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Workday is a leading enterprise platform that helps organizations manage their most important assets – their people and money. The Workday platform is built with AI at the core to help customers elevate people, supercharge work, and move their business forever forward. Workday is used by more than 10,500 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 60% of the Fortune 500. read more

EMPLOYEE PARTICIPANTS: 1183

TOTAL RATINGS: 28227

CEO: Aneel Bhursi

Aneel Bhursi Workday CEO Rating

Workday's CEO, Aneel Bhursi, has 1130 employee ratings and a score of 89/100, placing them in the Top 5% of similar size companies on Comparably with 10,000+ Employees and Top 5% of other companies in San Francisco. When breaking the CEO score down by factors such as department, gender, and ethnicity, we see that females at Workday rate Aneel Bhursi higher than males, giving the CEO a score of 90/100.

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Where This Score Ranks Workday's CEO Rating

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In the Top 5% of 1339 Similar Sized Companies on Comparably
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In the Top 5% of 932 Nearby Companies in San Francisco
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Workday CEO Aneel Bhursi Bio

Aneel co-founded Workday with Dave Duffield in 2005 with a simple idea: build enterprise software that puts people at the center. Over the past two decades, he has helped guide the company from startup to one of the world’s leading enterprise AI platforms for managing people, money and agents. Throughout Workday’s journey, Aneel has served in a range of leadership roles, including co-CEO from 2009 to 2014 with co-founder Dave Duffield, CEO from 2014 to 2020, co-CEO from 2020 to 2024, and executive chair from 2024 to 2026. He has been a member of its board of directors since its founding.

For over 25 years, Aneel has been a product visionary and leader in enterprise software. Before Workday, he held several leadership roles at PeopleSoft, including vice chair of the board and senior vice president responsible for product strategy, business development, and marketing. In addition to his role at Workday, Aneel is a member of the board of trustees at Stanford University and serves on the boards of the Workday Foundation, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Eat. Learn. Play. He has previously served on the boards of several public and private companies, including Cruise, General Motors, Intel, Okta, and Pure Storage.

Aneel holds an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and economics from Brown University. He is a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Who Ranks Workday's CEO Rating the Highest?

Department - Admin 97/100

Department - Customer Success 95/100

Experience - Entry Level 92/100

Who Ranks Workday's CEO Rating the Lowest?

Department - Communications 66/100

Tenure - Over 10 Years 80/100

Tenure - 2 to 5 Years 81/100

Workday CEO Aneel Bhursi At a Glance

The CEO score provides an understanding of how employees feel about the CEO’s leadership style and effectiveness at Workday.

Based on 1130 ratings, Aneel Bhursi ranks right above Salesforce's CEO, Marc Benioff.

Workday's CEO is highly regarded by the Admin department, the Customer Success department, and employees with Entry Level experience. However, the Communications department, employees who have been at the company Over 10 Years, and employees who have been at the company 2 to 5 Years have a less favorable view of the CEO and believe there is room for improvement. Overall, the CEO score has remained stable over the last 90 days.