Welcome

Welcome to the January edition of our monthly e-newsletter, Workday@Yale, with information on the University’s transition to the campus-wide unified Human Resources, Payroll and Finance information system, Workday.


Workday will automate a variety of activities that are completed manually today—from collecting signatures or approvals on a form, to tracking the status of a routine process, such as updating your contact information. 


Today at Yale...

You may fill out a form for a variety of reasons, such as to update your contact information, set up direct deposit, or to request a Leave of Absence. Once you submit the form to the appropriate individual/office by email or in person, it’s difficult to track the status of the piece of paper once it leaves your hand. 

 

In Workday...

Once initiated, you can view the steps in a business process and see who is responsible for performing the next step. Similar to how we use UPS to track a shipment as it moves to its final destination, Workday allows us to track activities through to their successful completion.

 

Compare: Workday and UPS



Are you curious where you’ll go to get things done after Workday goes live? View a table detailing activities that will be conducted in Workday with Release 1.

Join us for the second round of Workday@Yale Community Meetings. These meetings will feature updated topics, training tips, and demonstrations of different Workday functionality. View meeting topics and register for an upcoming session. 



Each month, this section introduces new Workday Core Concepts to help prepare you for the transition to Workday.  Review all Workday Core Concepts here.


Speak the Workday lingo! Below are definitions for common Workday terms. Impress your colleagues by incorporating one or two of these into your everyday conversations! To review more terms and definitions, visit the Glossary of Terms on the website.