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Workday outage hits payroll platform days after Microsoft shutdown
Fox Business • • business
Key Points:
- Workday, a business software platform serving 11,500 companies including Walmart, Netflix, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, experienced a major outage on Friday, disrupting payroll and HR management services.
- Users attempting to access Workday received a message about a service interruption, with the company apologizing and advising customers to contact their internal Workday Administrator for assistance.
- The outage was first reported by Downdetector with nearly 3,000 issues logged shortly after 5 p.m., and Workday stated the disruption occurred after a problem was detected during backup system testing.
- This incident follows a recent global Microsoft outage that affected Outlook and Teams services, marking two significant business software disruptions in a short period.
- Workday has not provided a timeline for service restoration but is working urgently to resolve the issue and apologized for the inconvenience caused to customers.
