Future Forward: Workday Updates

Hamilton updated the search function on Workday as the default last year, but for any users who personally reverted to the standard search, please note this Standard Federated Search Page function will no longer be available.

You will notice a refreshed design and streamlined navigation across desktop and mobile. These visual and structural updates are designed to make finding what you need easier and your everyday tasks more seamless.

Redesigned Home Page & Layout: Workday Home features a cleaner two-column layout on desktop (and a single column on mobile). It introduces a convenient, central card that brings together your action items, timely suggestions, and recommended resources in one spot.

Enhanced Insights for Managers: The previous Team Highlights section has been replaced with a dedicated My Team card for quick access to direct reports, worker profiles, and organizational charts. Managers can now track team needs directly from their home page with customizable cards for overdue goals, pending check-ins, and upcoming learning.

Streamlined My Tasks & Notifications:

• My Tasks: Your inbox features an inset card-style design, a light-blue highlight on active tasks, right-aligned action buttons, and shortened date displays (e.g., 3w instead of 3 weeks ago).
• Notifications & Conversations: Global header icons have been refreshed, and menu options feature rounded designs, simplified timestamps, and a repositioned Mark Read button for easier scanning.

Receiving goods and services in Workday has never been easier. The new Manage My Receipts self-service task enables users to edit, cancel, and track the status created receipts. You are also able to cancel receipts created in error or resume editing draft receipts which were saved for later. 

The Quick Receipts task has been developed to enhance Receiving Goods and Services on associated Requisition/Purchase Orders. Through Quick Receipts: Confirm Receipt Request, you can now easily view and confirm receipt of outstanding goods and services for multiple purchase orders at once.

Both of these new features will be located on the Workday Home page within the Updates section, or by searching for the task in the search bar.

Updated Job Aid: Create Receipt for Goods Received

Easier Time Off Revisions: Workers can now revise time off requests directly from the Manage Absence calendar view (on desktop and mobile), in addition to My Tasks.

Enhanced Absence Entries View: Clicking a time off entry in Sent Back, Not Submitted, or Saved for Later status now shows:

• An Edit button to revise the request directly.
• A Send Back Reason field displaying the latest comment from the approver under Request History.
• Note: Once submitted, the item is automatically cleared from My Tasks.

Mobile Accessibility: Mobile web-view support expands access to the Time Requests report, Request Time, and Revise Time Request tasks.

The Favorites worklet is being retired and replaced with a dedicated Favorite Reports and Tasks option under your profile icon, offering quicker access and simplified navigation for your saved items.