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Scheduled Payroll obligation adjustments running daily

Workday delivers enhanced functionality allowing WSU to schedule Payroll obligation adjustments. This functionality makes budgeting easier by allowing department to view Payroll obligations in a timelier manner. Payroll obligation adjustments run every weekday at 2 a.m. PST. If you have updated, current, or future costing allocations, assigned new Period Activity Pay, updated compensation etc., please […]

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Elevating Cougs 2024: Workday Success Stories for managers and supervisors

The 2024 Elevating Cougs conference offers employees who supervise others the opportunity to learn more about using Workday to its fullest potential, including new functionality and resources launched in the last year, to perform management tasks and help their teams succeed at work. At the 2023 Elevating Cougs conference, Workday Success Stories sessions covered a […]

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Workday TouchPoints: Cleaning up empty and unused HCM or Finance data sets

The management of personnel and financial data in Workday involves not only the timely entry and upkeep of current data, but also the regular review and cleaning of unused and empty data sets. Reasons for this regular maintenance of Workday data include impacts to WSU’s business operations, state and federal compliance, and strategic initiatives. This […]

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Preventing phishing attacks that may involve Workday

Recently, a phishing attack targeting WSU employees allowed scammers to obtain employees’ WSU network credentials, then use OKTA to illegally access Workday and update employees’ payment election information. This resulted in the issue of those employees’ paychecks to the criminal’s bank accounts. Learn more about the recent attack in this communication from ITS. This recent […]

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July reporting updates

Below are the new and updated reports for the month of July: Finance CR FIN Find Expense Reports Two additional columns were added to this report: one used by Central AP, and the other a “Last Updated” timestamp. CR PRO Find Requisitions The report status field now defaults to the relevant requisition status options. Default […]

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Quick Tips now live for Change Job, Spend Authorization, & Expense Report processes

We’ve launched Quick Tips for the Change Job, Spend Authorization, and Expense Report processes in Workday. Quick Tips provide guidance and help, specific to the business process, right in Workday, enabling users to get the information they need without navigating away from the system. Fields with an available Quick Tip are indicated by a question […]

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Change to SPS and PI Award Budget to Actuals dashboard

As of June 28, Dashboard GRA SPS Award Budget to Actuals and Dashboard GRA PI Award Budget to Actuals have been combined into Dashboard GRA Award Budget to Actuals. This dashboard is the first to be combined in a new effort to consolidate Sponsored Programs Services (SPS) and Principal Investigator (PI) versions of Workday reports. […]

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Updated PI Dashboard draws significant increase in users

Dashboard GRA Principal Investigator has generated around triple the typical usage of its predecessor since it’s launch 8 weeks ago, following the implementation of a variety of new worklets intended to better meet the needs of research faculty. Learn more about these changes here. The previous version of the dashboard for Principal Investigators (PIs) saw average […]

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New Race and Ethnicity field in Workday

A new field is now available under employees’ Personal Information in Workday: Specific Race/Ethnicity. This new voluntary field assists WSU in meeting state and federal reporting requirements. Learn more about how WSU uses voluntary Employee Personal Information in this post. Employees who wish to add information to this field may do so following the steps […]

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