Resources
Apps
Your homepage contains specific apps based on your job and supervisory responsibilities. You can make some changes to the homepage, including adding and rearranging some of the worklets. To make changes, click on the Menu button at the top left-hand side of the home page and click edit at the bottom of the new dialogue window to rearrange the order of the apps and click add to remove or add new apps.
Absence
An application linking you to common actions and views related to absence, including correcting absence, return from leave of absence, and absence balance.
Benefits
An application linking you to common actions and views related to benefits, including change benefits, beneficiaries, and dependents. View your benefit elections and current benefits cost.
Job
An application linking you to common actions and views related to your career, including refer candidates and view your certifications, education, languages, job history, and awards.
Compensation
An application linking you to common actions and views related to compensation including comparing a direct report's pay and salary range to others on the team.
Dashboards
An application containing key management reports and actions.
Directory
An application linking you to information about other workers in the company. You can also view your organizational chart, your management chain, and organizations to which you belong.
Expenses
An application linking you to common actions and views related to expenses, including creating and editing expense reports and viewing expense policies, reports, transactions, payment elections, and recent expenses.
Favorites
An application containing favorite reports and tasks for easy access. You can add actions (cost centers, employees, organizations) that you access frequently to the Favorites worklet on the Workday home screen.
Pay
An application linking you to common actions and views related to your pay. You can use this application to access withholding elections and payment elections and to view payslips, total compensation, bonus, and tax documents.
Performance
An application linking you to common actions and views related to performance, including viewing goals, reviews, feedback received, and skills.
Personal Information
An application linking you to common actions and views related to your personal information, including changing your contact and personal information, emergency contacts, photo, legal name, and preferred name.
Time
An application linking you to the common actions to enter your time (for hourly and non exempt workers) through the Time Clock. You can also request time off, view your time off balance ,and time clock history.
Learning
An application linking you to the digital learning hub that helps users acquire new skills, knowledge, and expertise based on various topics such as learning to navigate Workday, University or System policies and procedures, or required instructional learning.
Essential Terms
App
A compact report displayed as an icon on your Home page, providing easy access to tasks and information you use on a regular basis. Applications include Pay, Personal Information, Benefits, and Expenses.
Business Object
Objects used to store data in Workday (such as organizations or workers). A business object has fields and instances, which are analogous to rows and columns in a spreadsheet.
Business Process
The set of tasks that need to be completed for an event to occur, the order in which they must be done, and who must do them.
Cancel (Business Process)
Canceling a business process stops the workflow in progress and reverses changes made to data. You can't cancel a completed business process; you must rescind it.
Dashboard
A specialized landing page containing a set of pre-configured worklets for a functional area that you can copy or modify. You can add additional custom worklets to dashboards using the report writer.
Event
A business process transaction that occurs within your organization, such as hiring or terminating an employee.
Filter
A clickable icon used to narrow down data. Clicking this icon will create a row on your report where you filter data to display from one or more columns.
Roles (Security)
A group of people with specific responsibilities and permissions. When a business process runs, the role for each step includes all of the workers in that role in the business process target organization.
Worktag
A named attribute that you can assign to events and objects to indicate their business purpose. For example, you can create a Customer worktag, whose values are the names of your customers. You can use the worktag to assign a customer to an expense in an expense report or a product sales event.