The Workday release 2022R2 brings in a host of features/updates that spans across all the modules.
To be precise, 1314 updates. While not all of them will make it to the Production Tenant as part of this release, some of these features are automatically available for all workday customers – depending on upon the usage of the respective Workday products/modules.

Other updates may or may not require Workday’s help to configure or enable them for usage in the customer’s workday tenant.

After methodical analysis, we have shortlisted what we believe are the key features of this release
– Improvement of User Experience.
– Ease of performing workday transactions.
– Unique out of the box solutions to enhance existing functionality and support the external system

Benefits

Enrollment Event Rules for Coverage Begin
Dates

To help you reduce manual effort, Workday
enables you to apply additional rules to coverage begin dates on enrollment
events.

Coverage Begin Date

Enrollment Events

With 2022R2, Workday improves the benefit
enrollment experience with new options that help employees navigate the
enrollment workflow.

Benefit Elections

State and Federal Reporting Partner
Integrations

Workday delivers new configuration
options and web services to make it easier for you to work with software
partners to complete the ACA filing for state and federal agencies.

ACA Partner Integrations

Benefits, Core Compensation, Core Payroll, Payroll Interface

Benefits and Pay Hub

Workday introduces a new Benefits and Pay Hub, providing a single location for employees to conveniently review and maintain their benefits, compensation, and payroll information, and to access related reports.

Self-Service: Benefits and Pay Hub

Business Process 

Business Process Ad Hoc Approver User Experience

We improve how you add ad hoc approvers to business process steps by providing a more clear and efficient way to add additional approvers to Approval steps.

Add Approvers to Business Process Step

Organization-Based Routing for Approval Chains

With this release, we now enable you to route approval chain business process steps using organization-based routing. This enables Workday to quickly assign the approvals to the appropriate people in your organization structure. This also reduces manual workarounds for routing merit increase, hire request, and supplier invoice approvals to leaders who manage multiple areas beyond their direct reporting structure.

Configure Organization-Based Routing

Submit Request on Behalf of Another Person

We expand request functionality by now enabling you to initiate requests on behalf of worker or non-worker roles. This feature adds flexibility for requests on behalf of roles like student, external learning users, users with multiple roles, and more, reducing the need to use third-party applications.

On Behalf of Person Prompt

 

Core Compensation 

Benefits and Pay Hub

Workday introduces a new Benefits and Pay Hub, providing a single location for employees to conveniently review and maintain their benefits, compensation, and payroll information, and to access related reports.

Compensation Cards for Benefits and Pay Hub

Internal Compensation Benchmarks for Job Profiles

Workday 2022R2 provides greater insight into your existing pay ranges for job profiles, making it easier for you to meet your pay equity goals.

Internal Compensation Benchmark for Delivered Compensation Bases

Internal Compensation Benchmarks for Job Profiles

Workday 2022R2 provides greater insight into your existing pay ranges for job profiles, making it easier for you to meet your pay equity goals.

Report Fields

Locality Pay Areas

To reduce user error and manual effort, you can now create and maintain locality pay areas. You can then use a new instance value calculation to apply locality pay percentages in calculated compensation plans.

Locality Pay Tasks

Self-Service for One-Time Payments

Workday 2022R2 provides greater flexibility for giving one-time payments by enabling employees to request a one-time payment for themselves.

Request One-Time Payment for Myself

Core Payroll

Benefits and Pay Hub

Workday introduces a new Benefits and Pay Hub, providing a single location for employees to conveniently review and maintain their benefits, compensation, and payroll information, and to access related reports.

Pay Tab on Benefits and Pay Hub

Payroll Reporting

Workday continues to build on payroll reporting functionality and performance to add flexibility and convenience for your payroll reports.

Country Selection on Payroll Tax Data Reports

Globalization

Locale Formatting

With this release, we continue to provide you with a more consistent user experience by improving how we display locale formats.

Date and Time Formats

Time Zones

With Workday 2022R2, we deliver a consistent global time zone processing experience, enabling you to maintain accurate data in real-time for users across multiple geographies and time zones. When a transaction occurs outside of Pacific Standard Time, we evaluate reporting, events, as well as date-driven warnings and errors to now respect the processing user’s local time zone.

Local Time Zone Processing

Integration

Document Management

Miscellaneous Enhancements

Date Display Format

Web Services

With this release, we continue to enhance the performance and usability of Workday Web Services (WWS).

Bulk Import Web Services

Integration, Payroll Interface

Additional Fields on Termination Business Process

With Workday 2022R2, we deliver new fields that you can use in the Termination business process. This enables you to support the needs of your organization by helping you to comply with requirements for capturing termination dates in your reports.

Payroll Interface Worker Status Data Section

Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll

Workday continues to improve Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll functionality for Payroll Interface, Payroll Effective Change Interface, and Worker Effective Change Interface.

Security Domain for Personal Data for Payroll Interface

Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll

Workday continues to improve Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll functionality for Payroll Interface, Payroll Effective Change Interface, and Worker Effective Change Interface.

Event-Driven Integration for ADP Celergo

Local Payroll Data for All External Vendors

We enable you to configure endpoints from your local payroll vendor to display additional country-specific data in Workday and no longer limit this functionality to specific vendors. You can now enter and edit country-specific data directly in Workday, reducing the manual effort of entering this data in local payroll systems.

External Payroll Vendor Endpoint

Local Payroll Data for All External Vendors

We enable you to configure endpoints from your local payroll vendor to display additional country-specific data in Workday and no longer limit this functionality to specific vendors. You can now enter and edit country-specific data directly in Workday, reducing the manual effort of entering this data in local payroll systems.

Local Payroll Data for All External Payroll Vendors

Recruiting

Candidate Notes

With this release, Workday enables you to add and view notes on candidate or prospect profiles. This improves efficiency and encourages collaborative hiring by enabling recruiting teams to have conversations and share insights about their candidates and prospects. This also helps you to make the right hiring decision while reducing the need for third-party systems and the potential for data compliance issues by keeping your data within Workday.

Candidate Notes Icon

Reporting and Analytics

Object Transporter 2.0

With this release, we continue to improve the functionality and usability of Object Transporter 2.0.

Note: Object Transporter 2.0 is only available in your Customer Central tenant.

Migrate Report Groups

Security

Proxy User Preferences

With this release, we enable you to control whether proxy sessions display your preferences, or the user you’re proxying as, streamlining how you conduct proxy sessions.

Proxy Behavior for User Preferences

Staffing

Additional Fields on Termination Business Process

With Workday 2022R2, we deliver new fields that you can use in the Termination business process. This enables you to support the needs of your organization by helping you to comply with requirements for capturing termination dates in your reports.

Termination Date Fields

Mass Actions in Workbooks for Change Job

We enable you to change jobs for workers in bulk using workbooks. This saves time, increases efficiency, and mitigates risk by reducing manual effort.

Change Jobs and Organization Assignments in Bulk

User Experience 

Global Navigation Menu Shortcuts and Apps Finder

Workday enables you to find, add, and remove apps and shortcuts directly in the global navigation menu. This helps users to quickly and easily personalize their navigation experience.

Apps and Shortcuts

Worker Profile and Skills

Import External Skills

Workday 2022R2 enables you to import skills from third-party systems. This can help you to integrate your skills data into a centralized system and increase the number of skills available to your workers, creating a cohesive experience where they can see all the skills, across all the systems they use, within Workday.

External Skill Mapping Web Services

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