Workday for HR Professionals

As a human resources professional, you’ll complete most staffing and compensation actions in Workday. From recruiting and hiring to onboarding and retirement, you may use the system to perform HR-related tasks such as:

  • Requesting and approving job requisitions
  • Conducting background checks
  • Managing temporary changes in pay
  • Overseeing performance reviews

HR Actions in Workday

Workday brings many HR business processes into a single, integrated platform. Expand the menus to find user guides for common HR processes or to access user guides and how-to videos sorted by topic.

Academics and Faculty

Workday will be used to manage all processes related to academic staffing, including creating, updating, and ending academic appointments and named professorships.

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Browse Academics and Faculty User Guides for HR Professionals

Compensation

Workday will be used to manage changes to compensation, such as adjusting or ending period activity pay (PAP) and requesting one-time payments.

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Browse Compensation User Guides for HR Professionals

Form I-9

Workday is the single system all Universities of Wisconsin universities will use to distribute, complete, and store Form I-9s.

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Browse Form I-9 User Guides for HR Professionals

Payroll

Managing payroll in Workday involves a variety of processes, such as entering and approving time off, payroll processing, making payroll accounting adjustments, and assigning costing allocations.

Browse Payroll Accounting User Guides for HR Professionals

Performance

In addition to facilitating the performance management process for employees and managers, Workday will be used to handle related performance actions such as probation review, employee goals review, and more.  

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Browse Performance User Guides for HR Professionals

Recruitment

Workday Recruiting will be used to perform every step of the recruiting lifecycle, from creating a job requisition and posting job openings to initiating reference checks and hire.

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Staffing Actions

Workday will be used to manage the lifecycle of a position, from adding additional jobs to termination.

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Time and Time Off

The process of overseeing, correcting, or approving time off and leave of absence (LOA) requests from employees will happen in Workday. HR staff with the appropriate security roles can also enter time off or leave of absence requests on an employee’s behalf.

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Browse Time and Time Off User Guides for HR Professionals

Workday Learning

Workday Learning is the shared resource all Universities of Wisconsin universities will use to manage employment-related training. The tool will be used by training partners to manage mass enrollments for and remove learners from courses.

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