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Financials

Separate Payments for Customer Refunds in Settlement Runs

Enables you to process separate payments for customer refunds in a settlement run

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: This creates a smoother user experience and boosts finance efficiency by simplifying manual tasks and removing the need for workarounds.

Feature will also rename and group the payment separation options on the customer and sponsor profile for clarity
Separate refunds only for the customers you choose

Manually Close and Reopen Requisition Lines

You can close individual requisition lines while keeping the partially sourced requisition open

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This update gives you more flexibility by cutting down on managing unnecessary requisition lines and minimizing the downstream effects of sourcing unneeded goods or services.

New “Close Lines” and “Reopen Lines” option from a requisitions related action

Assign Match Status for Intercompany Journal Lines

New tasks to mark intercompany journal lines as available or unavailable for matching

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Provides the flexibility to include, or exclude, intercompany journal lines you want to manually match across 2 or more companies.

There are two new tasks

Mass Update Intercompany Journal Lines Match Status
Update Intercompany Journal Lines Match Status

HCM

Manager Insights Hub

Additional Functionality Added

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This continues to consolidate critical hiring and staffing tasks into one central location, and enables managers to easily support their team.

Workday enhances Manager Insights Hub with added buttons for hiring and staffing tasks, and a new card for viewing in-progress hire events
Workday updates the Hiring and Staffing Overview tab to deliver a new In-Progress Hire Events card
The Hiring and Staffing Overview tab has been updated to add these buttons in the Tasks and Reports section:
Contract Contingent Worker
Add Job
End Job
On the View My Team tab, Workday delivers a View Org Chart button

Enhanced Offboarding

Creating an improved User Experience

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: Enhanced the offboarding experience by improving employee self-service resignation usability.

This feature updates the user interface of the tasks on the Submit Resignation business process to deliver a guided experience as you complete the resignation process.
Field Label Renames
Primary Reason to Reason for Resignation
Proposed Termination Date to When is your last available day of work?
Secondary Reason to Additional Reasons for Resignation
New Worker Information side panel on resignation tasks, which displays to users as they review or approve a resignation
Enables the Submit Resignation and Withdraw Resignation tasks to be searchable through global Search
Enables Tenant Branding on this task

Edit To Do Task

Enables faster workflows when editing To Do tasks

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This feature provides an improved user experience and faster workflows by enabling you to directly edit To Dos with a standalone task or related actions.

Workday now enables you to use a standalone task or related action to edit To Dos.
Workday delivers a new Edit To Do task secured to these domains:
Business Process Administration
Manage: Business Process Definitions
You can use the Edit To Do task to edit these To Do details either directly or as a related action for a To Do item.
Inactive/Active
Instructional Text
Show Report Document
Task
To Do Description

Adaptive

Add Reports On Dashboards

Enhancements to how you can leverage Workday Dashboards

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: Users can now seamlessly display matrix reports alongside dashboard data, enhancing the overall experience and providing greater flexibility in dashboard visualization.

Seamless Integration of Shared Matrix Reports

Display matrix reports alongside relevant charts and sheets
Add reports with up to 1 million cells
Easily download, share, and annotate reports with line notes

Dynamic Report Parameters with Context Filters

Sync report parameters with perspective filters for improved relevance
Reports automatically adjust based on filter selections

Consistent Data Access & Permissions

Report access aligns with existing security

Version Specific Overrides For Linked Accounts

Enable Linked Accounts For Data Entry In Specific Plan Versions

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: Enhances flexibility, accuracy, and efficiency in planning models with linked accounts across versions.

Override Links For Specific Versions

Select a plan version for the override
Import data into the account, use Predictive Forecaster, or enter data directly on sheets

Leverage links for specific versions

If no link overrides are set, accounts can link to other accounts and pull data using dimension link filters.

Customizable Link Filters & Settings

Override Links For Specific Version: Enables override fields for account
Link Version Selector: Allows users to select a plan version for override
Override Link Setting: None to keep link or Data Entry to enable imports and data input on sheets.

Shared Scenarios

Share Your Personal Scenarios With Other Collaborators

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This updated feature will provide improved collaboration and efficiency for financial planning scenarios.

