Job Aids
| Area | Job Aid Summary |
|---|---|
| Workday Fundamentals | Access the Workday Mobile App for Android The process for an Employee to install Workday’s mobile app on an Android mobile device and provides a brief navigation overview |
| Workday Fundamentals | Access the Workday Mobile App for iPhone The process for an Employee to install Workday’s mobile app on an iOS mobile device and provides a brief navigation overview |
| Benefits | Add a Graduate Fellow Activities for the Benefits Partner or Retiree Partner to add a Graduate Fellow in Workday. This includes editing personal and contact information, updating benefits onboarding questions and the privacy flag, as well as editing Government IDs for the Graduate Fellow |
| Benefits | Add a Surviving Dependent Activities for a Benefits Partner to add a Surviving Dependent in Workday using the Hire and Onboarding business processes |
| Staffing | Add Additional Job The process for an HR Contact, HR Partner, Management Chain or Manager to initiate the process to add an additional job for an Employee in Workday |
| Talent | Add Awards and Activities The process for an Employee to add achievements to their Worker Profile |
| Talent | Add Awards and Activities for Your Employee The process for a Manager or Talent Partner to add achievements to the Worker profile of an Employee they manage or support |
| Benefits | Add Coverage to Your Dependent The process for an Employee to add or edit dependents and add or remove those dependents from benefits coverage in Workday |
| Payroll | Add Payroll Input by Worker The various processes for a Payroll Partner to make a payroll input for an existing on-cycle payroll for a worker |
| Staffing | Add Retiree Status (Termination) How to Add Retiree Status to an Employee after the Termination business process has been initiated and how to initiate a Change Benefits Event when the termination reason is Retirement |
| Performance and Goals | Additional Manager Evaluates Employee This job aid outlines the activities for an Additional Manager to participate in the annual performance evaluation of an Employee |
| Performance and Goals | Additional Reviewer Evaluates Employee This job aid outlines the activities for an Additional Reviewer to participate in the annual performance evaluation of an Employee |
| Payroll | Adjust Pay Calculation The process for a Payroll Partner to adjust calculated time for an hourly employee. This process overrides the hours or calculation tags that were entered by the Employee or generated by calculations within Workday |
| Time Tracking | Approve Time The activities for a Manager to approve hours submitted on a timesheet by an employee they supervise |
| Payroll | Assign Costing Allocations The process for a Payroll Partner, HR Contact, HR Partner or Manager to edit existing costing allocations for a position and / or worker as a stand-alone process |
| Payroll | Assign Pay Group The process for a Payroll Partner or Payroll Administrator to assign a pay group to an Employee in Workday |
| Time Tracking | Assign Work Schedule The activities for a Manager or Timekeeper to assign a work schedule to an employee they support |
| Workday Fundamentals | Business Process History The process used to view the history of a business process, including business process status |
| Workday Fundamentals | Business Process View Only How workers who have the Business Process View Only security role can search and use the business process definitions located in Workday |
| Benefits | Certify Dependents The activities for Benefits and Retiree partners to certify dependents, including grandchildren for the purpose of adding Benefits coverage |
| Benefits | Change Benefits (Beneficiary Change Only) The process for an Employee to add or edit a new beneficiary and make changes to coverage eligible for change outside of a life event or Open Enrollment |
| Benefits | Change Benefits (Life Event) The activities for an Employee to change benefits for a life event such as marriage, birth or adoption, divorce, tobacco usage, etc. |
| Benefits | Change Benefits (TDA Plan Change) The activities for an Employee to set up a Tax Deferred Annuity plan |
| Staffing | Change Job The activities for an HR Partner, HR Contact or Manager to complete a Change Job business process and the related transactions. Related transactions may include, promotions, transfers, reclassifications, changes in hours or work periods and changing location. |
| Staffing | Change Job (Graduate Fellow) This job aid outlines the activities necessary to set up the appropriate custom ID and initiate the Change Job business process for a Graduate Fellow who has been hired into a non-benefits eligible position |
| Payroll | Change No Retro Prior to Date The process for a Payroll Partner to change a worker’s No Retro Prior to Date |
| Staffing | Change Organization Assignments (Staffing Event) The process for an HR Partner, HR Contact or Manager to assign or change the Company and TAMUS Member Part during staffing events or as a standalone process if the defaulted information is incorrect |
