Workday Releases
What are Workday Releases?
Workday updates our system twice a year, in March and September, referred to as bi-annual Workday releases. These updates deliver new features, fix issues, and improve usability of Workday.
Preparing for Workday Releases
The bi-annual approach allows ERP Services to plan and prepare for changes in advance, ensuring that our systems remain up-to-date with the latest innovations and improvements. Before every release, the we:
- Reviews the list of updates included in the release
- Tests the system to make sure everything works as expected
- Updates training materials as needed
- Informs users of important feature updates
How do these updates impact Workday users?
These updates keep Workday up-to-date with the latest technology, so you can get the most out of the system. During each feature release, we’ll make sure you know what’s changing and how it affects you.
Workday Fall 2025 Release (2025R2)
The next Workday release is coming on September 20, 2025!
You can view some of the most impactful new features and functionality for most users, or dive deeper by clicking into the full list at the link below.
Want to see the full list of release items?
Click here to view a file of all the updates available for the 2025R2 release.
In the file, you will see a column for Setup Effort. This column will denote if a release item is either Automatically Available or Setup Required, as described below:
- Automatically Available: Installed by Workday and immediately available with no configuration needed.
- Setup Required: The feature will not be usable unless configured or activated by ERP Services.
Notable Features in 2025R2 Release
Please note that this list can change as our team conducts testing for the release.
General
Worker Profile Menu Interface Update
The Worker Profile menu will look a little different to better match Workday’s usability efforts.
Quick Action Buttons on Homepage
You will see new buttons at the top of the homepage to help you navigate more quickly to some of the most used tasks and pages.
Human Capital Management
Time Management Hub
A new Time Management Hub will provide a single access point to navigate to your Absence, Time Tracking and Scheduling tasks. This update is designed to:
- Bring together time management tasks and reports in one central location
- Help you put your most important tasks first
- Reduce time and effort spent managing absences, time entries, and schedules.
New Absence Calendar Experience: Multiple Time Off Entries for the Same Date as One Request
With this release, you will now be able to add 1 or multiple entries for the same date. You will also be able to request multiple types of time off for the same date and change the date of existing time off entries.
The ability to edit individual days and request multiple time offs on the same date in a single request using Absence Calendar Experience provides you with more flexibility, especially when dealing with a complex or unusual absence scenario. This update also lets you combine different time off types or adjust requests when balances are insufficient for a single type.
Enhanced User Interface for Request Compensation Change
Workday continues enhancements to the manager experience for the Request Compensation Change business process.
The enhanced user interface simplifies compensation processes and reduces the likelihood of error.
Enhanced User Interface for Compensation Subprocesses and Business Processes
Workday continues user interface enhancements to multiple compensation change business processes.
The enhanced user interface simplifies compensation processes and reduces the likelihood of error. It also provides a modernized and consistent compensation change business process.
New Lesson Type: Acknowledgment
A new lesson type, Acknowledgement, enables learners to acknowledge their understanding of learning content. This lesson type enables reporting on acknowledgement responses and courses and with acknowledgements. This is meant to help with compliance by providing records of learning understanding.
Remove Prior Compensation for Rehires
Hiring managers will be able to rehire previously terminated workers without reassigning or displaying compensation from their previous employment. This will be reflected in the Propose Compensation Hire step of the Hire process. This feature helps you to effectively treat rehired workers as new hires.
Finance
Printing Customer Documents with Attachments Using Docs for Layouts
With this release, you will be able to print customer invoices with attachments using Workday Docs.
This improves printing efficiency and reduces processing time for customer invoices and dunning letters.
Supplier Invoice Pop Out for Attachment Previewer Enhancements
Workday delivers improvements to the interface when using the pop out for attachment previewer for supplier invoices.
With this new feature, when you open the attachment previewer as a separate window, you will be able to dynamically view attachments for different supplier invoices by keeping the previewer open when you navigate elsewhere in Workday on the same browser tab. The attachment previewer will also update to available attachments when viewing another invoice, and clear when you aren’t viewing an invoice or the invoice doesn’t include attachments. You will also be able to view multiple separate attachment previewer windows when opened from separate browser tabs.