Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs

Workday has promised to rehire the 1,750 jobs it chopped earlier in the year, but in no particular timeframe and with a focus on investments in AI, the CFO has said. Speaking at a conference run by investment bank Jefferies, Zane Rowe said the HR and finance software biz was clear about aims to rehire about the same number of …

[Doctor Syntax]

"with a focus on investments in AI,"

Ah - the ritual utterance.

I suppose what this means is that after getting rid of all those who weren't prepared to return to the office it's found itself a bit short of people to do the work.

[elsergiovolador]

AI is new outsourcing to India.

[Kane]

"AI is new outsourcing to India."

700

[Bebu sa Ware]

I can forsee a lot of commitment to the business from these new hires...

right!

I am not Father Christmas but the other leg undoubtedly does play Jingle Bells.

[joeldillon]

I wonder what 'in different geographies' means here.

[PM.]

wish you luck now!

[Gene Cash]

Probably means you must do the needful.

[Anonymous Coward]

The usual chopping people and hiring - not *rehiring* - cheaper people in ‘Solution Centre's in’ India, Romania, Hungary, Poland and outsourced call partners in Manila.

[elsergiovolador]

Winner

We wanted to make sure everyone understood that this is not us reducing. This is us, in fact, growing

Yes, like when I won the first place in 100m run once, just if you put the board upside down.

[Ace2]

If you want to replace your developers with bullshit jobs like “prompt engineers” you should at least give people the option to retrain. It’s not like there’s a deep hiring pool of people with 10 years of experience in your latest stupid fad technology.

[Doctor Syntax]

There are probably a good few kids coming onto the market now who've got experience of using chatmots to do their homework for the last while. They'll be cheap and as experienced as anybody.

[Decay]

A new twist on the Jack Welch approach, fire 8.5% (not 10% because that's be too obvious) and rehire "driving incredible [return on investment] and growth for the business," but now throw in some AI related uttering to the Gods of investment and off we go, once more with feeling. The same AI based tools that show repeated bias, the same software that makes you create a new account 1000 times if applying for jobs, the same UX that should be classed as torture and made illegal, that takes nearly 2 years to install and configure depending on how much you spend on outside consultants, and has a pricing model that would make Larry Ellison weep for joy.

Yeah, it's the employees, they're the problem. Do all these guys go to the same school? IBM, Boeing Workday, Starbucks etc. etc. I know history never repats but often rhymes but this is getting stupid.

[Anonymous Coward]

Can Workday software get any worse?

AI might be an improvement.

[ecofeco]

Re: Can Workday software get any worse?

It's a sad state of affairs that you have a valid point.

[ecofeco]

Re: Can Workday software get any worse?

Sorry poor choice of my words.

Not YOU personally, I meant when the comparison is accurate,

[ecofeco]

Work-maybe-day?

Says what?