diff --git a/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefPermuteWorkload.cpp b/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefPermuteWorkload.cpp
index d0e1431..5751ed8 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefPermuteWorkload.cpp
+++ b/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefPermuteWorkload.cpp
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
                         src->Map(), dst->Map(), sizeof(T));
 }
 
+template class RefPermuteWorkload<DataType::BFloat16>;
 template class RefPermuteWorkload<DataType::Float16>;
 template class RefPermuteWorkload<DataType::Float32>;
 template class RefPermuteWorkload<DataType::QAsymmU8>;