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Workday Headquarters & offices · Pleasanton, California
Workday · Pleasanton, California
A six-story, LEED Platinum headquarters steps from a BART station, with an open-air amphitheater for 1,500 people, a pizza-oven diner and two dog runs.
The building, the benefits and 20 years of office history — then the pay. Every number from Workday's own filings, benefits site, job postings and the engineer's project page.
- 410,000 sq ftsix-story HQ, opened 2019
- 1,500seats in the open-air amphitheater
- 6 weekspaid sabbatical after 10 years
- $218,717median employee pay, FY2026
Sources: Workday blog (May 13, 2019) · KPFF project page · benefits.workday.com · Proxy statement 2026 · Form 10-K FY2026
Companies / United States / Enterprise software / Workday
THE HEADQUARTERS · 6110 STONERIDGE MALL ROAD · 2019
410,000 sq ft designed from the ground up for collaboration
Workday designed its headquarters itself, around its core values. The six-story building holds 2,200 people, with open spaces, whole walls of whiteboards, video walls and four “great rooms” made to feel like living rooms. Indoor trees, game rooms on every floor, wellbeing rooms and the Data Diner with its pizza oven sit inside; outside are an open-air amphitheater for 1,500, two dog runs and a green walkway to the BART station.
- 410,000 sq ft (≈ 38,090 m²)
- Room for 2,200 people
- Amphitheater for 1,500
- LEED Platinum
- 865 kW solar array
- Design: Gensler
Facts: Workday blog “Built from the Ground Up: Announcing Workday's New Headquarters” (May 13, 2019) · KPFF project page “Workday Headquarters”
Stoneridge Mall Road, Pleasanton
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters (since 2019) | 6110 Stoneridge Mall Road, Pleasanton, CA 94588 |
| Former headquarters (to 2018) | 6230 Stoneridge Mall Road, Pleasanton, CA 94588 |
Source: Form 10-K cover pages, FY2013–FY2018 (6230) and FY2019–FY2026 (6110) · S-1 (2012) · See them on the map ↓
Source: KPFF project page “Workday Headquarters” · Workday blog (May 13, 2019) · Form 10-K FY2026, Item 2
Office tour videos
Benefits (United States)
Flexible time off (FTO), approved in advance by your manager. Full-time hourly staff accrue up to 20 days.
12 holidays plus 4 company-wide “Thank You Days” on the 2026 calendar.
Paid time away after 10 years of eligible service.
50 cents per dollar on the first 6% of pay; student-loan payments can also earn the match.
Shares at 85% of the lower of the price at grant or at purchase.
Lifetime allowance for every employee, through Maven Wallet.
Discounted back-up child and elder care each year: $10 an hour at home or $20 a day at a center.
“Bright Days Off”: paid days to volunteer in your community, plus donation matching.
Source: benefits.workday.com (Vacation & Holidays, 401(k) Plan, Adoption & Surrogacy, Child & Elder Care) · Form 10-K FY2026 (stock purchase plan, Giving & Doing). Parental leave length is not published on the public site.
How Workday keeps people, in its own words
Six weeks of paid time away after 10 years of eligible service.
No fixed office days: at least half of each quarter in the office or with customers, depending on role.
Open to everyone; over a quarter of employees were members as of January 31, 2026.
Surveys go to all employees each week; over 760,000 confidential comments since fiscal 2022.
Employees share skills and interests and get learning content and recommended internal jobs.
Equity is a key element of pay, so employees share in Workday's success.
Source: Form 10-K FY2026, Human Capital · benefits.workday.com (Vacation & Holidays) · Workday job posting JR-0109641 (Flex Work)
Who works here
employees (Jan 31, 2026)
countries with Workday employees
Employee Belonging Councils
people, Jan 2013 → Jan 2026
Source: Form 10-K FY2026 (headcount, countries, U.S. share, councils) and FY2013 (employees)
Pay at Workday
The CEO for fiscal 2026, Carl Eschenbach, earned 119 times this amount ($26,031,706).
Source: Proxy statement, May 5, 2026 (CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure)
Source: Workday job postings JR-0109641 and JR-0107919 (2026), Pleasanton primary-location ranges. Base pay only; bonus and stock grants may be added.
Workday doesn't publish pay by age. Pay by role, above, is the closest official number.
Office history: one road in Pleasanton, 180,000 to 1 million sq ft
- 2005 Founded by Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield
Workday was incorporated in March 2005 under the name North Tahoe Power Tools, Inc., and founded by Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield as a cloud application provider for HR and finance.
Source: Form 10-K FY2013 (Corporate Information) · workday.com, “Our Story”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2012 6230 Stoneridge Mall Road — 180,000 sq ft
At its IPO year the headquarters, including operations and R&D, was about 180,000 sq ft (≈ 16,723 m²) of leased space at 6230 Stoneridge Mall Road, Pleasanton. Workday had more than 1,450 employees.
Source: Form S-1, Aug 30, 2012 · Form 10-K FY2013
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2014 A 95-year land lease for its own building
In January 2014 Workday acquired a 95-year lease on a 6.9-acre parcel of land in Pleasanton, paying $10 million. The leased HQ had grown to about 322,088 sq ft.
Source: Form 10-K FY2014 and FY2016, Item 2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2016 Construction starts
In the first quarter of fiscal 2017 (spring 2016) Workday began building a new development center of about 410,000 sq ft of office space on the parcel.
Source: Form 10-K FY2017
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2019 6110 Stoneridge Mall Road becomes the headquarters
The new six-story, 410,000 sq ft headquarters opened with a ribbon-cutting on May 13, 2019. By then Workday had 10 buildings across its Pleasanton campus and almost 11,000 employees worldwide.
Source: Workday blog, May 13, 2019 · Form 10-K FY2019 cover
Opened May 2019 · Photo: KPFF Consulting Engineers - 2022 Plans for a European headquarters in Dublin
Workday, in Ireland since 2008, announced a new 550,000 sq ft European headquarters campus on about four acres at Grangegorman, Dublin 7, and became anchor tenant of the 80,000 sq ft Dockline Building in the meantime.
Source: Workday press release, April 4, 2022
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2026 About 1.0 million sq ft, all owned
The Pleasanton headquarters now consists of about 1.0 million sq ft of owned facilities plus the 6.9-acre leased parcel, down from about 1.2 million sq ft a year earlier.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 and FY2026, Item 2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-K FY2013 | 180,000 | 16,723 | Leased (6230 Stoneridge Mall Road) |
| 10-K FY2014 | 322,088 | 29,923 | Leased, multiple leases |
| 10-K FY2016 | 538,172 | 49,998 | Leased, multiple leases |
| 10-K FY2017 | 898,000 | 83,427 | 631,000 leased + 267,000 owned |
| 10-K FY2019 | 1,327,000 | 123,282 | 650,000 leased + 677,000 owned |
| 10-K FY2021 | 1,193,000 | 110,833 | 516,000 leased + 677,000 owned |
| 10-K FY2022 | ≈ 1,200,000 | ≈ 111,484 | Owned facilities |
| 10-K FY2026 | ≈ 1,000,000 | ≈ 92,903 | Owned facilities |
Map: how the headquarters moved
Workday has never left Stoneridge Mall Road in Pleasanton: it grew from leased space at number 6230 into its own building at number 6110, next to the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station.
- 1 · 20126230 Stoneridge Mall Road, Pleasanton — Leased headquarters, about 180,000 sq ft at the IPO
- 2 · 20196110 Stoneridge Mall Road, Pleasanton — Today's headquarters, opened May 13, 2019
Addresses: Form S-1 (2012), Form 10-K cover pages, Workday blog (2019)
What Workday does
Workday sells cloud software for HR and finance — hiring, pay, planning, spend and accounting — and now calls itself an enterprise AI platform “for managing people, money, and agents.” Almost all of its revenue comes from subscriptions.
