OpenAI Work Mode Elevated-Error Incident Resolved

Published by CodexBro · 2026-10-06 (UTC)

OpenAI has marked the Work Mode elevated-error incident first reported on October 5 as Resolved and says all impacted services have fully recovered. The listed affected components remain ChatGPT Work and Codex in ChatGPT Desktop. OpenAI has not published a root cause, affected-user percentage, or exact actual recovery-completion time.

The official status page shows the incident entered Investigating at 07:03 on October 5, with a 07:14 update saying elevated errors continued. At 09:50 it moved to Monitoring after mitigation. The latest state is Resolved, with a next-day update displayed at 02:10 saying all impacted services have fully recovered. The investigation-stage note that scheduled tasks “may also be impacted” is not evidence that scheduled tasks are still failing.

The official displayed status-update times have no stated timezone; the Resolved announcement is not a separately confirmed exact recovery-completion time.