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Workday

Software & Cloud 41 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-09-11 METHOD V6.5
BDS-1000 Score 561 /1000 C Tier C - High
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 0.00 Economic ↗ 6.50 Political ↗ 3.50
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Key Findings

  • Economic: Workday acquired HiredScore for $530 million in cash on 29 March 2024 and consolidated its results; Workday’s August 2024 subprocessor list identifies Workday Israel Ltd. as providing support and maintenance for the HiredScore product line.1, 2
  • Political: Workday maintains a Tel Aviv presence, Israeli subsidiaries, and Israel-specific VAT, tax-ID, and withholding-tax configuration, establishing a localized commercial presence rather than a documented state or military relationship.3, 4, 5
  • Settlements: The reviewed materials identify no Workday office, customer, contract, or service location in West Bank settlements, East Jerusalem settlements, or the Golan Heights; document-scoped screening also found no Workday mention in the reviewed OHCHR settlement-business materials.6
  • Not found: No public evidence identified in the bounded research of Workday contracts or deployments for the IDF, Israeli Ministry of Defense, intelligence bodies, Project Nimbus, Israeli security bodies, or Israeli military end users.6, 7, 8

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameWorkday, Inc.
JurisdictionDelaware, United States.9
HeadquartersPrincipal executive offices in Pleasanton, California, United States.9
SectorEnterprise cloud software for workforce, finance, spend, planning, and talent-orchestration functions.8, 10
OwnershipPublic company. David A. Duffield and Aneel Bhusri’s Class B voting agreement covered approximately 69% of outstanding voting power as of 17 April 2026; Vanguard and BlackRock were reported as 5% institutional holders with 4% and 3% of total voting power respectively.11
Key Executives / GovernanceAneel Bhusri - co-founder, Board Chair, and CEO effective February 2026; David A. Duffield - co-founder and CEO Emeritus; Mark J. Hawkins - Vice Chair and Lead Independent Director. The 2026 proxy identifies an 11-member board.11
Israeli-Nexus SummaryA documented Israeli subsidiary and Tel Aviv operation follow Workday’s 2024 acquisition of HiredScore; the reviewed record does not establish Israeli state, military, settlement, or occupied-territory contracting.1, 3, 6

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Workday is a Delaware-incorporated enterprise cloud-software company headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Its documented Israel nexus is principally commercial and operational: in March 2024, it acquired all outstanding stock of HiredScore, Inc. for $530 million in cash, then consolidated HiredScore’s results into Workday’s financial statements.1 Workday’s subsidiary records list Workday Israel Ltd. and Paradox.AI Israel Ltd.; its public materials also identify a Tel Aviv office.3, 4

The strongest documented economic vector is the post-acquisition Israeli operating footprint. Workday’s 2024 subprocessor list identifies Workday Israel Ltd. as providing support and maintenance services for the Workday HiredScore product line, and states that HiredScore’s subprocessor list was migrated into Workday’s list.2 Third-party industry reporting described Workday Israel Ltd. as established in Israel in 2024 and reported more than 140 employees in 2025; this workforce figure is contextual third-party reporting, not a current Workday country-level disclosure.13 Workday also documents Israeli VAT, tax-ID, and withholding-tax configuration, indicating product localization for the Israel market.5

The record does not substantiate military, intelligence, surveillance, settlement, or occupied-territory involvement. No public evidence identified in the bounded research of a Workday contract, deployment, partnership, reseller relationship, or customer relationship with the IDF, Israeli Ministry of Defense, intelligence agencies, a settlement municipality, or an Israeli settlement.6, 7, 8 No public evidence identified that Workday participates in Project Nimbus, operates Israeli data-centre infrastructure, stores customer data in Israeli-controlled infrastructure, or supplies autonomous targeting, offensive cyber, or surveillance systems to Israeli actors.7, 8, 14

The political record is similarly limited but not empty. Workday’s documented Israeli operation, localization, and acquired Israeli-linked product support function create a direct commercial nexus with Israel, while the reviewed materials do not establish state partnership or geopolitical advocacy. Workday made a public statement and financial-support commitment concerning Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine; bounded searches did not identify a corresponding official statement on Gaza, Palestinian civilian harm, a ceasefire, or a specific Israel-Palestine policy.15 This comparison documents differing public communications, but does not by itself establish a substantive Israel-Palestine position.

