Workday axes more than 100 East Bay jobs in fresh bout of tech layoffs
PLEASANTON — Workday has decided to trim more than 100 jobs at its Pleasanton work hub in a fresh bout of layoffs that suggests the tech industry’s staffing cutbacks in the Bay Area have yet to run their course.
The job cuts disclosed by Workday arrive in the wake of the tech company’s sale of a big Pleasanton office building at 5928 Stoneridge Mall Road to utility titan PG&E that was completed on Jan. 29.
Oakland-based PG&E paid $21.8 million for the building, which totals 209,000 square feet.
Last year, Workday launched an effort to dispose of potentially multiple office buildings in Pleasanton as part of an ongoing downsizing of its spaces.
Workday is cutting 154 jobs at 6110 Stoneridge Mall Road in Pleasanton, according to the WARN notice on file with the state Employment Development Department.
The provider of workforce-oriented software services described the job cuts as permanent, the company’s WARN letter states.
“Workday is communicating regularly with the affected employees about the timetable for the layoff,” Ruth Bolden, Workday director and legal counsel, wrote in the WARN letter.
The job cuts are scheduled to take place April 6 and are due to be completed within two weeks after that date, Workday told the state EDD.
Roughly a year ago, Workday revealed plans to eliminate 617 Bay Area jobs, all of them at the company’s headquarters complex on Stoneridge Mall Road. Those cutbacks were completed in April 2025.
During the one-year period that ended in October 2025, Workday produced $1.21 billion in profits on revenue of $9.23 billion, according to the FinanceCharts website.
Workday doesn’t anticipate more layoffs but also won’t rule them out.
“Additional layoffs are not currently planned, but this is subject to change based on future business conditions,” Workday executive Bolden wrote in the WARN notice.