Workday

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Workday, Inc.

About the vendor

• Workday, Inc. is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.
• Workday, Inc.'s chief executive is Aneel Bhusri (per Wikidata).
• Workday, Inc. reported revenue of $9.55bn for 2026.

Compliance & AI governance

FedRAMPAs the company states it, in its SEC filings (tier A) or on its own website (tier B). Not checked against the certifying bodies.

Customers

• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday provides cloud solutions to more than 11,500 organisations and has over 75 million users under contract.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday has more than 11,500 customers globally.

In its SEC filings

75 disclosures — 3 litigation · 48 how it says it uses ai · 24 ai risks it names

Litigation

• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: Workday discloses it is defending a lawsuit alleging that its products and services enable discrimination.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday discloses that it is defending a lawsuit alleging that certain AI-related products and services enable discrimination, though most claims have been dismissed.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday discloses a lawsuit alleging that its AI-related products and services enable discrimination.

How it says it uses AI

• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday states its platform is AI-powered and helps customers manage their people, money, and agents.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-Q filed 2026-08-27: The filing describes Workday as an enterprise AI platform that couples AI with context and guardrails to deliver AI that assists with work and agents that drive measurable outcomes.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday delivers cloud-based, AI-powered applications for HCM, financial management, spend management, and planning.
• Workday, Inc.'s 8-K EX-99.1 filed 2026-08-27: Workday says its AI agents are used by over 5,500 customers and AI drove more than 25% of new ACV.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2022-02-28: Workday states that some of its products, including People Experience and Talent Optimization suites, currently or will utilise machine learning and artificial intelligence.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: Workday states its AI-powered platform helps customers deliver better employee experiences and improve productivity.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: Workday intends to add AI-powered document intelligence solutions across its finance and HCM applications following the Evisort acquisition.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2024-03-08: Workday's People Experience, Talent Optimization, and Financial product suites currently or will utilise AI.
• Workday, Inc.'s 8-K EX-99.1 filed 2026-05-21: Workday states it introduced a Personnel Action Request Agent to modernise federal HR transactions and a Military Skills Mapper to help identify and hire veteran talent.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: Workday states that its customers have an AI-powered cloud platform that helps them manage their people and money.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2023-02-27: Workday embeds AI and machine learning into its platform to deliver better employee experiences, improve operational efficiencies, and provide insights for faster decision-making.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-Q filed 2026-05-22: Workday states it makes significant investments in AI, including generative and agentic capabilities, for its platform offerings.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: Workday describes its product as an AI platform that helps organisations manage their people and money.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday's applications are AI-powered and include AI agents for managing people, money, and agents.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday's product includes a conversational AI agent for job applications from its acquisition of Paradox.
• Workday, Inc.'s 8-K EX-99.1 filed 2026-05-21: Workday states its platform tightly couples AI with business processes to deliver agents that drive measurable outcomes.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2024-03-08: Workday states it is increasingly building AI into its core and specific offerings.
• Workday, Inc.'s 8-K EX-99.1 filed 2026-02-24: Workday describes itself as the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-Q filed 2026-05-22: Workday says it delivers cloud-based, AI-powered applications for human capital management, financial management, spend management and planning.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: Workday announced new role-based AI agents for recruiting, talent mobility, succession and optimisation.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday states that many of its products and services currently utilise or will utilise AI technologies.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-Q filed 2026-08-27: Workday's products are cloud-based, AI-powered applications for HCM, financial management, spend management, and planning.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: Workday Wellness, powered by Workday Illuminate, will give companies a real-time view of employee benefits usage and AI-driven recommendations to improve benefits programmes.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday uses AI in its Peakon Employee Voice product to collect and analyse employee feedback in real time, providing insights and recommendations.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2022-02-28: Workday's applications use machine learning models that require training datasets.
• Workday, Inc.'s 8-K EX-99.1 filed 2026-05-21: Workday states its Agent System of Record is generally available, giving customers visibility and control over all their AI agents.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: Workday provides customers with AI-powered talent acquisition and internal mobility offerings through HiredScore.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: Workday Illuminate, the next generation of Workday AI, is designed to accelerate manual tasks, assist employees and transform business processes.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: The Workday Agent System of Record is designed to help customers manage, track, integrate and optimise AI agents built by Workday, the customer or third parties.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: Workday states it is increasingly building AI into its product suite, including agentic AI, large language models and generative AI.
• Workday, Inc.'s 8-K EX-99.1 filed 2026-05-21: Workday states its Recruiting Agent supported 14 million hiring processes in the quarter, up 44% year-over-year.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2023-02-27: Workday states it is increasingly building AI and machine learning into many of its offerings.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday states it is increasingly building and integrating AI, including generative and agentic AI, into its product suite.
• Workday, Inc.'s 8-K EX-99.1 filed 2026-02-24: Workday delivered 1.7 billion AI actions across its platform in fiscal 2026.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: The company states that its products incorporate AI, including its Workday Illuminate solutions.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday introduced new AI agents to accelerate hiring, enhance frontline worker experiences, simplify financial processes, and improve employee information access.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2023-02-27: Workday's People Experience and Talent Optimization product suites utilise AI and machine learning, with machine learning also applied in finance and spend management products.
• Workday, Inc.'s 8-K EX-99.1 filed 2026-05-21: Workday states its Sana superintelligence for work is now available to customers worldwide.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday's AI-powered talent acquisition solutions streamline the recruiting and hiring process.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday's product includes AI-powered talent orchestration from its acquisition of HiredScore.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday's product Paradox uses conversational AI to simplify the job application journey.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2024-03-08: Workday announced new generative AI capabilities, including generating job descriptions in minutes and analysing contracts for more accurate revenue recognition.
• Workday, Inc.'s 8-K EX-99.1 filed 2026-02-24: Paradox Conversational Applicant Tracking System uses AI to help organisations hire frontline workers faster.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-Q filed 2026-08-27: Workday states that many of its products and services currently utilise or will utilise AI technologies.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday's product includes an AI-native document intelligence platform from its acquisition of Evisort.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2022-02-28: Workday uses machine learning to drive efficiency and automation in its applications.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday's product includes AI-powered enterprise knowledge tools from its acquisition of Sana.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday's product Sana builds AI-powered enterprise knowledge tools.

