ANOTHER ONE: Massive HR System Outage Affects Millions of Employees at Major Companies

Workday — the HR platform used by major companies like Walmart, Target, and Chipotle — is experiencing a serious outage.

Reportedly, it began during a test of Workday’s backup system.

Something went wrong, causing data issues and leaving employees locked-out, unable to access their pay portals or other features.

Here are the details:

JUST IN: HR systems used by Walmart, Chipotle, Target, and more are now facing a MAJOR system outage, per reports

All of them use Workday software.

Unclear if there is any relation to the other major outages this week. pic.twitter.com/3g581B1tAX

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 14, 2026

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BREAKING: Employee management system Workday is experiencing an outrage.

It says "disaster recovery [testing] unexpectedly connected to production databases". "We will provide updates every 30 minutes while we work to resolve this issue."

— Faytuks Network (@FaytuksNetwork) November 14, 2026

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Of course, this latest outage comes after a massive Microsoft outage on Thursday, followed by a nationwide FAA ground stop order on Friday.

ANOTHER ONE: Workday just went DOWN, and it runs HR for Walmart, Target, Chipotle, and more. Millions of workers are reportedly locked out of their pay info, time off, and benefits. That makes three in one day: the FAA ground stop, Amtrak crashing, and now Workday. The day before that it was Microsoft. Nobody has tied these together yet. Americans still deserve real answers on how this much of the country can go dark this fast.

— Gunther Eagleman

(@GuntherEagleman) November 14, 2026

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ANOTHER ONE: Workday just went DOWN, and it runs HR for Walmart, Target, Chipotle, and more. Millions of workers are reportedly locked out of their pay info, time off, and benefits.

That makes three in one day: the FAA ground stop, Amtrak crashing, and now Workday. The day before that it was Microsoft.

Nobody has tied these together yet. Americans still deserve real answers on how this much of the country can go dark this fast.

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So far, we do not know if these recent incidents are related in any way.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported further on the outage:

Workday, the Bay Area tech company whose software is used by millions of employees to check pay information, request time off and handle other workplace tasks, is experiencing a widespread outage Friday.

The Pleasanton company said it has placed some of its systems into maintenance mode while it works to fix the problem, making some employees at affected companies unable to log in to Workday or complete tasks through the service.

Workday said the disruption began after a problem was discovered while testing its backup systems. The company said the issue left some information in an inconsistent state and could cause errors when people try to access their accounts or complete workplace tasks.

The company apologized for the disruption and said it is investigating the best way to restore service. Workday said it will provide updates every 30 minutes.

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There has been no resolution at the time of writing this article.

Live Now Fox shared a statement from Workday:

What they’re saying:

“Some of our customers are experiencing a service disruption and we’re working urgently to investigate and resolve the issue,” a spokesperson for Workday said in a statement to LiveNOW from FOX. “We sincerely apologize for the challenges this is causing impacted customers…”

By the numbers:

The company’s website says more than 11,500 companies use the platform for their employees. The companies it lists as clients are a who’s who of well-known names, including Target, Walmart, Morgan Stanley, PNC Bank, Prudential, Charles Schwab, Nasdaq, Chipotle, Cinemark, Southwest Airlines, Blackbaud, Hubspot, Salesforce, General Electric and Netflix.

Some municipal governments like the cities of Philadelphia, Dallas, Charlotte, Seattle and Denver and some federal agencies like the U.S. Department of Energy and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology are also listed as clients.

What we don’t know:

Workday has not provided an estimate of when the platform will be running again.

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This is a very strange thing to be happening — and on Friday the 13th, of all days!

Perhaps it’s all just a coincidence…

Or maybe there’s more going on.

Folks on X are sharing their thoughts:

Welp… I’m not saying it’s a cyber attack. But um.. that’s a huge coincidence with everything going on.

— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) November 14, 2026

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I warned you not to outsource maintenance of these systems to India for years.

Now it’s all crumbling at the same time.

— Department Of Deportations (@DoDeportations) November 14, 2026

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@nicksortor If I had any doubts of this being a cyber attack, the doubt are gone now

— Just News and my Opinions (@myPOVonNews) November 14, 2026

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And Friday the 13th isn’t even over yet!

— Mark Sibley (@mnsibley) November 14, 2026

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What do you think?

Do you believe all of these disruptions are connected?

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[ H/T WLT Report ]