Your office software is not the problem – you are

People who don’t get it turn their staff into the people interviewed in the Business Insider column who say things like ‘I simply hate Workday.’ Photograph: skynesher/Getty Images

Hating on office software is one of modern life’s favorite pastimes. Expenses, time off, hiring – every week another bit of office life seems to get a new app and a new set of haters.

This past week it was Workday’s turn. The HR and productivity platform that many large – and not-so-large – companies use to help facilitate everything from onboarding new employees to benefits management and performance reviews “has been making a mint creating misery where painless processes could be”, according to Business Insider titled: “Everyone hates Workday.”