| Workday Fundamentals | Change Photo for Your Employee The process for an HR Partner or Manager to change his / her Employee’s or Contingent Worker’s photo in Workday |
| Workday Fundamentals | Change Your Photo The process for an Employee or Contingent Worker to change his / her photo in Workday |
| Recruiting | Close Evergreen Requisition The process for a Recruiting Partner, Recruiting Coordinator or Manager to close an Evergreen Requisition |
| Recruiting | Close Job Requisition The process for a Recruiting Partner, Recruiting Coordinator or Manager to close a job requisition |
| Staffing | Close Position The process for an HR Partner, Manager or Department Head to close a position that is no longer needed, can be eliminated due to reorganization or for which funding has ended. There is also the option to close a position after a termination, the end of an additional job, or when an Employee transfers to a new position |
| Benefits | Complete Alternate Open Enrollment for Your Retiree The activities for a Benefits / Retiree Partner to cancel Open Enrollment Benefits elections for a Retiree who is adding, dropping, or changing medical coverage and launch the Alternate Open Enrollment business process for the Retiree, during the Open Enrollment period |
| Performance and Goals | Complete Annual Goal Setting The activities for an Employee and Manager to set goals for the Employee for the upcoming performance review period |
| Staffing | Complete Form I-9 Section 3 in Workday The process for an I-9 Partner to complete an Employee’s Form I-9 Section 3 |
| Benefits | Complete Open Enrollment The activities for an Employee to complete or change Open Enrollment Benefits elections during the Open Enrollment time period |
| Benefits | Complete Open Enrollment for Your Employee The activities for a Benefits / Retiree Partner to complete or change Open Enrollment Benefits elections during the Open Enrollment time period on behalf of the Employee |
| Performance and Goals | Complete Performance Review (Attachment Only with Self Evaluation) The activities for an Employee and a Manager to complete a Performance Evaluation that uses the Attachment Only or Researchers Attachment Only templates and include Self Evaluation |
| Performance and Goals | Complete Performance Review (Attachment Only without Self Evaluation) The activities for an Employee and a Manager to complete a Performance Evaluation that uses the Attachment Only or Researchers Attachment Only template without Self Evaluation |
| Performance and Goals | Complete Performance Review (Faculty) The activities for a Faculty member and their Manager to complete a Performance Evaluation that uses the Faculty template. Additional Managers and Additional Reviewers added to the evaluation can also use this information to complete their tasks |
| Performance and Goals | Complete Performance Review (Staff / No Self Evaluation) The activities for an Employee and a Manager to complete a Performance Evaluation that uses the Staff without Self-Evaluation template. Additional Managers and Additional Reviewers added to the evaluation can also use this information to complete their tasks |
| Performance and Goals | Complete Performance Review (Staff with Self Evaluation) The activities for an Employee and a Manager to complete a Performance Evaluation that uses the Staff with Self Evaluation template. Additional Managers and Additional Reviewers added to the evaluation can also use this information to complete their tasks |
| Performance and Goals | Complete Performance Review (Student) The activities for a student Employee and a Manager to complete a Performance Evaluation that uses the Student template. Additional Managers and Additional Reviewers added to the evaluation can also use this information to complete their tasks |
| Payroll | Complete Your W-4 (Onboarding) Steps for an Employee to complete their Federal Tax Election Form W-4 in Workday during the onboarding process |
| Staffing | Contract Contingent Worker The process for an HR Partner, HR Contact, a Manager or someone in the Management Chain to formalize the relationship between a Contingent Worker and The Texas A&M University System |
| Staffing | Convert to Employee The process to convert a Contingent Worker to an Employee in a paid position |
| Payroll | Copy Withholding Orders for Workers The various processes for a Payroll Partner to copy a withholding order from an existing order for a worker |
| Workday Fundamentals | Correct, Cancel or Rescind a Business Process An overview for how to correct, cancel or rescind a business process |
| Payroll | Correct ORP Employer Contributions The process for a Payroll Partner to correct Optional Retirement Plan (ORP) Employer Contributions when an Employee moves from ORP to Teacher Retirement System (TRS) |
| Recruiting | Create Evergreen Requisition and Post Job The process for a Recruiting Partner or Recruiting Coordinator to create an Evergreen Requisition that can be used to recruit for open positions and instructions for the Recruiting Partner to post the job |
| Recruiting | Create Job Requisition and Post Job The process for a Manager, Recruiting Coordinator or Recruiting Partner to create a job requisition and the Recruiting Partner to post the job on the internal and / or external career sites |
