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Aneel Bhusri

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Workday, Inc.

Search every verified Aneel Bhusri interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In an October 2026 interview with Fortune, Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri discussed the company’s shift toward an AI-native future, describing the advent of AI as a “refounding moment” for the enterprise software firm. He stated that AI-driven job displacement is likely within the next five years, citing examples such as AI agents replacing junior auditors and some legal work. Bhusri expressed concern about the social impact of these changes and mentioned Workday’s early investment in Raise U.S., an initiative focused on retraining displaced workers, as well as the company’s own learning and education programs. Bhusri also addressed how Workday handles customer data in AI training, saying the company aggregates data to train models without exposing clients’ intellectual property. He described his return to the CEO role as necessary to guide the company through this transition, with the goal of positioning Workday as an AI company for the next 20 years rather than just a cloud company of the past two decades.

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“The cold hard reality is AI is replacing labor. I think there will be a lot of job displacement because of AI. I think it's within the next five years. But I look at what we're doing with some of our agent technology, say like a financial audit agent. It's going to replace the work of junior auditors. I look at what we're doing with our contract intelligence agent. It does replace the work of lawyers, and or at least”

“I do think technologies that are more around orchestration across applications, I think they're at risk in the SaaSpocalypse. Deep domain-specific applications, maybe they are down the road with the models, but we're using the models and we're using the tools. We're getting massive productivity gains with Claude Code and Cursor. I think this is a chance for us to be a disruptor, not a disruptee. I think what you're d”

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