Future of Work - A Workday Podcast

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The world of work hasn’t just changed; it’s being radically redefined. Between the surge of AI, shifting workforce expectations, and the dawn of human-machine collaboration, the old leadership playbooks are obsolete. The Future of Work Podcast moves beyond the buzzwords to deliver insights from the architects of the new work day. Each episode, we sit down with C-suite executives, AI innovators, and industry pioneers to expose the friction between legacy thinking and the future of business. We ignore the tech specs to focus on what matters: the industry trends, cultural shifts, and leadership opportunities required to thrive in an unpredictable landscape. This isn't a conversation about tools—it's a conversation about the future of your organization. Stop guessing and start leading.

  1. Are You the Roadblock? How HR Leaders Can Rewrite the AI Adoption Curve

    3D AGO

    Are You the Roadblock? How HR Leaders Can Rewrite the AI Adoption Curve

    What’s holding AI adoption back in HR? Workday’s Cristina Goldt and AI expert Harper Carroll believe it’s because leaders might be hiding the working gears. In this conversation, they challenge the 'black box' status quo, revealing why your employees will never adopt a tool they aren’t allowed to interrogate. Together, they unpack the trust–adoption paradox and explain why visibility drives confidence.

    17 min
  2. The AI Tax: Why 37% of Time Saved Is Lost to Rework

    MAR 31

    The AI Tax: Why 37% of Time Saved Is Lost to Rework

    AI was supposed to take the grunt work off our plates. Instead, many teams are spending their time checking, correcting, and translating AI output back into the flow of work. In this episode, Jon Lexa, VP of GTM and Operations at Sana, joins Callie Kemmer, Senior Director of AI Strategy, Growth, and Operations at Workday, to examine why enterprise AI still struggles at the last mile—and what it will take to move from impressive output to work that businesses can actually trust and act on.

    26 min
  3. What is the Hidden Cost of AI Efficiency?

    MAR 24

    What is the Hidden Cost of AI Efficiency?

    While AI promises speed, many leaders are instead battling 'workslop'—the friction of low-quality, AI-generated output that creates more cycles instead of fewer. Join Workday’s Kathy Pham and researcher Kate Niederhoffer as they discuss how to bridge the gap between AI hype and reality to ensure technology strengthens human discernment.

    24 min
  4. Empowering the 80%: The New Frontier of Frontline Innovation

    MAR 17

    Empowering the 80%: The New Frontier of Frontline Innovation

    80% of the global workforce is deskless, yet most tech is still built for a desk. In this episode of the Future of Work Podcast, Joshua Secrest and Josh Bersin discuss the frontline imperative and how "invisible software" can bridge the innovation gap to stop the massive revenue leaks caused by understaffing.

    31 min
  5. Is AI the End of Cognitive Effort?

    MAR 10

    Is AI the End of Cognitive Effort?

    We’ve entered a paradoxical era of work. While AI is saving employees an average of 10 hours a week, a "productivity bubble" has emerged. Instead of using that found time for innovation, many are spending nearly half of it reworking and contextualizing AI’s output. Are we becoming faster at the expense of our own critical thinking? In this episode, Aashna Kircher, SVP of HR Products at Workday, and Jacqueline Carter, Managing Partner at Potential Project, dive into the psychological and structural shifts required to thrive in the age of AI. They move beyond the technical hype to explore "automation bias," the biological pull of the "easy button," and why the most important skill of 2026 won’t be prompt engineering—it will be discernment.

    26 min
  6. Workday President of Product on AI’s Productivity Trap

    MAR 3

    Workday President of Product on AI’s Productivity Trap

    In this Season 2 premiere episode, Workday CMO Emma Chalwin and President of Product and Technology Gerrit Kazmaier pull back the curtain on the "Productivity Bubble." Gerrit explains why the shift from deterministic to probabilistic systems has created a massive verification gap. Learn why the next era of work isn't about faster tools, but a fundamental shift in human reasoning and leadership judgment.

    11 min
  7. From Apps to Agents: Turning Global Data into a Defensible AI Moat - Future of Work Podcast

    FEB 24

    From Apps to Agents: Turning Global Data into a Defensible AI Moat - Future of Work Podcast

    Learn why the next era of SaaS isn't about more features, but about removing the human friction from the business process. Workday President of Product and Technology Gerrit Kazmaier joins Justin Furby, Workday's vice president of investor relations, to discuss the shift toward agentic AI that personifies reasoning, moving beyond simple automation to create systems that finally deliver on the ROI promise of the cloud. He explores how, by opening the platform with thousands of AI-ready connectors, the future of SaaS is an intelligent, interconnected ecosystem that acts as a proactive collaborator, not just a database.

    29 min
  8. Why Your AI Pilot Is Failing - Future of Work Podcast

    FEB 17

    Why Your AI Pilot Is Failing - Future of Work Podcast

    Is your organization actually getting value from AI, or are you just measuring logins? In this episode, Workday Ventures leaders sit down with the founders of AI-first companies Laurel and Uplimit to pull back the curtain on enterprise AI. We move beyond the hype to discuss why "adoption" is a vanity metric and how to identify the "aha moments" that turn skeptical employees into power users.

    17 min
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The world of work hasn’t just changed; it’s being radically redefined. Between the surge of AI, shifting workforce expectations, and the dawn of human-machine collaboration, the old leadership playbooks are obsolete. The Future of Work Podcast moves beyond the buzzwords to deliver insights from the architects of the new work day. Each episode, we sit down with C-suite executives, AI innovators, and industry pioneers to expose the friction between legacy thinking and the future of business. We ignore the tech specs to focus on what matters: the industry trends, cultural shifts, and leadership opportunities required to thrive in an unpredictable landscape. This isn't a conversation about tools—it's a conversation about the future of your organization. Stop guessing and start leading.

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