Workday outage after disaster-recovery test hits production
Disaster-recovery services unexpectedly connected to production databases during a weekly backup test on 13 November, so Workday put production tenants into maintenance from about 22:15 UTC. Users at thousands of employers could not reach HR, payroll or time tracking for about 18 hours; tenants were restored in stages on 14 November.
- Service
- Workday
- Date
- 13 November 2026
- Cause
- Configuration change
- Duration
- 18.5 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- San Francisco Chronicle ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Workday outage after disaster-recovery test hits production”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 13 Nov 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-11-13-workday-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: San Francisco Chronicle, https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/workday-outage-employees-accounts-22529939.php.
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