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Workday Named a Best Company to Work For by Fortune

Employee-Centric Culture Puts the Focus on Delivering a Great Customer Experience

PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 5, 2015) -Workday, Inc.(NYSE: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications forfinanceandhuman resources, today announced that it has been named one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For by Fortune magazine. Workday ranked #22 and it marks the first time that the company has applied and been named to the prestigious list, now in its 18thyear, which recognizes U.S. companies with exceptional workplace cultures. Workday celebrated its 10thanniversary today with more than 3,700 employees and more than 700 customers around the world.

始于2005年,工作日的创始人建立了薪酬any around a core set of values that guide its interactions, decisions, and leadership. Those values are: employees, customer service, innovation, integrity, fun, and profitability. The result is a culture that puts the employees at the center, and creates an environment where people are valued, heard, inspired, encouraged to have fun, and most importantly, committed to achieving theindustry's highest customer satisfaction rating.

"Ten years ago today we founded Workday with the promise to bring passion and customer focus back to the business of enterprise applications," said Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and CEO, Workday. "To accomplish this, we knew we had to put our employees first and firmly believed that if we made them happy, success would follow. Today's recognition from Fortune is a testament to the passion and energy that our employees bring to work every day with a commitment to creating an exceptional customer experience."

"A new type of 21stcentury company is emerging," said China Gorman, CEO of Great Place to Work®. "It is transforming how business is done both internally and externally. It understands that a high-trust work culture results in higher productivity, increased engagement, and better financial performance. These factors ultimately lead to a competitive advantage and enable companies to quickly bounce back from challenging situations. The 100 Best Companies set the standard for businesses."

The recognition by Fortune follows other honors Workday has received as a top workplace in the U.S. and Europe in the past year:

Additional Information

  • Visit the Workday blogto read more from Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and CEO, and Dave Duffield, co-founder and chairman, about the positive impact culture has had on Workday's success
  • See what employees have to sayabout why Workday is a great place to work
  • Workday is hiringfor key roles in product and technology development, customer support, services, data center operations, sales, and more

Methodology
Fortune partners annually with Great Place to Work®to conduct the most extensive employee survey in corporate America to identify the 100 Best Companies to Work For®. Two-thirds of a company's survey score is based on the results of the Trust Index©, Employee Survey, which is sent to a random sample of employees from each company. This survey asks questions related to employees' attitudes about management's credibility, overall job satisfaction, and camaraderie. The other third is based on responses to the Culture Audit ©, which includes detailed questionnaires about pay and benefit programs and a series of open-ended questions about hiring practices, methods of internal communication, training, recognition programs and diversity efforts.

About Workday
Workdayis a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications forfinanceandhuman resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world's largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Hundreds of organizations, ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises, have selected Workday.

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