New Share Option In Actions Menu

Select specific users or groups to collaborate effectively
Share relevant dashboards for data review and updates
Add notes with clear instructions for collaborators

Streamlined Submission Management

New “Manage Submissions” option in the Actions menu for scenario lists
Track collaborator status in real time: In Progress, Submitted, Approved, Sent Back

Automated Scenario Notifications

Instant updates keep owners and collaborators informed at every stage
Notifications include scenario name, involved users, and direct links to relevant pages

Absence

Effective Dating for Service Dates

Enables you to track service date changes for workers, reduces downstream impacts to calculations, and improves reporting

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: New reporting fields allow for more accurate reporting and validation creation to best ensure time is being taken appropriately.

Feature is being removed from Maintain Feature Opt-Ins and will be Automatically Available

Workday enables you to add effective dates to service date changes. You can add effective dates to new service date changes on the Edit Service Dates task. You can add effective dates to existing service dates change events by correcting the Service Dates Change business process.

Effects on Absence Eligibility

If your absence eligibility conditions reference service dates (e.g. Original Hire Date, Seniority Date, Time Off Service Date, etc.), there might be impacts to time off accruals
Mainly affects rehires
Use Tenant Analyzer to identify impacts and adjust rules as needed with “Recent” service date calculations.

Change Job/Assign Work Schedule Impacts on Time Off

Workday automatically removes approved time off entries after events that remove worker eligibility for the time off

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Improves efficiency by streamlining manual tasks and eliminating work arounds to identify ineligible time off entries.

Remove Invalid Time Off Entries After Job Change service step

Service Step added to BP after the Completion step
To avoid approvals for these updates, create a rule-based BP with initiation step only

Remove Invalid Time Off Entries during Assign Work Schedule BP

Initiating Business Process of Remove Invalid Time Off Entries Service report field added

Start and End Times on Absence Tables

Workday allows workers to enter start and end times when using absence tables

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Increases accuracy for Workday Scheduling, Third Party Calendar Integrations and other planning applications.

Start and End Times supported in the following tasks/reports

Enter Time by Week
Enter Time for Worker (High-Volume Time Entry)
Enter Time (Micro-Edit)
Request Absence

New Check boxes on the Details tab of Absence Tables

Display Start and End Time
Start and End Time Required

When all tier plans are hour-based “Calculate Quantity Based on Start and End Time” check box is also added.

Updated Web Services including validations

Enter Time Off
Import Time Off Request Event Batch

New Report Fields on Absence Table BO

Calculate Quantity Based on Start and End Time for Absence Table
Display Start and End Time for Absence Table
Start and End Time Required for Absence Table

All Absence Tables report updated with new fields

Benefits

Purge Dependent and Beneficiaries for Active Workers

Enables you to purge dependent and beneficiary data for active employees.

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Previously, you could only purge this data for terminated workers. We’re now able to secure PII by purging Dependents and Beneficiaries for Active employees. Keep in mind that once this data is purged, it cannot be undone.

Create a custom report using active worker data sources
Tag the report using Purge Task
You can Filter the report and use columns to identify dependents and beneficiaries
Open a service ticket requesting to purge dependents and beneficiaries identified by your custom report.
Once the service request is completed, you’ll be able to purge the dependents and beneficiaries in Production

Mobile Benefits UI Rearchitecture

Transition from old Benefits Mobile UI to new UI

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: Improved UI for Workday Benefits in the Mobile application. This transition improves security and accessibility.

For Benefits on the Workday mobile app, there are changes to the UI appearance and presentation of information for workers. Workers will notice visual changes, but functionality remains the same for mobile enrollment.

Enhanced accessibility in Benefits on mobile with a Generalized UI solution. New accessibility features include:

Dynamic text resizing
Voice over and talk back
Translation to languages other than U.S. English (based on the user’s profile settings)

The Generalized UI solution will continue to be improved upon and kept up to date with new accessibility improvements.

Compensation

Administrator Security for Compensation

Workday updates report security to restrict sensitive compensation data to authorized administrators with appropriate access

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This update ensures sensitive worker compensation information is protected by restricting access to only authorized administrators, helping maintain confidentiality and compliance with security policies.

