The Workday Employee and Manager Self-Service User Experience Testing (UXT) Video Series provides employees with a preview of Workday before formal training begins in spring 2025. The digital shorts, which run two to five minutes in length, showcase key features and functionality of Workday such as how to request an absence, how to view supervisory organization charts, changes specific to UW–Madison, learning resources for managers and employees, and more.

University Staff who used sick leave in 2024 may be able to change the type of leave they used and instead use personal holiday, floating holiday, vacation, or vacation carryover hours they have accrued. An employee may wish to consider a “sick leave swap” if they have unused leave that would expire at the end of the calendar year. Employees may also wish to consider swapping sick leave to reduce or maintain Income Continuation Insurance (ICI) premiums or to take advantage of deferred enrollment into the ICI program during the ICI Annual Review. Any requests to swap one type of leave for another must be submitted by Dec. 27, 2024. Employees should contact their local human resources office with any questions.

Transportation Services will waive some on-campus parking restrictions due to reduced Metro Transit bus service on the upcoming Christmas, New Year’s, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day holidays. There are also reduced parking restrictions on December 23 and 30. To learn more, visit transportation.wisc.edu.

Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) has a new online resource for employees performing work alone in hazardous or potentially hazardous environments. As part of the UW System policy on Working in Isolation, highly hazardous work may only occur with written approval. Supervisors are solely responsible for approving high-hazard work that occurs in isolation and must notify EH&S.

Working at UW will be on holiday break until our next issue is published on Wednesday, Jan. 8. See you in 2025!