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Below are our most recent updates
| Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Absence Management | The Fire/EMS time off plan has been renamed Fire/EMS/SAR to reflect the inclusion of search and rescue activities | 10/1/2026 |
| Cross-Application Services | Recruiter Hub is now available by default in the Workday Menu for Recruiting Partners | 10/1/2026 |
| Recruiting | The Job Application process now correctly allows candidates to withdraw their application during the Screen stage | 10/1/2026 |
| Recruiting | For internal candidates, the confirmation message displayed when withdrawing an application has been updated for clarity | 10/1/2026 |
| Recruiting | Recruiting Partners and Recruiting Coordinators will receive a notification when Candidates are automatically dispositioned due to secondary questionnaire responses or incomplete applications, based on member selection | 10/1/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Business Process Transactions of Type Awaiting Action," now includes fields for Initiator and Initiator UIN | 10/1/2026 |
Below are all of our updates from the past 6 months
| Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Compensation | Two new reports, "EIB Template - Request Compensation Change" and "EIB Template - Request One Time Payment" are available to HR, Compensation, and Merit roles to generate a spreadsheet template for EIBs | 5/14/2026 |
| Payroll | The Pre-Payroll Dashboard reports, "Impacting In Progress Events" and "Impacting Complete Events," now correctly return the worker's associated company in the details of both reports | 5/14/2026 |
| Cross-Application Services | A new "Manager Insights Hub" is available to managers to view reports and tasks associated with managing their employees. The hub will be automatically added to the Team section of the Workday Menu for Managers | 5/21/2026 |
| Cross-Application Services | The report, "Personal Travel to Foreign Adversaries," now includes Employee Type | 5/21/2026 |
| Payroll | The report, "Nonresident Aliens with FICA Deductions," now includes optional filters for W-4 Lock in Letter and Non-Immigrant Citizenship Status | 5/21/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Position and Position Restriction Details," now includes Supervisory Organization | 5/21/2026 |
| ITSS Operations | The Save for Summer deductions for FY2027 are now loaded into Workday | 5/27/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Employees with Temp or without SSN," now includes Manager | 6/4/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Employee Position Description," now includes a prompt for Employee Type | 6/11/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Onboarding Status Summary," now includes Work Email | 6/11/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Current Worker Detail Report," now includes Compensation Grade | 6/11/2026 |
| Benefits | The report, "Medical Plan Discrepancy," now returns retirees enrolled in the A&M Care Plan who are ineligible for A&M Care | 6/25/2026 |
| Staffing | The Submit Resignation business process now allows HR Partners to Cancel and Rescind submissions | 6/25/2026 |
| Staffing | The Job Change business process no longer displays the Workday-generated costing allocation pop-up automatically; it remains accessible through the information icon on the page | 6/25/2026 |
| Compensation | The report, "Compensation Changes," now includes the Most Recent Performance Review Rating | 7/2/2026 |
| Recruiting | The Ready for Hire business process now includes an updated second question in the Ready for Hire questionnaire to improve clarity | 7/2/2026 |
| Staffing | The Hire, Change Job and Add Job business processes now include a To Do step for the Security Screening Partner to take action using Visual Compliance for job profiles flagged with a Critical Infrastructure competency | 7/2/2026 |
| Compensation | The Request Compensation Change business process now allows Compensation Partners to add and remove attachments | 7/9/2026 |
| Benefits | The Open Enrollment Journey is now available to all Active Employees to provide a step-by-step guide to completing Open Enrollment. All Benefits Eligible Employees will receive a link to the Open Enrollment Journey on their home page during Open Enrollment | 7/9/2026 |
| Absence Management | All State Comp time off plans now have a balance period equal to the fiscal year | 7/16/2026 |
| Staffing | The Position Title & Business Title Change Job Change template can only be initiated by HR Partners | 7/16/2026 |
| Staffing | The Student Position Reclassification Job Change template can now be used for students that make more than $17/hour | 7/16/2026 |
| Benefits | The Edit Other ID business process now allows Benefits Partners to update the Eligible for 12 over 9 Premiums Other ID for an extended timeframe from 7/1 to 9/30 of the current year | 7/23/2026 |