Workday updates the security evaluation for the following reports:

Compensation History
Compensation Summary View
View External Student History by Category
View Worker History by Category

Additional Security needed to view Bonus, Stock, and One Time Payment History in these reports

On top of the Worker Data: Historical Staffing Information domain, you will need to add security groups to the Worker Data: Compensation by Organization, Worker Data: Stock Grants, and Worker Data: Period Activity Pay domains
Without access to these domains, Administrators will not see bonus, stock, and OTP history within the worker history and compensation history reports

Total Rewards Template Conversion

Workday 2025 R1 enables you to convert older Total Rewards templates to the new template format

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: This makes it easier to adopt the new (Workday 2024R1 and after) template format and customize Total Rewards Statements.

Convert Total Rewards Template to New Template Task

Allows you to convert total rewards templates created before Workday 2024R1 to the new template format (2024R1 and later)
Task is secured to the Set Up: Total Rewards domain

Changes to Create Total Rewards Template Task

Enables you to display values without specifying a currency
Allows deletion of templates and sections
Adds the ability to add your company’s logo to the Total Rewards Statement via the Configure Tenant Branding task
The header image is removed, and if tenant branding is not configured, no header image is displayed
Allows you to include icons on section groups within the Total Rewards Statement

Infinite Scrolling on Compensation Review Planning Grid

By enabling infinite scrolling, Workday improves performance and makes assessing employees more intuitive

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: Infinite Scrolling will allow for easier navigation, better performance, and enhanced visibility during a compensation review process.

Increased limit on number of employees viewable in the planning grid

Workday now enables infinite scrolling for compensation review grids with over 50 rows, improving usability and performance when managing large compensation reviews
The limit for Preferred Compensation Review Employee Awards Grid has increased from 500 to 2000, allowing organizations to review more employees at once

Increased limit on number of employees viewable in the planning grid

Infinite scrolling only works when each employee has one plan per plan type
If an employee has multiple rows in the planning grid, infinite scrolling will not apply
Workday provides mass actions to increase search report results to 2000 rows, but these should only be used if the process meets the infinite scrolling criteria

Payroll – Core

Pay Group & Pay Component Summary Reports

Introducing two new Standard Reports

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: Enables you to easily view summaries and details on pay groups and individual pay components, keeping you informed while focusing on efficiency.

1. Payroll Pay Group Summary

High level summary of workers, results, gross pay, and net pay
Based on pay group details and periods you select

2. Payroll Pay Component Summary

High level summary of workers, results, result lines, and result line amount for the pay component
Based on pay group details and periods you select

Data Entry Checking and Pay Input

Enhanced Audit Abilities

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This update enables you to reduce errors in manual payroll inputs before you calculate payroll, saves you time when auditing for errors in payroll input, and ensures payroll input amounts are within standard deviations.

Big Picture

WD tracks trends in pay input, identifies outliers above or below average amounts, and notifies you of discrepancy.

Data Entry Check Options (Edit Tenant Setup > Payroll)

Select areas to switch on Data Entry Check
Can choose which areas to receive messages
Switch on Data Entry Check everywhere
Receive data entry check messages from all areas of payroll that are enabled for the feature

Updated Payroll Web Services

Get Edit Tenant Setup > Payroll
Put Edit Tenant Setup > Payroll

Payroll Input Business Process

A New Business Process with Several Benefits

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Using a business process to manage payroll input requests helps improve accuracy and traceability, and enables you to audit payroll input data, providing operational efficiency and transparency in payroll management.

New Request Payroll Inputs Task

Payroll practitioners can request payroll inputs for workers to initiate the new business process

Review or Auto Approve

Can configure new Review Pay Input Request for Worker task as an action on BP, routing requests to reviewer as a My Tasks notification
Reviewers can bulk approve some or all pending requests
If review is not configured, Workday automatically approves the request

Payroll – U.S.

Convenience of Employer Rule

Remote Worker Tax Update

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: This feature enables you to set up a COE rule and to define the COE states for your remote workers’ tax elections. This helps you comply with different state requirements for tax reporting.

What’s New?

Enable Convenience of Employer Rule checkbox on the Edit Company Federal US Tax Reporting Task
Convenience of Employer tab on the Add Worker US Tax Elections Task

Limitations

New tab only appears if the checkbox is selected
Can only configure 1 COE rule for a worker at a time and rule is only effective on or after 2024-01-01

Pay Anomalies Enhancements

New Pay Anomalies Report

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: Makes it easier to separately add tags from feedback and enhance accessibility from the worker’s related actions.

