Director of Human Resources for the School of Law
Paula Johnson can't wait for the new Workday HR/Payroll
system to launch.
"The new system will bring us into a whole new world,"
Johnson said, "with real time, reliable, accurate and
consistent data at our fingertips, and no shadow systems
to track. We will be able to compare apples to apples."
The new Workday system, being implemented as part
of the HR/Payroll Modernization initiative, will go live in
December 2015. It will replace the University's 32-year-
old payroll system, which can no longer keep up with the
UW's complex business environment.
The initiative's current phase through May 2015 will
configure the Workday system specifically for the UW's
needs, and include extensive outreach. Integration of
other University business systems with Workday is
also underway.
A companion effort led by UW-IT is identifying all
University systems that use HR/Payroll data through
the Enterprise Data Warehouse, Operational Data Store
and other UW-IT-managed data sources. The goal is
to simplify how Workday data may be captured and
accessed by these systems to help ensure departments
and units have access to the data they need.
"From a manager's perspective, metrics and data are
very important," said Johnson, "and a new payroll system
will give us access to this kind of information."
DARE TO DO
HR/Payroll Modernization project will bring a whole new world to UW
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Getting rid of paper brings big smiles to the Grant & Contract Accounting team: (front, from left) Kirsten DeFries,
Nicole Flagg, (back, from left) Gregg Reynolds, Kristen Bendixsen, Brian Baldwin.
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