Welcome to the October 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 Features
Is Workday an improvement compared to our current systems at Yale? Read about some of Workday's Features that will be a welcome improvement!
Today at Yale, activities such as viewing your pay, accessing your personal information, or changing your benefits take place in three separate systems, which can often feel clunky and disjointed. With Workday, all of your employee information--compensation, benefits, contact information, etc.--will be housed in one single location, simplifying service and improving communication across the University.
Workday prides itself on a clean, clutter free design, developed with the user in mind. The homepage (pictured below) looks similar to many consumer websites we know and use today. You can quickly and easily personalize this screen, just as you would personalize your smartphone today, to display the information you need most.
Workday's use of icons allows navigation in the system to be even more intuitive.
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Related Actions |
Actions that are available to you (based on security) will become visible upon hovering and can be selected to open the available actions |
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Prompt |
Any time you see this symbol, you can click to expand a box that will contain a list of available options. |
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Menu |
The Main Menu drop down icon houses landing pages, dashboards, and documentation from Workday Community. |
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Home Page |
At any time, you can click the Workday logo at the top center of the screen to return to the Home Page. |
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Inbox |
All tasks and notifications from the Workday system are sent to your Inbox for review or action. |
For more information on the Workday Inbox, click here.
Core Concepts
Workday employs a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. What does this mean? 
Often referred to as a “cloud-based application”, SaaS enables software and data to be delivered to users over the Internet versus traditional ERP solutions that are hosted on premise. Characteristics of SaaS include:
Looking For More Information About Workday Concepts?
Click here to access the SaaS Concept and many more Workday Core Concepts.
What features do you like best about Workday?
The Workday@Yale Change Management (CM) team recently sat down with Corey Rossman in Human Resources to find out about some of the exciting new features of Workday. Read more...
Workday@Yale Community Meetings – coming soon!
Yale is preparing to transition to a new enterprise system called Workday, and the Workday@Yale Change Management team wants to be sure staff and faculty at Yale have the information they need about this program. In that effort, the Workday@Yale team will be scheduling Community Meetings around campus to keep everyone informed. Read more...
Follow Workday on Twitter!
Workday provides frequent posts on their Twitter Account to inform followers about all things Workday.
Workday’s Twitter is a great resource to learn about Workday, watch interviews with Workday customers, read relevant blogs, and more. Follow Workday (@Workday) on Twitter to remain up-to-date with the latest and greatest information!
Check out Workday's re-tweet here!
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