Stephen Gilmore

What's New in Workday 2024R1

Workday February 5th, 2024 5 minute read.

My super rough notes in public around the most interesting (to me) What's New in Workday topic for 2024R1.

Analytics & Reporting

Mass Update Report Tags

We deliver a new Mass Update Report Tags task that enables users to mass assign or unassign report tags.

Sounds interesting. I never really want to organize or assign report tags until after patterns show up "down the road" and it becomes an overwhelming task to update them one by one. Sounds like this would make it a whole lot easier.

Email Analytics for Student

Not using student, but reminder to check out these email analytics sometime. I'm curious what kinds of analysis you could do between the email analytics data and business process/task completion. Steps: Set Up Email Analytics Which reminds me... I also still need to check out Notification Designer at some point as well.

Workday Docs for Layouts

With Workday 2024R1, we expand the Workday Docs product to support advanced reports.

It sounds like this might be a way to use a WYSIWYG type editor to use instead of BIRT for layouts tied to reports.

Financial Management

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Platform and Product Extensions

Workday-Provided Receiving Domain for Email Ingestion

we deliver a Workday-provided receiving domain that you can use to simplify the process of setting up Email Ingestion for your company

~~Can this be a single receiving alias for all of our automated vendor emails so they aren't going off to random corners of the organization?~~

Nope, that's not what it's for. This feature works with existing use-cases:

Add "Email Ingestion" to the list of innovation services I need to check out some day.

User-Based Security Framework

Looks cool, can ensure that another Security Admin verifies it's okay for another security admin to assign themselves more security.

Home Cards Workspace

TODO: look into this

Team Highlights for Managers on Workday Home

TODO: look into this

Student

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Talent Management

Extended Enterprise Affiliations - TODO, what is this? (part of learning)

Gigs renamed to "Flex Teams"

Human Capital Management

Decision Support for Medical Plan Election

TODO: I need to watch a demo of this, looks kind of interesting

Benefits Program Communication Cards

Workday simplifies the process of creating benefit program cards by enabling you to create cards directly in Workday.

Does this take the place of benefits cards that vendors mail out? Or is it something else?

Dynamic Plan Type Display

Workday 2024R1 makes it easier to assign employees compensation during the Propose Compensation Change process by displaying only the plan types that are relevant for the employee.

Need to find out more about this.

Worker Messaging

Workday delivers a new Worker Messaging feature, which enables you to communicate time-sensitive messages to workers using SMS, email, and push notifications. Worker Messaging provides access to worker populations not easily reached through email alone, improving responsiveness and driving efficiency in your worker communications.

I'm very interested in this and how/if users can opt-in or opt-out. Also curious if Slack would ever be a future method.

Hire Business Process Enhancements

New UI for Hire and customization options!! That sounds nice.

Job Profile Business Process

With this release, Workday delivers a new business process that enables you to configure workflows and approvals for creating or editing a job profile. This improves collaboration, reduces errors, and enables you to efficiently maintain job profiles.

I'm hoping we can use this to enable better self service for our Total Rewards team and potentially trigger an integration to automate some of our grade and grade profile creation tasks.

I'm curious what kinds of questions there are, how they are stored, and how the results potentially affect integrations, reports, security, etc. in the tenant.

Configurable Fields for Personal Information

Workday enables you to easily and securely collect and manage customer-specific personal information data elements to better support your business needs and improve the user experience for your workers.

Hoping that this is a better solution to those fields other applications need but don't have a home for in Workday.

Payroll

Payroll Insights as an Innovation Service

Workday delivers a new Payroll Insights service to Innovation Services that leverages machine learning to analyze and provide real-time insights into payroll results based on historical payroll result patterns.

Very interested into the kinds of insights it might pull.

Déclaration Sociale Nominative (DSN)

There are a couple items around this. TODO - what country is it for?

Adaptive Planning

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Spend Management

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