When the CU Blogs service is down, one of the sites that becomes unavailable is the normal Workday site, <http://workday.cornell.edu/>. It is still possible to log in to Workday by visiting the above URL.
Or even more directly, can also try:
A very few examples of when it has been down:
Here is the normal way to get to Workday is via a CU Blogs-hosted web page: