Workday, Inc.

Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Workday, Inc. builds cloud-based enterprise applications that help organizations manage HR, finance, and planning within a single unified system. The company employs over 20,000 people globally and serves millions of employees worldwide through its applications. Its founding premise - that enterprise software should be built cloud-first rather than retrofitted from legacy systems - has remained the organising principle of its product architecture.

The company's technical work spans cloud computing, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, HR technology, and financial planning and analytics. Its product line comprises cloud applications for hiring, payroll and HR management, cloud applications for financial planning and analytics, and a unified platform that brings HR, finance and planning onto one system so that an organisation works from a common set of facts. Recent development effort has concentrated on AI capabilities designed to augment human judgment rather than replace it.

Workday operates in the human resources, finance, payroll, financial planning and enterprise/IT verticals on a global basis. The engineering culture is oriented toward eliminating the legacy system fragmentation and disconnected data that afflict large organisations, and team members commonly bring direct experience of working in HR, finance or IT functions. For practitioners, the appeal is the combination of scale - millions of end users, complex enterprise data - and a product philosophy that treats people as the centre of enterprise software.