Freeze and Unfreeze Positions

You can freeze and unfreeze positions in position management organizations. Freezing positions makes them temporarily unavailable for staffing, such as transfers or promotions. You can freeze a position for reasons related to reorganization, budget constraints, or pending decisions on the position's future. You can still make certain data changes to a worker that's tied to a frozen position, such as changing their location. You can't hire into a position when the

Freeze Position

business process is in progress.

The

Manage Position Freeze

task is part of a business process that can include review and approval steps. Use these tasks when you want to submit freeze and unfreeze actions for approval by one or more administrative roles. Alternatively, you can use the

Manage Position Hiring Freeze

task to freeze and unfreeze hiring without approval workflow.

To close positions permanently in these organizations, use the

Close Position

task.