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 |
|---|---|---|
| Payroll | The report, "Compensation Changes," has been updated to display correct base and prorated amounts regardless of annual work period | 9/11/2025 |
| Talent & Performance | Recruiting and Talent Pool Managers can now add or remove Pool Managers and Contacts to existing pools | 9/11/2025 |
| Time Tracking | A new report, "Time Summary Matrix," is available to Absence Partners, HR Contacts, HR Partners, Managers, and Timekeepers. This report provides time summaries per position to identify the position and manager associated with pending approvals | 9/11/2025 |
Below are all of our updates from the past 6 months
| Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Absence Management | When requesting FMLA Leave of Absence, the benefit enrollment event will now route to both the employee and Benefits Partner | 3/27/2025 |
| Compensation | The report, "Compensation Spreadsheet," now includes the Compensation Grade Profile field | 3/27/2025 |
| Workday Fundamentals | Employees can now use the Create Request business process to submit their certification of travel to a foreign adversary | 3/27/2025 |
| Payroll | Payroll Partners no longer have access to create, edit or delete Payroll Action Reasons | 3/27/2025 |
| Recruiting | The Terms and Conditions agreement within the Job Application Process now includes language to comply with Executive Order GA-48 | 3/27/2025 |
| Absence Management | A new report, "Vacation Carryover," is available to Employees on the Absence tab of the Worker Profile to view their vacation carryover balance | 4/3/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Missing Beneficiaries," now displays the Employee Type field | 4/3/2025 |
| Compensation | The Change Job business process no longer includes the Compensation Plan Actual End Date field | 4/3/2025 |
| Compensation | The Communication Equipment Allowance can no longer be used as an Allowance (monthly paid) plan, but remains available as a One-Time Payment plan | 4/3/2025 |
| Payroll | The report, "Employees in Multiple Positions with FLSA Overtime," is now titled "Employees in Additional Jobs with FLSA Overtime" and now includes fields for payroll result line values related to FLSA Overtime components | 4/3/2025 |
| Payroll | Pay Rate Type can no longer be created, edited, or deleted by Payroll Partners. This access has been given to selected employees at each member with a new role, Payroll Manager | 4/3/2025 |
| Benefits | Employees will now receive a warning if they were previously enrolled in a spending account and did not re-enroll during Open Enrollment | 4/10/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Expiring ACA Eligibility Report," now displays the Email field | 4/10/2025 |
| Compensation | The following fields are no longer available in Compensation related business processes: - Expected End Date field - Position In Range - Rounding Rule - Compensation Element | 4/10/2025 |
| Staffing | Job Profiles and related Position Restrictions summaries now include language to comply with Executive Order GA-48 | 4/10/2025 |
| Staffing | A new report, “Inbound/Outbound History,” is available to HR Partners to view hire, termination, and transfer events between companies within a target date range | 4/10/2025 |
| Absence Management | A new report, "FMLA Eligibility by Hours Worked and Projected," is now available for HR Partners, Absence Partners, and Absence View Only roles to assist in determining FMLA eligibility | 4/17/2025 |
| Benefits | A new Benefits Partner Dashboard is now available | 4/17/2025 |
| Benefits | When submitting the To Do: Review Dependent Document(s) without adding a Verification Status, Benefits Partners will now receive the Update Dependent Verification Status task | 4/17/2025 |
| Benefits | When submitting the Update Dependent Verification Status task for a Dependent Grandchild, Benefits Partners will receive an error message if the expiration date is blank | 4/17/2025 |
| Staffing | The reports, "Job Catalog Report" and "Position and Position Restriction Details," now include a column and prompt for Critical Infrastructure | 4/17/2025 |
| Talent | Talent Partners and Talent Analysts can now complete the Award Emeritus process for retired employees terminated prior to January 2018 | 4/17/2025 |
| Compensation | The Compensation business process field Expected End Date is temporarily visible to address user-reported errors | 4/24/2025 |
| Staffing | The HR Partner Hub can now be accessed by HR Contacts | 4/24/2025 |
| Staffing | The End Flexible Work Arrangement business process now skips the Manager approval step if the process was initiated by an HR Partner | 4/24/2025 |
| Staffing | The visibility of the following fields in the Hire business process have been updated: - Benefits Service Date - now hidden - Company Service Date - now hidden - Continuous Service Date - remains visible, but no longer editable - First Day of Work - remains visible, but no longer editable | 4/24/2025 |
| Time Tracking | The report, "Review Time," is now available to Timekeepers to approve time for employees they support | 4/24/2025 |
| Absence Management | Absence and Payroll partners can now manually reduce the amount of Donated Sick hours in the Maintain Accrual and Time Off Adjustments/Overrides task using the following options: - Lapse - Donated Sick (Taxed) (Adjustment Only) - Lapse - Donated Sick (Tax-Exempt) (Adjustment Only) | 5/1/2025 |
| Compensation | A new Employee Total Rewards Statement user interface is now available. The Total Rewards Statement can now be printed from the Benefits and Pay hub | 5/1/2025 |
| Payroll | The formula used to calculate Overtime - FLSA pay has been updated to ensure employees are paid correctly when they have multiple hourly jobs | 5/1/2025 |
| Recruiting | Managers can no longer move candidates to the Offer stage of the Job Application process | 5/1/2025 |
| Recruiting | The External Candidate Reference Check functionality has been enabled, based on member selection | 5/1/2025 |
| Staffing | Military Status is now located within the Personal Information Change business process | 5/1/2025 |
| Staffing | The Switch Primary Job business process now skips the Manager approval step when both positions are Student Workers and at the same Company | 5/1/2025 |
