Workday goes startup-style for AI era, cuts 2.5% of staff

At Workday Rising, the company said its Sana platform is now the default Workday Home screen, letting users orchestrate AI agents in natural language. Workday has launched 17 agentic services in 12 months and cut about 500 jobs (2.5%) to work leaner and faster.

• Sana, acquired in November 2025, is now the default Workday Home screen
• Workday launched 17 agentic services in 12 months, including Autopilot Agents
• The layoffs affected about 500 employees, or 2.5% of the workforce
• Workday processes 1.4 trillion transactions a year for 80 million users