Workday, Inc.
Workday is a software company that offers human capital management, financial management, and business planning solutions for enterprises. Known for being a cloud-only software provider, Workday was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.www.workday.com
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Sep 22, 2026
Matt KenyonHOST
Hello and welcome to Business As Usual brought to you by Workday.
Matt KenyonHOST
I'm Matt Kenyon, City AM's digital editor and today in the hot seat we've got our opinion and featured editor, Alice Denby.
Alice DenbyHOST
Hello, thank you for having me.
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Mauricio AlencarGUEST
Thank you.
Matt KenyonHOST
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Kevin RooseGUEST
I think we're already starting to see that.
Kevin RooseGUEST
You know, Anthropic and OpenAI are now doing things in pharma, in bio, in law, in finance that are, uh, you know, we saw the SaaSpocalypse where people basically said, you know, "Why would I buy stock of Salesforce or Workday or any of these other companies when, like, people could just vibe code their own versions of these things?" Now, I think that was somewhat overheated, the fears of the SaaSpocalypse, but, like, this is a real risk that people should be paying attention to.
Kevin RooseGUEST
It may be that these labs just end up owning, like sort of eating more and more of the economy every six months or every year to the point where you, you can only really survive if they don't care about what you do.
Kevin RooseGUEST
Like, there, there's this, uh, there's this analogy that someone used to me when I was reporting the book where it's like the, the Eye of Sauron.
Sarah DoodyHOST
I interview them every month for this podcast.
Sarah DoodyHOST
I'll link you to the playlist where I have curated all my conversations with recruiters and hiring managers from companies like Workday, Home Depot, ManyChat, Ecosia, others I'm sure I am forgetting, but, oh, Shopify.
Sarah DoodyHOST
But I'm hearing the same thing over and over and over.
Sarah DoodyHOST
And that is essentially this, that the job of your portfolio doesn't change based on your job title or your level of seniority, because the people making the decisions in hiring are trying to answer all of these questions.
Brandon WhichardHOST
That's a very natural way to work.
Brandon WhichardHOST
Workday is the same kind of thing.
Brandon WhichardHOST
It's like, here's all the stuff I've done.
Brandon WhichardHOST
Why don't you write up a short summary and put this in Workday that some executive can read about what I'm doing if they want to give me a review.
Brandon WhichardHOST
I don't want to spend time doing that.
Brandon WhichardHOST
That's a waste of time.
Brandon WhichardHOST
So I think that's the future.
Brandon WhichardHOST
And then, you know, people talk about the SaaSpocalypse.
Oliver MatthewHOST
Cybersecurity kept rising, particularly impressive considering the valuations, but the more traditional SaaS names were up and down.
Oliver MatthewHOST
We had HubSpot, DocuSign, Workday, Salesforce, and SAP all in the red, while Atlassian, Snowflake, and Shopify all rose.
Oliver MatthewHOST
Shopify up a big 7.3%.
Oliver MatthewHOST
Also, while I look at my table, the big moves in big chip stocks came from Corecom and AMD.
Tiernan RayGUEST
Every company that attaches themselves to the AI movement and shows that they've got momentum then gets a bid and they become selected in the winners.
Tiernan RayGUEST
HubSpot sort of making the case that they can also transition, but it's hard for these traditional vendors, HubSpot and Workday, and I think we are seeing now a shakeout where people have enough confidence in the winners such as CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, and Datadog and Twilio and Snowflake, that they fixate on those names and they start to lead by the wayside.
Tiernan RayGUEST
Some of the companies that are perfectly good companies that have not yet shown that they also will be these kinds of beneficiaries, such as Workday and HubSpot.
Marley KaydenHOST
And I want to pivot to Apple before we have to say goodbye, because Friday I was driving to work, I saw the Lions outside, and sometimes it feels like the Lions are a thing of the past, but they're still very much here for Apple.
Marley KaydenHOST
And they weren't even for the new foldable phone, for the Duo, because that's not coming out until October.
Jennifer CroninGUEST
But that's important because that's where it lives.
Jennifer CroninGUEST
You know, going back to my Accenture days, I was in tech and, And there were a lot of big tech companies working with Accenture, like Google, SAS, Oracle, Workday, Adobe, et cetera.
Jennifer CroninGUEST
But we were all in tech.
Jennifer CroninGUEST
So we all had to sort of have the same structure.
Chris HarounHOST
But I would absolutely regulate self-improving AI before we find out the hard way that they were right.
Chris HarounHOST
Now, a lot of companies that I do consulting for, so I've done consulting and presentations, all of Dell, Workday, Marvell, et cetera.
Chris HarounHOST
Almost all of them, and my many other clients, have chief AI executive ethics officers in their companies.
Chris HarounHOST
We need a department of AI ethics.
Yasmeen J. ConingGUEST
So we should look into that.
Yasmeen J. ConingGUEST
Hence started my journey as a researcher and as a scientist, really diving in deep, not on this notion of identity, which I can explain, but more so on the notion of employee engagement, which is what I think we all know commercially to be the thing that we measure, right? You've got major companies, Gallup and CultureAmp and Workday, I think, you know, that all have these instruments and every HR professional looking at engagement.
Yasmeen J. ConingGUEST
And essentially what I found when I looked at employee engagement was a rather bold claim, but a true one is that it has never in statistics ever I'm a statistical researcher, so I like to look at math to prove things because math is very black and white, right? When you look at employee engagement, it has never causally, as we say in statistics, been proven to ever drive a business outcome, surprisingly, which is sort of mind-blowing.
Yasmeen J. ConingGUEST
You know, it's not a bad thing.
Safiya NobleGUEST
on critical thinking skills, on deep expertise, because those will be the kinds of skills that will be valuable in the future.
Safiya NobleGUEST
I think we need to also be thinking about what does it mean that we have the largest and most substantial lawsuit against Workday right now, which has systematically screened black and elderly and disabled people out of jobs in the largest by volume discrimination, employment discrimination case that we've seen in the history of the United States.
Safiya NobleGUEST
So it's these everyday banal ways in which Black people and vulnerable people will be kept out of the workforce because AI automated systems like HR screeners and other kinds of resume screeners are just completely taking us out of the pipeline of possibility for jobs.
Al SharptonHOST
Yeah, that's why Nash Action Network, like American Federation of Teachers and others, is saying we need and we're getting challenging and getting some of these AI companies to deal with the fluency, with blacks learning fluency, leaders being up to speed.
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