Workday erases 8.5% of workforce because of ... AI Workday is erasing 8.5 percent of its personnel under a restructuring scheme because… AI. In a classic piece of corporate speak, the company said in an SEC filing that the job cuts are “intended to prioritize its investments and continue advancing Workday’s ongoing focus on durable growth.” This will “result in the …
I hate workday so much!!!
It's genuinely shite. I applied for 3 jobs yesterday and every single one wanted me to create a workday account, which then struggles to read your CV. Forces you to tell them where you found the job so I'm putting in the lesbian coders alliance for that.
The UI is crap. The AI reading your CV is crap. The shite they make you fill in is setup just for the US. One good hack & everyone whose ever applied for a job through it will have their details everywhere.
Because the initial investors into Workday thought the company would make money, and those investors were correct.
The follow-on investors said, "Hey, look -- Workday's making money! I want some of that action!"
How Workday makes money, despite a crap product, is up for debate. Great marketing? Bribes? Blackmail? Something from columns A, B, and C? Who knows?
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Putin's gameplan is manifestly different, and most Americans don't think CEOs are gods, they think they are dickless morons who played the system and ended up making bazillions off the backs of ordinary workers.
Sources: Pew Research, ChiefExecutive.net, and many more surveys & articles if you'd just bothered to look instead of mouthing off.
Lord: Putin's gameplan is manifestly different, and most Americans don't think CEOs are gods, they think they are dickless morons who played the system and ended up making bazillions off the backs of ordinary workers.
cow: Thats what gods doo, go read your history books, the gods yes all them dumb stones in their mansions sorry temples milk gold by the truckload from the poor locals. Go read your history books.
Todays ceos are no different in both cases its all about the gold, it snot about believing in heaven.
Mmm - are they really saying ‘we can’t make any more money from the work we could get these people to do now that they are freed up to do it’ or is it a cynical sup to shareholders who hate normal people having jobs and companies making a reasonable profit. Or is it the C suite who want to
make more money for themselves with out putting in effort to actually get the people they have to do useful things and/or by knobbling the company in a way that will only show up in 2 to 3 years?
We had it at my last place.
The US couldn't reconcile its books for several months as it couldn't do the international transfers they way they needed it to.
We also wanted Zimit as a CPQ but gave up on that once we heard that Workday was going to rewrtie it after buying it.
In fairness, as with most of these things, the customer was a large part of the problem. They tried to do the implementation on the cheap by lifting and shifting existing processes into a new system. This made the thing heavily customised.
Trouble is, in whose interest is it to tell a client that they should hold off on that big software licence and that system integrator job whilst the business gets reorganised?
"In fairness, as with most of these things, the customer was a large part of the problem. They tried to do the implementation on the cheap by lifting and shifting existing processes into a new system. This made the thing heavily customised."
And that statement captures 2/3 of the IT problems of the world. Time after time after time.
First Salesforce, now Workday - tech company after tech company is reducing programmers and increasing sales reps. Both due to AI. Proves what I've been saying all my life: Sales is the smartest, most value added, and least automatable function in a company. No wonder it earns everybody's salary.
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