European alternatives to Workday
A dominant enterprise HR and finance platform for large organisations. A publicly-traded US company on US-region cloud, holding sensitive employee data under the CLOUD Act.
Company information about Workday
- Company
- Workday, Inc.
- Headquarters
- Pleasanton, United States
- Founded
- 2005
- Data jurisdiction
- United States
- Ownership
- Publicly traded
- GDPR
- No
- Open source
- No
- Infrastructure
- Mixed infrastructure
Why people switch away from Workday
European alternatives to Workday
HR, payroll, and recruiting in one platform built for European employment law. GDPR-native, with data hosted in the EU.
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Why avoid United States-owned services?
CLOUD Act
Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.
FISA Section 702
Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.
GDPR vs US law conflict
EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.