Applications and navigation

Glossary of terms related to Workday’s applications and navigation

  • Absence / Time Off

    An application linking you to common actions and views related to time off, including time off correction, leave of absence, view your time off, and time off 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.

  • Career

    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. Use this application to request one-time payments, stock grants, and compensation changes for your team, and to view their compensation history.

  • Dashboards

    An application containing key management reports and actions.

  • Directory

    An application linking you to common actions and views related to your organization's directory. You can view a list of your coworkers and see information about other workers in the company, including their work addresses and phone numbers. 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.

  • My Team

    An application linking you to common actions and views related to your team including viewing your direct reports and their employment information. Transfer, promote, or change the job of a direct report.

  • 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 one-time payment history, tax documents, and allowance plans.

  • 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 (such as addresses, email, and phone numbers), emergency contacts, photo, legal name, preferred name, and government IDs.

  • Recruiting

    An application linking you to common recruiting actions and views, and a list of recent requisitions. Depending on your role, you can find candidates, invite candidates to apply, create a job application on behalf of an individual, open your job requisitions, search for requisitions by their status, or search all requisitions by name and search for referrals.

  • Team Time Off

    An application linking you to common actions and views related to your team's time off, including managing your direct report’s time off requests, correcting time off requests, and placing employees on leave.

  • Time

    An application linking you to common actions and views related to your time, including entering your time and viewing your time off balance.

  • Main Menu

    The main menu displayed on the home page that displays your profile photo with a blue icon for pending notifications and a red count badge for Inbox items, and various menu options.

  • Inbox

    Displays a count for your action items and takes you to your Inbox.

  • Notifications

    Displays a count for your new notifications and takes you to your Notifications page.

  • Search

    A field on the home page that enables you to find tasks, reports, and people within your organization. Search allows you to narrow results by categories including common, organizations, and all of Workday. Search also allows you to filter results by specified criteria.
    For example, if you select the Find Jobs task, you can sort results by organization, location, worker type, etc.

  • Alert Message

    Soft warning message that alerts you about system limitations based on configuration. This message enables you to continue your work without resolving the issue.

  • Calendar

    A clickable icon that opens a calendar to select a date.

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