When running the report, new ability to:

View a worker’s profile by clicking the link under the Worker for Pay Anomaly section for a pay result.
Add tags and comments for pay results by clicking the Tag Result mass action button.
Tags/comments display under the Pay Anomaly Tag & Comments sections of the pay result.

Payroll Withholding Order Data Reports

An Improved Experience

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: These updates improve your experience in viewing payroll withholding order data in Workday.

Updates to View Payroll Withholding Order Data and All Payroll Withholding Order Data reports:

Search for data by either the name of the pay component or tax authority
Filter data and compliance updates by effective date

Same Tab, New Name

The “Data Driven Calculation Rules” tab is now “Withholding Order Data”

Payroll – Canada

Canada Annual Tax Filing – T4/T4A Integration

The T4/T4A Integration for Payroll for Canada year-end tax reporting is updated

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: These updates support compliance with Canada Revenue Agency updates to the T4 and T4A Year End XML Forms.

These new parameters are delivered to the Canada Annual Tax Filing – T4/T4A Integration

Override BN15 (optional)
If you use MyBA, Web Access Code (WAC), or Represent a Client (RAC) for year-end tax filing, enter a 15-character business number and use it to override the 15-character business number that displays on the T4 and T4A Canada Year End Tax Filing XML forms in the T619 section. The value you enter for Override BN15 (optional) needs to match the company you log in with for Canada Revenue Agency but doesn’t need to match the company business number you are filing for that’s listed in the integration launch parameters. Only one Override BN15 (optional) entry is required even if you select multiple companies.
Transmitter Rep ID (optional)
When using Represent a Client (RAC) for year-end tax filing, enter your 7-character Transmitter Rep ID to display on the T4 and T4A Canada Year End Tax Filing XML forms in the T619 section. Only one Transmitter Rep ID (optional) entry is required, even when you select multiple companies. If you use Transmitter Rep ID for year-end tax filing, you will also need to update the Override BN15 (optional) with the BN15 you use to login with the Canada Revenue Agency.

Tax Rate Report Field

The Tax Rate report field description is updated to clarify that it returns Canadian flat tax and sales tax rates for the applicable Payroll result line

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This update provides more clarity on the report field.

Changes

Description is updated to Canada Flat/Sales Tax Rate for this Payroll Result Line

Pay Anomalies Enhancements

The Pay Anomalies report is now available for Payroll for Canada

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This update makes it easier to separately add tags and enhance accessibility from the worker’s related actions.

Available for Payroll for Canada

This report is newly available to Canada, Australia, and the UK with this update (it has current availability to Payroll for the US)

Worker Profile

Simple access to the worker’s profile is available by clinking the link under Worker for Pay Anomaly section for a payroll result

Tags

Tags and comments for selected payroll results can be added by clicking the Tag Result mass action button
The tags and comments you add then display under the Pay Anomaly Tag and Comments section of the payroll result

Cross App & Security

Security History for Users Audit Report

Allows for increased visibility into security group membership changes

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This report allows for increased insight into security membership changes within a defined time period.

New Delivered Report: Security History Users Audit

Allows visibility into the following:

Security History Event name
Security Groups Affected
Security Revoked
Security Group Type

This report currently only applies to User-Based Security Groups

Future releases plan to expand the list of available groups.

Workday Docs and Document Generation for Onboarding

Drive now supported on the Onboarding Business Process

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Allows for increased flexibility in creating, updating, and sending onboarding documents.

The Generate Document step will allow users to more easily pull in their onboarding documents

This step allows you to use documents created with Workday Docs
These documents are dynamically created

The Review Document step will allow users more flexibility in sending documents to employees in onboarding

This step will allow users to distribute documents to new hires during onboarding

Scheduling

Scheduled Days to Include

Improved connection between Absence and Workday Scheduling

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Workdays (Non-Holiday) can now be setup to look at a worker’s schedule in determining what days are workdays.

Time Off Plans can now reference Workday Scheduling for Workdays (Non-Holiday)

Frees up Manager’s time
No longer need to review Workday Scheduling to ensure worker’s shifts align with absence requests
Reduces manager’s need to deny/send back requests based on if a worker is scheduled
Reduces worker error of using balances unnecessarily for non-scheduled days

Daily Time Exceptions

Updated Functionality to help managers & admins

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: Managers/Administrators can now view/edit time clock data through the Workday Mobile app.

