Comparison

Workday vs Rippling

Workday and Rippling both land on Depends.

Workday

Depends

Confidence: High

Buy if you're a large enterprise consolidating HR, payroll, and finance with budget for dedicated admins and consultants.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you're a growing company with admin bandwidth replacing separate HR, IT, and payroll tools.

Workday versus Rippling
Compare	Workday	Rippling
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Large enterprises (1,000+ employees)	Growing startups replacing separate HR, IT, payroll tools
Who it's not for	Startups and small teams . expensive overkill	Tiny teams that just need simple payroll
Privacy	Mature enterprise security program; one notable 2025 breach via Salesforce social engineering, plus an older CSV-injection CVE.^⁷	SOC 2 Type II certified with a named CSO, but a 2025 insider-espionage incident involving a Deel spy drew major coverage.
Support quality	No direct support evidence found	Recurring support and payroll complaints
Public sentiment	Enterprises praise the depth and breadth, while end users and job applicants widely mock the UI, and smaller firms question the fit.^⁶	Reviews are polarized: many love the unified, polished product, while payroll errors, support struggles, and opaque pricing drive loud complaints.¹³
Biggest gotcha	PEPM pricing: you pay per employee per month; costs balloon as headcount grows^⁵	Modular per-employee pricing adds up; real costs often unclear until a sales call