Martin Sawkins, Rentokil Initial: Workday Selected to Manage 66,000 Employees in the Cloud

December 5, 2011

Rentokil Initial has selected Workday as its global human resources (HR) system of record.

"As a large company with a small HR team, it is absolutely imperative that we leverage leading-edge technologies we trust to provide us the information we need to do our jobs," said Martin Sawkins, Group HR Director at Rentokil Initial. "In line with our Program Olympic initiative, our organization is laser-focused on delivering consistent employee goals and performance measures that optimize our workforce while putting us on the path to deliver outstanding customer care and profitable growth."

London-based Rentokil Initial has more than 66,000 employees operating from more than 1,000 branches in 58 countries.
As part of the company's strategic plan, Rentokil Initial introduced Program Olympic, a company-wide effort to increase efficiency in its administrative and operational processes. As part of this program, the selection of Workday will allow Rentokil Initial to optimize its workforce.
With Workday as its global HR system of record, Rentokil Initial will have a single source of actionable information about its workforce, accessible in the Workday cloud.
Workday's business process framework will enable Rentokil Initial to configure its business processes, meeting the diverse needs of each region without requiring the development or use of custom software code.
Rentokil Initial selected Workday's SaaS solution for its global capabilities, intuitive self-service tools, continued innovation delivery, and lower cost of ownership over on-premise solutions.
Rentokil Initial uses other cloud-based solutions including the Google Apps software service for the company's email, intranet, and collaboration toolset, Ariba as its main procurement tool, and Cornerstone OnDemand for global online learning.

"With 66,000 employees in more than 50 countries and a diverse offering of services, Rentokil Initial is the definition of a global company," said Dave Duffield, co-CEO and chief customer advocate at Workday. "Workday is excited to play a role in Rentokil Initial's initiatives to increase efficiencies throughout its company."