This is a guest blog, big thanks to Denise Hanson! When working with costing allocations, setting an end date to the allocation is a necessary manual step. With a boomerang integration, the step can happen automatically in the background. For Change Job, when there is a position change, the allocations on the previous position should
Category: Use Cases
Remove User Based and Role Based Security
When someone Terminates, their account can be deactivated, but some companies take a firmer stance on Security. In one case, when a CFO left the company, the position remained open to backfill. The HRIS team decided they wanted to remove ALL security associated with it, both User based AND Role Based. The Solution is a
Auto enable Service Accounts and Implementers in SBX
This use case allows for Implementer accounts to be disabled in Production but enabled in Sandbox after a weekly refresh. BEFORE AFTER
Update Work Email in Workday
This use case has a couple sub-cases: Add a Work email AFTER on the workers Hire Date This allows system emails to be sent to the pre-hire’s personal email. In order to use this, the ‘prefix’ of the email (everything before the @) must be either stored or easily derived. Remove a Work Email for
Cancel Future Time off Requests for Terminated Workers
This use case allows for all future dated Time Off Requests for a Terminated worker to be cancelled automagically. The use case came about for companies that had a “revolving door” where workers would be terminated and rehired. If the time off request is not cancelled, it would still be in place after the rehire.
Rescind Business Processes
When a Worker terminates, there are sometimes business processes that need to be rescinded, like a future dated on time payment. Using a custom report to capture these processes for terminated workers and a Studio integration, these can easily be automatically rescinded. Additionally, any business process that is rescindable can be handled this way, not
Correct Worker Name Capitalization
Whether it is imported from an outside system or manually entered, sometimes worker names are not in a Proper Case (First letter capital, the rest lowercase). This can be cleaned up automatically using a custom report and a Studio Integration. The custom report should filter for workers whose names are All Capital Letters or all
Update Location Latitude and Longitude in Workday
Some career sites require you to Geocode locations inside Workday. This process can be accomplished using several different methodologies (EIBs, manual), but when the location count grows due to an acquisition, it will be easier to automate this process. Start with a custom report listing locations with blank Latitude and Longitude. This will be used
Update Non-Effective Dated Custom Field on Worker
If you are in a situation where you have a Custom Field on the Worker Object that has to be updated depending on clear parameters, like if they participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPP), then a Studio Boomerang can help solve the problem of automating this. Using a custom report that shows the current
Automate Service Date Calculations and Entry
An employee’s service date can change for various reasons, leave, rehire, etc. Each employer has a different formula to adjust an employee’s continuous service date based on a reason. In Workday today, there is no simple interface to configure a matrix of rules governing service date adjustments against employer defined formulas and no automated method
Generate your Own Monthly and Quarterly Currency Conversion Rate Averages for Financial Reporting
Loading daily currency rate conversions from a 3rd party service can be expensive, especially as you start to expand into global markets. By the time you realize, you might be buying 600 currency conversion rates daily. On top of that, add monthly and quarterly average rates for financial reporting. This is a solution to cut
Add Shipping Address Usage Upon Termination
In the situation where pay checks from a Third Party Payroll Provider are shipped to an employee’s work location, there may be a need to, upon termination, ship the final pay checks to their home address. By adding the Shipping usage to that terminated employees primary home contact address after they are terminated, the vendor will
Updating Reference IDS
In this scenario, Finance creates Cost Centers, but does not have the security to Edit Reference IDs The company standard is for the Reference ID to match the Cost Center Name. By using a Custom Report that lists Cost Centers whose Reference IDs do not match their Name along with a Boomerang Integration, the process
Use Case: Correcting Misaligned Supervisory Locations
When there is frequent movement of personnel between Locations, it is possible that a Manager may move locations and their Supervisory Organization Primary Location will not be updated to match their new location. This situation is easily correct by using a Custom Report that details Supervisory Orgs whose Primary Location does not match the Manager’s
Use Case: Automatically Close Positions
Sometimes in the course of normal business, during the termination process managers decide to leave the ‘close position’ checkbox unchecked. When business needs change the position may no longer be needed. The simplest way to automate this process is to use a custom report to define exactly the population of positions you want to automatically
Use Case: Mass Deletion of Worker Documents
One company I worked for used a third party performance management tool. We would get exported PDFs of employee reviews at the end of each review cycle and we would load them into Workday. This worked well enough until we were informed that the most recent batch of 3000+ documents were incorrect. My partner in
Use Case: Supporting Vaccination Records
The latest challenge to face HR is how to collect and track vaccination records as we start to return to our offices. Workday, as always, has been on the forefront of this challenge. They have published a post that gives several options for collecting and tracking vaccination data for workers. Of the suggested solutions only
Introduction to Boomerang Uses Cases
We recently participated in the 9/9 Share-a-thon and promised to post the slides from our sessions, so here her the first one as promised! In this session, the team presented 10 use cases that automate mundane tasks in Workday. Each of these can free up time for your HR operations. We hope you find these
Use Case: Updating Workday Account
Workday boomerang integration use case for updating workday accounts.
Use Case: End Contingent Worker Contract
Workday Boomerang Integration use case for ending contingent worker contracts