Workstream  

Key Updates  

Feature Description  

Business Impact  

Core Compensation  

Remove Prior Compensation for Rehires   

Workday’s new release allows you to rehire former employees without carrying over or displaying their previous compensation during the Propose Compensation Hire step of the hiring process. 

This feature allows rehired workers to be treated as new hires, ensuring compliance by preventing access to their previous compensation when setting future pay. 

Simultaneous Compensation Changes Using Multiple In Progress Request Compensation Change Processes 

Workday now allows multiple in-progress compensation change requests for the same worker to be processed simultaneously, expanding support for concurrent changes. 

This update enables handling multiple compensation changes at once, making ad-hoc pay adjustments easier and ensuring compliance with policies and regulations. 

Talent & Performance  

Remove Duplicate Maintained Skills 

This update automatically removes duplicate skills you mark and merges their usage, improving skill management. 

These two updates helps to streamline management of duplicate skills and ensures you don’t lose any comments when merging skills. 

Retain Comments When Merging Skills 

When duplicate or synonymous skills merge, all associated comments are now preserved. 

Payroll  

Configurable Payroll Access for Non-Payroll Users  

This release lets non-payroll users access relevant payroll data based on their role and security settings. 

This feature streamlines sharing payroll data while allowing access restrictions based on organizational attributes. 

Recruiting  

Post Jobs to Multiple Agency Types 

This release lets recruiters post jobs to multiple agency types simultaneously. 

Posting jobs to multiple agency types at once streamlines hiring, boosts job visibility, and accelerates access to qualified candidates. 

Learning  

Acknowledgment Lesson Type 

Workday Learning now offers an Acknowledgment lesson type for learners to confirm their understanding of content. 

The Acknowledgment lesson type supports compliance by tracking and reporting learner acknowledgments. 

Observational Checklist 

This update adds Observational Checklists, offering a structured way to assess learners with detailed, checklists. You can now create detailed checklists and manage them through web services and a dedicated business process.  

This feature enables creating structured checklists with sections, tasks, and criteria for consistent, thorough assessments. 

System  

Embedded Analytics Improvements 

This release upgrades embedded analytics for Business Process task reports with a modern, movable, resizable pop-up that can open in a new window. 

This feature enhances flexibility and efficiency by allowing movable, resizable analytics windows and configurable launch links for better side-by-side analysis. 

Trended Workers Data Source 

Workday now allows trended worker reporting for up to 72 months of past data. 

This update extends workforce metric reporting from 36 to 72 months, aiding long-term workforce planning. 

Absence 

Effective Dating for Service Dates  

You can now add effective dates to service date changes.  

This feature improves tracking of worker service date changes, minimizing calculation impacts and enhancing reporting. 

New Absence Calendar Experience: Multiple Time Off Entries for the Same Date as One Request 

This release enhances the Absence Calendar, allowing multiple time-off entries per day, mixed time-off types, and date changes for existing entries. 

The enhanced Absence Calendar offers greater flexibility and efficiency, enabling workers to manage complex absences, combine time-off types, and easily edit individual days within a single request. 

Payout of Expiring Accruals 

This release adds the option to automatically pay out unused, expiring time-off accruals. 

This update streamlines and automates expiring accrual payouts, reducing manual work and eliminating costly workarounds. 

Position-Based Time Off Plans and Leave Types for Contingent Workers with Multiple Jobs 

Workday now allows position-based time off plans and leave types for contingent workers with multiple jobs. 

This update lets you apply time-off and leave rules across all jobs for contingent workers, saving time and effort.