| Staffing | Create Position The tasks for an HR Partner, HR Contact and Manager to create a position |
| Time Tracking | Create Project The process for a Project Manager to create a new project |
| Time Tracking | Create Project Hierarchy The process for a Project Hierarchy Manager to create a new project hierarchy |
| Time Tracking | Create Project Plan The process for a Project Manager to create a project plan to assign tasks to a project |
| Recruiting | Create Questions and Questionnaires The process for a Recruiting Partner to create questions and questionnaires in Workday which can be used for Recruiting |
| Time Tracking | Create Resource Plan for Hierarchy The process for a Project Manager to create a resource plan to assign employees to on a project hierarchy |
| Time Tracking | Create Resource Plan for Project The process for a Project Manager to create a resource plan to assign employees to on a project |
| Benefits | Death of Dependent This job aid outlines the activities for a Benefits or Retiree Partner to update an Employee or Retiree’s health coverages due to the death of a Dependent |
| Benefits | Death of Retiree The process for the Retiree Partner to complete a change benefit event business process for a retiree with the reason of death |
| Workday Fundamentals | Delegate and Complete Delegated Task The process for users to delegate an Inbox task to another user in Workday or complete a task that has been delegated to the user by switching accounts |
| Benefits | Dependent Event (Benefits Partner) The process for the Benefits Partner to review and verify an Employee’s addition of a new dependent in Workday |
| Benefits | Edit Benefit Event This job aid outlines the activities for a Benefit Partner to edit a Benefit Event by using the Cancel or Rescind business process |
| Recruiting | Edit Evergreen Requisition The process for a Recruiting Partner or Recruiting Coordinator to edit an Evergreen Requisition that is used to recruit for open positions |
| Recruiting | Edit Job Application The process for a Recruiting Partner to edit the job application for a candidate who has submitted an application |
| Recruiting | Edit Job Requisition The process for a Recruiting Partner to edit a job requisition that can be used to recruit for open positions |
| Staffing | Edit Non-Effective Dated Additional Data The process to edit Additional Data which is a variety of Custom Objects in Workday. Custom Objects are either effective-dated or non-effective dated and are specific to an Employee |
| Staffing | Edit Other IDs The process to edit an Employee's other IDs in Workday. Other IDs act as custom identification data for business purposes in Workday |
| Payroll | Edit Payment Elections The process for an Employee to set up and / or edit payment elections (outside of the onboarding process) |
| Staffing | Edit Position Restrictions The process for an HR Contact, HR Partner or Manager to make changes to the Hiring Restrictions and Qualifications of a position using the Edit Position Restrictions business process |
| Absence Management | Edit Service Dates The process for an Absence Partner, HR Contact or HR Partner to edit an Employee's service dates only when there is supporting documentation due to potential impact to Employee benefits eligibility |
| Staffing | Edit System ID The process to edit a worker's System ID (UIN) during Hire or Contract Contingent Worker |
| Staffing | Edit Worker Additional Data Event The activities for an Employee to edit Additional Data on his or her worker profile. Other security roles can follow this process to initiate this business process on behalf of the Employee |
| Payroll | Edit your W-4 Steps for an Employee to edit their Federal Tax Election Form W-4 in Workday |
| Staffing | End Additional Job The process for a HR Contact, HR Partner, Manager or Management Chain to end an additional job assigned to an Employee |
| Staffing | End Contingent Worker Contract The process for an HR Partner, HR Contact, Manager or someone in the Management Chain to end the relationship between a contingent worker and a member |
| Performance and Goals | Enter AdHoc Goals for Your Employee The activities for a Talent Analyst to edit Ad Hoc goals for an Employee |
| Time Tracking | Enter Time The process for an Employee to enter time |
| Time Tracking | Enter Time for Your Employee The steps for a Timekeeper, Payroll Partner or Manager to enter time for an Employee. Employees can also enter their own time through self-service |
| Absence Management | Enter Time Off For Your Employee The process for an Absence Partner or Manager to enter time off for an Employee |
| Merit | Entering Merit Awards The activities for a Merit Planner (i.e. Manager, Manager’s Manager, or Merit Partner) to complete the annual merit task in Workday |
| Benefits | Finalize ORP and Enter ORP Waived Custom ID The activities for a Benefits Partner to finalize an ORP event if the Employee has not enrolled by the due date |
| Performance and Goals | Get or Give Feedback on Employee The process for requesting Feedback on an Employee, giving Feedback on an Employee and reviewing Feedback received |
