Increase to Workday Session Length

February 2, 2021

Currently, Workday automatically logs users out following a 15- to 20-minute period of inactivity.

Due to feedback from the University community, the Workday timeout will be extended to 30 minutes by February 3, 2021. This extension will help reduce the amount of time users spend re-authenticating and logging in to Workday, and bring Workday in line with other WSU enterprise systems (such as myWSU).

The timeout extension will not apply to users in the following roles:

Credit Card Administrator
Implementers
Finance Auditor
IR Finance Auditor
WSU Financial Validator
Integration Developer

Users in the above roles will continue to be signed out of their session following 15 minutes of inactivity. This session length is in place in order maintain Procurement Card Industry (PCI) compliance, and will not be extended. This will affect fewer than 100 users, most of them members of the Modernization and ITS teams.

The Workday Knowledge Base article Workday Session Length and Security provides more detail regarding session length and timeout.