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 |
|---|---|---|
| Staffing | HR Contacts, HR Partners, and Benefits Partners can now view UIN for all workers | 5/7/2026 |
Below are all of our updates from the past 6 months
| Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Payroll | The FLSA Overtime Premium Rate will now map to W-2 Box 14 beginning with the 2025 tax year to comply with the H.R.1 - One Big Beautiful Bill Act | 11/20/2025 |
| Payroll | The report, "Check Register by Supervisory Organization," now includes the field Employee ID | 11/20/2025 |
| Recruiting | The report, "Manager's Job Requisitions," now displays fields for Original Posting Date, Job Closing Date, Most Recent Posting Date, Most Recent Closing Date, Days Posted (as of most recent posting date), and a link to the external job posting | 11/20/2025 |
| Payroll | The IRS Annual Contribution Limit for Medical Spending Accounts has increased to $3,400 for CY2026 | 11/24/2025 |
| Payroll | The IRS Annual Contribution Limit (TDA+ORP) has increased from $70,000 to $72,000 for CY2026 per System Benefits Administration | 11/24/2025 |
| Payroll | The FY2026 wage limit for Optional Retirement Program (ORP) and Teacher Retirement System (TRS) is now $350,000 | 11/24/2025 |
| Benefits | Employees will receive a warning when updating the legal name of a beneficiary. The warning will clarify to create a new record if a new beneficiary is needed | 12/4/2025 |
| Cross-Application Services | "Assigned Security Roles" is a new tab in the Jobs section of the Worker Profile that shows the worker's assigned roles. Results are viewable for self-service, management chain, and Security Partners | 12/4/2025 |
| Staffing | The Export Control Job Duties Questionnaire in Create Position and Edit Position Restrictions now includes an option to route to the Manager for positions with Staff, Faculty, and Temp/Casual worker types only, based on member selection | 12/4/2025 |
| Benefits | A new report, "Grad Student Employee Waiver - Eligibility Research," is available for Benefits Partners to research eligibility for Grad Plan waivers for international students at the beginning of each semester | 12/11/2025 |
| Benefits | Extended plan details for the Medicare Advantage 65+ Plan have been updated to reflect plan changes effective 1/1/2026 | 12/11/2025 |
| Benefits | The Benefits View Only role can now see business process details for the following business processes: - Add Retiree Status - Change Beneficiary - Change Benefits - Change Benefits for Life - Change Benefits for Open Enrollment - Dependent Event - Edit Other Ids - Edit Worker Additional data - Manage Medicare Information - Passive event | 12/11/2025 |
| Cross-Application Services | Employees and supporting I9 Processors/Partners will now receive a notification from Workday and Guardian 180 days prior to their Work Authorization expiring | 12/11/2025 |
| Cross-Application Services | The report, "Worker I9 Details," has been updated to include filter options for missing social security numbers and the 90-day deadline by which they must be received | 12/11/2025 |
| Cross-Application Services | The Guardian H-1B Portability Days setting is now 240 Days, and the Track Visa Type and Work Eligibility functionality are enabled | 12/11/2025 |
| Payroll | Workday is now compliant with SECURE Act 2.0 and automatically switches retirement plan deductions for eligible participants to Roth once the regular limit is reached | 12/11/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Late Evidence of Insurability (EOI) Approvals," is now on the Benefits Partner Dashboard under Reports to be Run Monthly | 12/18/2025 |
| Compensation | The merit module has two new warning validations to identify employees who have an in progress Compensation or Job Change | 12/18/2025 |
| Recruiting | All references to Sterling in Recruiting business processes have been updated to First Advantage to reflect the company’s name change | 12/18/2025 |
| Staffing | A new report, "Last Payment Date of Active Workers," is available to HR and Payroll roles to view the last payment details of active workers | 12/18/2025 |
| Staffing | The following Change Job Templates have been made available for use: - Transfer - Transfer - Reorganization (HR Partner only) - Promotion Reclassification - Promotion New Position - Demotion Reclassification - Demotion New Position - Position Reclassification | 12/18/2025 |
| Staffing | An employee's Military Status can now be edited by HR Partners and HR Contacts on behalf of the employee | 12/18/2025 |
| Absence Management | Effective 2/1/2026, Unpaid Time Off must be requested exclusively through the Request Absence business process and can no longer be entered or approved via timesheets | 1/15/2026 |
| Absence Management | The Medical/Mental Health Care for Certain Veterans and Mental Health for Peace Officers Time Off Plans can now carryover up to 120 hours to the next Fiscal Year | 1/15/2026 |
| Benefits | TRS Annuity Letters from retirees can now be tracked using a new custom object, "TRS Annuity Letter Status," by Benefits Partners | 1/15/2026 |
| Payroll | IRS Annual Contribution limits have been updated for 2026 including higher limits for ages 50 plus and 60 to 63 to comply with the Secure Act 2.0 | 1/15/2026 |
| Recruiting | A new Background Check Status, “Missing Information,” has been added to allow First Advantage to indicate when required data or documents are incomplete or missing | 1/15/2026 |
| Recruiting | A new report, "Candidate Dispositions by Job Profile," is available to Recruiting roles and provides counts of candidate disposition reasons by job profile | 1/15/2026 |
| Recruiting | The report, "Time to Fill by Position," now has prompts to filter results within hire date range, exclude evergreen requisitions, and include calculated metrics | 1/15/2026 |
| Staffing | The Annual Financial Disclosure and Financial Interest Disclosure and Certification forms will now be completed in Workday | 1/15/2026 |
| Staffing | The Change Work Space process can now be initiated by Managers for their employees | 1/15/2026 |
