As You Sow is a recognized ESG and progressive advocacy organization, not a neutral institutional investor, and under our policy proposals from ideological filers are voted against regardless of how the request is framed, because they serve political or advocacy goals rather than pure shareholder interests. Even setting aside filer identity, the proposal asks Workday to publish employee retention rates broken down by demographic categories — a disclosure that goes beyond what the company currently provides in its Global Impact Report and that the company argues would risk mischaracterizing its skills-based talent strategy; the absence of any prior-year vote history on this proposal means there is no shareholder mandate signal to override the filer-identity determination.

The NYC Comptroller's office — representing four major public pension funds — is a credible institutional fiduciary investor, not an ideological filer, and its ask is a straightforward transparency improvement: simply publish vote results broken down by share class so that ordinary Class A shareholders can see without complex modeling whether fellow unaffiliated investors support or oppose management proposals. Workday's dual-class structure gives the two co-founders roughly 70% of total voting power through Class B shares (10 votes each) that are not publicly traded, meaning aggregate vote totals can show majority support even when the vast majority of independent Class A shareholders are voting against — a real information gap that the company's opposition statement does not credibly close by pointing to ownership disclosure that requires significant additional calculation. The disclosure ask is low-cost, consistent with best practices endorsed by the nonpartisan Council of Institutional Investors, and directly serves the interests of the public shareholders reading this ballot.