Under the fixed, human-vetted V6.5 assessment, Workday receives a BRS of 561, placing it in Tier C (Substantial Complicity). The result is driven by the documented Israeli acquisition, subsidiary, office, support function, and market localization in Economic, alongside Political scoring for Workday’s continuing public treatment of Israel as an ordinary market under the rubric’s Business-as-Usual band. It does not rest on unverified allegations of military or digital-security involvement.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
16 March 2022Workday published a statement on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, describing support measures and stating that it did not sell products or services in Russia and had no plan to do so.15
26 February 2024Workday announced a definitive agreement to acquire HiredScore, describing it as an AI-powered talent-orchestration provider.10
29 March 2024Workday acquired all outstanding HiredScore stock for $530 million in cash and began consolidating HiredScore’s results from the acquisition date.1
1 August 2024Workday’s subprocessor list identified Workday Israel Ltd. as providing support and maintenance for the HiredScore product line, and stated that HiredScore’s list had migrated into Workday’s list.2
2025IATI reported that Workday Israel Ltd. had been established in Israel in 2024 and had more than 140 employees; this is third-party contextual reporting.13
6 February 2026Aneel Bhusri became Workday CEO while continuing as Board Chair.11
As of 31 January 2026Workday’s subsidiary exhibit listed Workday Israel Ltd. and Paradox.AI Israel Ltd. as Israeli subsidiaries.3

Corporate Overview

Workday describes its business as an enterprise AI platform with cloud products for workforce, finance, spend, and planning management.8 The reviewed filings identify Workday, Inc. as a Delaware corporation with principal executive offices in Pleasanton, California.9 Its Israeli nexus is not a founding or headquarters connection: it is an operating footprint associated with the HiredScore acquisition and listed Israeli subsidiaries.1, 3, 9

The subsidiary exhibit lists Workday Israel Ltd. and Paradox.AI Israel Ltd. as incorporated in Israel, and HiredScore LLC as a Delaware subsidiary.3 The reviewed materials do not establish Paradox.AI Israel Ltd.’s acquisition date, consideration, operational role, or ownership percentage.3 Workday’s affiliates page identifies Workday Israel Ltd. at 25 Lilienblum Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo, while its contact page identifies a Tel Aviv office at 13 Ha’arbaa Street; the reviewed sources do not reconcile those addresses.4, 12

The documented operational role is limited. Workday’s subprocessor list assigns Workday Israel Ltd. support and maintenance services for the Workday HiredScore product line.2 The reviewed public material does not disclose the Tel Aviv office’s staffing level, R&D remit, customer base, or customer-data-processing role.3, 4 No public evidence identified of an Israeli franchise relationship, authorized Israeli reseller, Israeli public-sector customer, or Israeli government procurement award in the reviewed materials.6

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of a Workday contract, tender award, framework agreement, memorandum, or official announcement involving the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or another Israeli state-security body in the bounded searches and reviewed materials.6, 7, 8

Workday’s reviewed disclosures describe enterprise cloud software rather than tactical, ruggedised, mil-spec, weapons-targeting, fire-control, or kinetic product lines.8 No public evidence identified of Israeli military end-user certificates, export licences, security approvals, military end-user contracts, or Workday software designed to make targeting decisions or produce a weapons effect.7, 8

No public evidence identified of Workday equipment or services being used for settlement construction, demolitions, the separation barrier, checkpoints, military installations, or other occupied-territory infrastructure.6 No public evidence identified of Workday supplying components, manufacturing services, weapons-effects software, or sub-systems to Israeli defence primes including Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, or IMI/Elbit Land.8

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that Workday is documented as a civilian enterprise-software provider, and the reviewed record identifies no Israeli defence customer, weapons-related product, export approval, procurement entry, or security-force case study.6, 7, 8 Its Israel-specific employee equity-plan provisions do not identify an Israeli defence, security-force, settlement, or occupied-territory customer or contract.16

