Workday Worksheets has the performance of a dead horse

You know that moment when youre staring at a table in Workday and you just want to sort it or filter one column? There are two icons sitting right next to each other: Export to Excel and Open in Worksheets. You always want Excel. You always click Worksheets by accident.

And then you wait.

Worksheets is Workdays Google Sheets clone that nobody asked for. The first thing it does when it opens is punish you for your misclick with a 10–15 second loading screen just to create an empty sheet. Google Sheets does this in milliseconds. Milliseconds. Worksheets treats it like a moon landing.

Once it finally loads, every interaction has the same sluggish energy. Scrolling lags. Formulas hang. You click a cell and theres a pause long enough to question your career choices. Its like someone took a spreadsheet and routed every keystroke through a fax machine.

The worst part? You never meant to be here. You just wanted to export a table to Excel and get on with your day. Instead youre trapped in a knock-off spreadsheet that runs like its powered by a hamster on sedatives. You close the tab, click the right icon this time, and silently vow to never speak of this again.

Until next week, when you misclick again.