AI risks it names

• Workday, Inc.'s 10-Q filed 2026-05-22: Workday warns that open source AI components may be subject to data poisoning and other security vulnerabilities.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2023-02-27: Workday warns that unfavourable laws or regulations governing AI and machine learning could cause significant compliance costs and harm its business.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-Q filed 2026-05-22: Workday identifies a risk that incorrect implementation or use of its applications with generative and agentic AI could cause customer dissatisfaction and harm its business.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday identifies the risk that AI-enabled or agentic AI features may be misused or produce problematic outputs, potentially resulting in regulatory scrutiny, litigation, or reputational harm.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: The company warns that open source AI models may be trained on data of unknown provenance, potentially leading to copyright infringement claims.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: Workday identifies risks from AI including reputational harm, increased litigation, regulatory compliance costs, and potential for discrimination claims.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: The company identifies a risk that unfavourable laws or regulations governing AI could cause significant cost and compliance challenges.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2024-03-08: If Workday AI solutions fail to operate as expected or do not meet customer expectations, or if the company lacks sufficient data to train AI models, its business and reputation may be harmed.
• Workday, Inc.'s 8-K EX-99.1 filed 2026-08-27: Workday identifies regulatory risks related to new and evolving technologies such as AI as a risk factor.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday warns that its use of generative and agentic AI may lead to reputational harm, increased litigation, and adverse operating results.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: The company identifies a risk that if its AI-powered solutions, including agentic AI, fail to be delivered, operate as expected, or meet customer expectations, or if it fails to monetise them, its business and reputation may be harmed.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2023-02-27: Workday identifies that social and ethical issues relating to the use of AI and ML in its offerings may result in reputational harm and liability.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: The company identifies a risk that if it fails to keep up with AI advancements or if its Workday Illuminate solutions do not meet expectations, its business and reputation may be harmed.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2024-03-08: Evolving regulation of AI technologies may severely impact the permitted uses of Workday's products.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2025-03-11: Workday warns that unfavourable laws and regulations governing AI could result in significant cost and compliance challenges.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-Q filed 2026-05-22: Workday states that AI is subject to ongoing review by various regulators.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-Q filed 2026-05-22: Workday identifies a risk that its AI-powered products could enable discrimination, leading to reputational harm, regulatory action, or litigation.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2024-03-08: The company identifies that the use of AI may result in reputational harm and increased litigation.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2022-02-28: Workday identifies a risk that if machine learning and artificial intelligence are not widely adopted or fail to operate as expected, its business and reputation may be harmed.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2022-02-28: Workday identifies risks from machine learning and artificial intelligence, including emerging ethical issues that could cause brand or reputational harm, competitive harm, or legal liability if its solutions are controversial due to their impact on human rights, privacy, or employment.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2024-03-08: The company identifies the risk that evolving regulation of AI could lead to compliance challenges and adversely affect its business.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday warns that risks from AI could undermine public confidence, increase costs, and slow adoption.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-Q filed 2026-08-27: Workday warns that AI-enabled features may produce unexpected outputs involving personal data, leading to regulatory scrutiny, litigation, or reputational harm.
• Workday, Inc.'s 10-K filed 2026-03-06: Workday identifies risks from the technical, legal, and regulatory environment related to its use of AI.

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In court

20 cases name it as a party · filings from 2021

Where we have looked — 10 courts

Searched through CourtListener / RECAP, last read 2026-10-01:

• US federal district, appellate and bankruptcy dockets — 235 courts105 district, 14 appellate, 95 bankruptcy and 21 special federal courts
• published opinions, including state supreme and appellate courts — 384 courts, including 53 state supreme courts53 state supreme, 62 state appellate, 6 state trial and 28 state special courts, plus the federal courts above

County and municipal courts are not searched, and neither is anything outside the United States. A count of nought means we found nothing where we looked, not that nothing exists.

Courts this platform appears in: D. Colorado · District of Columbia · D. Maryland · D. Oregon · E.D. California · E.D. Virginia · N.D. California · N.D. Georgia · United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Delaware · United States Bankruptcy Court, D. New Jersey

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