Concept: Probation Periods

Workday enables you to streamline probation periods according to local regulations and your organization's requirements. You can use probation period functionality to track, evaluate, and perform any necessary actions based on the outcome of the probation period. See: Setup Considerations: Probation Periods.

Probation Period Rules

You can create probation period rules that automatically calculate the length of an employee's probation period. The length of the probation period populates when you add a probation period.

If you configure the

Add Probation Period

step on these business processes, the rule also populates when you're hiring employee or when an employee changes job:

Change Job

Hire

Probation Period Reviews

You can use probation period reviews to decide on the outcome of an employee's probation period and complete any relevant actions. Workday can automatically calculate a review date for employees when you set up probation period rules.

You can manually initiate multiple reviews for an employee, but you must complete any existing Review Probation Period
events for the employee before initiating a new review. If a probation rule schedules a review date for an employee with another in-progress Review Probation Period
event, Workday still sends a task to

My Tasks

so you can initiate the review.

When you cancel the Review Probation Period
business process, Workday:

Cancels all Review Probation Period
events and related events that are in progress.

Doesn't rescind any Review Probation Period
events or related events that are complete.

When you rescind the Review Probation Period
business process, Workday:

Rescinds all Review Probation Period
, Edit Probation Period
, and Extend Probation Period
events.

Doesn't rescind any Change Job for Review Probation Period
or Terminate for Review Probation Period
events.

The Next Level: Notice and Probation Periods