About Workday

What is Workday?

Workday is an on-demand, enterprise-level, cloud-based software that will unify and improve all of our enterprise systems. Actually, comprised of three different systems, Workday will provide enhanced services and exceptional customer experiences to our faculty, staff and students. Many of the world’s leading higher educational institutions and corporate organizations trust Workday as their software system of choice for workforce, financial and student data.

In Workday, the focus is people: talent acquisition and retention, benefit reporting, retirement prep, employee info updating.

Workday is wherever you are: mobile-friendly applications, touch-optimized interfaces, secure access to all the info you need.

Data you can use with Workday: workforce analytics and transactions in one system, reports and dashboard for deeper insight.

Why use Workday?

We are excited it’s a brand-new Workday @UofL! Many of the enterprise-wide administrative systems we use at UofL for operational and university business are outdated. Each of our core systems will be replaced over a six-year period. The first, WorkdayHR, our Human Capital Management (HCM) system was implemented successfully for use beginning in 2023. Workday Finance will begin next in July of 2023. Later, in 2025, we will replace our Student System.

With all of the Workday projects, we are reimagining and streamlining numerous administrative processes to improve workflows, reduce redundancies and improve the ways in which UofL utilizes data. We look forward to giving employees easier access to information in order to make strategic decisions and further support the important contributions employees make each day. The improved technologies recently provided in WorkdayHR, including its user-friendly dashboards, online reporting, actionable analytics and increased data assets have already received excellent reviews by our users and HR partners.