> the fixed list for “field of study”, which doesn’t include my field of study or an “other” option If it's anything like the "employment sector" options that

> the fixed list for “field of study”, which doesn’t include my field of study or an “other” option If it's anything like the "employment sector" options that banks ask you to pick from, then they're not trying to collect accurate info, but rather asking you to bucket yourself into a categorization system used by some very popular credit/risk-scoring heuristics. My guess for why an HR platform is asking such a thing: it probably populates a field that can be fetched through an API, by corporate spending platforms (Float et al) that integrate with Workday, to determine (or at least "recommend") the employees who should be issued spend cards.