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Below are our most recent updates
| Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Absence Management | Employees will no longer be notified when Suspension with Pay time off is submitted on their behalf | 11/6/2025 |
| Compensation | The Change Job business process now displays the Actual End Date field | 11/6/2025 |
| Recruiting | External applicants can now create a candidate account using their Google or Apple ID | 11/6/2025 |
| Staffing | In the Personal Information Change business process the Payroll Partner will now receive the To Do: Update Glacier or Foreign National Payroll Tax System, based on member selection | 11/6/2025 |
| Staffing | In the Termination business process a review step will now route to Benefits Partner when Reason is Death | 11/6/2025 |
| Time Tracking | The Time Request business process now has help text to clarify that the process is used to request overtime | 11/6/2025 |
Below are all of our updates from the past 6 months
| Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Absence Management | The report, "FMLA Eligibility for Hours Worked and Projected," has updated help text, additional fields, and will now capture changes to monthly workers between pay calculation and the end of the month | 9/25/2025 |
| Staffing | The Flexible Work Arrangement business process now displays questionnaire results to HR Partner during the review task | 9/25/2025 |
| Staffing | The Contract Contingent Worker business process has been updated by hiding non-essential fields for a better user experience. The default weekly hours and first day of work fields are no longer editable | 9/25/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Employees Becoming Benefits Eligible," now includes employees with multiple jobs if the primary job is not a benefits-eligible position, but the additional job(s) is eligible for benefits | 10/16/2025 |
| Time Tracking | Managers will receive bi-weekly alerts for time entries pending approval | 10/16/2025 |
| Recruiting | External career sites now display a reminder that current employees should apply through the Jobs Hub in Workday The withdraw application confirmation message now warns candidates that they cannot reapply to a position after withdrawing their application | 10/23/2025 |
| Recruiting | Recruiting Partners and HR Partners can now view Offer Letters stored under an Employee’s Documents tab in the Worker Profile for the employees they support | 10/23/2025 |
| Talent & Performance | Talent Partners can now archive goals on behalf of employees they support | 10/23/2025 |
| Benefits | Workday now prohibits the use of the ORP - Already Enrolled benefit event unless the employee has responded "yes" to the Insurance and Retirement Benefits Eligibility question, "Were you enrolled in ORP at your last place of Texas State employment?" | 10/30/2025 |
| Compensation | College and University Professional Association (CUPA) Survey mappings have been updated for FY2026 | 10/30/2025 |
| Staffing | Multiple Performance Review Process reports have been removed. Users can now use the report, “Performance Reviews,” to manage performance review processes | 10/30/2025 |
| Staffing | The Assign Roles step in the Change Job business process now triggers when an Employee moves to a new position within the same supervisory organization | 10/30/2025 |
| Staffing | A new Contingent Worker Type has been added: Non-Affiliated Graduate Student | 10/30/2025 |
| Absence Management | Employees will no longer be notified when Suspension with Pay time off is submitted on their behalf | 11/6/2025 |
| Compensation | The Change Job business process now displays the Actual End Date field | 11/6/2025 |
| Recruiting | External applicants can now create a candidate account using their Google or Apple ID | 11/6/2025 |
| Staffing | In the Personal Information Change business process the Payroll Partner will now receive the To Do: Update Glacier or Foreign National Payroll Tax System, based on member selection | 11/6/2025 |
| Staffing | In the Termination business process a review step will now route to Benefits Partner when Reason is Death | 11/6/2025 |
| Time Tracking | The Time Request business process now has help text to clarify that the process is used to request overtime | 11/6/2025 |