| Staffing | Hire The primary activities for various security roles during the Hire business process |
| Payroll | Identifying Emoluments When Employee is Not Paid The activities for a Payroll Partner to identify emoluments on the current payroll when the Employee is not being paid |
| Recruiting | Job Application Process All requisitions are managed by the Recruiting Coordinator, Recruiting Partner, and Manager (when applicable) of the Supervisory Organization within which the job requisition is housed. This job aid outlines the process for a Recruiting Partner and Recruiting Coordinator to move a candidate through the job application process. |
| Recruiting | Job Application Process (Manager) The entire job application process from the Manager’s perspective; provides instructions for when a Manager can participate and move the Candidate forward to the next step |
| Absence Management | Leave of Absence The process for an Employee to request a leave of absence and request a return from a leave of absence |
| Absence Management | Leave of Absence (Place or Return Worker) The process for Absence Partners and Managers to place an Employee on a leave of absence and return the worker from a leave of absence |
| Absence Management | Maintain Accrual The process for an Absence Partner and / or Payroll Partner to maintain a time off accrual for an employee to make adjustments to increase or decrease balances for grants, transfers, payouts, and longevity |
| Payroll | Maintain Worker Tax Treaties The process for a Payroll Partner to enter and manage tax treaties for an employee |
| Talent | Manage Certifications and Licenses for Your Employee The process for a Manager, Talent Partner, Absence Partner or Talent Analyst to manage an Employee’s certifications and licenses |
| Workday Reporting | Manage Dashboards The process for managing reports within dashboards |
| Workday Fundamentals | Manage Delegations The process for managing delegations for future Workday tasks |
| Benefits | Manage Evidence of Insurability for Your Employee (Benefits or Retiree Partner) The activities for a Benefits Partner or Retiree Partner to Manage Evidence of Insurability (EOI) for an Employee when EOI is not required (for example switching out of a grandfathered life plan) |
| Performance and Goals | Manage Goals for Your Employee The activities for a Manager or Talent Analyst to enter or edit Ad Hoc goals for an Employee outside of the Annual Goal Setting process |
| Performance and Goals | Manage Organization Goals The activities for a Manager to create and view organizational goals for Supervisory Organizations they manage in Workday |
| Workday Reporting | Manage Reports in the Favorites Worklet The process for managing reports in your favorites worklet |
| Talent | Manage Your Certifications and Licenses The process for an Employee to manage their certifications and licenses within their worker profile |
| Performance and Goals | Manage Your Goals The process for an Employee to enter or edit Ad Hoc goals and the process for the Manager to review and approve those goals |
| Workday Fundamentals | Manage Your Personal Information The process for Employees, Retirees and Contingent Workers to manage his or her personal information in Workday |
| Staffing | Manage Your Social Security Number (And Other Government IDs) The process for an Employee to verify a social security number and edit Government IDs in Workday. A Government ID includes National ID for employees to enter and edit their U.S. Social Security Number or Qatar ID Card number and Additional Government IDs such as Resident Citizen of the United States ID card (I-179) |
| Workday Fundamentals | Manage Your Work Experience The process for an Employee to manage their work experience within their worker profile |
| Merit | Managing Employee Participation in Merit The process for a Merit Partner to remove or add an Employee from the Merit process |
| Benefits | Managing Medicare Information for Your Employee This job aid outlines the process for a Benefits Partner or Retiree Partner to add Medicare information such as the Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) number and enrollment dates |
| Workday Fundamentals | Managing Reassign Task The activities for Security Partners to proactively use the Reassign Task business process to reassign a task in another user’s inbox when the user is on vacation, unavailable or other reasons as deemed appropriate by the member. Information is also provided on managing tasks that have been requested by other security roles and require a review by the Security Partner |
| Recruiting | Managing Search Committees The process for a Recruiting Partner to create a search committee and create or modify membership of a committee member |
| Security | Managing Security Role Assignments for an Employee The process for HR Contacts, HR Partners and Organization Partners to view, assign and remove security roles on an Employee’s position |
| Security | Managing Security Roles on Organizations (Security Partner) The activities for the Role Maintainer to assign roles to a Supervisory Organization and select appropriate Employees to be assigned to those roles |
