The pay period beginning June 11, 2023. Police (Sworn Officers, 500 & 800 Series) and Fire (Firefighters 400 & 900 Series) will continue using Telestaff for time and projects tracking. All AFSCME and Comp Plan employees will be using Workday for time and projects tracking.

Kronos is part of the City’s complex web of software systems and manual processes that currently work together to process payroll. To ensure that every employee continues to get paid correctly and on time, we must upgrade to one unified, modern system that houses all financial and human resource information.

No. Workday is not configured to allow fobs or cards. They have a strong policy against the use, as it is seen as a security risk for employees’ personal information.

Yes. Instead of a stationary timeclock, employees will use a laptop kiosk to clock in and out. The Project Team is still considering all options but will ensure the process is quick and easy and that there will be enough devices to avoid any delays. Laptop kiosks are getting installed now, so you can practice logging in to Workday.

Exempt employees will no longer have to approve their timecard every pay period, even when they have taken time off. Employees will now request time off using the absence calendar which will flow to their timecards. Exempt employees will only need to manage absence and leave. Supervisors will still approve timecards each pay period.

No, SLC is aligning with Federal best practices and utilizing the time tracking change over to Workday to facilitate new employee habits. This change will ensure employees are not being underpaid if they work through lunches.

Yes, since there will be no auto deduct lunch. If employees miss a punch supervisors can help adjust times.

Yes! Through a secure single sign-on inputting your time will take seconds!

Workday doesn’t track your location, even at work. It’s up to you and your manager to decide processes around check in and out.

No. Never

No, the geofence feature will not be available for the initial Workday go-live. If departments would like to implement a geofence in the future, reach out to the project team. Know that a geofence doesn’t really accommodate SLC’s unique and mobile workforce, especially for employees that work in the field.

A geofence is a virtual perimeter or location-based detection for mobile devices which allows employees to check in and out.

The finance, payroll, and timekeeping functions of Workday will not be live until July 2023. You will receive training on all new financial processes in early 2023.

Yes, along with implementing the new Workday financial software we have improved the Chart of Accounts to meet financial best practices and better track costs. We have gone from over 2,800 cost centers in OneSolution to 300+ in Workday. With that reduction in cost centers a new numbering system is in place. 

We eliminated 2,500 cost centers by separating cost centers from funds, programs, grant sources, locations, and other identifiers. The new Workday software allows us to use a combination of these worktags to track costs and in turn better report costs. Programs that stretch across several departments can be reported all at once because they share a single program number. Same for multiple cost centers tied to the same grant or location.

Have no fear! Each department’s finance lead has been part of the development process of this numbering system. As we move closer to the system going live, those who reconcile expenses and revenues will be learn the new numbering and worktag system.

Yes, if employees use their personally owned electronic device for any City business that device may be subject to GRAMA. However, access to the whole device maybe limited. For example, if a GRAMA requester were to ask for an employee’s work emails, and if the employee sent City-related emails on his/her personal phone, the City wouldn’t have to give the requester access to the entire phone because all of those emails are also kept by IMS on a server, and that is the source of the emails the City would turn to.

Workday is a cloud-based software, therefore the City does have the ability to pull information from the cloud, therefore the mobile device or all the information on it may not be subject to GRAMA.

Employees should follow their Department’s standards and policies regarding profile pictures. All profile pictures should be appropriate and professional. Managers will be responsible for approving all photos that are uploaded, and HR reserves the right to remove any picture that is inappropriate. Employees and/or departments will be responsible for uploading their own profile pictures as there is no integration or auto upload of pictures in Workday.

Salt Lake City employees will be able to view your work contact information (phone and email), preferred name, and your organizational chart. Personal information, such as your home address, emergency contacts and compensation, is private. Only your manager(s) and HR has access to your personal information.

Employees can update personal information on their own, however certain changes require manager verification such as:

• Profile Picture
• Legal Name Change (may also require additional HR paperwork).
• Business/Working Title Change

Go to your profile, select “Personal”

• Select the “Names”, under “Legal Name” select “Edit”. 
• Update you name. 
• Attach supporting legal documentation of your name change.
• Enter “Description”
• Select category “Personal Information”
• Select “Submit”. 
• HR will review the documentation, approve, or request more information as needed.

Click on your Profile picture and select My Account > Change Preferences. Scroll to the bottom and set notification preferences for Email, Mobile Push Notifications and Pop-up notification. It is recommended that your set your notifications to either Immediately or Daily.

No, supervisors won’t be notified if an employee applies for an internal position.

Departments can make changes to their org charts via the Transfer, Promote, or Change Job task in Workday. Departments and their managers/management chain have the responsibility to ensure org charts are kept up to date.

For a refresh on how to update an org chart checkout the Employee Job Change job aid under the Manager Self Service user resources. Please note only managers are able to update a department’s org chart. If the Employee Job Change doesn’t correct your org chart, please reach out to your HR Business Partner for support.

Note: Some departments will have fewer updates while others will have more depending on how accurately OneSolution’s records reflect a department’s current reporting relationships.

Click on your Profile picture and select My Account > Change Preferences. Scroll to the bottom and set notification preferences for Email, Mobile Push Notifications and Pop-up notification. It is recommended that your set your notifications to either Immediately or Daily.    

Due to Go-Live, every employee is heading into Workday to verify that their personal information is up to date creating more notifications for managers. The notifications will occur less frequently after go-live and once employees have updated their profiles. Therefore, during go-live you can set your notifications as Daily, but it is recommended that managers don’t mute notifications – especially when you have new hires and other business processes notifications.

This approach to managing reporting structure is not configured in Workday. The management hierarchy in Workday is designed for a standard reporting relationship from employee to one manager. It is important to identify who the “primary” manager is for those types of action items and have the employee report to that manager within Workday. We suggest setting up your teams in Workday in this manner and fine tuning from there as needed. Your HR Business Partner may be able to provide additional guidance as well.

Managers can view reports that capture this information. Gift card recognition is not included in Workday.

Both the delegate and the original recipient can view and take actions.

Yes, you can delegate to anyone with a city Workday account. However, it is strongly recommended that you delegate to someone with complete understanding of your department’s structure and policies.  All delegations must be approved by delegees manager. Delegation should be a temporary assignment.  Workday allows you to Delegate your Workday inbox or specific tasks from your inbox, along with the ability to initiate actions for business processes. Delegation should only be used when you will be unavailable to complete time-sensitive tasks.

No, security does not allow them to see anything out of the ordinary unless it is part of the business process that has been delegated to them.  If they are approving salary changes through delegation then yes, they will be able to see that person’s compensation as part of the delegation.

Yes, any employee will be able to Delegate.

The financial part of Workday, which includes payroll and timekeeping, will not be live until June 2023. Training for financial functions will occur in summer 2023. Your Department will notify you on a specific date. If you’re on vacation or out of the office during that time, your Department Training Coordinator will work with you to schedule another training session.

Glad you asked! Please peruse this site (slc.gov/workday) to do some research on your own or ask questions and email WorkdayERP@slcgov.com with any follow ups.

Please email workdayerp@slcgov.com with any questions or concerns.

Please email workdayerp@slcgov.com with any questions or concerns.

It’s important that the implementation team knows about potential issues before they happen. A RAIDQ log has been created to track questions or concerns: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/ad331e32aa2649da9d84aff514be6b65

You’re also welcome to email Workdayerp@slcgov.com with questions or concerns.

Please reach out to your department’s HR Business Partner. You can find a list of all business partners on HR’s website at https://www.slc.gov/hr/contact-us/