As the ongoing growth of remote work continues, many organizations are looking for new ways to engage and empower employees no matter where they’re working. Workday is helping these companies cultivate a successful workforce where remote workers can be just as productive and engaged as their in-office peers, helping businesses leave old-fashioned ideas in the garbage.
Specifically, Workday Help is a human resources (HR) service delivery application that provides more intuitive case management for employees. This article dives deeper into this new product, some of its key features, and how it can benefit businesses changing the future of work. Let’s take a closer look.
What is Workday Help?
Workday Help is one of three Workday add-on modules available that are designed to improve the employee experience and HR service delivery. It uses machine learning technology to drive case management for employees working in or outside the office. It includes a personalized knowledge base and case management tools, all within the Workday platform.
Here’s how it works: Imagine an employee has an HR question. Without something like Workday Help, they’d have to reach out to someone in HR and then wait for that person to respond. This costs both the question-asker and the question-answerer valuable time and energy, especially, if the answer was something quite simple. But with Workday Help, an employee can type in some information into a simple search, which will return articles, guides, and videos to help troubleshoot the problem.
And if the question turns out to be a bit more complex and requires additional assistance, not to worry. Workday Help also makes it easy for them to open a case without leaving the system. Building cases, viewing case history, and even tracking each case’s progress are made simple with the help of Workday. Pair that with also saving your managers and employees time and empowering them through a hands-on approach, and you’ve got a system that’s sure to make a difference in your workforce.
Features of Workday Help
Workday Help is made up of two main features: Knowledge Management and Case Management. Let’s take a closer look at each one.
Workday Knowledge Management
The knowledge management feature within Workday Help allows you to create, organize, and maintain your library of handy HR knowledge. This information can be developed and updated in real time with videos, hyperlinks, and more.
So when your employee has an HR issue or question, they can search the library for the latest content, articles, links, or videos to help them without needing to submit a case, empowering employees to get the answers they need, when they need them.
Self-Service Capabilities
To reduce the need for individual case creation, the Workday Help module makes answering a question and gaining insight a little easier through tutorial videos, articles, and other content intended to build employee knowledge bases. With the self-service capabilities built into the Workday system, employees have all the information they could need right where they need it whenever they need it.
Real-Time Information Updates
Workday not only allows employees access to real-time information whenever they need it, but the solution is also available on any device to enhance your employee experience even more. Accessing important information anywhere, anytime makes your day-to-day life easier and helps save you time in the long run by preventing unnecessary case creation and retracing of steps along the way.
Workday Case Management
When employees need one-to-one assistance, case management comes in. Both employees and case solvers have access to case history information, which helps resolve issues faster. Employees have the ability to create cases from any device and even directly through knowledge articles. Employees can track case progress and communicate with case solvers throughout the process.
The case management feature also helps with HR productivity. Case solvers have the ability to view attachments, employee information, case history, and notes from other HR staff, and communicate with the employee, all in one platform. To protect sensitive information and help meet compliance standards, Workday Help allows you to set viewing permissions to ensure that information that should remain confidential stays that way.
More Productive Systems
Workday Help increases system productivity through two main groups: 1) case solvers and 2) service teams. On one hand, case solver productivity is increased with the ability to view employee data, case notes and history, and reply to specific employee questions or concerns directly through one unified system. On the other hand, HR service teams can benefit from the Workday Help module by generating automatic feedback and surveys about their case management experience to better the outcomes for future cases.
Increased Case Security
Human capital management and HR systems in general often deal with confidential employee information, such as hiring information, personal documents, and details about compensation and benefits. Keeping this information safe is important, especially when dealing with cases where confidential information is concerned. Workday Help makes case security a priority by giving access and viewership permissions only to certain employees.
Better Overall Employee Experience
Once an employee opens a case in Workday, their experience doesn’t stop there. They are able to track their case progress and stay in touch with case solvers every step of the way, ensuring all their questions are being answered. Sounds like a good deal right?
Benefits of Workday Help
Now on to what everyone wants to know: how exactly will the Workday Help module make my work life easier? Here are some of the biggest benefits you can expect to enjoy when using this module:
- Access HR information and help services whenever and wherever they’re needed
- Increase HR efficiency and productivity with a single platform
- Reduce your need for individual case creation with self-service capabilities
- Ensure security and meet compliance standards
- Give HR teams and employees visibility into case history and employee data
- Comprehensive content management in one system with a single source of truth
- Seamless integration with collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack
Getting Started with the Workday Help Module
If you’re ready to transform your HR services and drive better outcomes for your entire workforce, Workday Help is your tool. And, getting started is easy when you partner with Surety Systems.
Our senior-level Workday consulting team offers implementation, training, and optimization services to help you better utilize your solutions. We design our services around your organization’s unique needs so that you get a customized plan to help you reach your business goals faster.
Contact us today to get started.
