Workday

Raised as a usability problem by 25 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 20 threads.

People raised many different problems with Workday, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 26 complaints

Forms poorly designed, so the candidate gave up responding2026-05-08
UI is slow, and features are hard to find without knowing exact search keywords2025-12-13
Has to manually re-enter calendar entries because calendar doesn't sync to Outlook2025-11-20
Exports capped at 12,000 rows, forcing weekly batch reports instead of one monthly export2025-08-03
Multi-page applications need account creation and many repeated clicks, which AI job-apply tools can't handle2025-04-23
DOB picker defaults to today, lacks year navigation, and blocks manual date entry, forcing many arrow clicks2025-02-16
Workday is ugly and slow to interact with2024-05-06
Things are hard to find, with no consistent logic to where features are2024-05-06
Enterprise products sold to intermediaries end up as unusable garbage for end users2024-05-06
Users of enterprise HR software find it exasperating to use, like being bureaucratically botsmacked2024-05-06
Recruiting module is very slow to use, frustrating staff daily2023-10-23
Applicants must re-enter the same personal data for every job application2023-10-03
Primary action button sits far from the content being edited, tripping users up2023-10-03
Awful software that employees must use for evaluations and booking time off2023-09-17
Basic tasks are buried behind confusing menus and unclear workflows2023-01-31
Must re-enter resume contents manually into web forms after uploading it2022-10-26
New interface is slower, needs more clicks and screens, buries features in menus2021-10-12
Web app is very slow to respond when used2020-07-11
Misleading, unintuitive design discourages users from doing what they want2020-07-11
Commenter found Workday unintuitive and difficult to use2020-07-11
Forced to create a throwaway account with a strict password after clicking Apply with LinkedIn2020-07-08
Performance reviews and time off have unneeded steps and comments in odd places2019-10-31
Benefits page fails to load properly on a slow, high-latency connection2019-07-21
Entering any input like dates or selections takes about five clicks2018-03-01
Can't select multiple positions at once, making the tool difficult to use2018-01-05
Enterprise app hangs, so users are told to keep reloading it2017-02-28