Workday, a widely-used business software platform that manages payroll and human resources for thousands of major corporations, experienced a significant service disruption on Friday, blocking millions of working Americans from clocking in or out, accessing payroll information, and performing other vital functions. The outage follows closely on the heels of Microsoft’s massive email outage that impacted the entire world’s ability to communicate.
\n\nThe San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Workday outage impacts approximately 11,500 companies that rely on its platform for critical business operations including payroll processing and human resources management. Users attempting to access the service were greeted with an error message stating the platform was unavailable due to a service interruption at around 5:00 p.m. ET on Friday, meaning many companies suffered disruptions of their typical end of the week operations.
\n\nAmong the affected clients are major retail corporations including Walmart and Target, along with other corporate giants such as Netflix, Salesforce, PNC Bank, Chipotle, Southwest Airlines, General Electric, and Nasdaq. The disruption also impacted numerous government entities, including the cities of Philadelphia, Dallas, Seattle, Charlotte, and Denver, as well as federal agencies like the U.S. Department of Energy and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
\n\nThe outage was first…
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