diff --git a/nvtabular/ops/categorify.py b/nvtabular/ops/categorify.py
index 7fbfa1de77..769f98512e 100644
--- a/nvtabular/ops/categorify.py
+++ b/nvtabular/ops/categorify.py
@@ -1861,12 +1861,24 @@ def _copy_storage(existing_stats, existing_path, new_path, copy):
     existing_fs = get_fs_token_paths(existing_path)[0]
     new_fs = get_fs_token_paths(new_path)[0]
     new_locations = {}
+
     for column, existing_file in existing_stats.items():
         new_file = existing_file.replace(str(existing_path), str(new_path))
         if copy and new_file != existing_file:
             new_fs.makedirs(os.path.dirname(new_file), exist_ok=True)
-            with new_fs.open(new_file, "wb") as output:
-                output.write(existing_fs.open(existing_file, "rb").read())
+
+            # For some ops, the existing "file" is a directory containing `part.N.parquet` files.
+            # In that case, new_file is actually a directory and we will iterate through the "part"
+            # files and copy them individually
+            if os.path.isdir(existing_file):
+                new_fs.makedirs(new_file, exist_ok=True)
+                for existing_file_part in existing_fs.ls(existing_file):
+                    new_file_part = os.path.join(new_file, os.path.basename(existing_file_part))
+                    with new_fs.open(new_file_part, "wb") as output:
+                        output.write(existing_fs.open(existing_file_part, "rb").read())
+            else:
+                with new_fs.open(new_file, "wb") as output:
+                    output.write(existing_fs.open(existing_file, "rb").read())
 
         new_locations[column] = new_file
 
diff --git a/nvtabular/workflow/workflow.py b/nvtabular/workflow/workflow.py
index 41f8b10477..909c6bad05 100755
--- a/nvtabular/workflow/workflow.py
+++ b/nvtabular/workflow/workflow.py
@@ -17,12 +17,13 @@
 import inspect
 import json
 import logging
+import os
 import sys
 import time
 import types
 import warnings
 from functools import singledispatchmethod
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional, Union
 
 import cloudpickle
 import fsspec
@@ -295,12 +296,12 @@ def _getmodules(cls, fs):
 
         return [mod for mod in result if mod.__name__ not in exclusions]
 
-    def save(self, path, modules_byvalue=None):
+    def save(self, path: Union[str, os.PathLike], modules_byvalue=None):
         """Save this workflow to disk
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        path: str
+        path: Union[str, os.PathLike]
             The path to save the workflow to
         modules_byvalue:
             A list of modules that should be serialized by value. This
@@ -314,6 +315,8 @@ def save(self, path, modules_byvalue=None):
         # avoid a circular import getting the version
         from nvtabular import __version__ as nvt_version
 
+        path = str(path)
+
         fs = fsspec.get_fs_token_paths(path)[0]
 
         fs.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True)
@@ -385,12 +388,12 @@ def save(self, path, modules_byvalue=None):
                         cloudpickle.unregister_pickle_by_value(sys.modules[m])
 
     @classmethod
-    def load(cls, path, client=None) -> "Workflow":
+    def load(cls, path: Union[str, os.PathLike], client=None) -> "Workflow":
         """Load up a saved workflow object from disk
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        path: str
+        path: Union[str, os.PathLike]
             The path to load the workflow from
         client: distributed.Client, optional
             The Dask distributed client to use for multi-gpu processing and multi-node processing
@@ -403,6 +406,8 @@ def load(cls, path, client=None) -> "Workflow":
         # avoid a circular import getting the version
         from nvtabular import __version__ as nvt_version
 
+        path = str(path)
+
         fs = fsspec.get_fs_token_paths(path)[0]
 
         # check version information from the metadata blob, and warn if we have a mismatch
diff --git a/tests/unit/workflow/test_workflow.py b/tests/unit/workflow/test_workflow.py
index ff6b57a410..a5e2688ba7 100755
--- a/tests/unit/workflow/test_workflow.py
+++ b/tests/unit/workflow/test_workflow.py
@@ -671,6 +671,43 @@ def test_workflow_saved_schema(tmpdir):
         assert node.output_schema is not None
 
 
+def test_stat_op_workflow_roundtrip(tmpdir):
+    """
+    Categorify and TargetEncoding produce intermediate stats files that must be properly
+    saved and re-loaded.
+    """
+    N = 100
+
+    df = Dataset(
+        make_df(
+            {
+                "a": np.random.randint(0, 100000, N),
+                "item_id": np.random.randint(0, 100, N),
+                "user_id": np.random.randint(0, 100, N),
+                "click": np.random.randint(0, 2, N),
+            }
+        ),
+    )
+
+    outputs = ["a"] >> nvt.ops.Categorify()
+
+    continuous = (
+        ["user_id", "item_id"]
+        >> nvt.ops.TargetEncoding(["click"], kfold=1, p_smooth=20)
+        >> nvt.ops.Normalize()
+    )
+    outputs += continuous
+    wf = nvt.Workflow(outputs)
+
+    wf.fit(df)
+    expected = wf.transform(df).compute()
+    wf.save(tmpdir)
+
+    wf2 = nvt.Workflow.load(tmpdir)
+    transformed = wf2.transform(df).compute()
+    assert_eq(transformed, expected)
+
+
 def test_workflow_infer_modules_byvalue(tmp_path):
     module_fn = tmp_path / "not_a_real_module.py"
     sys.path.append(str(tmp_path))
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index da0c1239a3..42b9325271 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -42,10 +42,9 @@ deps =
     pytest
     pytest-cov
 commands =
-    python -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/core.git
-    python -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/dataloader.git
-    python -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/models.git
     python -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/core.git@{posargs:main}
+    python -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/dataloader.git@{posargs:main}
+    python -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/models.git@{posargs:main}
     python -m pytest --cov-report term --cov merlin -rxs tests/unit
 
 [testenv:test-merlin]