Spring ’18 summary of what’s new in Talent – Core HR

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January ’18 - General Availability

• Manager self-service promotion requests/workflow - Expanded manager self-service capabilities.
• Attachments - Attachments from the hiring process can be transferred to new hires’ employee records.

February ’18 - General Availability

• Contextual filtering of reason codes - Reason codes can be configured for hire, transfer, termination, and compensation processes.
• Custom fields - This functionality has been enabled across Talent.
• Streamlined transfer process - When transferring an employee, the job is automatically added to the transfer request.
• Updated Power BI visuals - The visuals have been refreshed in Power BI reports. Mean and median gender pay metrics have also been added.
• Default dates - Dates are no longer completed by default for hire, transfer, and termination processes.
• Rehire flag – A flag for the worker's eligibility for rehire is set as part of the termination process.

March ’18 – Public Preview

• Integration with Finance and Operations 7.2 and 7.3 - Integration provides an initial data load into Talent, with ongoing integration to maintain Finance and Operations workflows and HR transactions.

April ’18 – General Availability

• Absence management:

  • Working days calendars – Supports the creation of calendars that reflect company holidays.
  • Submit time off in days – More flexible increments for entering time off.

• Position and employee management updates - Provide additional information related to positions and employees, allowing HR professionals and managers to streamline the hiring process.

May ’18 - General Availability

• Absence management:

  • Time entry on behalf of someone else – Enables managers and HR professionals to enter time-off for employees who can’t.
  • Configurable proration options – More flexible options for handling proration of time-off accruals.
  • Custom absence accrual dates – Customize time carry-over and time-off accrual capabilities.

May ’18 – Public Preview

• Payroll integration - Connect Talent to your payroll system by using out-of-box integration with Ceridian, or connect manually to other payroll providers.

• Benefits enhancements – Open enrollment

June ’18 – General Availability

• Formatting and masking identification numbers - Format the length, characters allowed, and which characters are visible when viewing the identification number.

June ’18 – Public Preview

• Payroll integration – Take advantage of the out-of-box integration with Ceridian in the UK.
• Calendar view of working time – Visualize the working days and times across the organization in a calendar view.