Release Notes keep our users updated on weekly changes to the Workday application. These can be new features, updates to existing features, or a solution to a problem. Subscribe to our Release Notes emails to receive notifications of our recent updates.
Below are our most recent updates
| Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Compensation | The Request Compensation Change business process now allows Compensation Partners to add and remove attachments | 7/9/2026 |
| Benefits | The Open Enrollment Journey is now available to all Active Employees to provide a step-by-step guide to completing Open Enrollment. All Benefits Eligible Employees will receive a link to the Open Enrollment Journey on their home page during Open Enrollment | 7/9/2026 |
Below are all of our updates from the past 6 months
| Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Absence Management | The State Comp Time Off Plan now has the Expiring Accruals feature enabled, allowing earned State Comp Time Off to expire exactly 12 months after accrual | 1/29/2026 |
| Absence Management | The Request Leave of Absence business process now includes a Faculty Partner approval step, based on member selection | 1/29/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Business Process Events - Worker Staffing Details," will now run as a background process and be available in My Reports | 1/29/2026 |
| Staffing | Approval steps for Staffing and Compensation business processes will identify the security role receiving the task within the title to improve clarity for the end user | 1/29/2026 |
| Benefits | After submitting Benefit Election events, related Action and To Do steps now become available to the Employee, Retiree or Benefits Partner at the same time | 2/5/2026 |
| Compensation | The report, "My Compensation History," now displays the Job Profile and Business Title associated with a compensation event | 2/5/2026 |
| Staffing | Change Job Templates for Data Change reasons now include clearer help text, updated fields and routing, and more accurate naming conventions | 2/5/2026 |
| Benefits | Employees with pending Evidence of Insurability will receive an announcement on their home page with instructions and a link to complete the form on The Hartford's website | 3/5/2026 |
| Compensation | The Benefits & Pay hub now has a link to access merit statements under Suggested Links | 3/5/2026 |
| Payroll | The Pre-Payroll Dashboard has been updated to correctly return Impacting In-Progress Events of the current month | 3/5/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Current Worker Detail Report," now includes a prompt for Worker Type | 3/5/2026 |
| Staffing | The Journeys app is now available on the Workday menu for active Employees | 3/11/2026 |
| Staffing | Change Job events can no longer be corrected by HR Partners | 3/14/2026 |
| Compensation | Compensation business processes now have a modernized user interface | 3/19/2026 |
| Cross-Application Services | The report, "Personal Travel to a Foreign-Adversary Requests," now includes prompts for date range and status of request | 3/19/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Inbound/Outbound History," now includes terminated workers | 3/19/2026 |
| Talent & Performance | When adding or updating Skills in Workday, employees will now be provided with a list of suggested skills via Skills Cloud | 3/19/2026 |
| Benefits | The Personal Benefits Summary letters for Retirees and Survivors will now include premium information | 3/26/2026 |
| Benefits | The "TRS Annuity Letter" has been renamed "TRS Notification Letter" to better align with the letter's content | 3/26/2026 |
| Staffing | A new report, "Positions Created or Closed in Range," is available to Budget Partner, Executive Approver, HR Partner and HR View Only roles to return completed Create Position and Close Position events in a selected date range | 3/26/2026 |
| Compensation | A new Annual Work Period, "2 Month (January 1 - February 28)," is now available | 4/2/2026 |
| Benefits | A new report, "12 over 9 Eligibility List," is available to Benefits Partners to determine who should be in the 12 over 9 program for the upcoming year. This report should be run and reviewed in June, then submitted to Workday Operations as in years past | 4/9/2026 |
| Absence Management | An error will now appear when an employee requests more than 5 hours of Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Volunteer time off in a month | 4/16/2026 |
| Benefits | The report, " Retiree Home Contact Information," now correctly provides the Retiree Communication Election field and is now available to Benefits View Only roles | 4/16/2026 |
| Payroll | The Pre-Payroll Dashboard is now available to Payroll View Only roles | 4/16/2026 |
| Staffing | The HR Partner HUB now includes common reports and helpful links for Staffing, Position & Job Profile, Employee Information, and Compensation & Payroll | 4/16/2026 |
| Staffing | The Workers Missing SSN Alert will now send at 90 and 120 days after the Hire Date to both employees and supporting roles and will include the Citizenship Status for each Employee | 4/16/2026 |
