Release Notes keep our users updated on weekly changes to the Workday application. These can be new features, updates to existing features, or a solution to a problem. Subscribe to our Release Notes emails to receive notifications of our recent updates.
Below are our most recent updates
Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
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Benefits | The Health Care Spending Account contribution limit has been increased to $3200 for FY2025 | 7/3/2024 |
Benefits | Employees will now be required to provide Prior Place of Employment and Retirement Date (if applicable) if they indicate that they have participated or retired from any State Sponsored Retirement Program | 7/11/2024 |
Compensation | The task "Compensation Review Process View Organization" is now available under the list of Merit Tasks in Merit Dashboard | 7/11/2024 |
Compensation | Budget Partner Security Role now has edit access when reviewing the One-Time Payment details | 7/11/2024 |
Recruiting | Six (6) new Disposition Reasons have been added to Job Application bp for use when a Candidate has withdrawn an application or declined an offer for various reasons | 7/11/2024 |
Staffing | The report "View Open Positions" now includes a field for Days Vacant | 7/11/2024 |
Staffing | The report "New Hire/Promotion/Transfer Within 6 Months" now includes fields for Employee Type and Location | 7/11/2024 |
Below are all of our updates from the past 6 months
Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
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Absence | Time Off requests will no longer enter default scheduled hours | 2/29/2024 |
Benefits | Benefits Partners must add the Postdoctoral Fellow ID to allow eligible Postdoc Fellow Employees to enroll in benefits and be properly billed | 2/29/2024 |
Staffing | Pre-Employee-As-Self can now complete assigned tasks in the Flexible Work Arrangement business process | 2/29/2024 |
Talent | Employee-As-Self can now add the Jobs Hub app to the home menu | 2/29/2024 |
Talent | New Feedback Badges are now available to use in Workday: Respect, Excellence, Leadership, Loyalty, Integrity, and Selfless Service | 2/29/2024 |
Absence | Employees will receive notifications for upcoming State Comp Time forfeitures based on member selection | 3/7/2024 |
Benefits | Benefits Partners will now receive a To Do to contact Surviving Dependents of Employees losing eligibility for life insurance due to death | 3/7/2024 |
Benefits | Employees can now enroll in the Academic Health Plan plan if at least one of their jobs is a Graduate Student position | 3/7/2024 |
Staffing | HR Partners will receive a notification that the Edit Position Restrictions business process is complete based on member selection | 3/7/2024 |
Staffing | Create Position now limits the use of Graduate Assistant Job Profiles based on member selection | 3/7/2024 |
Staffing | Document Capture is now enabled in Guardian | 3/7/2024 |
Staffing | Alternative Document Review Procedure has been enabled in Guardian based on member selection | 3/7/2024 |
Staffing | Business Title is now included on the "Onboarding Status Summary" and "Employees with Additional Jobs" reports | 3/7/2024 |
Absence | The report "Sick Time Off Requiring Medical Note" now includes additional prompts based on the date a Time Off Event was submitted | 3/14/2024 |
Payroll | The report "Pay Calculation Results for a Period" now includes the Business Title field | 3/14/2024 |
Recruiting | The report "Find Workers" has been updated to remove the Age, Gender, and Race filters | 3/14/2024 |
Recruiting | The report "My Recruiting Jobs" now returns requisitions with a primary recruiter assignment | 3/14/2024 |
Recruiting | Managers and Search Committee members can bundle resumes from the Candidate grid | 3/14/2024 |
Staffing | Employees moving from an hourly to a salaried position will receive a notification to submit a final timesheet | 3/14/2024 |
Staffing | The EEO Alert in Hire, Change Job, and Add Additional Job no longer triggers for the Graduate Assistant - Teaching Job Profile | 3/14/2024 |
Staffing | The Offboarding Procedure To Do in End Contingent Worker Contract now routes to HR Partner or HR Contact based on member selection | 3/14/2024 |
Staffing | Work Relationship Ended has been added as a Reason for Involuntary End Contingent Worker Contract | 3/14/2024 |
