External Career Sites Powered by Workday – Cookie Details

Career sites powered by Workday drop these required cookies:

Cookie subgroup Cookies Description Cookie type Cookie duration
Session experience PLAY_LANG,
PLAY_SESSION,
timezoneOffset,
wd-browser-id
wday_vps_cookie
CXS_SESSION
User, device, and session ID cookies along with timestamp cookies for timing out sessions after inactivity. These cookies expire at the end of the session. 1st party Session
Security management TS* Helps prevent cyber attacks on the user’s interactions with the enterprise cloud applications. Verifies that the domain and subdomain cookies sent between the web server and the client aren’t altered. 1st party Session
Security management CALYPSO_CSRF_TOKEN Contains a CSRF token to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks, that is, to prevent a user from carrying out unintended operations on the career site. 1st party Session
Security management __cf_bm Identifies and mitigates automated traffic to protect the Platform from malicious bots. 1st party After 30 mins of inactivity
Load balancing Naming convention of WorkdayLB_*
WorkdayLB_UICLIENT,
WorkdayLB_SAS
Forwards requests for a single session to the same server for consistency of service. 1st party Session

 

Organizations applying Workday Career Sites might enable one or more of the discretionary features that use cookies or similar technologies. The table below provides further detail on these optional cookies:

Cookie subgroup Cookies Description Cookie type Cookie duration
Cookie preference enablePrivacyTracking Boolean tracker to capture user preference for nonessential cookies from External Career Site Cookie Banner. 1st party Session
Performance (analytics) Google Analytics: _ga* Delivers Google Analytics data as the nominated Tracking ID for External Site traffic metrics. 1st party 400 – 730 days
Functional (Apply with LinkedIn) JSESSIONID
lang
bcookie
bscookie
li_gc
lissc
lidc
fcookie
fid
Supports the Apply with LinkedIn feature. For details, contact LinkedIn. See sample Apply with LinkedIn reference materials. 3rd party Session (JSESSIONID, lang)
2 years the rest.

 

Workday Application

Workday’s enterprise cloud application drops these required cookies:

Cookie subgroup Cookies Description Cookie type Cookie duration
Session experience PLAY_LANG,
PLAY_SESSION,
timezoneOffset,
helpLastCheckin,
JSESSIONID,
LastUserActivity,
learningLastCheckIn,
SessionTimeoutMS,
UserSignedIn,
sessionLoggingInfo,
uid,
wd-alt-sessionid,
wd-browser-id
User, device, and session ID cookies along with timestamp cookies for timing out sessions after inactivity. These cookies expire at the end of the session. 1st party Session
Security management TS* Helps prevent cyberattacks on the user’s interactions with the enterprise cloud applications. Verifies that the domain and subdomain cookies that are sent between the web server and the client aren’t altered. 1st party Session
Security management deviceID Uses deviceID to support the Trusted Devices feature. It expires after 1 year (See Trusted Devices FAQ for configuring trusted devices). 1st party 1 year
Security management __cf_bm Identifies and mitigates automated traffic to protect the Platform from malicious bots. 1st party After 30 mins of inactivity
Security management _cfuvid The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule. It is only used to enable the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. 1st party Session
Load balancing Naming convention of WorkdayLB_*
WorkdayLB_BP,
WorkdayLB_MICROSCOPE,
WorkdayLB_PEX,
WorkdayLB_SAS,
WorkdayLB_TALK,
WorkdayLB_TALK_rest,
WorkdayLB_TALK_ws,
WorkdayLB_UI,
WorkdayLB_UIAUTHGWY,
WorkdayLB_USB,
WorkdayLB_VPS2,
WorkdayLB_WDRIVE_client,
WorkdayLB_WDRIVE_server_rest,
WorkdayLB_WDRIVE_server_ws
Forwards requests for a single session to the same server for consistency of service. 1st party Session
Load balancing __cflb Enables Cloudflare to return an end user to the same customer origin for a specific period of time configured by the customer. This process enables the end user to have a smooth experience. 1st party 11 hours

Information fetched on 20/03/2026

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