| Benefits | The Employee Benefits Resources dashboard now displays notes identifying benefits programs that are ending or changing as of 9/1/26 | 7/30/2026 |
| Recruiting | The Job Application business process no longer allows managers to move candidates to the Background Check stage, based on member selection | 7/30/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Workers with Preservation Hold Custodian," now includes a prompt to filter for open holds | 8/6/2026 |
| Benefits | A new report, "AD&D Discrepancies," is available to Benefits Partners to identify employees who are ineligible for their current AD&D coverage due to a reduction in Benefits Salary. Additionally, employees in this situation will be identified and moved to their new coverage annually on September 2 | 8/13/2026 |
| Benefits | The Benefit Event ORP Already Enrolled can now be launched by Benefits Partners for employees prior to their hire date when the employee indicates they previously participated in ORP in the Additional Data questions | 8/13/2026 |
| Benefits | The report, "Employees Retirees and Spouses Turning 65 in Date Range," now excludes spouses who are not enrolled in the A&M System medical coverage | 8/13/2026 |
| Recruiting | The Review Candidate and Offer business processes no longer generate notifications for Recruiting Partners and Recruiting Coordinators when a Candidate is dispositioned | 8/13/2026 |
| Benefits | All incomplete Open Enrollment Journeys will be retired and will no longer be visible to employees in Workday | 8/20/2026 |
| Payroll | The report, “Reported Time,” now displays a field for Project Reference ID | 8/20/2026 |
| Benefits | The Birth/Adoption Qualifying Life Event now allows Employees 60 days to enroll in benefits in Workday. Contact System Benefits Administration for information related to policies regarding Qualifying Life Events | 9/10/2026 |
| Payroll | The Teacher Retirement System (TRS) eligible fiscal year wage limit is now $360,000 for FY2027 | 9/10/2026 |
| Benefits | The Hire and Edit Employee Additional Data business processes now trigger the Retirement and Insurance Benefits Eligibility Questions step for all workers regardless of benefits eligibility to allow employees to report their TRS or ORP participation. The questions will not be triggered for Student Worker or Non-Employee Benefits Only Employee Types | 9/17/2026 |
| Staffing | The To Do: Other Onboarding Procedures within the Change Job and Add Additional Job business processes are now separated into Workday and non-Workday tasks, with Workday-related steps now triggering on the event effective date | 9/17/2026 |
| Staffing | As part of the Department of Labor changes to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability task is now disabled in all Workday business processes | 9/21/2026 |
| Absence Management | The Request Absence and Request Leave of Absence business processes now include a To Do for the Benefits Partner and a notification to the employee about the 60-day deadline to add a child to Benefits coverage following Parental Time Off, Parental Leave of Absence, or Sick Time Off for the Birth/Adoption of a child | 9/24/2026 |
| Absence Management | Vacation Carryover now references employees' FTE as of 8/31 of each year when determining how many hours they are eligible to carry forward. Manual adjustments are no longer necessary in these cases | 9/24/2026 |
| Payroll | A new earning code has been created for sick leave death benefit payouts and the existing death benefit payout earnings have been renamed to clearly identify the applicable FICA treatment: • Death Benefit - Payouts - Vacation/FLSA (Current Calendar Year) – Withholds FICA • Death Benefit - Payouts - Vacation/FLSA (Prior Calendar Year) – No FICA • Death Benefits - Payouts - Sick - No FICA | 9/24/2026 |
| Absence Management | The Fire/EMS time off plan has been renamed Fire/EMS/SAR to reflect the inclusion of search and rescue activities | 10/1/2026 |
| Cross-Application Services | Recruiter Hub is now available by default in the Workday Menu for Recruiting Partners | 10/1/2026 |
| Recruiting | The Job Application process now correctly allows candidates to withdraw their application during the Screen stage | 10/1/2026 |
| Recruiting | For internal candidates, the confirmation message displayed when withdrawing an application has been updated for clarity | 10/1/2026 |
| Recruiting | Recruiting Partners and Recruiting Coordinators will receive a notification when Candidates are automatically dispositioned due to secondary questionnaire responses or incomplete applications, based on member selection | 10/1/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Business Process Transactions of Type Awaiting Action," now includes fields for Initiator and Initiator UIN | 10/1/2026 |