| Benefits | The Employee Benefits Resources dashboard is now available to all employees via the Workday Menu | 4/23/2026 |
| Benefits | A new report, "Dependent Verification Audit," is available for Benefits Partners that returns common issues with dependents such as those missing verification dates or those with expiring eligibility dates | 4/23/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Work and Home Contact Information," is now available to HR Contacts | 4/23/2026 |
| Staffing | When a Job Change event is blocking a Correct Worker Start Date event, the Job Change event will now be automatically rescinded | 4/23/2026 |
| Payroll | A new earning code, “Extra Pay Outside Regular Job Duty – Grossed Up,” is now available for use The earning code, “Camp Revenue Sharing Payments” is now “Revenue Sharing Payment” to show its expanded use to support one-time payments based on net revenue across a broader range of scenarios | 4/30/2026 |
| Recruiting | The notification for the disposition reason, "Unable to contact candidate," now explicitly states why the Candidate is no longer being considered | 4/30/2026 |
| Recruiting | During Create Job Requisition, Job Description Summary can now be added or edited | 4/30/2026 |
| Recruiting | The disposition reason "Pool contains sufficient candidates not requiring immigration-related employment sponsorship” is now available on the Recruiting Initial Review step | 4/30/2026 |
| Staffing | The New Employee Required Notices task will now trigger when an employee changes companies during Job Change, or if they begin an Additional Job at a new company | 4/30/2026 |
| Staffing | A new role, ISS View Only, is available for International Student Services to assist with employment eligibility for international employees and student workers | 4/30/2026 |
| Staffing | HR Contacts, HR Partners, and Benefits Partners can now view UIN for all workers | 5/7/2026 |
| Compensation | Two new reports, "EIB Template - Request Compensation Change" and "EIB Template - Request One Time Payment" are available to HR, Compensation, and Merit roles to generate a spreadsheet template for EIBs | 5/14/2026 |
| Payroll | The Pre-Payroll Dashboard reports, "Impacting In Progress Events" and "Impacting Complete Events," now correctly return the worker's associated company in the details of both reports | 5/14/2026 |
| Cross-Application Services | A new "Manager Insights Hub" is available to managers to view reports and tasks associated with managing their employees. The hub will be automatically added to the Team section of the Workday Menu for Managers | 5/21/2026 |
| Cross-Application Services | The report, "Personal Travel to Foreign Adversaries," now includes Employee Type | 5/21/2026 |
| Payroll | The report, "Nonresident Aliens with FICA Deductions," now includes optional filters for W-4 Lock in Letter and Non-Immigrant Citizenship Status | 5/21/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Position and Position Restriction Details," now includes Supervisory Organization | 5/21/2026 |
| ITSS Operations | The Save for Summer deductions for FY2027 are now loaded into Workday | 5/27/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Employees with Temp or without SSN," now includes Manager | 6/4/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Employee Position Description," now includes a prompt for Employee Type | 6/11/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Onboarding Status Summary," now includes Work Email | 6/11/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Current Worker Detail Report," now includes Compensation Grade | 6/11/2026 |
| Benefits | The report, "Medical Plan Discrepancy," now returns retirees enrolled in the A&M Care Plan who are ineligible for A&M Care | 6/25/2026 |
| Staffing | The Submit Resignation business process now allows HR Partners to Cancel and Rescind submissions | 6/25/2026 |
| Staffing | The Job Change business process no longer displays the Workday-generated costing allocation pop-up automatically; it remains accessible through the information icon on the page | 6/25/2026 |
| Compensation | The report, "Compensation Changes," now includes the Most Recent Performance Review Rating | 7/2/2026 |
| Recruiting | The Ready for Hire business process now includes an updated second question in the Ready for Hire questionnaire to improve clarity | 7/2/2026 |
| Staffing | The Hire, Change Job and Add Job business processes now include a To Do step for the Security Screening Partner to take action using Visual Compliance for job profiles flagged with a Critical Infrastructure competency | 7/2/2026 |
| Compensation | The Request Compensation Change business process now allows Compensation Partners to add and remove attachments | 7/9/2026 |
| Benefits | The Open Enrollment Journey is now available to all Active Employees to provide a step-by-step guide to completing Open Enrollment. All Benefits Eligible Employees will receive a link to the Open Enrollment Journey on their home page during Open Enrollment | 7/9/2026 |