---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001327811-24-000155"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WDAY"
cik: "0001327811"
company_name: "Workday, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-08-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T13:42:20.994953+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Workday appoints Mark Garfield as Chief Accounting Officer effective Sept 3, 2024

## Summary
- Mark Garfield, previously SVP and CAO of Adobe, will become Workday's CAO.
- Annual base salary of $515,000; eligible for 35% target bonus under cash incentive plan.
- One-time signing bonus of $500,000 subject to one-year repayment obligation if terminated for cause or resigns without good reason.
- Equity awards: RSU grant valued at $6M (4-year vest) plus a $3M bridge award (2-year vest).
- Will participate in Workday's Executive Severance Plan and Change in Control Policy.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001327811-24-000155
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WDAY
- cik: 0001327811
- company_name: Workday, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-08-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781124000155/0001327811-24-000155-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781124000155/wday-20240730.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001327811-24-000155.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mark Garfield was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at Workday, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On July 30, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Workday, Inc. (“Workday”) appointed Mark Garfield as Chief Accounting Officer of Workday, effective September 3, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781124000155/0001327811-24-000155-index.htm

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