Workday to Cut Nearly 2,000 Workers on Profit Focus
- Figure represents roughly 8.5% of company’s workforce
- Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft recently cut personnel
The Workday Inc. pavilion ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 19.
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Workday Inc. is cutting about 8.5% of its workforce, making it the latest technology company to begin 2025 with headcount reductions.
The cuts will amount to about 1,750 workers, Chief Executive Officer Carl Eschenbach wrote in a note to employees Wednesday. “The environment we’re operating in today demands a new approach, particularly given our size and scale,” he wrote.