Walmart outage today: After Microsoft disruption, payroll, HR services affected in 11,500 businesses as Workday goes down

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Walmart was one of the 11,500 businesses that locked out their employees as HR platform Workday went down on Friday. The website Downdetector first reported nearly 3,000 outage reports for the platform shortly after 5 p.m. Friday. The disruption came just as Microsoft was struggling to restore its own services following a global outage affecting Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 applications.Workday, which provides cloud-based human resources and financial management software to more than 11,500 organisations worldwide, said some customers were experiencing a service disruption.

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