| Absence Management | The State Comp Time Off Plan now has the Expiring Accruals feature enabled, allowing earned State Comp Time Off to expire exactly 12 months after accrual | 1/29/2026 |
| Absence Management | The Request Leave of Absence business process now includes a Faculty Partner approval step, based on member selection | 1/29/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Business Process Events - Worker Staffing Details," will now run as a background process and be available in My Reports | 1/29/2026 |
| Staffing | Approval steps for Staffing and Compensation business processes will identify the security role receiving the task within the title to improve clarity for the end user | 1/29/2026 |
| Benefits | After submitting Benefit Election events, related Action and To Do steps now become available to the Employee, Retiree or Benefits Partner at the same time | 2/5/2026 |
| Compensation | The report, "My Compensation History," now displays the Job Profile and Business Title associated with a compensation event | 2/5/2026 |
| Staffing | Change Job Templates for Data Change reasons now include clearer help text, updated fields and routing, and more accurate naming conventions | 2/5/2026 |
| Benefits | Employees with pending Evidence of Insurability will receive an announcement on their home page with instructions and a link to complete the form on The Hartford's website | 3/5/2026 |
| Compensation | The Benefits & Pay hub now has a link to access merit statements under Suggested Links | 3/5/2026 |
| Payroll | The Pre-Payroll Dashboard has been updated to correctly return Impacting In-Progress Events of the current month | 3/5/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Current Worker Detail Report," now includes a prompt for Worker Type | 3/5/2026 |
| Staffing | The Journeys app is now available on the Workday menu for active Employees | 3/11/2026 |
| Staffing | Change Job events can no longer be corrected by HR Partners | 3/14/2026 |
| Compensation | Compensation business processes now have a modernized user interface | 3/19/2026 |
| Cross-Application Services | The report, "Personal Travel to a Foreign-Adversary Requests," now includes prompts for date range and status of request | 3/19/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Inbound/Outbound History," now includes terminated workers | 3/19/2026 |
| Talent & Performance | When adding or updating Skills in Workday, employees will now be provided with a list of suggested skills via Skills Cloud | 3/19/2026 |
| Benefits | The Personal Benefits Summary letters for Retirees and Survivors will now include premium information | 3/26/2026 |
| Benefits | The "TRS Annuity Letter" has been renamed "TRS Notification Letter" to better align with the letter's content | 3/26/2026 |
| Staffing | A new report, "Positions Created or Closed in Range," is available to Budget Partner, Executive Approver, HR Partner and HR View Only roles to return completed Create Position and Close Position events in a selected date range | 3/26/2026 |
| Compensation | A new Annual Work Period, "2 Month (January 1 - February 28)," is now available | 4/2/2026 |
| Benefits | A new report, "12 over 9 Eligibility List," is available to Benefits Partners to determine who should be in the 12 over 9 program for the upcoming year. This report should be run and reviewed in June, then submitted to Workday Operations as in years past | 4/9/2026 |
| Absence Management | An error will now appear when an employee requests more than 5 hours of Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Volunteer time off in a month | 4/16/2026 |
| Benefits | The report, " Retiree Home Contact Information," now correctly provides the Retiree Communication Election field and is now available to Benefits View Only roles | 4/16/2026 |
| Payroll | The Pre-Payroll Dashboard is now available to Payroll View Only roles | 4/16/2026 |
| Staffing | The HR Partner HUB now includes common reports and helpful links for Staffing, Position & Job Profile, Employee Information, and Compensation & Payroll | 4/16/2026 |
| Staffing | The Workers Missing SSN Alert will now send at 90 and 120 days after the Hire Date to both employees and supporting roles and will include the Citizenship Status for each Employee | 4/16/2026 |
| Benefits | The Employee Benefits Resources dashboard is now available to all employees via the Workday Menu | 4/23/2026 |
| Benefits | A new report, "Dependent Verification Audit," is available for Benefits Partners that returns common issues with dependents such as those missing verification dates or those with expiring eligibility dates | 4/23/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Work and Home Contact Information," is now available to HR Contacts | 4/23/2026 |
| Staffing | When a Job Change event is blocking a Correct Worker Start Date event, the Job Change event will now be automatically rescinded | 4/23/2026 |
| Payroll | A new earning code, “Extra Pay Outside Regular Job Duty – Grossed Up,” is now available for use The earning code, “Camp Revenue Sharing Payments” is now “Revenue Sharing Payment” to show its expanded use to support one-time payments based on net revenue across a broader range of scenarios | 4/30/2026 |
| Recruiting | The notification for the disposition reason, "Unable to contact candidate," now explicitly states why the Candidate is no longer being considered | 4/30/2026 |
| Recruiting | During Create Job Requisition, Job Description Summary can now be added or edited | 4/30/2026 |
| Recruiting | The disposition reason "Pool contains sufficient candidates not requiring immigration-related employment sponsorship” is now available on the Recruiting Initial Review step | 4/30/2026 |
| Staffing | The New Employee Required Notices task will now trigger when an employee changes companies during Job Change, or if they begin an Additional Job at a new company | 4/30/2026 |
| Staffing | A new role, ISS View Only, is available for International Student Services to assist with employment eligibility for international employees and student workers | 4/30/2026 |
| Staffing | HR Contacts, HR Partners, and Benefits Partners can now view UIN for all workers | 5/7/2026 |