---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001327811-25-000030"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WDAY"
cik: "0001327811"
company_name: "Workday, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T02:28:22.740614+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Workday announces restructuring: cut ~1,750 jobs (8.5% of workforce), charges $230M-$270M

## Summary
- Restructuring eliminates ~1,750 positions (8.5% of workforce); charges estimated $230M-$270M, with $60M-$70M in Q4 FY2025.
- GAAP operating margin expected 22-23 ppt lower in Q4 FY2025; full year 21 ppt lower due to restructuring charges.
- CEO Carl Eschenbach cites need to focus on AI; affected U.S. employees get min 12 weeks pay, RSU vesting, career services.
- Restructuring expected substantially complete by Q2 FY2026; company continues to hire in key strategic areas like AI.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001327811-25-000030
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WDAY
- cik: 0001327811
- company_name: Workday, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 2.05, 2.06, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781125000030/0001327811-25-000030-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781125000030/wday-20250205.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001327811-25-000030.txt

## Key facts
- Restructurings & Charges
  Workday, Inc. announced a restructuring with charges of approximately $230 million to $270 million in charges (approximately 1,750 positions, or 8.5% of Workday's current workforce).
  - Type: restructuring
  - Charge: approximately $230 million to $270 million in charges
  - Headcount: approximately 1,750 positions, or 8.5% of Workday's current workforce
  source text: its fiscal year ending January 31, 2026. In connection with the Plan, Workday expects to exit certain owned office space. Workday estimates that it will incur approximately $230 million to $270 million in charges in connection with the Plan, of which approximately $60 million to $70 million is expected to be recognized in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, and
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781125000030/0001327811-25-000030-index.htm
- Restructurings & Charges
  Workday, Inc. announced a impairment with charges of approximately $35 million in non-cash charges related to the impairment of office space affecting office space.
  - Type: impairment
  - Charge: approximately $35 million in non-cash charges related to the impairment of office space
  - Affected area: office space
  source text: The charges also consist of approximately $35 million in non-cash charges related to the impairment of office space that Workday expects to record in the first quarter of fiscal 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781125000030/0001327811-25-000030-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.