{"id":20402,"date":"2026-02-10T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20402"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:06:15","slug":"workday-ceo-eschenbach-departs-with-co-founder-aneel-bhusri-returning-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20402","title":{"rendered":"Workday\u00a0CEO Eschenbach departs, with co-founder Aneel Bhusri\u00a0returning as CEO\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enterprise resource planning software company Workday announced Monday that chief executive Carl Eschenbach <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.workday.com\/2026-02-09-Workday-Announces-CEO-Transition-as-Co-Founder-Aneel-Bhusri-Returns-to-Lead-the-Companys-Next-Chapter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">was stepping down<\/a> and leaving the company\u2019s board, effective immediately. Workday co-founder and former CEO Aneel Bhusri will return as CEO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eschenbach joined Workday in December 2022 as co-CEO alongside Bhusri and had been operating as the company\u2019s sole CEO since February 2024. Bhusri, who had led the company since 2009 \u2014\u00a0sometimes as co-CEO, sometimes as sole CEO \u2014 has been serving as the company\u2019s executive chairman since 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workday confirmed to TechCrunch that Bhusri is returning to the role permanently, as opposed to taking the helm during a search for a replacement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workday says it made this leadership change to focus on its next chapter, which, unsurprisingly, is AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re now entering one of the most pivotal moments in our history,\u201d Bhusri said in the company\u2019s press release Monday. \u201cAI is a bigger transformation than SaaS \u2014 and it will define the next generation of market leaders. I\u2019m energized to return as CEO, working alongside our presidents Gerrit Kazmaier and Rob Enslin, and I\u2019m excited about the opportunity in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last February, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/05\/workday-cuts-nearly-2000-employees\/\">Workday laid off 8.5% of its headcount<\/a>, or 1,750 people, with Eschenbach stating at the time that the company needed a new approach to labor in the age of AI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/09\/workday-ceo-eschenbach-departs-with-co-founder-aneel-bhusri-returning-as-ceo\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprise resource planning s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[12439,329,8428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}