Daily Time features have been updated so that Managers can now

View which workers have checked in
Edit time clock events for workers
View Time clock History
View precise number of hours or minutes a worker is late

Team Schedule

This information is now available in the Attendance Tab of the Team Schedule worklet through the Workday Mobile app

Talent & Performance

Mass Populate Worker Profile Skills

Automate process of adding skills to worker profiles

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: This feature enables your organization to proactively load skills on to worker profiles instead of relying on the individual workers to do it.

More skills on more worker profiles means your organization can optimize the use of Skills Cloud and make employees more aware of their skills in Workday.

Administrators can launch by supervisory organization or location, as well as be able to customize other features

Which skills populate (job profile skills, job profile suggested skills, and/or worker suggested skills)
Can limit how many skills make an employee eligible to receive the task and how many skills can be added when launched

Notification sent to employees to alert them to changes to their skills and allow to edit skills

Notification can be customized by administrators as well

Career Hub: Job Match Analysis

Updated Matching Analysis for Browsing Job Opportunities

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This update enhances the user experience by making it easier to compare and contrast jobs by creating a more interconnected experience.

In the Explore section within Career Hub, employees can click into a job opening and find Job Match Analysis.

Along with details for the job opening, employees can see View Match Analysis to see why Workday AI finds them a fit for this job opening.

Improved Job Match Analysis includes areas for the following:

Skills that match
Additional job details
Skills the job opening is looking for
Recommended training for the job opening

Additional Personas Print Reviews

Relevant contributors to reviews able to print as PDF

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This release gives qualified and relevant contributors to the employee review process appropriate access to print, so there is less reliance on internal staff to provide print outs for reviews.

The following security groups will have access to print employee reviews:

Former managers
Manager for Majority Event
Additional Managers
Additional Reviewers

These mentioned individuals will be able to print from inside the actual task, or from the Performance section of the Worker Profile

Reporting

Mass Copy Composite Report Rows

Improved Functionality for Report Writers

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: Improves efficiency of authoring and updating of composite reports.

Update Multiple Reports Simultaneously

Allows for mass updating of rows across multiple report iterations
Decreases the redundancy and time spent on composite report updates

Analytic Dimensions for Prism Analytics

New Functionality within Prism Analytics

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Gives report writers access to more functionality within reporting.

User-Defined Instance Data

Prism Data Writers now have the ability to create user-defined instance data in Prism datasets
This functionality allows for greater use of additional reporting capabilities (grouping, filtering, etc)

Smart Summary in People Analytics

New Reporting Functionality for People Analytics

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Provides automated updates to user’s email to increase user adoption of the tool.

Email Notification for PPLA Users

Delivers key insights and resources on a set frequency to a user’s email inbox to increase usage of the application

Recruiting

Language Search for Job Description
and Posting Title

External Career Site allows for Multi-Language search

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Improves Candidate experience by allowing in preferred language, promotes a diverse range of candidates, and can ensure legal compliance.

Candidates can now search on career site in preferred language

Includes Job description and posting title for all the languages supported by Workday
For example, if a candidate accesses career site in English but searches for the job using a title in French, the job will display in search results – they do not need to access the career site in French

New Workday Onboarding Experience

Personalized content at defined stages of onboarding period

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Provides better onboarding experience, reduces manual and external communications, help increase engagement from time of offer to onboarding.

New Onboarding Experience Overview

Send preboarding content to candidate as soon as they receive an offer or employee agreement
After Employee has a Workday account, you can continue to connect and share information before their first day

Onboarding Plan

Customize and assign an onboarding plan that contains all the content new hires need. Two ways new hires can now access the plan:
New External Preboarding Site when only have access to candidate home (Once Workday account has been created, they will no longer have this access)
Internally after they have workday account created

Onboarding Planner

Centralized hub for admin to configure onboarding
Create time-based stages aligned with Hire Date
Ability to configure unique content for different groups of new hires

Onboarding Timeline

New visual for new hires that shows current stage in onboarding progress and dynamically updates as they move through stages. Seen on the following:
Workday Home Page
Onboarding Plan

Time Tracking

Effective-Dated Time Entry Templates

This release enables effective-dated time entry templates for compliance and accurate time tracking

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This update helps admins and managers streamline compliance, reduce manual adjustments, and ensure accurate time tracking by enabling future-dated configurations and improved reporting.

