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PLEASANTON, Calif., Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software¹ for the fourth consecutive year. A complimentary copy of the report is available here.

Workday helps financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams anticipate change, analyze multiple scenarios on the fly, and improve cross-functional collaboration to navigate uncertainty and provide strategic insights. Leading organizations including Blackberry Limited, Boston Scientific Corporation, Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, Spotify USA Inc., and more trust Workday Adaptive Planning to deliver agile plans and financial forecasts that drive deeper insights and faster decisions.

“Today’s finance teams need a smarter, faster way to plan, one that puts them in the driver’s seat. With AI at the core, Workday empowers finance to truly own their planning process, allowing them to make quick changes and adapt with ease, without relying on IT or consultants,” said Ben Pierce, general manager, Adaptive Planning, Workday. “We believe this recognition reflects what we hear from customers every day: the future of planning is AI-enabled, owned by the business, and designed for simplicity and immediate results.”

Workday delivers the modern, intuitive financial planning tools that help organizations thrive. With Workday, organizations can:

• Quickly adapt plans and forecasts as business conditions change to make planning and analysis more accurate and efficient.
• Use predictive analytics to stay ahead of market trends with Workday’s growing portfolio of agentic AI solutions – including Planning Agent, which can help organizations reduce data exploration and analysis by 30%.
• Improve collaboration and alignment across departments and regions, integrating financial and operational data across ERP, CRM, marketing and HR systems, and data warehouses to support consistent, accurate financial and operational processes. 

Gartner Peer Insights documents customer experience through verified ratings and peer reviews. As of December 2, 2025, Workday reviews include the following:

• “Workday Adaptive Planning has solved our budget process needs seamlessly. Since we implemented it over 6 years ago, we have gained back several hours per month on process steps, while enabling our analysts to spend more time on value-add.” – VP of Finance in the manufacturing industry [read full review]
• “We are extremely happy with all aspects of Adaptive Planning, including the user-friendly and easy to navigate interface, the expert implementation consultants, the ease of ongoing maintenance as well as the readily available post-implementation resources and support.” – Director of Financial Planning and Analysis in the transportation industry [read full review]
• “I feel like anything I have needed to do to improve my company’s corporate financial model has been achievable directly because of Workday Adaptive Planning. The automation and scalable features, the ability to have custom integrations, and the speed at which any support tickets are resolved are all second to none.” –  Finance Manager in the software industry [read full review]

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About Workday
Workday is the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. Workday unifies HR and Finance on one intelligent platform with AI at the core to empower people at every level with the clarity, confidence, and insights they need to adapt quickly, make better decisions, and deliver outcomes that matter. Workday is used by more than 11,000 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 65% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding Workday’s plans, beliefs, and expectations. These forward-looking statements are based only on currently available information and our current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. If the risks materialize, assumptions prove incorrect, or we experience unexpected changes in circumstances, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements, and therefore you should not rely on any forward-looking statements. Risks include, but are not limited to, risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including our most recent report on Form 10-Q or Form 10-K and other reports that we have filed and will file with the SEC from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. Workday assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release, except as required by law.

Any unreleased services, features, or functions referenced in this document, our website, or other press releases or public statements that are not currently available are subject to change at Workday’s discretion and may not be delivered as planned or at all. Customers who purchase Workday services should make their purchase decisions based upon services, features, and functions that are currently available.

¹ Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software, Regina Crowder, Sid Sahoo, Mike Lashinsky, 2 December 2025

 

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More than 250,000 cases of shredded cheese distributed across 31 states and Puerto Rico are the subject of a voluntary recall due to possible contamination with metal fragments, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The recall by Great Lakes Cheese Co. affects more than 1 million bags of shredded cheese, including mozzarella and parmesan blends. The recall includes Happy Farms by Aldi and Publix Italian Six Cheese Blend.

A complete list of products, UPC codes, batch numbers, sell-by dates and states affected are available on the FDA website.

In a question-and-answer interview with Northeastern Global News, Northeastern University professor and food safety policy expert Darin Detwiler explained why the recall affected so many different products and how metal contamination can harm consumers.

How is it possible for food products to become contaminated with metal fragments?

Food is produced with a lot of moving parts. In a cheese plant, stainless steel equipment shreds, conveys and packages the cheese. If a blade wears down, a bolt loosens or a part breaks, tiny metal pieces can enter the product stream.

Any food run through mechanical equipment can be exposed to metal fragments from a worn or broken part. That includes cereal, frozen vegetables, ground meats, baked goods, candy and other commercially processed, produced and packaged ready-to-eat foods or meals.

Plants use metal detectors, X-ray machines and magnets to catch these fragments. But no system is perfect, which is why when a piece is found, companies often pull entire lots out of caution.

What is the danger to consumers of exposure to metal fragments?

