And it was poorly communicated. Not sure why earlier posts on this topic were deleted.
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“There were some glitches, but when are there not?”
Perhaps this attitude is part of the reason our company regularly blows things up and hurts people!?
I personally have seen no issues with pay. the pay slip is a bit more complicated to read, but overall workday is a way better tool than career zone and separate timekeeping system. once all of the glitches are worked through this is great software package IMO
Workday was a decent project to be honest. The communication was good, lots of emails about it well in advance of the implementation. There were some glitches, but when are there not? I was impressed they were identified and corrected quickly and they owned up to the mistakes. Which is really all any one can ask. Overall it was a well done project both in principle and in execution. One of the better things to come out of Enbridge in the last few years. Other than the consistent high level productivity churned out by Infrastructure Planning on a daily basis of course.
There was an email from HR that said there were around a thousand mistakes to dependent birthdays that resulted in those people not being able to use the benefits for a couple weeks. A lot of people also had the wrong ESP amounts deducted. So basic math suggests there were at least a thousand people impacted by mistakes for benefits and pay with those two issues alone. Minor? Maybe. If you are implementing a pay and benefits system and you mess both up, it makes me wonder what a major issue would be. Missing phone numbers for the thousands of people who have extensions sounds like a pretty stupid biff. Anyway, keep celebrating your successful project, none of us care - it's just hilarious....especially with a spin-doctor of Beauty & the Beast fame at the helm of this project...what a joke HR is.
You are exaggerating beyond belief.This is bs. Everyone got paid and any inputs on benefits for a few hundred got corrected. Very few glitches for a project of this size and solved in days. You do a disservice to us who busted our a - - e- s to deliver something that is better, works really well and we are proud of. Don’t talk about things you don’t know squat about.
Workday was poorly implement/executed. They messed up pay and benefits for thousands of people, so I don't think you can claim it was a success. Amusingly, it's not even the first time they implemented Workday.
Hating Corporate is definitely part of it though ... I have no desire to cheer for the home team anymore, and I doubt I'm alone. I like my BU and department, and the people I work with regularly, but anything to do with Corporate feels like a j--koff. It's hard to explain why, I'm just sooo over their douchey communications and utterly humourless and robotic approach to everything... it's a drag. It's not a huge grievance in the grand scheme of things, but i don't think it's a surprise that people are quick to snark Corporate.
Very well communicated
Very poor implementation
Very poorly executed.
Lots of time errors and loss of overtime hours that still wait for now Today.
Benefits screw ups
Percentage of deductions messed up still today.
Growing pains ?
Poor system?
Exactly.
This topic should be insignificant (aside from the irritation of having to correct the errors) except that it reveals the extent to which trust has been eroded. Whenever I read or hear something from corporate I feel that they are trying to sell me a bill of goods.
After so much destruction it was good to see efforts that at least seemed constructive for the company. HR should get a few points for trying.
Communications were confusing and excessive. Execution was error ridden.
Why is this post here? I mean at all? It has nothing to do with anything.
Seriously. Justify it.
Workday itself is fine. Mock-able part was that they messed up quite a lot of stuff in the implementation, and this is their second time (maybe third time?) implementing the same system. But, they still gave plenty of props to themselves for finishing it on time and "on budget" (just not counting all the hours people had to spend on the phone with Sunlife trying to sort though errors). Agree that communication was excessive if anything.
Replaced Peoplesoft at legacy Enbridge a couple years ago and legacy Union just went live with it this month. Time tracking, performance managment, hiring, etc. HR stuff.
Workday is a system used by employees to assign work to others. Great system, allows you to pass work on with great traceability. More points you have, more work you can pass on.
What was poor about the communications? Every time I turned around I was getting an email or invitation to training or something from my leader about it. Too much communication IMO
For those happily not there anymore what is WORKDAY
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