Ability to add future dates when making time entry templates changes

Minimizes retroactive manual adjustments
Provides greater audit visibility
Promote accurate time entries through enhanced validation capabilities

Additional Considerations

New tasks and reports support managing, copying, and deleting effective-dated data for time entry templates
Financial Management tasks are updated to align with effective-dated Time Tracking data
Enhanced reporting features provide better visibility into time entry template configurations and eligibility rules

Flexible Check-In and Check-Out

Configure custom thresholds within which workers can adjust their time entries

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Enables workers to record hours with precision even if there are delays between arriving at work and checking in or checking out and leaving.

New Worker Edits for Check In and Check Out Tasks section added to time entry templates

Thresholds range from 0-120 minutes
Check In/Out can be edited on mobile or desktop
Check Out (Break) and Check Out (meal) can only be edited on desktop

Corresponding report fields added

All Time Entry Templates
Time Clock Event BO

Does not work with:

Shift-based Check-In
Geofences By Scheduled Shift Location

Daily Time Exceptions

Allows managers to easily see if worker clocked in on time and edit event

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This update streamlines the manager experience when reviewing worker time punch compliance.

Available if using both Workday Time Tracking and Scheduling
View precise number of hours and minutes a worker is late or over
Managers can easily:
Add clock events on behalf of workers
Contact Workers
View workers who are not checked in/out

Learning

AI: Summarize Content Feedback

Summarization of AI Content Feedback

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: This feature streamlines feedback analysis by summarizing user comments, helping administrators identify valuable insights quickly. It enhances content improvement efforts and optimizes learner engagement by highlighting key feedback trends.

Generated AI Feedback on Course Comments

Identifies actionable feedback by using AI to generate a high-level summary of employee comments and interactions with learning course content
Summarized Content will be broken down into 4 sections based off learner comments
Positives, Negatives, Technical Issues, Suggestions
Learning Content must have at least 5 feedback comments with a minimum of 20 characters each
Will ignore comments like “Done” or “Completed”, to help target more insightful commentary to improve feedback

Learning Administrator Capabilities

Edit, save, or regenerate AI-generated feedback summaries, and remove learner comments from the summary view.
Access source feedback comments via Administer Activity Stream domain permissions.

Edit Tenant Setup – HCM

With this automatic release, Workday provides an option under Edit Tenant Setup – HCM to Disable AI Summarized Feedback
Selecting this option will hide the AI Summarized Feedback tab.

Recommendations in Preferred Languages

Enhancing Learning Accessibility with Language Preferences

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: This enhancement ensures that employees receive recommendations for courses in languages they best understand, making learning more accessible and effective for a global workforce.

Additionally, it allows organizations to better tailor learning experiences, improving engagement and skill development by aligning content with learners’ language preferences.

Enables learners to set language preferences for recommended content

Enhances learning experience for global learners by ensuring recommended learning content aligns with their preferred language.
Edit Tenant Setup – HCM
Enable Language Preferences Check Box Feature controls the ability for learners to access recommended learning content via their preferred language.

Preferred Languages field to the Learning Preferences task

A new report field titled Preferred Learning Languages has been added on the Person business object, allowing for reports to be created on learners preferred language settings (secured to the Public Reporting Items domain).
Configure Optional Fields task offers new options to properly tag learning content.
Learning content language tags can be required of the following business processes:
Manage Course
Manage Course Offering
Manage Lesson
Manage Program

Enhanced Cloud Connect for Learning (CCL)

Streamlined Integrations & Expanded Content Access

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: These enhancements improve the efficiency of integrating third-party learning content, giving organizations access to a wider range of educational resources.

The streamlined setup process reduces administrative effort, while new filtering options and content types enhance the user experience by making learning content easier to find and consume.

Simplified Setup Process for Cloud Connect

Workday consolidates all CCL setup tasks into a single task, making it easier for administrators to configure third-party learning content
Workday Learning Customers will have access to more content providers to integrate with for content import and completion tracking within Workday Learning

New Learning Content Features & Enhancements

Improved Search Functionality: Users can now filter learning content by Authors and Publishers in custom Browse and Manage Learning Content reports
New Content Types: Workday introduces “Collection” and “Document” content types, allowing for more structured and organized learning content from third-party providers

Integrations

Bank Routing Rules Web Services

New Bank Routing Rule Web Services for Bulk Maintenance

Availability: Set Up Required

Level of Effort

Why this is important: Allows organizations to efficiently import and export bank routing rules in bulk, reducing manual effort and improving accuracy in payment settlements.

