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The latest Workday 2025 R1 is here, bringing cutting-edge innovations across HCM and Finance to enhance efficiency, automation, and decision-making. With AI-driven capabilities, streamlined processes, and user-friendly enhancements, this release empowers organizations to adapt faster, work smarter, and stay ahead in an evolving business landscape.

At BNB, we help businesses unlock the full potential of Workday’s latest advancements. Our experts provide practical insights, tailored strategies, and hands-on guidance to ensure smooth adoption and maximum impact.

Let’s take a closer look at the most impactful updates and how your organization can make the most of them.

Release Timeline

• Preview Release: February 8, 2025
• General Availability: March 15, 2025

Now is the time to get ahead. Is your organization ready to prepare for these updates and maximize their potential?

Key HCM Enhancements: Smarter, More Agile, More Engaging

Workday 2025 R1 introduces a powerful suite of HCM enhancements designed to streamline workforce management, enhance the employee experience, and improve talent insights. These updates empower HR leaders with smarter tools to optimize compensation, improve hiring workflows, and drive skill-based talent strategies.

Top 10 Game-Changing Features in Workday HCM

1. Configurable Visibility for Pools & Budgets in Compensation Reviews
   Gain greater control over who sees compensation review pools and budget wheels. Provide visibility to Directors+ while restricting lower-level managers, ensuring more controlled decision-making.
2. AI-Powered Compensation Plan Recommendations
   Workday now extends machine learning to the Hire business process, recommending up to five relevant compensation plans based on worker eligibility, job profile, location, and past assignments.
   Opt-in via Innovation Services; allow approximately two weeks for data processing.
3. AI-Generated Job Descriptions
   Workday now delivers AI-generated job descriptions directly in the Job Profile, leveraging generative AI to save time and ensure consistency.
   Opt-in via Innovation Services to train AI on your job posting data.
4. Custom Address Components by Country
   A major enhancement for global organizations—customize address components per country to ensure compliance and smoother integrations. No more workarounds, just a more flexible address framework.
5. More Control Over Change Job Fields
   Workday now allows configuration of 16 additional optional fields in Change Job. Admins can hide, require, or restrict visibility to streamline job changes and improve data integrity.
   Automatically available.
6. Enhanced Hiring Process
   The redesigned Hire Employee task now supports Propose Compensation Hire in a consolidated template, making onboarding smoother with more automation, fewer errors, and an improved hiring experience.
   Automatically available.
7. Mass Populate Worker Profiles with Skills
   No more waiting for employees to update their skills. Workday enables organizations to mass populate worker profiles with skills based on explicit job profile requirements or AI-suggested skills, maximizing Skills Cloud utilization and workforce insights.
8. Infinite Scrolling in Compensation Review Grids
   Workday now supports 2,000 results and infinite scrolling in compensation reviews—eliminating the previous 500-row limit for a more seamless experience.
   Automatically available (requires tenant setup).
9. Supervisory Organization Edits in Change Job
   Improve efficiency by allowing Supervisory Organization updates directly when processing job changes—no more workarounds needed.
10. Dynamic Onboarding Documents with Workday Docs
    Workday now enables organizations to generate, distribute, and review onboarding documents dynamically, replacing static PDFs with customized, event-driven documents for a seamless experience.

These enhancements make HR processes faster, smarter, and more employee-centric.

Key Finance Enhancements: Greater Efficiency, More Control

Workday 2025 R1 also introduces significant Finance enhancements to automate processes, simplify banking setups, improve procurement, and strengthen financial planning.

Finance Feature Highlights

1. Touchless Supplier Invoices: Faster, Smarter OCR Processing
   Workday now auto-submits OCR supplier invoices based on configurable rules, reducing cycle times and improving efficiency.
2. Banking Enhancements: Unified & Simplified Setup
   Workday introduces new bank routing rule web services and support for hierarchy-owned bank accounts, streamlining financial operations.
   • Use EIB for bank routing integrations.
   • Specify Legal Owning Company for hierarchy-owned bank accounts.
3. Improved Project Time & Budgeting Flexibility
   Workday enhances project time tracking and budgeting with:
   • Easier time transfers within closed periods without triggering payroll recalculations.
   • The ability to recoup billable hours while maintaining work-in-progress tracking for long-term projects.
   • Granular revenue tracking at the phase/task level for time and expense contracts.
4. Requisition Enhancements: AI-Driven and More Flexible
   Workday improves the Requisitions worklet with AI-powered search, an enhanced non-catalog request experience, and greater control over requisition lines.
   • Personalized catalog search surfaces relevant items based on past requisitions.
   • Improved non-catalog requests with default request types and catalog request suggestions.
   • Manual control over requisition lines, allowing closing and reopening for better sourcing flexibility.
5. Customizable Supplier Invoice Fields
   Workday now allows organizations to hide unused fields or require key fields in supplier invoices—streamlining data entry and reducing errors.
   
6. OfficeConnect Now Supports Accounting Center Data
   Workday expands OfficeConnect for Financial Management, integrating Accounting Center and Prism data reporting for deeper financial insights.

Stay Ahead with BNB and Workday 2025 R1

With these powerful upgrades across HCM and Finance, Workday 2025 R1 is designed to help businesses work more efficiently, make smarter decisions, and enhance employee experiences.

Adopting and optimizing these new capabilities requires the right expertise—and that’s where BNB can support your journey. As a trusted Workday partner, we provide Application Management Services (AMS) to ensure seamless implementation and configuration of the latest updates.

Our team helps businesses:
✔ Implement new features efficiently
✔ Optimize Workday configurations for maximum ROI
✔ Provide ongoing support and training for internal teams

Let’s Talk!

Want to learn how these updates can transform your business? Connect with us today and discover how BNB can help you maximize Workday 2025 R1.

What’s Next?

Workday 2025 R2 is set for:

• Preview: August 23, 2025
• General Availability: September 6, 2025

Stay tuned for insights into the next wave of innovations!