Workday

I support Workday for my company. I configured this app years ago and it is widely used by our employees. I see many critical reviews here. Please understand that your company determines how they want to enforce security and many of the available features. Moreover, they may have very good reasons for configuring it as you see it depending on the features they’ve adopted, security policy, etc. I encourage users to provide helpful feedback to their company. Help them understand what you find useful and also frustrating. You may be surprised how quickly and easily they can make the app work better for you and your co-workers.

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Workday is an app! Does it work? Short is yes. Is it productive? depends if your what your looking to accomplish. I work with Pepsi who is huge for this app. This app is the most pointless app I have. It’s frustrating for login, you are not permitted to store your login information on your phone. It has not made life simpler or better, work or personal. It hasn’t beat paper checks, but it saved a tree I suppose, since trees don’t regrow. It did how ever allow us to see everyone’s ID numbers. Good Job! It has also allowed for companies to become less personal with their employees for asking for time off and vacations. You use it to clock in and out? For what? Because redial was too complicated. I’m not sure how Workday was described as intuitive. Its not there. All it is, is a way for some computer company to make money and a corporate dummy to think it was a great idea. Overall the app offers nothing but a way to see your pay stub since we don’t use trees for everything else. I hate not being able to see my deposits online through my bank. Pepsi is a good company to work for but this was a poor decision! Lastly if it was so great why is Workday making posts? There’s more to type but too much to write. I hope you don’t have to use it.

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The app's interaction is completely optimized around the underlying database structure, rather than user needs. Entering time sheets in incredibly laborious -- click on Time Type and wait of a menu of generic time types to appear. Select a time type category, and wait for the system to query the members of that query. Finally, you get to type your value, but don't expect common patterns like Google type-ahead to search as you go. You have to wait again for a server search for potential matches. And once you enter your time entry, if you decide you need to change the category, the Workday app erases the hours field that you entered before, so hopefully you've remembered it. And don't even get me started on expense reports. I sorely miss Expensify and Forecast, which we were using before our corporate office made up standardize on Workday. Workday is definitely a product built for the convenience of the engineers who auto-generate this horrible interface -- not for their users.

It’s nice to have this with you at all times as an app on your phone. But if you put in a start time of 8 o’clock, and the time happens to be 637 when you’re doing it, the end time automatically is at 37 minutes. It would be nice if there were an easy or quick way to automatically get that minute to :00 or :30 since most people start at the top or the bottom of the hour. Then at the out time, it does the same thing. It should into with that if I started at in o’clock, I’m going to end at an o’clock. But there’s that 37 again. It’s not a big hassle just an unnecessary inconvenience.I would think this app would intuit that my end time minutes column is probably going to be equal to my start time.

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Can Workday hire me to create their clock in/out process and what it would appear on screen to users? The current one can be simplified by reducing the number of windows and screens that users has to navigate in order to clock in and out for the day and breaks. Also, just make it plain and simple by listing “check in time”, then a row below that would be the “15-min break”, the row below that would be “lunch”, and finally the row below that would be the time you clock out for the day(“out”). Instead, it currently shows as an example: 8:00-8:31 (meal), the row below shows 9:01-2:15 (meal)... not efficient. Each day I get confused because that’s hard to read, I end up making some mistake as a result, then I email my supervisor to adjust it to the correct time which is a waste of her time. Please fix this, thanks!