These are bounded absence findings. They do not substitute for direct review of all Israeli reseller, implementation-partner, corporate-registry, or procurement records.16 The score therefore does not infer a military nexus from Workday’s Israeli subsidiary, Tel Aviv office, or commercial activity.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Workday identifies AWS as a cloud-infrastructure provider and markets a Google Cloud partnership for regional deployments and AI integrations.17, 18 The reviewed Google Cloud material does not identify an Israel-specific Workday deployment.18 Workday’s SOC 3 report lists AWS regions in Canada, Ireland, Frankfurt, Ohio, Oregon, Singapore, and Sydney, with no Israeli AWS Region listed.14

Workday lists a Tel Aviv office, but the public contact listing does not identify it as a data centre or co-location facility.4 No public evidence identified that Workday operates or leases data-centre infrastructure in Israel, stores or processes customer data in Israeli-controlled infrastructure, participates in Project Nimbus, or holds an Israeli sovereign-cloud contract.7, 14

Workday completed the HiredScore acquisition and subsequently made HiredScore AI recruiting and talent-mobility products available through Workday.1, 19 The reviewed acquisition and product materials do not identify Israeli state bodies, military or intelligence customers, law-enforcement uses, targeting, surveillance deployments, or occupied territory in connection with HiredScore.10, 19 No public evidence identified that Workday or HiredScore AI was supplied to an Israeli state, military, intelligence, or security body.6, 19

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that the reviewed digital evidence concerns ordinary enterprise-cloud, HR, finance, planning, recruiting, and talent-mobility functions rather than surveillance, offensive cyber, autonomous targeting, or digital weapons systems.8, 10, 19 No public evidence identified of Workday use of Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometrics, predictive policing, behavioural monitoring, or social-media-surveillance products.7

Absence findings are limited to reviewed materials and bounded searches. They do not establish that no undisclosed customer or technical relationship exists anywhere; they establish that no such relationship was publicly identified in the audited record.6, 7

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

The central documented economic nexus is Workday’s acquisition and integration of HiredScore. On 29 March 2024, Workday acquired all outstanding HiredScore stock for $530 million in cash and consolidated its results from that date.1 Workday Israel Ltd. was added to Workday’s subprocessor list to provide support and maintenance for the HiredScore product line.2

Workday’s public contact page lists a Tel Aviv office, and its affiliates page identifies Workday Israel Ltd. in Tel Aviv.4, 12 IATI reported more than 140 employees for Workday Israel Ltd. in 2025; this is third-party institutional reporting, and no current Workday country-level headcount was identified in the reviewed material.13 A contemporaneous Calcalist report described HiredScore’s Israeli operation as a development centre with more than 150 employees, but this too is secondary reporting rather than Workday disclosure.20

Workday’s Israel configuration documentation supports Israeli VAT, tax-ID, and withholding-tax settings.5 This establishes market localization, not a contract with the Israeli state or military.5 No public evidence identified of Israel-specific revenue, profits, taxes, profit repatriation, sovereign-bond holdings, Israel-focused funds, direct lending, insurance underwriting, Israeli factory, data centre, logistics hub, or real-estate investment.1

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that Workday’s verified Israeli relationship is a civilian software acquisition, subsidiary, office, and product-support function, not physical-goods sourcing, settlement commerce, military procurement, or state ownership.1, 3, 2 No public evidence identified of Israeli agricultural or consumer-goods sourcing, settlement-origin goods, an Israeli government procurement award, Israeli defence contracts, or settlement-customer relationships.6

The record does not quantify Israel-specific revenue, tax contribution, profitability, or the full operational scope of the Israeli entities.1, 3 It also does not reconcile the two publicly listed Tel Aviv addresses.4, 12 Accordingly, the economic assessment reflects documented activity type, scale indicators, and directness - not unsupported estimates of Israeli economic benefit.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

Workday’s political-economy nexus arises from its durable Israeli commercial presence: a Tel Aviv office, Israeli subsidiaries, localization for Israeli tax and VAT requirements, and the acquired HiredScore support function.3, 4, 5, 2 These facts establish Israel-market engagement, but the reviewed evidence does not identify an Israeli state partnership, government contract, settlement municipality relationship, or occupied-territory operation.6

