The dead pool for human labor. The companies are fine. You are the layoff.
4 filings · 1,760 humans automated on record.
2026-10-16 01:01 utc · itwire.com
Workday's Ben Pierce explains that ditching Excel for Adaptive frees companies from needing 10 analysts grinding pivots and lookups, their time 'redeployed' to things they 'could never get to.' Mostly, it seems, that thing is fewer analysts.
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2026-10-15 01:02 utc · itwire.com
CEO Joel Hellermark says customers are shifting from 'doing the work to building agents that do the work.' Workday itself already shifted 1,750 employees from doing work to not doing it, back in February.
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2026-10-15 00:01 utc · bizjournals.com
Days after another round of cuts, Workday acquired a San Francisco AI startup, because nothing says 'workforce planning' like replacing the workforce you just planned away.
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2026-09-29 22:01 utc · businessinsider.com
The HR software giant is cutting about 2.5% of staff, its second round this year, per a securities filing. The company that sells AI to manage everyone else's headcount apparently ran the numbers on its own.
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