Workday Transformation Report
Workday Release 2026R2
The fall 2026 Workday Feature Release is coming this Saturday, September 19!
What’s Coming with This Release:
- More Absence tasks will now be available to complete on mobile devices (Request Return from Leave of Absence and Return Worker from Leave)
- Workday is introducing the Manage My Receipts task, which enables you to edit, cancel, and track the status of your receipts.
- The Change Job business process has been updated to include several new templates designed to provide a more streamlined approach to processing worker position changes.
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Upcoming Migration to Public Cloud Server
On October 24, Workday will move its services from a private cloud environment to commercial cloud hosting. This is primarily a behind-the-scenes change to how Workday hosts and supports the system.
Workday will remain accessible through workday.umd.edu. However, other Workday URLs will change as part of this transition.
If you have saved browser bookmarks or direct links to Workday tasks, reports, or other pages, those links will no longer work after October 24. This will also affect links included in training materials, help resources, and emails. Our team will be reviewing our Workday job aids to update links where they exist.
To prepare, we recommend using Workday’s built-in menu items and shortcuts for the tasks and reports you access most often, rather than relying on browser bookmarks or links in past emails. Learn how to add or edit menu items and shortcuts in Workday.
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Updates and Collaboration News
New Procurement Report Available on The Maryland Procurement & AP Dashboard
RPT3436 PROCUREMENT Procurement Card Bank Statements is a new report available on the Maryland Procurement & AP Dashboard.
- This report enables Cost Center Financial Analysts, Credit Card Leads, and Cardholders to review statement uploads.
- The report is filterable by Billing Cycle, Cost Center, Cost Center Hierarchy, or Cardholder.
- Managers can also use this report by Cardholder only or continue to use the “All Requests” report.
New Functionality: Change Job Templates
The following are the new Change Job templates that are now available in Workday:
1. Change in Location
2. Change Manager
3. Transfer
4. Change FTE
5. Work Shift Change
6. Elect Comp Time or Time Entry Method
7. Reappointment/Renewal
8. Change Job: Other Reasons
These Change Job templates provide a more efficient and consistent approach to processing Change Job actions. The templates consolidate and organize the information required for different types of job changes, making it easier for users to select the appropriate template and complete the necessary steps.
Resource Roundup
Updated Resources:
- Change Job
- Change Job Workflows
- Send Back Performance Review Manually
- Reassign Manager Evaluation for Performance Review
Did you know?
In addition to adding Favorites and Shortcuts, you can further customize your Menu panel in Workday by adding or removing menu items.
Menu items allow you to access information and tasks pertaining to a particular topic. You can add and remove items from this list, though some menu items are required and cannot be removed.
Through the gear icon at the bottom of the menu panel, you can both add and remove menu items, as well as reorder menu items and pin items to the top of your menu.
Customizing your Workday navigation to include your most visited dashboards, tasks, and reports reduce the impact of the Public Cloud Migration, which will impact Workday links in places like your browser bookmarks, emails, and any other source outside of Workday.