Workday outage disrupts employee access, reportedly affects Walmart and Target

A Workday outage prevented some employees from signing in or completing tasks such as checking pay information and requesting time off on Friday. Workday said it placed some systems in maintenance mode while it investigated an issue discovered during backup-system testing, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. 

A source told The Newsground that Walmart, Target, Chipotle and Skechers were among the companies affected.