Our first issue of the Workday Wire newsletter includes a summary of how we are doing in Workday, details on the latest Workday release, and a resource roundup of newly added quick start guides.
Workday Transformation Report
The first year of Workday being live is a critical time for assessing and streamlining our business processes. As teams use Workday for hiring, budgeting, and other key HR and Finance activities, we are closely tracking progress, gathering feedback, and improving our processes along the way.
We are doing everything in Workday for the first time and learning along the way. Some of our recent milestones include:
- Launching expectation setting for the 2025-26 PRD cycle
- Successfully completing COLA/merit increases for FY2026
- Supporting campus users through fall hiring efforts
- Completed 2025 fiscal year end close in Workday
We were able to succeed through collaboration with Central Business Units like University Human Resources, the Controller’s office, payroll services, and our tenant partners at University of Maryland Eastern Shore, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and University System of Maryland Office.
Updates and Improvements
Workday 2025R2 Successfully Deployed on September 20
Workday delivers feature releases to our system twice a year, in March and September. These bi-annual Workday releases provide new features, fix issues, and improve usability of Workday. The fall Workday release (Workday 2025R2) went live on September 20 and came with:
- The ability to submit multiple time off entries for the same date as one request
- Improvements to the user interface, notably for compensation business processes
- New “quick action” buttons on the homepage
- …and more!
Updated Security Access to P-Card Transaction Reports
To enhance efficiency in the P-Card process, there have been some updates to the viewing security of credit card transactions.
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Routing Changes for P-Card Request Forms in Workday
P-Card Request Forms now route to the manager of the employee’s primary position, then continue through the approval routing.
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Update on UID Integrations
An enhancement was made in Workday to identify and resolve UID issues earlier in the Hire business process.
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Newly Streamlined and Enhanced Payroll Advance & Recovery Process
We’ve streamlined the Payroll Advance & Recovery Request Process in Workday, reducing form fields to complete and eliminating the need to upload documents.
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Resource Roundup
We are continually adding to and improving upon our library of resources to better support our user community. After Go Live, we started creating Quick Start Guides to help users better understand certain processes.
Explore some of our newly added Quick Start Guides below: