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Enterprise software executive serving as president of product and technology at Workday.
iTWire's comparison finds SAP's and Oracle's own announcements echo Workday's autopilot pitch. Buyers can separate the three only by testing which decisions each product hands to a person and what that person can change.
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Workday told Rising 2026 attendees its new AI agents are autopilots that work on their own, iTWire reported. Executives also insisted humans stay "in the loop", so the open question for a buyer is what that oversight covers task by task.
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Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri said the company is "still learning" how to price AI agents. On liability for agent errors, his reported answer opens with a human-in-the-loop principle. That is what buyers have to go on this quarter.
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Workday made its MCP server, SQL access to live data and a shared agent runtime generally available on Tuesday. Agents built in Claude Code or Cursor run under the signed-in user's permissions, the company says.
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Workday has put Recruiting, HiredScore, Paradox, messaging and candidate engagement under one general manager, Adam Godson. He says recruiters must now "really recruit", yet the results he cited measure scheduling and speed.
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Workday made its Sana agent interface the default home screen for all users at its Rising event in Las Vegas. For HR and finance teams the day now starts at a prompt. Who reviews what the agents do is still unsettled.
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Median pay for technology titles reached $2.6mn, up 45.4% since 2021, though one year supplied a 28.9% move on its own, and the largest single award in the data had lost 41% of its value before any of it vested.
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