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Below are our most recent updates
| Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Below are all of our updates from the past 6 months
| Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Benefits | Retiring employees eligible for Medicare are no longer able to enroll in the A&M Care Plan when enrolling in medical coverage | 1/16/2025 |
| Compensation | Allowance changes are no longer allowed when Other Salary Action is selected as the reason during the Request Compensation Change business process | 1/16/2025 |
| Staffing | The following Change Job Templates now contain an HR Partner review step based on member selection: Hours and Work Period Change, Position and Business Title Change, Job Profile Change, Job Classification Change | 1/16/2025 |
| Staffing | The Termination initiation help text now includes a reminder to coordinate with payroll departments if the Termination Date is after the payroll deadline | 1/16/2025 |
| Talent | Bulk updates can now be made to goals allowing multiple changes to be sent to the Manager in one review and approval inbox task | 1/16/2025 |
| Talent | Talent Partners can now cancel and reassign Employee goals in the Manage Goals business process | 1/16/2025 |
| Benefits | Not Enrolling in Medical Plan will now be visible for employees certifying other coverage during the following benefit event types: Employer Contribution Change, Ineligible Dependent, and Pay Frequency Change | 1/23/2025 |
| Staffing | Managers can no longer initiate the following business processes: - Change Work Space - Contract Contingent Worker - End Contingent Worker Contract - End Flexible Work Arrangement - Freeze Position - Photo Change - Request Flexible Work Arrangement - Switch Primary Job | 1/23/2025 |
| Recruiting | Recruiting Sources have been added in the Workday job application, per member request | 1/23/2025 |
| Recruiting | A new disposition reason, "Candidate notified outside of Workday", has been added to all stages of the Job Application process for use by Recruiting Partners | 1/23/2025 |
| Absence Management | Separate columns for First Name, Last Name and Position ID were added to the following reports: - Time Summary Review - All Worker Time Off - Positions with No Time Entered in Date Range - Time Off Balance for Terminated Employees | 1/30/2025 |
| Benefits | Benefits Partners will now receive an approval step when employees or retirees create a benefit change event prior to their State Group Insurance Program (SGIP) date | 1/30/2025 |
| Benefits | Employees will now receive an alert when a benefit enrollment event has three days remaining before the submission deadline | 1/30/2025 |
| Benefits | A new report, "Missing Beneficiaries," is available to Benefits Partner and Benefits View Only roles that returns workers and/or retirees enrolled in a plan with missing beneficiaries | 1/30/2025 |
| Benefits | A new report, "My Benefits Partners," is available to retirees as a suggested link in the Benefits and Pay hub | 1/30/2025 |
| Compensation | Base pay changes are no longer allowed when Temporary Salary Increase is selected as the reason during the Request Compensation Change business process | 1/30/2025 |
| Recruiting | Recruiting Coordinators and Recruiting Partners can now screen candidates, based on member selection | 1/30/2025 |
| Staffing | The Default Weekly Hours field will no longer be editable in the Hire, Change Job and Add Job business processes | 1/30/2025 |
| Staffing | The Location Weekly Hours field will no longer be visible in the Hire, Change Job and Add Job business processes | 1/30/2025 |
| Benefits | Benefits Partners will receive the To Do: Review Benefits Coverage for Employee Requesting Absence - Death of a Family Member when the employee has dependent coverage that may be affected | 2/6/2025 |
| Benefits | A warning message now appears when submitting Life Insurance and AD&D coverages without selecting beneficiaries | 2/6/2025 |
| Compensation | A previous update that removed the ability to make a base pay change when Temporary Salary Increase was selected as the reason during the Request Compensation Change business process has been reverted to allow the bay pase change | 2/6/2025 |
| Recruiting | Offer letter templates now include information about export controls clearance and nepotism approval, based on member selection | 2/6/2025 |
| Staffing | The HR Partner approval step, in the Flexible Work Arrangement business process, is now an HR Partner review step | 2/6/2025 |
| Talent | Medicine is now an available Field of Study for use in Recruiting and Talent under Education | 2/6/2025 |
| Absence Management | The report, "Length of State Service," now displays UIN, Original Hire Date, Most Recent Hire Date, Employee Type, Time Type, and Annual Work Period fields | 3/6/2025 |
| Benefits | The Address Change Benefit Event now requires approval by the Benefits Partner | 3/6/2025 |
| Benefits | The Administrative Correction Benefit event will no longer reprocess if earlier events are completed and will not reprocess other event types that are later dated | 3/6/2025 |
| Benefits | Employee Spending Account elections will default to their current elections during Medical Support Order benefit events | 3/6/2025 |
| Compensation | During the initiation phase of merit for each member, an automatic merit plan removal process will run to remove the plans from ineligible employees | 3/6/2025 |
| Staffing | The Correct Worker Start Date business process now automatically rescinds the Edit Position Restriction step when the Edit Position Restriction effective date conflicts with the new hire date | 3/6/2025 |
| Staffing | The Correct Worker Start Date business process now automatically rescinds the Service Dates Changes step when the service date effective date conflicts with the new hire date | 3/6/2025 |
| Absence Management | The Request Leave of Absence and Request Return from Leave of Absence business processes can no longer be initiated by Managers on behalf of an Employee | 3/20/2025 |
| Benefits | Surviving Dependents aged 65 or older will receive an error message when enrolling in medical plans other than the Medical - Blue Cross Blue Shield of TX MM 65 Plus Medicare Advantage PPO plan | 3/20/2025 |
| Compensation | Merit Plans will no longer be removed automatically during Change Job business process | 3/20/2025 |
| Payroll | The report "Workers Located Out of State - Texas" now includes additional fields that are needed for WCI reporting | 3/20/2025 |
| Payroll | Employees will now receive an email to both their work and personal email addresses when a change is made to their direct deposit payment elections | 3/20/2025 |
| Staffing | Correcting the Worker Start Date now automatically rescinds the Time Off Service Date associated with the Onboarding event. The Time Off Service Date will be reset based on six-month eligibility for events that do not require manual action on blocking events | 3/20/2025 |
| 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 |