| Staffing | Managing Supervisory Organizations The process for an Organization Partner to manage Supervisory Organizations. This includes dividing, assigning superior and creating new Supervisory Organizations in Workday |
| Absence Management | Managing Time Off Requests The process for a Manager to manage time off requests submitted by an Employee. This includes how to approve, deny, cancel or send back a request. |
| Workday Fundamentals | Managing Your Bank Accounts This job aid outlines the activities for an Employee to add an additional bank account for use when electing direct deposit for payment and how to edit existing bank accounts in Workday |
| Workday Fundamentals | Managing Your Inbox The process to manage your Inbox in Workday |
| Workday Fundamentals | Managing Your Inbox Filters The process to create and edit a custom Workday Inbox filter for efficient management of your Inbox and select one of your customized filters to be a default filter applied each time you sign in to Workday |
| Benefits | Managing Your Medicare Information This job aid outlines the activities for an Employee or Retiree to add or change Medicare information for self or a Dependent in Workday |
| Absence Management | Managing Your Time Off The process for an Employee to request Time Off, cancel a Time Off request and correct a Time Off request that was approved or sent back by the Manager |
| Time Tracking | Manual or Mass Advance This job aid describes how Timekeepers and Absence Partners can manually advance a business process (Enter Time and Request Time Off) for worker(s) they support |
| Staffing | Mark Pre-hires for Deletion The activities for an HR Partner to mark a duplicate Pre-Hire record for deletion. Marking a Pre-Hire record for deletion will prevent the record from possible selection during the Hire business process |
| Merit | Merit Process - Maintain Pools This job aid outlines the activities for a Merit Partner to maintain pools for the Annual Compensation Review process (Merit) in Workday. Not all system members will utilize pools within Workday as part of the Merit process |
| Merit | Merit Reports - Compensation Changes and Awards The activities necessary for a Merit Partner to run reports after Merit has been launched for their system member in order to monitor compensation changes and merit awards entered in Workday |
| Staffing | Move to New Manager The activities for an HR Contact, HR Partner and Organization Partner to move an Employee to a Manager who was not previously a Manager of Employees. A new Supervisory Organization will be automatically created because one does not already exist for this new Manager. This business process will create the new Supervisory Organization and move the Employee to be a member of the Supervisory Organization at the same time |
| Staffing | Move Workers (Supervisory) The process for an HR Partner or HR Contact to move positions and workers from one supervisory organization to another without a change in their position details |
| Payroll | My Save for Summer Balance Report (Faculty) How to run the My Save for Summer Balance report in Workday for Faculty |
| Staffing | Onboarding Provides a new Employee guidance on how to complete the onboarding process in Workday |
| Benefits | Open Enrollment (Cancel and Relaunch) The activities for a Benefits / Retiree Partner to cancel and relaunch the Open Enrollment event during the OE period for the reasons of updating an Employee’s Additional Data questions, a change in benefit group or a job change with a change in status for the Employee |
| Benefits | Open Enrollment (Rescind and Relaunch) The activities for a Benefits / Retiree Partner to rescind and relaunch the Open Enrollment event after the OE period has closed for the reasons of updating an Employee’s Additional Data questions, a change in benefit group or a job change with a change in status for the Employee |
| Benefits | ORP Newly Eligible on Date of Hire (Benefits Partner) The activities for a Benefits Partner to initiate an ORP benefit event for a newly hired Employee who is eligible for ORP on the date of hire |
| Workday Fundamentals | Payment Election Enrollment Event (Onboarding) The process for an Employee to manage payment elections during the onboarding process |
| Payroll | Payroll Reversal Outlines the activities for a Payroll Partner or Payroll Administrator to reverse a payroll result |
| Benefits | Ready to Retire Outlines the activities for a Benefit Partner to prepare an Employee’s record in Workday for in preparation for their upcoming retirement |
| Payroll | Record US Withholding Order for Workers The various processes for a Payroll Partner to record a withholding order for a worker |
| Staffing | Report No Show The activities for an HR Partner, HR Contact or Manager to initiate the Report No Show business process for when an Employee does not arrive as expected on the first official day of work or has completed the Hire business process but will no longer fill the position for which they were originally hired. Information is also included for Managers, Recruiting Coordinators and Recruiting Partners on next steps |