| Absence Management | The vacation carryover notification now provides a simplified method for employees to view their vacation carryover | 5/8/2025 |
| Payroll | The Pay tab in the Worker Profile now includes a dedicated Arrears tab viewable by the Employee, Payroll Partners and Benefits Partners | 5/8/2025 |
| Staffing | Onboarding now includes an acknowledgement to comply with Executive Order GA-48 | 5/8/2025 |
| Staffing | When entering Personal Information, Date of Birth is now marked with a red asterisk, indicating it is a required field | 5/8/2025 |
| Staffing | When using the Job Change business process (Change Job Template), users will receive an error message if making changes that impact FLSA status | 5/8/2025 |
| Staffing | The Organization Chart now displays an information icon for workers who manage multiple supervisory organizations or hold multiple positions to view details about the organizations they belong to | 5/8/2025 |
| Staffing | Department Heads can now approve all Termination events excluding Student and Temp/Casual Terminations, based on member selection | 5/8/2025 |
| Payroll | The Save for Summer deductions for FY2026 are now loaded into Workday | 5/14/2025 |
| Staffing | The To Do: Employee Onboarding Process is Complete now includes a reminder to verify that citizenship status was entered correctly | 5/15/2025 |
| Talent & Performance | A new report, "Performance Reviews," is now available to Talent roles for tracking and reporting on performance reviews | 5/15/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Employees and Retirees with Dependent Grandchildren," now displays fields for Company and Worker Home Address, and provides a prompt for Company | 5/22/2025 |
| Compensation | The Assign Costing Allocation business process now displays a new worklet showing Employee Pay Rate Type during the initiation step | 6/5/2025 |
| Benefits | A new report, "Employees Certifying Other Medical," is available to Benefits Partners to identify benefits eligible employees who indicated other medical coverage | 6/12/2025 |
| Benefits | The ACA Measurement Configuration now calculates eligibility credited during FY2025 for Employees, applying to Open Enrollment for the upcoming plan year | 6/12/2025 |
| Cross-Application Services | The Period Schedules now include FY2026 Payroll and Time Tracking dates | 6/12/2025 |
| Staffing | The report, "Audit - Supervisory Organization Structure," now displays the Part Number field | 6/12/2025 |
| Staffing | The report, “Worker I-9 Details,” is now available to the HR View Only role | 6/12/2025 |
| Staffing | The report, "Employee Service Dates," now provides prompts for Effective As Of Date and Return Length of Service Calculations in Years | 6/12/2025 |
| Benefits | Per SBA, Employees and Retirees in the Texas Zip Code 78657 are now eligible to enroll in the Delta Dental HMO Benefit Plan | 6/26/2025 |
| Payroll | Effective July 1, 2025, Workday will resume withholding Alabama state income tax on FLSA overtime wages paid to non-exempt employees, in compliance with updated tax regulations | 6/26/2025 |
| Payroll | The report, "Name Changes", is now available to the Tax Compliance Partner | 6/26/2025 |
| Staffing | The report, "Audit - Supervisory Organization Structure," now includes a column for Superior Organization Name | 6/26/2025 |
| Staffing | A new report, "Time in Position," is available to HR Partner and HR View Only roles to view employee time in primary positions | 6/26/2025 |
| Benefits | The Benefits Partner Dashboard now displays an announcement with Open Enrollment information and links for Benefits Partners | 7/10/2025 |
| Recruiting | The Post Job business process now allows Recruiting Partners to post jobs to the System-wide External Career Site | 7/10/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Benefit Event Status Report - Pending Events," can now be run for Open Enrollment Events in a "submitted" status | 7/17/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Benefit Events Status Report - TAMUS," can now be run for Open Enrollment Events in a "completed" status | 7/17/2025 |
| Absence Management | Military Training/Duty and all Unpaid Time Off requests now route to the Absence Partner for approval | 7/24/2025 |
| Payroll | The report, "Salaried Timesheet Detail with Time Off," now returns correct Overtime Hourly Rate for salaried workers | 7/24/2025 |
| Payroll | Employees with a future hire date are now able to update their W-2 printing elections | 7/24/2025 |
| Absence Management | Requests for Leave of Absence and Return from Leave of Absence can no longer be initiated by Employee as Self | 7/31/2025 |
| Recruiting | Managers can no longer disposition candidates from the Screen stage of the Job Application process, based on member selection | 7/31/2025 |
| Absence Management | The Request Absence Time Off Categories and Time Off Types have been updated | 8/7/2025 |
| Staffing | The Compliance View Only role has been created to allow Compliance Officers access to the "Personal Travel to a Foreign-Adversary Requests" report | 8/7/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Open Enrollment Discrepancy," has been refined to exclude false positives | 8/14/2025 |
| Staffing | A new report, "Personal Information Changes," is available to HR Partner, Payroll Partner, and Tax Compliance Partner to view the most recent change to a worker's legal name, preferred name, social security number, home address, or work address | 8/14/2025 |
| Payroll | Camp Revenue Sharing Payments are now setup with a new earning code and one-time payment plan | 8/21/2025 |
| Payroll | The report, "Compensation Changes," has been updated to display correct base and prorated amounts regardless of annual work period | 9/11/2025 |
| Talent & Performance | Recruiting and Talent Pool Managers can now add or remove Pool Managers and Contacts to existing pools | 9/11/2025 |
| Time Tracking | A new report, "Time Summary Matrix," is available to Absence Partners, HR Contacts, HR Partners, Managers, and Timekeepers. This report provides time summaries per position to identify the position and manager associated with pending approvals | 9/11/2025 |