In May 2024, we’re launching several major enhancements to the Absence Calendar in Workday that will make the way employees request and manage their absence quicker, easier, and more transparent. These updates will change the look and feel of several key Absence pages and tasks, which will impact all employees who request time off or […]
With the launch of the new Non-Permanent employee types at the end of 2022, the 8250 Hourly Worker job profile remained active for a limited time for current employees. The Hourly Worker job profile has since been inactivated, effective December 31, 2023. As part of continued cleanup, remaining vacant Hourly Worker positions are being closed. […]
Improvements to the existing PI Dashboard, “Dashboard GRA Principal Investigator,” are planned for release in May. These improvements are in response to Principal Investigator (PI) and Area Finance Officers (AFO) feedback regarding the need for faculty to be able to view state account and grant balances in a single convenient location. The improved PI Dashboard […]
Modernization continues to receive feedback regarding the difficulty of the Payroll Accounting Adjustment (PAA) process and related tasks. Over the past few months, we’ve been working together with members of the WSU community to brainstorm, develop, and implement a series of solutions to help make PAAs easier and more efficient to perform, or prevent them […]
We’re launching a new series of blog posts on the Modernization website focusing on the ways Workday connects systems, information, and people across WSU. If you’ve been curious about how your day-to-day work activities fit into the bigger picture, or how data in Workday plays a role across multiple processes and systems, the Workday Touchpoints […]
We’ve made several enhancements to the Performance Review reference guide and select related resources to make it quicker and easier to work through the process for both Administrative Professional (AP) and Classified staff. The following additions to the Performance Review reference guide are now available: Details on choosing an AP employee’s “overall rating” How to […]
New automatic messages will now be sent to job candidates based on certain disposition (or decline) reasons. Current disposition reasons that have an automatic candidate message are: Application Errors/Incomplete, Does Not Meet Minimum/Required Qualifications, Failed to Provide Required or Requested Application Documents/Materials, Withdrew from Consideration, and Requisition Canceled/Closed. To help identify the messages that will […]
The Career worklet, previously available under the App Menu on the top right corner of the Workday home page, has been retired. Moving forward, employees should use the Jobs Hub to browse for jobs and view recent applications. Employees can locate the Jobs Hub by searching “Jobs Hub” in Workday search bar. For instructions on […]
The Create Payroll Accounting Adjustment reference guide now includes guidance on moving benefits related to some, but not all, earnings for an employee. The Modernization Payroll team received requests for guidance on how to complete Payroll Accounting Adjustments (PAAs) when the department need to move some, but not all, of the employer-paid benefits due to […]
Workday issues two major updates, called “Feature Releases,” per year. The first Feature Release of 2024, also called “R1,” took place March 8-9. During a Feature Release, Workday implements a series of system updates, improvements, and new features. Prior to each Feature Release, Modernization Team works diligently to identify and implement specific updates that will […]