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Last Updated: 2026-04-03
Steps: Set Up Employee Resignation

Steps: Set Up Employee Resignation

You can configure Workday to provide field level guidance to employees as they submit their resignation through self-service and without the need for additional support. Users can access the
Worker Information
 side panel on resignation tasks as they review or approve a resignation for their organization.
If you enable notice periods for employees' work location country, then you can track their resignation notification dates and applicable notice periods. Workday uses this information to suggest a proposed termination date.
Workday enables you to track employee resignation reasons and termination reasons separately.
Contingent workers can't submit a resignation.
  1. Access the
    Maintain Event Categories and Reasons
     task.
    Configure reasons for the
    Worker Resignation
     business process.
    Security:
    Set Up: Staffing
     domain in the Staffing functional area.
  2. Configure the
    Submit Resignation
     business process in the Staffing functional area. If the reason is confidential or a management issue, you can add a condition rule on the business process approval step that routes to the HR Partner.
    • Configure the
      Submit Resignation
       business process security policy in the Staffing functional area. Add the Employee as Self security group to the
      Submit Resignation
       initiating action.
    • Update the
      Termination
       business process security policy by adding security groups to the
      Terminate from Submit Resignation
       initiating action. Only the roles listed in this group receive the
      Review Worker-Initiated Termination
       step when the termination is due to a resignation.
Employees can resign by selecting
Job Change
Resign
 from the related actions menu of their worker profile. When the
Submit Resignation
 business process completes, Workday initiates the
Termination
 business process.