Workday introduces two new web services

Get Bank Routing Rule – Retrieves existing bank routing rules
Put Bank Routing Rule – Updates or creates bank routing rules in bulk
Secured to the Set Up: Settlement domain.

Create Requisition Request Web Service (Fix)

Create Requisition Request Web Service Now Correctly Updates Certification Qualifications

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: Reduction of manual corrections on duplicate or incorrect qualifications on job profiles.

Issue: When updating a certification, Workday incorrectly added it as an additional qualification

Create Requisition Request web service

Fix: The web service now correctly replaces the existing certification qualification on:

Job Requisitions
Positions
Job Profiles

Errors in Financial Payment Integrations

Enhanced Error Messaging for Outbound Financial Integrations

Availability: Automatically Available

Why this is important: Provides clearer error messaging for outbound payment integrations, ensuring missing critical data is flagged early.

Logic updates in the outbound payment templates that sends error messages when no customer invoices or journal lines are available

Core Connector: Electronic Customer Invoices
Financial Journal Lines Outbound Connector

Our Workday 2025 R1 Highlights

Workday® 2025 R1 is here!

Financials

Separate Payments for Customer Refunds in Settlement Runs

Enables you to process separate payments for customer refunds in a settlement run

Availability: Set Up Required

Manually Close and Reopen Requisition Lines

You can close individual requisition lines while keeping the partially sourced requisition open

Availability: Automatically Available

Assign Match Status for Intercompany Journal Lines

New tasks to mark intercompany journal lines as available or unavailable for matching

Availability: Set Up Required

HCM

Manager Insights Hub

Additional Functionality Added

Availability: Automatically Available

Enhanced Offboarding

Creating an improved User Experience

Availability: Automatically Available

Edit To Do Task

Enables faster workflows when editing To Do tasks

Availability: Automatically Available

Adaptive

Add Reports On Dashboards

Enhancements to how you can leverage Workday Dashboards

Availability: Automatically Available

Version Specific Overrides For Linked Accounts

Enable Linked Accounts For Data Entry In Specific Plan Versions

Availability: Automatically Available

Shared Scenarios

Share Your Personal Scenarios With Other Collaborators

Availability: Automatically Available

Absence

Effective Dating for Service Dates

Enables you to track service date changes for workers, reduces downstream impacts to calculations, and improves reporting

Availability: Automatically Available

Change Job/Assign Work Schedule Impacts on Time Off

Workday automatically removes approved time off entries after events that remove worker eligibility for the time off

Availability: Set Up Required

Start and End Times on Absence Tables

Workday allows workers to enter start and end times when using absence tables

Availability: Set Up Required

Benefits

Purge Dependent and Beneficiaries for Active Workers

Enables you to purge dependent and beneficiary data for active employees.

Availability: Set Up Required

Mobile Benefits UI Rearchitecture

Transition from old Benefits Mobile UI to new UI

Availability: Automatically Available

Compensation

Administrator Security for Compensation

Workday updates report security to restrict sensitive compensation data to authorized administrators with appropriate access

Availability: Automatically Available

Total Rewards Template Conversion

Workday 2025 R1 enables you to convert older Total Rewards templates to the new template format

Availability: Set Up Required

Infinite Scrolling on Compensation Review Planning Grid

By enabling infinite scrolling, Workday improves performance and makes assessing employees more intuitive

Availability: Automatically Available

Payroll – Core

Pay Group & Pay Component Summary Reports

Introducing two new Standard Reports

Availability: Automatically Available

Data Entry Checking and Pay Input

Enhanced Audit Abilities

Availability: Automatically Available

Payroll Input Business Process

A New Business Process with Several Benefits

Availability: Set Up Required

Payroll – U.S.

Convenience of Employer Rule

Remote Worker Tax Update

Availability: Set Up Required

Pay Anomalies Enhancements

New Pay Anomalies Report

Availability: Automatically Available

Payroll Withholding Order Data Reports

An Improved Experience

Availability: Automatically Available

Payroll – Canada

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