Key facts

Founded
2005
HQ
Pleasanton, United States
Employees
21,000+
Website
Funding stage
Public · Nasdaq: WDAY
LinkedIn
Further facts
  • Ownership: Workday's Class A shares trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as WDAY. Co-founders Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield held about 68% of the voting power through Class B shares at 31 January 2026.
  • Timeline: Workday completed its acquisition of Adaptive Insights on 1 August 2018 for about US$1.55bn. It bought FlowiseAI, Paradox, Sana Labs and Pipedream in the year to January 2026, and in October 2026 agreed to acquire ConductorOne (C1.ai), an identity-governance company.
  • Leadership: Co-founder Aneel Bhusri became chief executive again on 6 February 2026, taking over from Carl Eschenbach, and remains chair.
  • Scale: Revenue was US$9.55bn in the year to 31 January 2026. More than 11,500 organisations use Workday, including more than 65% of the Fortune 500, with over 75 million users under contract.

Focus areas

HR tech Finance automation FP&A Workforce planning Spend management Recruiting AI agents Agent governance

About

Workday is a Pleasanton, California software company founded in 2005 by Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield. Its cloud platform runs human resources, payroll, financial management, spend management and planning on one data model for more than 11,500 organisations, including more than 65% of the Fortune 500, with over 75 million users under contract. Financial services is one of the industries it builds for: its Adaptive planning product models loan portfolios, deposits and assets to forecast bank balance sheets, income statements and cash flows down to branch or product level. Revenue reached US$9.55bn in the year to 31 January 2026, when Workday employed more than 21,000 people in 36 countries. Bhusri returned as chief executive in February 2026. Recent acquisitions have centred on AI: Paradox for conversational recruiting, Sana Labs for enterprise knowledge and learning, FlowiseAI for low-code agent building and Pipedream for agent integrations, with the purchase of ConductorOne for identity governance agreed in October 2026.

How they use AI

Workday builds AI agents into its HR and finance workflows, and more than 5,500 customers were using at least one Workday-built agent by July 2026. On the finance side, the Financial Audit Agent assembles audit evidence packages and became generally available in 2026, with agents for financial close, performance reviews and workforce planning announced for the year to January 2027. In planning, Adaptive Decision Intelligence lets finance and operations teams ask questions in natural language, model scenarios and act on the results, alongside predictive forecasts built from historical and third-party data such as economic and labour statistics. Workday Sana provides knowledge search and automation across HR, finance and IT systems, while HiredScore AI for Recruiting and Paradox apply AI to hiring. Agent Passport tests and verifies Workday-built and third-party agents before production and monitors them afterwards, and Workday holds ISO/IEC 42001 certification for AI management. Developers can build agents with Flowise Agent Builder and Developer Agent.

Products and services

  • Workday Human Capital Management — HR, payroll, talent and workforce management across the employee lifecycle
  • Workday Financial Management — Accounting, payables and receivables, consolidation and close, with built-in AI agents
  • Adaptive from Workday (Workday Adaptive Planning) — Financial, workforce and operational planning with AI-driven forecasting and Decision Intelligence; used by more than 7,000 planning teams
  • Workday Spend Management — Sourcing, contracts, procurement and expense management
  • Workday Sana — AI experience for enterprise knowledge search, agents and automation across Workday and other systems
  • Workday Build — Developer platform, including Flowise Agent Builder, for building custom AI apps and agents on Workday
  • Workday Data Cloud — Zero-copy data access between Workday HR and finance data and external platforms, including AWS
  • Workday GO — Packaged HCM and finance suite for medium-sized organisations

Notable customers / partners

  • KPMG LLP
  • Caterpillar
  • Merck & Co.
  • Novartis
  • Delivery Hero
  • Lithia & Driveway
  • Guess
  • BWX Technologies

Key people

  • Aneel Bhusri — Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chair
  • Zane Rowe — Chief Financial Officer
  • Rob Enslin — President and Chief Commercial Officer
  • Gerrit Kazmaier — President, Product and Technology
  • Gabe Monroy — Chief Technology Officer
  • Rani Johnson — Chief Information Officer
  • Ashley Goldsmith — Chief People Officer