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Join any part of this webinar series and gain a better understanding of how to locate and use a variety of Human Resources technology resources and tools, as well as employment-related information. Webinars will be hosted every other Friday at 10 a.m., and each webinar will focus on different technology resources. The first half of each session will provide an overview of the featured topic and the second half will be open for HR staff to take questions from attendees.

Late last year, Ohio State’s Data Governance team launched a new initiative to standardize institutional definitions, partnering with colleagues across the university.

Cybersecurity is a hot topic in our new year, with recent data breaches compromising user security and new regulations being proposed in the U.S. Congress. Advancements in personal technology and confusing consumer privacy policies can make it exceedingly difficult to protect your digital life.  

In May 2023, ordering of goods and services will take place within Workday instead of being directed to GHX. Some changes will be made in Workday leading up to going live with the new process. One of those changes is how supplier contract information from MediTract and OnBase is loaded into Workday. Currently, when a contract transfers to Workday, it is put under the "Combined - The Ohio State University" company.

A new custom notification was implemented into Workday production on Friday, January 20. Specifically, this notification will be for the requisition requester and will relate to Blanket PO’s and invoice total amounts.

Anytime a Blanket PO is greater than or equal to 90% of the total invoice amount, a notification will go out to the requisition requester. This will allow the requester to add additional funds, if needed.

Policies owned by Business and Finance will no longer be hosted on the B&F website. Instead, they will be hosted by the University Policy Office at policies.osu.edu. The B&F website information will continue be available as usual since the document links will be changed to point to the new host. However, any personal browser bookmarks will need to be updated. The website work should be completed by Friday, January 27.

Effective Friday, January 20, Position Restriction costing allocations can use grants. Any new positions that are grant funded can now be set up at the Create Position step. Cost Center Managers are not required to update the previously recorded costing allocations to accommodate the new functionality. 

Update:

The Workday issue with payroll encumbrance adjustments has been resolved and the Controller's Office ran the process successfully on February 18. Payroll encumbrance balances now represent approved activity through that date.  

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The "Workers on Leave for Cost Center Managers" report is being enhanced to return workers on leave that have "active" leave on or after the date the report is run through the end of the fiscal year. This will allow units to see future dated leaves that may impact their fiscal year encumbrances. The change will be migrated into production the week of January 23.