Close the acquisition of Peakon

Delivered by the deadline

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Announced: 28 Jan 2021
Due: 30 Apr 2021
Delivered: by 4 Mar 2021

Deadline
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Today

What the company said

“The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of Workday’s fiscal year 2022, ending April 30, 2021, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including required regulatory approvals.”

SourceWorkday, Inc. Form 8-K press release, 2021-01-28
FilingSEC filing index
Deadline as statedin the first quarter of Workday’s fiscal year 2022, ending April 30, 2021
Deadline used30 Apr 2021, the last day of the stated period
TypeTransaction
Permanent referenceKI-C-2021-WDAY-005202
Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2021-WDAY-005202/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

Workday completed the acquisition of Peakon during its fiscal year 2022, which aligns with the stated deadline of April 30, 2021.

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Workday, Inc. 8-K filed 2021-05-26 Regulatory filing · published 26 May 2021 · retrieved 7 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint e7c371248590
“The company now operates as Peakon, a Workday company.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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Workday, Inc. 10-Q filed 2021-08-26 Regulatory filing · published 26 Aug 2021 · retrieved 7 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 171284da0e84
“For example, we acquired Adaptive Insights in fiscal 2019, Scout in fiscal 2020, and Peakon in fiscal 2022.” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved -3.8% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (25 May 2021 to 28 May 2021). What this measures

Checked 7 Oct 2026.

Commitment lineage

Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.

Deadline drift +276 days
2 versions

Version 1 · original · stated 28 Jan 2021

Deadline 30 Apr 2021 (“in the first quarter of Workday’s fiscal year 2022, ending April 30, 2021”) · wording expected
Version 2 · stated 18 Nov 2021

Deadline 31 Jan 2022 (“the fourth quarter of Workday's fiscal year 2022”) · wording expected

“The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Workday's fiscal year 2022, ending Jan. 31, 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions”
Source for this version

Commitment DNA

The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.

Event type: Acquisition close
Indicative materiality: High rules
Action: Close
Deliverable: acquisition of Peakon
Language: Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
In the company’s control: Medium
Specificity: High
Conditional: Yes: satisfaction of customary closing conditions; required regulatory approvals
Depends on: Regulatory, Counterparty

How this entry was checked

Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
Second check: disagreesClaude (Anthropic) re-read the evidence blind and read it as “no_evidence”.
Tie-breakA stronger model read the evidence and both earlier answers, without knowing which was recorded, and agrees with the recorded outcome.

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