Edition 003: When People Don’t Count

Workday disclosed “1.1 billion applications were rejected” through its platform during the relevant period; the collective “could potentially include 'hundreds of millions'” of people who sent applications in good faith, who prepared their resumes and wrote their cover letters and submitted their materials through the proper channels with hope, only to be processed and discarded. Processed and discarded. Processed and discarded. Repeatedly. By an algorithm applying criteria that no one was required to disclose, producing rejections that no one was required to explain, at a speed and scale that made the entire exercise invisible to the people it affected most.