| Compensation | Request Compensation Change The steps for a Compensation Partner, HR Partner, HR Contact or Manager to request ad hoc compensation changes for an Employee |
| Staffing | Request Delegation Change for Administrative User The Request Delegation Change process HR Partners use to view and modify a worker’s delegation settings, as well as see current delegations and past delegations for the worker |
| Payroll | Request One-Time Payment The process for an Absence Partner, Compensation Partner, HR Partner, HR Contact or a Manager to request a one-time payment for an Employee. One-time payments can be used to issue ad hoc payments to an Employee for additional work, awards programs, reimbursements or lump sum vacation payouts |
| Time Tracking | Request Overtime The process for an Employee to request overtime in advance in Workday and to view the status of the request |
| Time Tracking | Request Overtime for Your Employee The process for a Manager or Timekeeper to request overtime in advance in Workday for an Employee |
| Absence Management | Request Time Off (Families First Coronavirus Response Act) The process for how to take paid time off due to COVID-19. These special Time Off plans are the result of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) effective April 1, 2020 |
| Staffing | Return to Retire The process for a Benefits Partner or Retiree Partner to add an Employee who is returning to retire in Workday |
| Benefits | Review ORP Eligibility Document The activities for a Benefits Partner to provide the ORP Information Acknowledgement Statement to an ORP eligible worker during the Hire or Change Job business process |
| Security | Reviewing Security Role Assignments (Change Job) The activities for HR Contacts or HR Partners to review security role assignments for an Employee’s position that is vacated during a Change Job business process |
| Workday Reporting | Run Reports The process for running, sorting, and filtering reports in Workday |
| Workday Reporting | Schedule Reports The process used to schedule and delete a report schedule that is run automatically, over a period of time in the background. Output files are automatically routed to the My Reports section of your My Reports Drive |
| Benefits | Set Up Benefits to Begin Prior to SGIP The process Benefit Partners must follow in order to set up benefits for a new Employee who would like to start benefits prior to their SGIP start date |
| Staffing | Switch Primary Job The process for an HR Contact, HR Partner, Manager or someone in the Management Chain to switch an Employee’s additional job to be their primary job |
| Staffing | Termination (Involuntary) The process for Managers, HR Partners or HR Contacts to end employment of an Employee's Primary Job when the termination is involuntary. Additional information is included for when the primary reason for termination is death |
| Staffing | Termination (Voluntary) The process for Managers, HR Partners or HR Contacts to end employment of an Employee's Primary Job when the termination reason is voluntary |
| Benefits | Update Benefits Annual Rates (BARs) for an Employee (Benefits or Retiree Partner) The activities for a Benefits or Retiree Partner to update Benefits Annual Rates (BARs) for an Employee, former Employee returning to retire or Retiree who certify other and select Alternate Basic Life (ABL) insurance |
| Benefits | Update Retiree Electronic Communication (Retiree Partner) The process for a Retiree Partner to update the Electronic Communication Flag to choose the preferred method to receive information from the A&M System about retirement and insurance benefits on behalf of a Retiree |
| Staffing | Update Your Passport or Visa The process for an Employee to change their passport and visa information in Workday |
| Workday Fundamentals | Upload My Experience The process for an Employee to upload a resume to the Career section of the Worker Profile |
| Workday Fundamentals | Using Search The process for you to perform a search in Workday. You can search for tasks, people, organizations, reports and more in the Search bar |
| Staffing | View Position Restrictions The process for an Employee, Manager, and other Workday security roles to view an Employee’s Position Restrictions. Position Restrictions comprise the job summary, job description, responsibilities and required qualifications of a specific position |
Reference Guides
| Area | Reference Guide Summary |
|---|---|
| Compensation | Compensation Surveys Provides a brief overview of Compensation Surveys, Workday functionality in mapping survey jobs to job profiles, and provide information on the custom report available that can be used to submit survey data. |
| Staffing | Additional Data Custom Objects Provides information on various Custom Objects: Insurance Billing, Preservation Hold Custodian, Retiree Electronic Communication, etc. |
| Benefits | Benefit Events and Explanations Provides information on various benefit events, the coverage types associated, waiting periods and important dates |
| Staffing | Change Job Reasons Details the various reasons that would prompt the need to initiate the Change Job business process |
