Is Workday safe to use?

Workday integrates 37 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, media, and advertising. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Workday need?

Workday requests 9 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Calendars, Speech Recognition, Face ID, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does Workday collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Workday collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers. It collects Usage Data and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Workday have?

Workday integrates 37 third-party SDKs. 1 for advertising, 1 for analytics, 5 for infrastructure, and 26 for other.

Does Workday use Google SDKs?

Yes. Workday includes 2 Google or Firebase SDKs: FirebaseWriter and WDFirebase. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Workday access your location?

Yes. Workday requests location access. The developer states: "Share Your Location to Check In/Out on This Device".

Does Workday access your camera or microphone?

Workday requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Workday needs to access your camera and photos to help you submit expense reports, update profile pictures, and add candidates". Microphone access is for "Allow Workday to use voice activated commands". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Workday access your contacts?

Yes. Workday requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "Add contacts to your address book".

What are some alternatives to Workday?

Other business apps include Acrobat , ADP Mobile , Google Ads , isolved , Printer App , and Amazon . Each app takes a different approach to business and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Business · Privacy report

Workday

Free · ★4.7 · Workday

Is Workday safe?

It collects a lot of your data, and shares it with trackers.

Our take. Workday carries 2 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 4 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 115 businessModerate

Trackers from other companies2 · some

typical business: 3

Data the app links to you4 types · some

typical business: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Workday links 4 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Workday ties to your identity.

LocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiers

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 2 companies.

Third-party SDKs found in the app, matched to the company that publishes each. Present in the code; we do not observe what they transmit.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDK

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among business.

Every one of these apps we have scanned, on the two measures above: third-party trackers it carries (across) and data it links to you on its own label (up). Toward the top right is more invasive.

Each dot is one busines app. Workday sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 37 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 2 are third-party trackers.

1advertising

1analytics

35standard libraries

2 of the 37 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Other third partiesadvertising

Luciq Audience SDK

Analytics SDKAnalytics

Segment Analytics

Standard libraries35 · on-device

The app's own code plus open-source interface, storage and networking libraries.

How we know this

Counterspy downloads the app from the App Store and statically analyzes its compiled binary. Embedded SDKs are matched against a signature database and resolved to the company that operates each. We also read the developer's App Store privacy label, which lists the data the app says it collects and links to you. We do not run the app or intercept its traffic, so we report capabilities present in the code and the developer's own disclosures, not proven transmission. We assess privacy and data collection, not malware, security flaws, or developer intent. Reports are automated and never edited for payment. Scan v2026.03.1, 2026-04-01.

Third-party trackers are advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs detected by static signature matching. Presence shows a capability is compiled in, not that it ran or transmitted data.
"Data the app links to you" is the count of data categories the developer declares as Data Linked To You in its App Store privacy label. Labels are self-reported and not verified by Apple.
Comparison across the 115 business in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 5.