If you've been a Workday consultant for more than a few months, you've probably lived this moment.
You're deep in a configuration.
Something isn't behaving the way it should.
And you need a real answer.
Not a generic Workday documentation page. Not a Community post from 2019 that sort of relates to your problem.
A real answer, from someone who's actually been in the weeds on this.
So what do you do?
You text someone.
Maybe an old colleague from a previous engagement. Maybe someone you met at Rising three years ago. Maybe you post it in a WhatsApp group and hope the right person sees it before your deadline.
Sometimes it works. Often, it doesn't.
Getting a good answer in this ecosystem is almost entirely dependent on who you happen to know.
I've lived this. So have they.
Below is from a senior consultant in the Turbin network. I'm leaving it nearly untouched, because the cadence of it is the point.
Most of my contracts are related to Absence, Time, or Scheduling.
But here's the thing: when clients like you and like the work you do, they start throwing other problems at you. Problems in modules where I'm not an expert.
So what do I do? I search Community. And as you also know, Community is hard to search on. And often lacks the proper answer you need.
Talking to somebody is easier and faster. But for my first two years as an independent? I had no one to text. No network. No one I could ping for a quick answer.
It's only because I started posting on LinkedIn often, and intentionally connecting with others, that I can now text people directly to find answers.
And even then? I do it rarely. Because I don't want to bother them.
The tools that exist aren't quite cutting it.
Workday's Community portal is useful for official documentation, but it wasn't built for the kind of fast, candid, peer-to-peer conversation consultants actually need.
Reddit threads exist but go quiet. WhatsApp and Slack groups are hit or miss, activity spikes and dies. And the people with deep module knowledge aren't always the ones who are most active.
The result? A lot of incredibly experienced consultants are essentially isolated. Solving the same problems in silos. Reinventing the wheel on configs someone else already figured out six months ago. Spending hours chasing answers that a five-minute conversation with the right person would solve.
That's a real cost: to your time, to your clients, and honestly, to the quality of Workday implementations across the board.
We think this is worth fixing.
We've been talking to consultants in the Turbin network about this a lot lately. And the feedback is consistent.
The Workday world needs a community that's actually active. Actually specific. And built around how consultants work, not how Workday wants to present itself.
So we're building it.
The Turbin Community is coming soon: a dedicated space for Workday consultants to ask the hard config questions, share what's working, and tap into a network that goes beyond whoever saved your number five years ago.
We're still shaping what it looks like. And honestly? We'd rather build it with you than for you.
The best answers in this ecosystem shouldn't depend on luck.
They should depend on community.
More soon, and thank you for being part of Turbin Tidbits early. This community starts with you.