{"id":4025,"date":"2025-02-08T11:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T11:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/workday-lays-off-1750-employees-citing-ai-demand\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T11:15:19","slug":"workday-lays-off-1750-employees-citing-ai-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/workday-lays-off-1750-employees-citing-ai-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Workday lays off 1,750 employees, citing AI demand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<br \/>Workday, the HR and finance management company, is the latest tech giant to lay off a mass of employees in the name of AI. In a Wednesday announcement titled &#8220;Changes to Position Workday for the Future,&#8221; the organization shared that it&#8217;s eliminating 1,750 employees, about 8.5 percent of its workforce. The public statement from CEO Carl Eschenbach was initially emailed to employees.<\/p>\n<p>Within a series of paragraphs in which Eschenbach acted really torn up about choosing AI over people, he summed up this trend pretty clearly: &#8220;Companies everywhere are reimagining how work gets done, and the increasing demand for AI has the potential to drive a new era of growth for Workday.&#8221; Eschenbach later adds that Workday will be &#8220;prioritizing innovation investments like AI and platform development, and rigorously evaluating the ROI of others across the board.&#8221; Though, he claims the company will also &#8220;hire in key strategic areas and locations&#8221; this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the announcement, Workday tried to meet with as many impacted employees as possible on Wednesday, so some individuals might not immediately know their fate. US-based employees will receive at least 12 weeks of pay, while employees in other countries (with potentially stronger protections for workers) will receive benefits based on local regulations.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/workday-lays-off-1750-employees-citing-demand-for-ai-134922398.html?src=rss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workday, the HR and finance management company, is the latest tech giant to lay off a mass of employees in the name of AI. In a Wednesday announcement titled &#8220;Changes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[65,64,1101,63,1100],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ai","tag-gear","tag-layoff","tag-news","tag-workday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/1247f460-e48a-11ef-87db-0f0841767871.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}