Concept: Position Swaps
This topic is relevant to the legacy change job experience. We plan to retire this topic in a future release.
A position swap in Workday enables you to select 2 or more workers and then move them into each other's positions by initiating a single business process transaction. You can use position swaps for company reorganization, worker rotation, and businesses that consistently move workers between locations. Example: Moving retail managers from 1 store to another.
You can only swap position management positions. If a worker has multiple positions, you can select which position to swap. You can select a worker multiple times in 1 swap to include several of their positions in the swap.
You can only swap workers with matching worker types. Example: You can't swap a contingent worker into an employee position.
You can’t swap a position that uses internal Workday pay groups with a position that uses external pay groups.
Business Processes
The
Swap Positions
business process initiates the Change Job
business process to perform the job changes for the swapped workers. When you swap workers between organizations, the Change Job
business process also initiates the Change Organization Assignments for Worker
business process. Workday automatically completes the
Change Job
business process based on the information from each filled position. Workday also provides validations to ensure that all positions swap at the same time. When 1 position can't swap, no part of the transaction can complete.Reports
Position swaps display in worker histories as job and organization assignment changes. You can view changes using the
View Swap Positions Events
report.