| Compensation | Compensation Grade Adjustment Explains what happens when the Pay Plan Administrator updates the grade for a particular job profile and the responsibilities of the HR Partners |
| Workday Fundamentals | Correct Cancel and Rescind Provides a comprehensive list by security role of the business processes that can be canceled, corrected or rescinded |
| Payroll | Deduction Recipients Outlines the procedure to follow when a system member needs to request the creation of a Deduction Recipient for a Withholding Order to be entered in Workday |
| Payroll | Costing Allocations Provides a comprehensive overview of the Assign Costing Allocations business process |
| Workday Fundamentals | Custom Other IDs Explains the Custom Other IDs that are used for Benefits, Payroll, Staffing, and Time/Absence, their possible values, and how the IDs are used |
| Staffing | Form I-9 Processing Use this reference guide to learn how Form I-9 processes need to be completed |
| Absence Management | Holiday Paid Time Off Provides an overview of paid time off given to Employees for holidays and early release and explains methods to support specific needs related to timesheets |
| Benefits | Leave of Absence Explains when the Benefit Partner will need to take action on events triggered by the Request Leave of Absence business process and provides information on benefit coverage, SGIP, handling arrears, summer billing and military leave dependents |
| Merit | Managing the Merit Process Provides a comprehensive overview for HR Partners, Merit Partners, and Managers involved in the Merit process at each member within the Texas A&M University System as they prepare for, carry out, and close out the annual Merit process for employees |
| Staffing | Onboarding Processes by Security Role Details the steps within the onboarding process by security role for for Hire, Change Job and Add Additional Job business processes |
| Payroll | Payroll Reversals in FAMIS Provides information on the accounting impact of payroll reversals. Work with your payroll accountant to complete the entire process |
| Performance and Goals | Performance Review Reports Provides a comprehensive list of Performance Review reports and a brief explanation of how those reports are used |
| Payroll | Reading Your Workday Payslip Overviews the various components typically found on a payslip generated by Workday so you can use this data to make important decisions relating to payroll, insurance, and other benefits relevant to your employment |
| Payroll | Processing Arrears in Workday Describes the basic tools and understanding of how Arrears are processed within Workday. |
| Staffing | Report No Show – Decisions and Impacts Provides guidelines for when the Report No Show business process is appropriate to initiate, outline examples for when Report No Show is not possible and explains the possible downstream impacts to recruiting processes |
| Merit | Staffing and Compensation Changes During Merit Provides an overview of which business processes can continue to be completed during merit (run in parallel); which business processes must be completed outside of merit, and how to choose an appropriate Effective Date for these changes to avoid additional work |
| Staffing | Summer Appointments (Faculty and Graduate Assistants) Explains best practice guidance for when making an additional appointment for Faculty and Graduate Assistants during the summer months to avoid a disruption to benefits for the Employee |
| Absence Management | Time Off Plans Provides information on the various time off plans that are configured in Workday along with the guidelines / restrictions that govern the use of those plans |
| Payroll | Understanding Your W-2 Provides a basic overview of the W-2 and the various calculations used to provide the data Employees see in each box |
| Staffing | Using Academic Pay Periods Discusses the concept of Academic Pay Period and gives guidelines for how and when they should be used in Workday for active Employees |
| Security | Assignable Roles for Security in Workday Provides an overview of the various security roles that currently exist in Workday, the actions the security role can perform along with examples and where they are typically assigned |
Video Help
| Area | Video Summary |
|---|---|
| Benefits | Open Enrollment 2020 Provides employees step-by-step instructions on how to add a dependent in Workday and how to complete the Open Enrollment Change task in Workday |
| Payroll | Net Funding Calculator This video shows you how to use the Net Funding Calculator. Costing Allocations in Workday are percent based. This calculator will help you determine the impact on the dollar amount to cost centers when costing allocations are made for a position. |
| Payroll | Payroll Cost Transfer This video shows you how to complete a Payroll Cost Transfer (PCT), previously referred to as payroll correction, in Canopy. The basic functionality will be explained and demonstrated. |
| Reporting | Workday Dashboards This video provides an overview of workday dashboards including navigation, terminology and specific tools, to help maximize efficiency when using dashboards. |