VIBE Central™ and VIBE Index™ Deliver Key Insights to Help Organizations Accelerate Belonging and Diversity Efforts and Outcomes
For businesses starting to ramp up their B&D efforts, VIBE Central provides a foundation with best practices content and reports that help companies see the diversity and representation of their workforce in one centralized place. With VIBE Index, Workday aims to deliver the world’s most comprehensive B&D index—enabling organizations to equally measure and compare belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion for a better understanding of where parity may be lacking to know where to focus efforts.
Workforce Technology to Make Progress
The recent uprising against racism and social injustice has put an even bigger spotlight on disparities in the workplace, prompting organizations to act quickly to address inequality and foster more inclusive work environments. Many companies have made B&D commitments in recent years yet retaining diverse talent continues to be a roadblock, indicating a broader challenge around inclusion. Tracking and reporting diversity data is a common first step, but nurturing an inclusive culture requires strategic planning and intentional actions, stemming from a more holistic view of B&D across the organization.
To truly understand their workforce, employers need to account for the many identities and perspectives an employee can bring and look for equity in experience across different populations in the organization to identify where to focus efforts from a talent strategy perspective. With Workday, organizations will have the insights needed to help understand where they stand and where to intervene to help create a more diverse workplace where everyone feels like they belong and are included.
VIBE Central: Know the Diversity and Representation of Your Workforce
VIBE Central brings all diversity- and inclusion-related data into one centralized place in
Customers benefit from the ability to assess talent management, talent development, and employee experience for key factors including:
- Hiring. Organizations can better understand if hiring practices are balanced or if one group is over- or under-represented.
- Promotions. Business leaders can look at metrics to determine if their promotion process is inclusive and then view a succession report to gauge if they are planning in an equitable way.
- Leadership. Companies can look at leadership/management levels and succession planning to compare planning to the actual diversity of management and to see if diversity drops off from one management level to the next—which may indicate a need for more targeted development.
- Attrition. If hiring and promotion practices are helping to increase diversity overall but there’s a high rate of voluntary attrition for that diverse talent, HR leaders may need to focus on belonging and inclusion.
VIBE Index: Measure Relative Performance to Focus B&D Efforts
The VIBE Index empowers HR leaders to set a B&D strategy and create a tailored plan aimed at driving positive outcomes. It will measure the relative performance and outcomes of an organization’s efforts across talent acquisition, talent development, leadership development, employee experience, and workplace culture to deliver a heat map that identifies the highest opportunity for positive change, as well as a VIBE Index score for overall workplace equity.
The VIBE Index will leverage Workday Prism Analytics to easily integrate external datasets, such as employee sentiment survey data, to conduct real-time analyses for more in-depth insights—all in Workday. It was specifically designed to address issues and gaps in existing diversity and inclusion indices and analytics tools, uniquely delivering:
- Belonging and Equity Insights. The VIBE Index is pioneering a way to measure belonging and equity alongside diversity and inclusion, across the complete lifecycle of a worker; other indices currently available in the market typically only measure diversity and inclusion.
- Intersectionality. The VIBE Index is one of the first B&D offerings to use intersections—a combination of different elements of a person’s identity that could include race/ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, ability/disability, class status, religion, veteran status, and cognitive diversity—to look across the full employment lifecycle, while other tools measure a single dimension. For instance, customers could specifically compare Asian women and Black men with regard to leadership.
- Parity and Equity Evaluation. The VIBE Index will evaluate where parity is lacking in the workplace and then provide a heat map to identify where there is the greatest opportunity to drive positive change. For example, it could highlight inequities in promotions and leadership opportunities provided to Asian women and Black women in comparison to Asian men and White men in Marketing, with a heat map indicating greater focus is needed in talent development to improve the chances for Asian and Black women to be promoted into leadership roles.
Comments on the News
“Every diversity leader faces the huge task of building and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, but they need deeper insights than what is offered in products today to do this effectively,” said
“Diversity is a complex topic and there are many dimensions to peoples’ individuality and identity,” said
“VIBE Index will fill a major gap in the world of B&D solutions with an extensive data foundation coupled with analytics-driven insights that deliver an entirely new level of specificity,” said
Availability
- VIBE Central will be available in
September 2020 at no additional cost to Workday HCM customers. Workday is offering a promotion throughFebruary 28, 2021 to assist the first 300 Workday HCM customers with best practices guidance and configuration support. - The VIBE Index services offering will leverage Workday Prism Analytics and become generally available to customers in the first quarter of calendar year 2021.
Additional Information
- Read the blog: Workday’s Commitments to Further Support Equity in the Workplace and in Communities by
Carin Taylor , chief diversity officer, Workday. - Check out Workday’s Belonging and Diversity solutions.
About Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics have been adopted by thousands of organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 60 percent of the Fortune 50. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.
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