Staffing | Retirement in Lieu of Involuntary Separation has been added as a Reason for Voluntary Termination | 3/14/2024 |
Absence | Notification to Absence Partners for sick time off over 3 days will now include a list of impacted Employees | 3/21/2024 |
Absence | The reports "Workers on Leave", "Workers Returning from Leave", and "Workers Returned from Leave" now include the UIN field | 3/21/2024 |
Benefits | Employees, Survivors, and Retirees over the age of 65 will now receive the notification "A&M Care - Notice of Creditable Coverage" when enrolling or disenrolling from the A&M Care medical plan | 3/21/2024 |
Benefits | The To Do "Benefit Change for 12/9 Employee" will now be sent only when the employee is in a 12/9 benefit group or has an active 12/9 Custom Other ID | 3/21/2024 |
Recruiting | The link to the Employee Benefits Guide has been updated in all offer letter templates | 3/21/2024 |
Recruiting | Recruiting Partners can now create Candidate Pools | 3/21/2024 |
Benefits | Employees, Retirees, and Surviving Dependents will receive a notification for Creditable Coverage 30 and 60 days prior to when they or their spouse turns 65 Employees, Retirees, and Surviving Dependents will receive a notification for Medicare Requirement on the first day of the month prior to when they or their spouse turns 65 | 3/28/2024 |
Payroll | Assign Costing Allocation business process now supports multiple Cost Center Approvers assigned on the account | 3/28/2024 |
Payroll | The Employer Paid Optional AD&D Benefit Plans listed below have been added to the deduction code AD&D -The Hartford - ER Contribution - Biweekly. Deductions will be taken for Employees enrolled in one of these benefit plans beginning on the April 5th pay date. Optional AD&D - The Hartford <=$25,000 - Employer Paid (Employee) Optional AD&D - The Hartford <=$25,000 - Employer Paid (Family) Optional AD&D - The Hartford Employer Paid (Employee) Optional AD&D - The Hartford Employer Paid (Family) | 3/28/2024 |
Recruiting | Manager has been removed from Offer business process steps based on member selection | 3/28/2024 |
Staffing | Military Status is no longer displayed on the Personal Information Tab of Workers that were converted from legacy systems to Workday | 3/28/2024 |
Absence | Sick, Vacation, and State Comp plans have been updated so that balances can be reduced even if the Employee is no longer eligible for the plan | 4/4/2024 |
Absence | The report "Sick Time Off Requiring Medical Note" has been updated to include three new fields: Employee Email, Manager Name, and Manager Email | 4/4/2024 |
Benefits | Employees losing coverage during Job Change - Employer Contribution Change benefit events will have their dropped coverage end on the last day of the month | 4/4/2024 |
Recruiting | The Create and Update Job Requisition business processes now display a warning if the Job Profile on the Job Requisition event does not match the Job Profile on the Position Restrictions | 4/4/2024 |
Staffing | Email Address will now be required when creating or editing a Pre-Hire profile | 4/4/2024 |
Benefits | Benefits Partners will now receive a To Do when a terminating Employee has a Summer Benefits Deductions Custom ID of P and may be due a refund for summer insurance premiums | 4/11/2024 |
Benefits | A reason of Other has been added to COBRA Eligibility for Individuals losing coverage during Open Enrollment | 4/11/2024 |
Benefits | Instructional text for Request Leave and Return from Leave business processes has been updated to remove references to P&A Billing | 4/11/2024 |
Benefits | Employees, Retirees, and Surviving Dependents will receive a notification for Creditable Coverage on the first day of the month prior to when they or their spouse turn 65. Employees, Retirees, and Surviving Dependents will receive a notification for Medicare Requirement 30 days and 60 days prior to when they or their spouse turn 65 | 4/11/2024 |
Staffing | Primary Job HR Partners now receive an approval step in Add Additional Job business process when the additional job is at a different System Member, based on member selection | 4/11/2024 |
Benefits | Benefits Partners and Retiree Partners will no longer receive the "To Do: Review EOI for new Retirees" when a former Employee returns to retire and enrolls in Alternate Basic Life, Optional Life, or Spouse Life insurance plans | 4/18/2024 |
