Pros
It's nice to be able to do everything online.
Cons
I've used Workday before on 2 different jobs; my current and former job. The law says a business must have a manual process. After all, the govt isn't going to get your W-4 data from Workday; it's toing to be transferred. If something goes wrong for whatever reason, the option should be to do it manually; the WW-4 isn't relevant until after one is on the payrooll, anyway. The drug screen request had to be generated a more than once, because they didn't think to validate hours/avaiabality for the collection sites you can choose from. I was told they couldn't contact HR to verify my employment dates. So, I used that company's 3rd party to offer verification; they said this is not an employee reference, but I never said it was. The reference conversation was separate. They want contact info for private people. Companies for a long time have tried to mitigate phishing, fraud, and legal/PR situations from their employees running their mouths to unapproved 3rd parties. I guess they thought they could skirt pass these ubiquitious practices to get candidates to provide contact info. These contacts are told not to respond; I've been there and been apart of meetings where they lecture us and threaten termination for doing thingsl like that.
