Who Is Using Workday?

Workday's overall customer list is huge and mostly public. But the much smaller question that actually matters for this case - which of those companies had AI screening turned on for their job applicants - is not public.

Workday's customer base, in general, is public and huge

By Workday's own published numbers, more than 11,500 organizations around the world use its software, including over 65% of the Fortune 500 (a well-known list of the 500 biggest U.S. companies). Its customers span many industries - banking, healthcare, universities, manufacturing, government, retail, and tech. (source: Workday's own newsroom page)

Workday itself publishes some of these relationships. For example, its own customer-stories webpage features 7-Eleven, describing how the retailer uses Workday's AI recruiting tools to hire store staff faster. (source: Workday's customer stories page)

Important: being a Workday customer does not mean a company did anything wrong. No employer - not 7-Eleven, not any other company Workday mentions in its marketing - is being sued in this case. Workday, the software company, is the only defendant. Nothing here means, or is meant to suggest, that any specific named customer had the AI features at issue turned on, or was involved in discriminating against anyone.

The one list that actually matters here is being kept private

The real question for this case isn't "who uses Workday" - it's which specific employers had certain AI screening features switched on for their job listings. On July 29, 2025, the judge ruled that this covers not just Workday's original screening tools, but also features from a company called HiredScore (specifically ones named Spotlight and Fetch) that Workday acquired after the lawsuit was already filed - rejecting Workday's argument that newly acquired tools should be excluded. (source: the judge's actual order, July 29, 2025)

On August 28, 2025, the judge approved the detailed process for figuring out who qualifies. People apply online listing which employers they used Workday to apply to. A neutral, independent third-party administrator - not Workday, and not the plaintiffs' own lawyers - privately checks each name against Workday's list of which employers had features like Candidate Skills Match, Spotlight, and Fetch switched on since September 24, 2020. Only people who match get invited to formally join. Workday hands its employer list to that neutral administrator alone; it does not go to the plaintiffs' lawyers or the public, and notice to potential group members goes out over social media rather than through Workday's own platform. (source: the judge's actual order, August 28, 2025)

Bottom line: there is currently no public list of exactly which employers are connected to the claims in this case, and this page won't guess at which companies might be on it. If that ever changes - for instance, if a specific employer gets named in a future court filing - it'll show up on the timeline.