Benefits | New report "Expiring ACA Eligibility" is now available for Benefits Partners to review Workers who may be losing benefits due to expiring ACA eligibility | 4/18/2024 |
Benefits | Benefits Partners and the Employee will now receive a notification when ACA Eligibility for the Employee nears the expiration date | 4/18/2024 |
Staffing | New Report "Position and Position Restriction Details" is available to HR Partner, HR View Only, Recruiting Partner, and Recruiting Partner View Only roles. This report was created in response to Senate Bill 17 (SB17) and will assist in auditing of verbiage included within Positions and Position Restrictions | 4/18/2024 |
Time Tracking | The report "Time Summary Review" has been updated to include fields for Job Title and Business Title | 4/18/2024 |
Absence | Unused hours for Medical and Mental Health Care for Certain Veterans and Mental Health Leave for Peace Officers and Telecommunicators will zero out at the end of each fiscal year | 5/2/2024 |
Benefits | A new announcement will display on the Benefits & Pay Hub to remind Employees to add Dependent coverages if they have not yet done so | 5/2/2024 |
Benefits | The report "Critical Reports for Benefits Partner" now includes the report "Expiring ACA Eligibility" | 5/2/2024 |
Recruiting | The Complete Questionnaire step of the Reference Check business process will trigger based on member selection | 5/2/2024 |
Recruiting | Manager has been removed from the Interview business process steps based on member selection while Schedule Interview and Manage Interview Feedback steps have been removed for all | 5/2/2024 |
Staffing | A warning has been added to the Contact Change business process to remind foreign nationals to update USCIS with address changes | 5/2/2024 |
Staffing | The Request Default Compensation and Change Organization Assignments steps in the Create Position business process now route to HR Partner or HR Contact based on member selection | 5/2/2024 |
Staffing | The Request Default Compensation and Change Organization Assignments steps in the Edit Position Restrictions business process now route to HR Partner or HR Contact based on member selection | 5/2/2024 |
Staffing | The Propose Compensation Hire, Request One-Time Payment, and Change Organization Assignment steps in the Hire business process now route to HR Partner or HR Contact based on member selection | 5/2/2024 |
Staffing | Managers and Managment Chain are no longer able to submit Direct Hires | 5/2/2024 |
Staffing | The report "Delegation Changes Needed" has been updated so that Employees will no longer receive a notification to change delegation settings when transferring from another member | 5/2/2024 |
Staffing | The report "Delegation Changes Needed" has been updated so that Employees will no longer receive a notification to change delegation settings when transferring from another member | 5/2/2024 |
Absence | Employees becoming eligible to use vacation will now receive an alert at the beginning of the month based on member selection | 5/9/2024 |
Benefits | Employees with the Retiree Partner role have been assigned the Benefits Partner role on the relevant Retiree Organizations | 5/9/2024 |
Compensation | The "Compensation Changes Report" report now includes a prompt to filter for primary position only | 5/9/2024 |
Compensation | The "Compensation Plan Assignments with Actual End Dates" report now includes the UIN and a prompt to filter for primary position only | 5/9/2024 |
Recruiting | Recruiting Partners can now add notes to Job Requisitions and Job Applications | 5/9/2024 |
Payroll | The Save for Summer deductions for FY2025 are now loaded into Workday | 5/14/2024 |
Compensation | Two new compensation statements are available for use outside of the regular September 1st merit cycle: Generic Compensation Statement - With Percentages Generic Compensation Statement - Without Percentages | 5/16/2024 |
Benefits | The Hire - Dependent Coverage Begins benefit event now includes Basic Life to ensure that it switches to Employer Paid on the SGIP date | 5/23/2024 |
Benefits | Working Graduate Fellows and Working Surviving Dependents can now enroll in the Deferred Compensation Plan | 5/23/2024 |
Compensation | The report "In Progress Business Processes Impacting Merit" now includes a filter to only return Primary Position, and the Business Process Reason column has been added | 5/23/2024 |