The FDA gave this a Class II recall, meaning the chance of severe harm is considered remote but there is still a risk of temporary or reversible injury.

Possible effects include scratches or cuts in the mouth; chipped teeth; cuts to the throat or digestive tract and abdominal pain or, in rare cases, internal bleeding.

Larger or sharper fragments can cause real harm. The advice is simple: Don’t eat it. Toss it or return it.

Why did this one recall affect dozens of shredded cheese products? 

Many store brands come from the same handful of large manufacturing plants.

A single cheese processor may produce dozens of “private label” cheeses. Think of it like one bakery making cookies for many different grocery stores. Same cookie, different labels.

So if one production line has an issue, every brand that used that line during that window is included in the recall.

Great Lakes Cheese Co. is one of the biggest cheese manufacturers in the country, which explains why the impact stretches across 31 states and many retail chains.

Just two years ago, in August 2023, Great Lakes Cheese Co. recalled 7,218,700 pounds of cheese due to incorrect refrigeration instructions on the packaging.

And last year, in May 2024, Schreiber Foods recalled over 830,000 units of cream cheese spreads because of potential salmonella contamination.

Why are the recalls considered voluntary?

Under U.S. law, most food recalls are voluntary, but this does not mean they are optional.

The FDA typically requests or strongly advises a recall, and companies nearly always comply. 

Typically, the FDA identifies an issue such as contamination, mislabeling or undeclared allergens, provides evidence to the firm and strongly advises a recall.

The firm is required to perform all corrective actions and report progress to the FDA.

Companies almost always comply because this protects consumers as well as protecting the company from greater liability by showing regulators they are acting responsibly. This also helps with their insurance companies if they are sued by a customer.

The system is called voluntary, but there is nothing casual about it. This is a coordinated public health action. 

If a company refused, the FED could escalate with public warnings, detentions and seizure of the product. In rare cases, it could use its authority to mandate a recall.

The real measure of food safety is not the absence of recalls. It is how quickly and transparently companies act when something goes wrong. 

While those predictions might sound extreme, they’re not just plausible, they’re likely, said Geoffrey Hinton—the British computer scientist widely known as the “Godfather of AI.” The transition, he warned, could trigger a sweeping economic reshuffling that leaves millions of workers behind.

“It seems very likely to a large number of people that we will get massive unemployment caused by AI,” Hinton said in a recent discussion with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at Georgetown University.

“And if you ask where are these guys going to get the roughly trillion dollars they’re investing in data centers and chips… one of the main sources of money is going to be by selling people AI that will do the work of workers much cheaper. And so these guys are really betting on AI replacing a lot of workers.”

Hinton has grown increasingly vocal about what he sees as Big Tech’s misplaced priorities. The industry, he recently told Fortune, is driven less by scientific progress than by short-term profits—fueling a push to replace human workers with cheaper AI systems.

His warnings come as the economics of AI face new scrutiny. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, isn’t expected to turn a profit until at least 2030 and may need more than $207 billion to support its growth, according to HSBC estimations.

The future of AI is behind a fog of war

Hinton’s journey from AI insider to outspoken critic underscores the high stakes of the technology he helped create. After quitting his Google job in 2023 to speak more freely about AI’s risks, he has become one of the most prominent skeptics. Last year, his pioneering work in machine learning earned him the Nobel Prize.

He also acknowledged that AI will create new jobs, as many tech leaders predict. But he added that he does not expect the number of new roles to come close to the number eliminated. Even so, he cautioned that all predictions—including his own—should be treated with heavy skepticism. 

“Trying to predict the future of it is going to be very difficult,” he told Sanders. “It’s a bit like when you drive in fog. You can see clearly for 100 yards and at 200 yards you can see nothing. Well, we can see clearly for a year or two, but 10 years out, we have no idea what’s going to happen.”

What is clear, however, is that AI isn’t going away, and experts say workers who adapt—and use the technology to amplify their skills—will stand the best chance of navigating the coming upheaval.

100 million jobs are at risk, Bernie Sanders warns

Sanders has attempted to quantify the stakes. In a report released in October—based partly on estimates generated by ChatGPT—he warned that nearly 100 million U.S. jobs could be displaced by automation. Workers in fast food, customer service, and manual labor face some of the highest risks, but white-collar roles in accounting, software development, and nursing could also see significant cuts.

“It’s not just economics,” Sanders wrote in an op-ed for Fox News. “Work, whether being a janitor or a brain surgeon, is an integral part of being human. The vast majority of people want to be productive members of society and contribute to their communities. What happens when that vital aspect of human existence is removed from our lives?”

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has raised similar alarms, warning that the disruption could hit young people first and hardest—potentially driving unemployment among recent college graduates to as high as 25% in the next two to three years.

“Let’s look at the fact we never did anything on social media,” Warner told CNBC. “If we make that same response on AI and don’t put guardrails, I think we will come to rue that day.”

