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Workday is terrible software, they only got away with it because there wasn’t competition for awhile.

That’s changed and they should be making deeper cuts and thinking about how they are building things.

Second. Workday is a true POS and their Product team should be canned and rebuilt. They need to have a deep dive to work out how a once-great user experience turned into ... Workday.

I've never had any issues with it from the employee side of things. What are the big gripes?

It's super confusing. Basic tasks are buried behind weird menus and in little pockets, everything is a workaround and the UI workflow makes no sense.

What things did you run into? The only things I ran into were fields that were locked to the HR admin that I think I should have been able to edit. I could still submit the change but it had to be reviewed by HR.

It seems like all the big players are pretty crappy to deal with --then comes the deployment costs... oh, boy!

Who is their competition now?

Lattice is one

Are they better in your estimation?

I know that creating great enterprise software is extremely hard. When there are regulatory compliance aspects, even harder.

What's the point of cutting 3%? How do you even notice that as a business?

"Workmates"

Workday Cuts 3% of Employees