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Your Workday Implementation Didn’t Deliver.
We Will Stabilize It in 90 Days.

Position management chaos. Manual workarounds. Teams drowning in tickets. We’ve rescued 40+ Workday implementations with our proven stabilization framework, without the overhead of full-time hires.

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Trusted by HRIS leaders at world-class organizations

  • Gainsight
  • Lightspeed Commerce
  • 40+ Implementations
  • 14+ Years in Workday
  • 10+ Years Client-Side
Recognize the pattern

Does any of this sound familiar?

These are not isolated service requests. They are symptoms of an environment that never fully transitioned from go-live to operational ownership.

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Eight signals. No email required.

  • The HRIS team is buried in recurring tickets
    • Configuration
    • Process
  • HR and Finance cannot agree on headcount
    • Data
    • Integration
  • Requisitions stall without HRIS intervention
    • Process
    • Configuration
  • Critical integrations and reports require constant monitoring
    • Integration
    • Data
  • Leadership is questioning the Workday investment
    • Governance
    • Ownership

Three or more is usually structural , and structural problems do not respond to more tickets. The tags show which foundations are typically underneath each one.

The core problem

The backlog is a symptom.
Workday debt is the problem.

Workday debt is the accumulation of configuration, data, process, integration, governance, and ownership weaknesses that survive implementation or build up after go-live and keep recreating operational problems.

  • Configuration
  • Data
  • Process
  • Integration
  • Governance
  • Ownership
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What you see

Recurring tickets

What keeps recreating it

Misaligned configuration

What you see

Manual workarounds

What keeps recreating it

Unreliable data

What you see

Conflicting reports

What keeps recreating it

Undocumented decisions

What you see

Delayed releases

What keeps recreating it

Fragile integrations

Our expertise

How We Solve Your Workday Problems

Workday Stabilization

For organizations 0-18 months post-launch struggling with broken processes. We perform a comprehensive audit, optimize Position Management, and retrain your team.

  • Comprehensive Audit
  • Process Redesign
  • Integrations Cleanup
  • Knowledge Transfer
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Workday Position Management

A proven framework for gaining control of position data, headcount planning, and workforce decisions, replacing manual, reactive processes with scalable governance.

  • Position vs Job Design
  • Approval Workflows
  • Headcount Reconciliation
  • ATS Integration
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Workday Implementation Advisory

Mid-implementation oversight to prevent go-live chaos. Client-side project management and readiness assessments.

  • Client-Side Oversight
  • Readiness Assessment
  • Design Review
  • SI Accountability
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Workday M&A Integration

Acquisitions do not pause while HR figures out the org structure. We consolidate acquired populations and whole tenants on the deal clock.

  • Tenant Consolidation
  • Population Migration
  • Process Harmonization
  • Day-One Readiness
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Workday Managed Services

Access best-in-class Workday architects and specialists on demand. Minimum 5+ years experience. No hiring headaches.

  • HCM & FINS Architects
  • Payroll Experts
  • Integration Devs
  • Position Mgmt SMEs
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Case study: Manufacturing Co.

From Chaos to Clarity in
Just 90 Days

6 months post-launch, their position management was broken. Finance and HR had different numbers. Recruiting couldn’t create requisitions. We deployed our 90-Day Workday Rescue. The result was a clean system, automated processes, and a self-sufficient internal team.

“Working with Kandor proved immediate and measurable ROI. They really helped us see around corners.”
Heather Nicholson · VP People Operations, HRIS & Analytics, Lightspeed Commerce
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Position Accuracy

Before

47%

After

99%

Req Creation Time

Before

45 min

After

5 min

Headcount Sync

Before

Manual

After

Automated

100%
Team Confidence

Why HRIS Leaders Choose Kandor Over Big Consulting Firms

We're not your typical Workday partner. We've lived your pain and built the cure.

Client-Side Experts

Unlike partners who leave after go-live, we’ve lived in your shoes. Our team includes former Workday system owners from Slack and other top tech cos.

We Specialize, They Generalize

We don’t do everything. We focus on Position Management, post-launch optimization, and M&A integration. That’s our lane, and we own it.

You Own the Knowledge

Our goal is to make ourselves obsolete. Every engagement includes comprehensive knowledge transfer so your team becomes self-sufficient.

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Questions

Common questions about Workday stabilization

What is Workday stabilization?
Stabilization is the work of making a live Workday environment operate reliably, repairing the configuration, data, process, integration, governance, and ownership weaknesses that keep recreating problems. It is distinct from implementation, which gets you live, and from support, which closes tickets after the fact.
How long does a Workday rescue take?
The engagement runs 90 days. Diagnosis begins on day one, stabilization follows on the foundations that carry the most risk, and the final phase transfers governance and documentation to your team. The goal is not to clear every historical backlog item, it is to stop the environment recreating them.
How is this different from our implementation partner or a Big 4 firm?
Most firms specialize in getting you live. Kandor works on environments that are already live and already struggling, which is a different problem. The perspective is client-side rather than vendor-side, built by someone who has owned the backlog and inherited decisions he did not make.
What is the difference between managed services and traditional AMS support?
Ticket-based support manages a queue: work arrives as requests and success is measured in response time. Managed services organizes around a prioritized backlog and roadmap, with a consistent senior team. Traditional support manages the queue; this advances the roadmap.
Can you work alongside our existing support partner?
Yes. Many environments already have a support arrangement that works for routine requests but was never designed to resolve structural problems. Kandor becomes relevant when recurring failures, data distrust, and unclear ownership indicate something the ticket queue cannot fix.
Do we need a full rescue, or would optimization be enough?
That is what the assessment determines. Isolated issues in an otherwise sound environment point to targeted optimization. Issues that return after tickets close, across several domains at once, usually indicate structural Workday debt, and that needs sequencing, not more fixes.
What happens in a Workday Debt Assessment?
It examines configuration, data, integrations, processes, governance, and ownership to identify recurring failure patterns and their root causes. You get an executive readout, a root-cause and dependency map, a prioritized backlog, and a sequenced roadmap, a defensible order of operations rather than a proposal.

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Ready to rescue your Workday?

Stop firefighting and start getting real business value from the system. It starts with knowing whether what you are dealing with is structural or isolated.

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