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Last Updated: 2026-07-10
Concept: Out of Order Insertions for Job Changes

Concept: Out of Order Insertions for Job Changes

This topic is relevant to the enhanced change job experience. The new change job experience is available to all customers at this time.
Workday enables you to configure the
Change Job
 business process so that you can insert position and job change events before other completed staffing and end-employment events and their respective subprocesses. You can now insert
Change Job
 events in front of these event types:
  • Assign Matrix Organization
  • Change Job
  • Change Organization Assignment
  • End Additional Job
  • End International Assignment
  • End Contract for Contingent Workers
  • Edit Position
  • Move Worker by Supervisory Organization
  • Move Worker by Organization
  • Termination
You can only insert out of order changes when you are moving a worker into a vacant job or position. To rescind out of order insertions, you must start with the latest effective date and move through backward, rescinding sequentially.

Downstream Impacts

For changes that do not vacate a job, position, or supervisory organization, Workday only applies the data from the inserted event until the subsequent event in the worker's history. Workday doesn’t automatically roll out of order event data forward to all subsequent events. Report fields continue to return as-of-completion moment data.
However, when you insert a vacating change for a job, position, or supervisory organization, Workday updates the Proposed report field with the new job, position, or supervisory organization for any subsequent events that enable you to modify that data. If subsequent events don’t enable modification of those fields, they continue to return as-of-completion moment data.
In all scenarios, Current report fields continue to return the original event’s as-of-completion moment data. Further auditing and manual corrections may be required on all job-related fields on subsequent events.
Workday recommends accessing the
Out of Order Job Changes
 report (secured to the
Worker Data: Historical Staffing Information
 domain) to audit any out of order changes and their downstream impacts. You may need to manually correct job-related fields on events that come after an out of order insertion.

Absence and Time Tracking Impacts

Workday doesn't automatically:
  • Correct or reprocess events, jobs, steps, and services.
  • Perform or re-evaluate calculations.
  • Update or remove an absence, time off record, time record, or event that was rendered invalid or ineligible for a worker.
Out of order insertions can impact these functions:
  • Worker absence and time off events, time events, historical absence balances, eligibility rules, accrual calculations, and time calculations.
  • Historically run service steps that perform worker data changes.
  • In-progress processes.
We recommend that you review existing absence and time tracking events to ensure there are no detrimental downstream impacts.