New Workday Webinar Series Today; Workday Updates Launching March 9

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In an effort to empower the campus community with the latest tools and insights related to Workday, User Solutions is thrilled to announce the launch of the Workday Wednesdays Webinar Series. Designed to enhance the Workday experience for faculty and staff, the series promises a deep dive into various aspects of Workday functionality, offering valuable tips, practical demonstrations and opportunities for direct engagement.

The first webinar in the series, scheduled for this afternoon, will focus on the Workday release process and will highlight some of the changes coming — which are summarized below. 

WEBINAR DETAILS

• Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 (today)
• Time: 2 - 2:45 p.m.
• Registration: Reserve your spot

WORKDAY 2024 RELEASE 1

The upcoming Workday release, set to launch March 9, includes improvements to business processes and user workflows to streamline the user experience. While the upcoming Workday release focuses on subtle back-end improvements, this update features a few noteworthy, larger-scale changes from refined functions to upgraded interfaces, all aimed at optimizing user efficiency.

Just like any major software upgrade, there will be necessary downtime while these changes are implemented. Workday will be unavailable from 1 to 4 a.m. Saturday, March 9. Additional downtime may be required following the update and will be communicated to campus accordingly. Employees and administrators should make plans to anticipate this downtime.

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

• New look for "Announcements" on Workday homepage: For better visibility, Workday is moving the "Announcements" section to a higher location on the homepage and will now allow employees to scroll through announcements from left-to-right, rather than displaying announcements in a top-to-bottom format.
• Save and manage jobs using the Career Hub Plan: With this release, Workday continues to improve the Career Hub user experience by allowing workers to save and manage jobs in their Career Hub Plan. This additional connection between Career Hub and Talent provides a more centralized approach to career planning. Currently, when users are interested in a job, they can create job alerts. With Save Jobs to Career Hub Plan, users can now apply to the job and save the job to their plan. Workday currently does not support Save Jobs to Career Hub Plan for contingent workers.
• New attachment settings in the Change Job BP: This release promises an improved user experience during the Change Job process by making it easier to add attachments. Users can now drag and drop attachments to the change job event. While Workday won't display the Attachments tab on the Change Job screen, you can add attachments using the Attachment toolbar.

To read more about the upcoming Workday release, including additional enhancements that will be coming online in the near future, please visit the release page on the Workday support website. For more information regarding Workday enhancements, visit the User Solutions website at workday.uark.edu and read Arkansas News for additional updates in the coming weeks.

About User Solutions: User Solutions is dedicated to enhancing and optimizing the capabilities of Workday, ensuring seamless alignment with the University of Arkansas' business processes and user needs. As a focal point for technology-driven efficiency, accuracy, and analytical capabilities, User Solutions provides expertise in business process design, in-depth understanding of ERP functionality, and alignment with the university's strategic goals. User Solutions looks forward to collaborating with attendees to make every day work better with Workday.