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Known Issue: When Using the Time Off Calendar to Request Time Off or Leave Of Absence an Error Message Displays Incorrectly

Known Issue: When an employee requests Time Off or Leave of Absence through the Time Off Calendar an error message incorrectly appears. Resolution: Use the Absence Calendar for Time Off and Leave of Absence requests. This is the standard practice for submitting Time Off and Leave of Absence at WSU. Time to Resolution: Next update […]

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March reporting updates

Here are the reporting updates for the month of March. Human Resources CR REF Academic Units This report is now available and returns a list of Academic Units. CR TTK Workers With No Time Entered  This report went through maintenance to fix some defects. We added a column for worker’s current hire date. Finance CR […]

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Tips & Tricks: Ensure your primary address is correct in Workday

Employees are encouraged to ensure their primary address in Workday is listed as the local or residential address they have while Working at WSU. Having a correct primary address in Workday is critical to: Proper collection of State income tax each payday Correct mailing of payroll checks and checks for travel reimbursements Correct mailing address for […]

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Adaptive Planning testing in progress, training available soon

Adaptive Planning is a tool that integrates with Workday to allow us to track and plan budgets using real-time data. To prepare for launch in April 2023, the Adaptive Planning project is currently performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), as well as conducting training for future Adaptive users. Adaptive UAT began February 27, 2023. During testing, […]

Benefits and Pay Hub makes maintaining benefits easier

Beginning March 11, employees will have access to a new Benefits and Pay Hub in Workday. This new hub provides a single location for employees to review and maintain their benefits, payroll and compensation information, as well as access related tasks and reports. The Benefits and Pay Hub allows employees to: View their current benefit […]

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Updates to Financial Date View Only role

In an effort to protect sensitive information, select settlement and cash balance reporting areas will no longer be visible to employees with the Financial Data View Only security role. If users experience an interruption to their ability to view data necessary for their job duties, they may reach out at the Workday Service Desk to […]

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March training materials update

Recent changes include Fair Chance Act, updates to the Submit EIB Upload ticket, new screenshots, expanding existing guides, and making usability updates. Here are the new and updated training materials and resources for March: Finance Create External Committee Member HCM Modify Personal Information Hire Assign Organizations: Position Term, Company, Cost Center, Fund, Function, & Region […]

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New Expenses Hub makes managing expense tasks easier

The new Expenses Hub centralizes expense tasks and reports to help employees address pending expense actions quickly and easily. This new hub will be available on March 11 as part of the Workday Feature Release. From the Expenses Hub, employees can access tasks to create expense reports and spend authorizations, and travel-related payment elections. The […]

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Update to common Time and Absence reports

On March 11, the column names for several commonly used Time Off and Absence reports, such as Time Off Results by Period, will be updated. The column formerly titled “Ending Period Balance Including Pending Events” will be changed to “Balance at End of Period (Includes Events Awaiting Approval).” This change does not affect the information […]

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March Feature Release improves Period Activity Pay

With Period Activity Pay (PAP), the March Feature Release increases your control over payment schedules on period activity assignments. Users can now modify the schedule and override default payment and hours amounts, as well as placing PAP on future dated positions, while still retaining the ability to change and add PAP on current positions. Please see […]

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