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Workday (hr and finance software) reported this on 15 Oct 2026 in company self-report (source). It belongs to the agents, traceability and evals layer.
Self-service AI agents for common HR tasks; usage-based agent pricing aimed at customers' labour and outsourcing spend.
Self-service agents raised resolution rates for common tasks by 25% (company claim); CEO says AI lets Workday grow without matching headcount growth.
The number covers investor-day statements, Oct 2026.
“…the opportunity to just not hire in areas we were hiring in the past and just leverage AI instead,” Workday said.
Each agent has one narrow task, a named owner and an action log.
12,500
banker hours saved in the first month of operation, July 2026
Five specialist agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that classify and read payslips and bank statements, run serviceability calculations and verify them against lending policy, then hand the banker a result to review for mortgage and credit-card applications (source).
$10M
EBITDA uplift from two agent systems, Partners Group says
Two agentic systems built on a cleaned proprietary policy-level dataset: one runs new-client policy processing, the other automates human-intensive policy checking; delivered by a seven-person team with Version 1 (source).
2–3 minutes
per ocean or air freight quote, down from one to three days
Hundreds of in-house AI agents embedded across the shipment lifecycle (quoting, orders, appointments, missed-pickup checks) and now ocean and air quoting, ocean booking and customs brokerage, built and run under a lean waste-removal discipline by 450+ in-house engineers and data scientists (source).