Workday for HR Professionals

As a human resources professional, you’ll complete most staffing and compensation actions in Workday. From recruiting and hiring to onboarding and retirement, you may use the system to perform HR-related tasks such as:

  • Requesting and approving job requisitions
  • Conducting background checks
  • Managing temporary changes in pay
  • Overseeing performance reviews

HR Actions in Workday

Workday brings many HR business processes into a single, integrated platform. Expand the menus to find job aids for common HR processes or to access job aids and how-to videos sorted by topic.

Academics and Faculty

Workday will be used to manage all processes related to academic staffing, including creating, updating, and ending academic appointments and named professorships.

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  • Update Academic Appointment ​
  • Add Academic Appointment ​
  • Create Named Professorship ​
  • Edit Named Professorship ​
  • End Academic Appointment ​

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Compensation

Workday will be used to manage changes to compensation, such as adjusting or ending period activity pay (PAP) and requesting one-time payments.

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Form I-9

Workday is the single system all Universities of Wisconsin universities will use to distribute, complete, and store Form I-9s.

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  • Complete Form I-9 Section 3
  • Manage Form I-9 for Worker
  • Complete Record of External I-9, Section 3
Payroll

Managing payroll in Workday involves a variety of processes, such as entering and approving time off, payroll processing, making payroll accounting adjustments, and assigning costing allocations.

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Recruitment

Workday Recruiting will be used to perform every step of the recruiting lifecycle, from creating a job requisition and posting job openings to initiating reference checks and hire.

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Staffing Actions

Workday will be used to manage the lifecycle of a position, from adding additional jobs to termination.

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Talent and Performance

In addition to facilitating the performance management process for employees and managers, Workday will be used to handle related performance actions such as probation review, employee goals review, and more.  

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Time and Time Off

The process of overseeing, correcting, or approving time off and leave of absence (LOA) requests from employees will happen in Workday. HR staff with the appropriate security roles can also enter time off or leave of absence requests on an employee’s behalf.

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  • Requesting Time Off on Behalf of Employee
  • Approvers of Leave of Absence

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Workday Learning

Workday Learning is the shared resource all Universities of Wisconsin universities will use to manage employment-related training. The tool will be used by training partners to manage mass enrollments for and remove learners from courses.

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