Concept: Worker Data Streams

Organizations with complex structures that function like separate entities can use worker data streams to report on information across their businesses while maintaining separation at the business entity level. When moving regular or contingent workers between subsidiary structures, you can terminate them and rehire or recontract them in the new organization, rather than transferring them directly. Through this process, Workday enables you to preserve workers' work-related information while keeping it hidden from the worker and the new organization.

When you rehire or recontract a worker, use the

Assign Worker Record

step on the

Hire Employee

and

Contract Contingent Worker

business processes to either select an existing worker record or create a new one. Prehires can only have 1 active worker record at a time. To see if workers have more than 1 active worker record, access the

Worker Data Streams Audit

report.

To configure the

Assign Worker Record

step, Workday recommends you work with Workday Professional Services or a Workday Consulting Partner. Once configured, the

Assign Worker Record

step displays whenever you rehire or recontract a worker without changing their worker type (employee or contingent worker). If you change a worker's worker type during the termination and rehiring or recontracting process, Workday automatically generates a new worker record.

New worker records include all previous personal information but exclude all work-related information, such as:

Absence calendar.
Benefits.
Custom objects.
Employee calendar.
I-9 data.
Job data.
Performance reviews.
Time tracking.
Time entry.