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Workday

HQ Pleasanton, USFounded 2005publicWebsite @Workday
Composite score
46.1
rank #28 · cuts

#28 Cut. 25.5k employees.

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Headcount
25.5k
+0.8%
90d change
+2.0%
Funding events (90d)
0
1 all-time tracked
Layoff events (90d)
0

headcount + trends: LinkedIn-tracked weekly series · funding & layoff counts: through Jul 2026 (frozen) + live news extraction

Signals

source: PDL v25
Inferred revenue
$1B-$10B
PDL estimate
Revenue / employee
$216k
midpoint ÷ headcount
12-month turnover
9.1%
low — retention is strong
Average tenure
4.4 yrs
long — sticky culture
Time since last raise
1y 1mo
last round

Hiring flow · Workday

source: PDL v25

Headcount by role

12-month growth · PDL v25
Engineering
7,454
+6%
Operations
1,917
-1%
Sales
1,800
+6%
Analyst
1,396
+2%
Professional Service
1,328
+11%
Product
1,325
+3%
Sales Engineering
820
+2%
Support
756
+19%
Other
2,854
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In the news

relevance ≥ 6 · last 180 days
  1. TechCrunch2mo ago
    Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents

    Workday is named alongside Salesforce as an enterprise software system Arga's product integrates with.

Machine-readablesignals RSSJSON APIAPI & MCP docs

Events

Funding · post ipo equity · $2.0B
1y ago
Layoff · 2.7% (554 roles)
Departures in 2025-05: 688 vs 6-mo baseline of 133.5 (5.15× spike). Derived from PDL.
1y ago

Score history

2026-10-19
46.1
rank #28
2026-10-12
42.5
rank #28
2026-10-05
49.6
rank #23
2026-09-28
32.9
rank #28
2026-09-21
33.1
rank #28
2026-09-14
30.6
rank #30
2026-09-07
28.0
rank #31
2026-08-31
29.3
rank #33
2026-08-24
32.6
rank #32
2026-08-17
31.1
rank #30
2026-08-10
15.6
rank #33
2026-08-03
17.9
rank #35