Travel Tool is horrible - Anonymous employee Workday Employee Review

1.0
17 May 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Workday as a company as several great amenities to it, but wouldn't say they are amazing. We market the average to be more than that.

Cons

This review is about the travel tool, because depending what role you're trying to get, this impacts you. Long story short, It sucks. Really, how could you roll something like that out to 7500+ employees. It's not cheaper than going straight to airline websites and recently I've experienced I can't even rack up hotel points on certain reservations through the tool because of the website the tool is pulling from. For example, members can earn person account points when booking through the workday travel tool and the tool pulls their rate/reservation through Expedia. How is that my fault as an employee?? Further more, certain teams at Workday force you to use the corporate card because it ultimately gives Workday cash back. So let me get this straight...I have to book through the travel tool (corporate policy) can't earn any points at my hotel, and then can't earn any credit card points because Workday needs the points back? Really takes out Employees come first to heart huh. This company is still as cheap as the pre ipo days...it's sad

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