Workday Outage Locks Millions Out of Accounts

A significant outage on the HR platform Workday left millions of employees unable to access pay information, clock in or out, file for benefits, or request time off. The disruption began on the evening of November 13, prompting a spike in reports on Downdetector. Workday stated that it placed certain systems into maintenance mode to address an issue discovered during testing that resulted in inconsistent information. While it remains unclear how many of its 11,500 global clients were affected, organizations relying on the platform include major corporations and government agencies such as Walmart, Target, Netflix, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.