One operating segment. Revenue: subscription services $8.83B, professional services $0.72B (FY2026).
Where the money came from · revenue by geography, FY2026
Source: Form 10-K FY2026, revenues by geographic area (fiscal year ended January 31, 2026)
Source: Form 10-K FY2026 · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$1.57B → $9.55B
≈ 6,600 → 21,070
Fiscal years end January 31 (FY2026 ended Jan 31, 2026). Revenue: SEC XBRL financial data from Workday's 10-K filings. Employees: Form 10-K (FY2017–FY2020 approximate; FY2021 onward headcount). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Co-founder. Returned as CEO on February 6, 2026; earlier co-CEO (2009–2014), CEO (2014–2020), co-CEO (2020–Jan 2024) and Executive Chair (2024–2026).
Co-CEO from December 20, 2022 through January 2024, then sole CEO until February 6, 2026.
Co-founder (and founder of PeopleSoft). CEO from 2005 to September 2009, then co-CEO.
Co-founders: Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield.
Source: Proxy statements 2025 and 2026 · Form S-1 (2012) · workday.com, “Our Story”
Workday: questions people ask
Where is Workday's headquarters?
At 6110 Stoneridge Mall Road in Pleasanton, California, next to the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station. Workday moved there from 6230 Stoneridge Mall Road when the new building opened in 2019.
Source: Form 10-K FY2026 cover · Workday blog, May 13, 2019
Who designed Workday's headquarters?
Gensler was the architect and designer of the office building, Watry Design the parking structure, KPFF the structural engineer and DPR Construction the general contractor.
Source: Workday blog (2019) · KPFF project page
How big is Workday's headquarters?
The headquarters building is about 410,000 sq ft (≈ 38,090 m²) on six stories, with space for 2,200 employees. In total Workday owns about 1.0 million sq ft in Pleasanton, on top of a 6.9-acre leased parcel.
Source: Workday blog (2019) · Form 10-K FY2026
What is inside the Workday headquarters?
Open spaces with whiteboard walls and video walls, four living-room-style “great rooms,” game rooms on every floor, indoor trees, wellbeing rooms, the Data Diner with a pizza oven, a 1,500-seat open-air amphitheater and two dog runs. Building 6140 houses Cloud Care, an onsite health center and pharmacy.
Source: Workday blog (2019) · benefits.workday.com
Is Workday's headquarters sustainable?
Yes. It is certified LEED Platinum, with a cool roof, an 865 kW solar array that supplies up to a third of its electricity, and a greywater recycling system that saves up to 720,000 gallons of water a year.
Source: Workday blog (2019) · KPFF project page
Does Workday allow remote or hybrid work?
Workday calls its policy Flex Work: instead of required office days each week, employees spend at least half of their time each quarter in the office or in the field with customers and partners, depending on role. Some roles are fully remote.
Source: Workday job posting JR-0109641 · Form 10-K FY2026
What benefits does Workday offer?
In the U.S.: flexible time off for salaried staff, 12 holidays plus 4 “Thank You Days” (2026), a six-week sabbatical after 10 years, a 50% 401(k) match on the first 6% of pay, stock at 15% off, $25,000 for adoption, surrogacy or fertility, and 20 days of back-up care.
Source: benefits.workday.com · Form 10-K FY2026
How many people work at Workday?
21,070 employees in 36 countries as of January 31, 2026; about 58% are in the U.S.
Source: Form 10-K FY2026
How much do Workday employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $218,717 in fiscal 2026. 2026 Pleasanton job postings list base pay of $148,000–$222,000 for a Software Development Engineer and $190,100–$285,100 for a Senior Software Development Engineer.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · Workday job postings JR-0109641, JR-0107919
Who is Workday's CEO?
Co-founder Aneel Bhusri, who returned as CEO on February 6, 2026, succeeding Carl Eschenbach.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · workday.com, “Our Story”
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