of working and Integrations need to be build during the same schedule. Changes in functional side might affect how integrations run. Because of that usually Integration testing will get actually started when functional side is stabilised, and the knowledgeable testers from functional side can focus on integrations. Luckily there is a lot of vendors that are happily providing Workday experienced testers to help out with implementations. They should be onboarded at beginning of the project to help to get familiar with s...

Workday Altitude will begin today with fully virtual presentation and online collaboration. Let's see what Workday has about Workday People Experience and their re-named and now general available Workday Extend .

Workday has taken actions around it customer events Workday Rising and Workday Rising Europe and combined them to one Digital experience to be held at October 2020. Registering will begin at July 28th for the event that will be held 7-8th Oct. More information can be found here  https://www.workdayrising.com . Attendance to online key notes and sessions are free of charge. Source: https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2020/workday-rising-moves-to-one-global-digital-experience.html

Remote work - a new normal. By now as Covid-19 spread around the world the remote work seems to be the new normal. Kids at Finland are studying from home utilising Microsoft Teams and One note.  If you still miss the online tools, check out Microsoft Teams for free or paid version.  Current situation also puts HR teams in between the hard rock and place. In news we can see layouts and layoffs. Not also all companies have used to work in remote teams. Qualtrics tries to help here too, as they offer free pulse questionnaire to get know how your employees feel day by day. Check the offer from here . This tools give opportunity to get feedback how your employees feel and also a communication way if all is not good. However, this should not be only tool exercise. Create Whatsapp group for your team, book a Teams meetings for first thing in at Monday and last thing for Friday. Encourage people to put video on and share the feelings. At least as I am working in...

Kauppalehti main article told about how Nokia want's to equalise salary cap between workers who have same job [ https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/nokian-palkkaohjelma-kelpaa-malliksi-muille/5a3aca7a-6914-4bdb-a423-624f04847cf3 ]. Nokia is moving towards more job based salary than individual agreement. This might take the hit with high performance, but gain in long term with solid performance workers. It would be interesting to see was this one time performance to boost Nokia's public image [you can see the twitter post https://twitter.com/nokia/status/1130808017732153344 ] or did they actually developed a tools to measure this periodically.