Workday’s Q4 2025 federal LD-2 disclosure reported $360,000 in lobbying expenses on issues including AI and IT modernization and workforce-development legislation; the filing did not identify Israel, Palestine, BDS, or regional-trade issues.21 Workday’s FY2025 filing states that its partner ecosystem may include resellers, but does not identify Israeli resellers or a reseller operating in a settlement.22

Workday publicly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and described donations, employee support, and refugee assistance in 2022.15 No public evidence identified in bounded searches of an official Workday statement addressing Gaza, Palestinian civilian harm, Israel’s military operations, a ceasefire, or a specific Israel-Palestine policy.15 The comparison is limited to the reviewed official material.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is the absence of documented governmental or political advocacy conduct. No public evidence identified of Workday-directed donations, sponsorships, free services, crisis logistics, or assets for the IDF, FIDF, JNF/KKL, settlement organisations, Israeli reservist funds, or Israeli state agencies during the current conflict.6 No supportable evidence was located in the supplied research of relevant donations by Workday, its founders, executives, or directors to those bodies or to anti-BDS organisations.6

Workday’s ownership structure is concentrated through its co-founders’ voting agreement, but the reviewed filings do not describe Israeli state ownership, a golden share, an Israeli founding mandate, or a mission tied to Israeli geopolitical objectives.11 The available Duffield Foundation records do not identify Israel-, Palestine-, settlement-, or Middle East political-advocacy-related recipients in the accessible fiscal-2024 grant schedule; the accessible fiscal-2023 recipient detail was incomplete, so no recipient-level conclusion is made for that year.23

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5.

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital0.000.000.000.00
Economic6.507.008.006.50
Political3.507.009.003.50

V_MAX is driven by the documented $530 million HiredScore acquisition, Israeli subsidiary, Tel Aviv presence, product-support role, and localized Israel-market configuration.1, 3, 4, 5, 2 The Political result applies the rubric’s Business-as-Usual band to Workday’s own continuing Israel-market communications, office listing and tax localization. It does not assert state partnership, military support, settlement activity or advocacy.3, 4, 5, 6

This is a scale-free, evidence-only, human-vetted assessment. It does not treat corporate presence alone as proof of military or digital complicity, and the zero Military and Digital scores preserve the audit’s bounded absence findings.

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781124000165/R15.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  2. https://trustarc.com/pdf/workday-subprocessors-20240830.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  3. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781126000014/wday-01312026xex211.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20

  4. https://www.workday.com/en-us/company/about-workday/contact-us.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  5. https://forms.workday.com/content/dam/web/en-us/documents/other/global-configuration-2023r1-guide-enus.pdf?refCamp=7014X000001yvh3 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  6. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4091616/files/A_HRC_60_19-EN.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20

  7. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781125000056/wday-20250131.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  8. https://www.workday.com/content/dam/web/en-us/documents/workday_soc3_report.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  9. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781124000044/wday-20240131.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. https://newsroom.workday.com/2024-02-26-Workday-Announces-Intent-to-Acquire-HiredScore ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  11. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000110465926055687/tm261347-2_def14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  12. https://www.workday.com/en-us/privacy/workday-affiliates.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  13. https://iati.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Booklet-2025.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. https://www.workday.com/content/dam/web/en-us/documents/workday_soc3_report.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2022/standing-with-ukraine.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  16. https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001327811/7814405e-83d1-4496-b73e-3f74fc0dfdc6.html ↩ ↩2

  17. https://www.workday.com/content/dam/web/en-us/documents/solution-brief/workday-aws-cloud-solution-brief.pdf ↩ ↩2

  18. https://www.workday.com/en-us/company/partners/google-cloud.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  19. https://newsroom.workday.com/2024-08-01-Workday-Transforms-How-Companies-Hire-and-Manage-Talent-with-New-AI-Powered-HR-Solutions ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  20. https://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/hyduowon6 ↩ ↩2

  21. https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/eb8132ad-d976-4058-bcb7-f8651aee68d9/print/ ↩

  22. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781125000056/wday-20250131.htm ↩

  23. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/474279721/202543179349102309/full ↩ ↩2