• Aging, nutrition and lifestyle affect muscles, especially after age 40. That’s why Matt Ryan, former professional quarterback and MVP, is teaming up with Abbott to drive muscle health awareness with two new Ensure Max Protein shakes
• Ensure Max Protein 42g: For physically active adults, this new shake delivers 42 grams of complete protein to help build muscle tissue alongside resistance training with 23 vitamins and minerals and two key electrolytes to support muscle function
• Ensure Max Protein 2 in 1 Muscle Support: For older adults who need help maintaining muscle as they age, this shake has 30 grams of protein and 1.5g of CaHMB (beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate) to help slow the breakdown of muscleⁱ
• New data also shows the benefit of protein on stabilizing glucose levels to support long-term wellness goals

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — With America’s growing focus on wellness and the quality of your years, muscle is emerging as a new metric for aging. That’s why Abbott (NYSE: ABT), a global leader in science-based nutrition, today announced two new shakes designed to support muscle health and nutrition goals as part of the Ensure Max Protein line: Ensure Max Protein 42g and Ensure Max Protein 2 in 1 Muscle Support.

Most people don’t realize that after age 40, they can lose up to 8% of muscle mass per decade.ⁱⁱ Factors like low protein intake, rapid weight loss, and inactivity can accelerate this decline.

“Muscle and protein play a key role in maintaining our strength, mobility and health as we age,” said Dominique R. Williams, MD, MPH, medical director at Abbott. “These new Ensure Max Protein shakes provide a step-level approach – with formulations that meet people where they are in their physical health to address real nutrition needs—and help prioritize muscle health.”

Inspiring adults to take charge of their muscle health is former MVP and pro quarterback Matt Ryan, who knows that strength isn’t just for game day—it’s for every day. Together, Abbott and Ryan are encouraging adults to prioritize muscle health and set bold goals.

“Your next chapter isn’t about slowing down—it’s about shifting gears,” said Ryan. “For me, it’s a chance to focus on new goals, stay motivated, and keep pushing forward. The best plays aren’t always behind you; sometimes they’re the ones you make off the field.”

Ensure Max Protein 42g Protein Shake: For Active Adults
Whether lifting weights, hitting the spin bike, flowing through yoga, or rowing for endurance—more adults over 40 are embracing strength training.  Research shows that physically active adults may need up to twice as much protein as sedentary individuals to support muscle health.^iii,iv

Ensure Max Protein 42g is designed for active adults pushing their limits. Each bottle offers:

• 42 grams of complete protein
• 23 essential vitamins and minerals to fill nutrition gaps
• 2 key electrolytes to support muscle function
• 2 grams of sugar and 220 calories

Ensure Max Protein 2 in 1 Muscle Support Shake: For Adults Focused on Preserving Muscle
Older adults may need up to 38% more protein than the recommended daily allowance to help preserve muscle.^v They can also benefit from HMB (beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate) which can help to slow muscle breakdown. HMB is produced when the body breaks down leucine, an essential amino acid found in protein-rich foods.^vi

Ensure Max Protein 2 in 1 Muscle Support is scientifically formulated with:

• 30g of high-quality protein to support muscle health
• 1.5g of CaHMB to help slow the breakdown of muscle^vii
• 26 vitamins and minerals to fill nutrition gaps

“HMB research spans more than 25 years and data suggests it can play a role in supporting muscle health,^viii” said Bridget Cassady, PhD, RDN, LD senior manager of adult nutrition at Abbott. “By combining HMB and high-quality protein in Ensure Max Protein 2 in 1 Muscle Support, we’re offering consumers a way to preserve muscle health with HMB and build muscle tissue^ix with protein. After all, muscles are the currency of longevity.”

Nutrition supports more than just muscle health—it impacts how our bodies function every day. While protein is essential for maintaining and building muscle, emerging research shows it can also influence other aspects of health, like blood sugar management. This connection underscores why prioritizing protein isn’t just about muscle—it’s about supporting overall wellness and longevity.

New Data on the Benefits of Protein on Glucose Levels
The benefits of protein go beyond muscle health. New real-world findings suggest that a simple nutritional tweak of adding a protein shake could help support blood sugar goals.

Data from more than 9,500 users of Abbott’s Lingo continuous glucose monitor, a biowearable that combines continuous glucose monitoring with behavioral insights, found that on days when users consumed protein shakes, they had 15% lower odds of elevated glucose levels.^x

Exclusively Available at Walmart Now
Ensure Max Protein 42g is available in French Vanilla and Milk Chocolate and Ensure Max Protein 2 in 1 Muscle Support is available in Chocolate and Vanilla. Consumers can find both products exclusively at Walmart and Walmart.com through March 2026, with expanded distribution to major retailers beginning April 2026.

To learn more, visit Ensure.com and follow @Ensure on Instagram and Facebook.

About Abbott:
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

 

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