Payroll | The report "One-Time Payments" is now available to HR Contacts | 5/23/2024 |
Staffing | New Workday feature "HR Hub" has been released and is available to HR Partners | 5/23/2024 |
Benefits | When a Dependent's relationship is updated from Spouse or Stepchild to Ex-Spouse or Ex-Stepchild, Workers will now see a warning to update the address if needed | 6/6/2024 |
Benefits | The Benefits section of the Worker Profile has a new tab for Dependent Details to allow benefit roles easier access to Dependent Verification information | 6/6/2024 |
Payroll | Emolument: Graduate Tuition Waiver earning code will now be withheld at the required Supplemental 22% rate | 6/6/2024 |
Recruiting | References to the Career worklet have been removed from notifications for the Job Application business process and updated for the Job Hubs | 6/6/2024 |
Staffing | New Employees will now receive an email reminder 3 days after the hire date to begin completing assigned Onboarding steps | 6/6/2024 |
Staffing | The Employee's I-9 login email will now specify that documents need to be presented on the first day of work even if they were uploaded during the I-9 workflow | 6/6/2024 |
Staffing | The deadline to inquire into the issuance of a new SSN has been extended from 45 to 60 days in Guardian | 6/6/2024 |
Staffing | Newly benefit-eligible Employees will receive the Benefit Start Date Additional Data Question in the Change Job business process | 6/6/2024 |
Staffing | Benefits Partners will receive a To Do in Onboarding regarding SGIP for ACA eligible rehires | 6/6/2024 |
Staffing | User will receive an error when using the No Show business process on Worker accounts that have an invalid Employee ID | 6/6/2024 |
Payroll | The Biweekly Period Schedule has been updated to include CY2025 Pay Dates and Time Tracking dates | 6/11/2024 |
Benefits | Benefit Group Eligibility Rules, Benefit Plan Year Definition, Health Plan Rates , and Insurance Rates for Long Term Disability (LTD) have been updated for FY2025 | 6/13/2024 |
Payroll | The report "Find Timesheets" has been hidden as the Timesheet functionality is not used in Workday | 6/13/2024 |
Staffing | When multiple Executive Approvers are assigned to an organization, all Executive Approvers will be required to approve select tasks to move the process forward | 6/13/2024 |
Benefits | The Dependent Details tab in the Benefits section of the Worker profile now loads more quickly for Workers without Dependents | 6/27/2024 |
Benefits | The Hartford no longer requires Evidence of Insurability (EOI) to enroll in Alternate Basic Life (ABL) | 6/27/2024 |
Benefits | Superior Vision will now be known as Superior Vision by MetLife effective 9/1/2024 | 6/27/2024 |
Benefits | ACA Measurement Configuration has been updated to calculate eligibility credited during FY2024 which applies to Open Enrollment for the upcoming plan year | 6/27/2024 |
Benefits | Pre-Open Enrollment and Open Enrollment announcements in Workday will display to Employees in preparation for Open Enrollment | 6/27/2024 |
Compensation | Request Compensation Change business process now allows a compensation amount of zero for additional jobs that are less than 4.5 months | 6/27/2024 |
Staffing | The report "Business Process Events - Worker Staffing Details" has been updated to include prompts as well as columns for Company - Current and Company - Proposed | 6/27/2024 |
Benefits | The Health Care Spending Account contribution limit has been increased to $3200 for FY2025 | 7/3/2024 |
Benefits | Employees will now be required to provide Prior Place of Employment and Retirement Date (if applicable) if they indicate that they have participated or retired from any State Sponsored Retirement Program | 7/11/2024 |
Compensation | The task "Compensation Review Process View Organization" is now available under the list of Merit Tasks in Merit Dashboard | 7/11/2024 |
Compensation | Budget Partner Security Role now has edit access when reviewing the One-Time Payment details | 7/11/2024 |
Recruiting | Six (6) new Disposition Reasons have been added to Job Application bp for use when a Candidate has withdrawn an application or declined an offer for various reasons | 7/11/2024 |
Staffing | The report "View Open Positions" now includes a field for Days Vacant | 7/11/2024 |
Staffing | The report "New Hire/Promotion/Transfer Within 6 Months" now includes fields for Employee Type and Location | 7/11/2024 |