Why the need

When the CU Blogs service is down, one of the sites that becomes unavailable is workday.cornell.edu. It is still possible to log in to Workday by visiting the above URL.

The normal way

The normal way to get to Workday is via a CU Blogs-hosted web page:

http://workday.cornell.edu/ 

When that is unavailable (as it was for an hour or so on 8/24/15 and 3/15/16), the direct URL at the top of this page can be used to get to Workday. As can the following URL:

https://shibidp.cit.cornell.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/Unsolicited/SSO?providerId=http://www.workday.com