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Workday 2025R2 is just around the corner, bringing enhancements to streamline processes, improve user experiences, and unlock real business value.

 🔍 Preview: August 16 | 🚀 Production: September 20

But here’s the truth: a release is only as valuable as the preparation and adoption behind it.

That’s why BNB’s Workday Adoption Center of Excellence (CoE) helps you move from feature awareness to tangible results, ensuring every new 2025R2 capability is tested, configured, and adopted strategically.

In this post, we’ll explore:
– Key features of Workday 2025R2 and their business impact
– How BNB’s CoE ensures you maximize every release

Here’s a glimpse at what’s coming with R2:

1️⃣ Workforce Management Enhancements

• Flex Teams for Contingent Workers
  
  Impact: Bring contingent workers into your internal gig marketplace, expanding collaboration and flexibility.

• Multiple Jobs for Contingent Workers
  
  Impact: Simplifies scheduling and time tracking for extended workforce populations, reducing manual complexity.
  
• Flex Team Hosts in Performance Reviews
  
  Impact: Gives gig-based managers visibility in the performance review process, improving talent alignment.
  
  💡 BNB CoE Insight: We’ll ensure your business processes and security roles are ready so contingent workforce features add value without disruption.

2️⃣ User Experience & Productivity

• Quick Actions on Workday Home
  
  Impact: Let users create up to 10 custom shortcuts for reports, tasks, or external links—boosting efficiency and personalization.
  
• Absence Calendar Improvements
  
  Impact: Employees can now submit multiple time-off entries on a single day with a single request.
  
• Configurable Hub Navigation & Enhanced Rich Text Editor (RTE)
  
  Impact: Give your teams a more intuitive interface and a better authoring experience.
  
• New Adoption Planning Tool
  
  Impact: Assign, track, and prioritize adoption tasks directly in Workday.
  
  💡 BNB CoE Insight: Our team will work with you to identify high-value features, plan internal communication, and guide user adoption so productivity gains are realized quickly.

3️⃣ Finance & Procurement Enhancements

• Multicurrency Bank Accounts
  
  Impact: Support international operations with duplicate account numbers in different currencies.

• Automatic Intercompany Matching/Unmatching
  
  Impact: Reduce manual effort and errors by auto-matching journal lines and clearing IDs when journals are canceled.

• Consignment Transactions
  
  Impact: Gain better control over how consignment goods are tracked in procurement and invoicing.
  
• Customer Accounts Hub
  
  Impact: Centralize all customer-related tasks and reports for faster, data-driven decisions.

💡 BNB CoE Insight: Finance features often have cross-module dependencies. Our CoE team will validate integrations, tests impact, and aligns configurations to prevent surprises during release.

4️⃣ Projects & Talent Enhancements

• Quote Creation from Spreadsheet with Phases (CPQ)
  
  Impact: Import project phases directly into quotes for faster and more accurate project planning.
  
• Skill Assessments as a Skill Level Source
  
  Impact: Improve skill data reliability for better talent development and succession planning decisions.

💡 BNB CoE Insight:We help clients aligning these features with strategic workforce initiatives, ensuring your data is clean, processes are ready, and adoption is smooth.

📘 Plus: Workday’s new Release Notes Experience is live—with Excel exports, release date filters, and weekly updates.

• Export to Excel for easier offline review
  
• Product filtering (multi-select) to focus on what matters to you
  
• Release date filtering for direct-to-production updates
  
• Ask a Question on individual notes for faster clarification
  
• Weekly updates every Wednesday and Friday

This new experience empowers your teams to spot changes faster, plan better, and stay ahead of impact.BNB CoE can monitor these changes for you, saving your internal teams time and ensuring critical updates are never missed. With BNB by your side, you can transform this release from a system update into a strategic business milestone.

From Features to Real Value
Workday 2025R2 is packed with innovation—but features alone don’t create results. Real impact comes when your organization can:

• Identify the right features to activate
  
• Prepare configurations and security roles
  
• Test and validate before go-live
  
• Enable users to adopt changes confidently
  

That’s exactly what BNB’s Workday Adoption CoE does:

• Proactive Planning – Review release notes, assess impact, and map changes to your roadmap
  
• Structured Execution – Guide you through pre-, feature-, and post-release phases
  
• Expert Configuration – Ensure cross-module dependencies are addressed and features are enabled the right way
  
• Continuous Improvement – Track adoption and keep your Workday environment optimized

Make This Release Your Advantage

Workday 2025R2 will hit Production on September 20, 2025.

With BNB by your side, you can transform this release from a system update into a strategic business milestone.

Let’s unlock the full value of your Workday investment—together.

📈 Get in touch to schedule a 2025R2 readiness session with our CoE experts.

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