Circa 2019/2020 Workday took a dramatic downhill turn. Employees stopped being the #1 value and essentially were removed from the equation. The guiding principle of Workmates as the number one value nosedived straight over a cliff and keeping up with the Jones took its place. If you are a new hire, you probably think Workday is still pretty cool. Great, enjoy it for two years and move on. If you have been there more than 5 years, I bet you wish you could hit rewind.
Workday went bad when it started hiring new leadership, who in turn brought all of their old culture and colleagues from VMware, Western Union, ETC… With this came an alienation of tenured employees, and penchant for new practices without reviewing their purpose, and a new fear-based leadership style. If you’re not prepared to suck up to the Leader DuJour, be prepared to move on. Last warning: if you work for a support organization (A Non Dev employee, AKA grunt workers) including BT, Workplace, or People and Purpose speaking up will likely get you terminated, even if its part of one of those ‘confidential’ pulse surveys.
Workday had so much of its own magic if only it had continued to build on that. Alas, C-suite relied on what other companies were doing regardless of what was best for Workday.
