A Human Resources Software Company Used By Most Fortune 500 Companies Is Laying Off 8.5% Of Its Workforce

Human resources package level Workday, a $73 cardinal company, announced connected Wednesday that it is cutting 1,750 positions aliases 8.5% of its existent 20,500-person workforce.

"I admit this is reliable news, and it affects each of us—the Workmates who are leaving and those who'll proceed pinch us," Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach wrote successful an email to labour astir nan layoffs, which has since been published connected Workday's blog. "I beforehand you to activity from location aliases caput home, if you're already successful nan office."

Eschenbach said that nan layoffs were basal to thief nan institution make greater investments successful different aspects of nan business.

It is not clear what roles aliases departments were affected.

Related: Walmart Is Laying Off Hundreds, Relocating Others arsenic nan Company Closes a U.S. Office

Workday agency successful California. Credit: Workday.

Workday's exertion portal is utilized by much than half of Fortune 500 companies, including Netflix and Spotify. However, package is too notorious pinch business seekers who personification been complaining astir nan process connected societal media for immoderate time.

Several threads connected Reddit called retired Workday for requiring that users create a caller narration for each caller business they usage for astatine different companies.

"I actively 'nope' retired of applications that usage Workday," 1 Reddit personification wrote. "Some of nan fields don't moreover parse correctly truthful I'd extremity up retyping worldly anyway."

Workday users connected X too took rumor pinch nan institution for nan aforesaid problems.

"i deliberation my biggest business exertion pet peeve is erstwhile a institution uses workday truthful they make you make a workday narration but that workday narration only useful for that institution truthful now you personification for illustration 20 workday accounts for each different institution you applied to that uses workday," 1 X personification wrote.

On LinkedIn, users called Workday "the worst application" saying that it takes overmuch than 10 minutes to tin retired and their narration can't beryllium utilized again.

A BI article titled "Everyone Hates Workday" from May 2024 says nan level offers recruiters mini personification interface elasticity and causes business seekers to locomotion 128% longer connected applications.

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