Concept: Active Consent Preferences for Personal Information

The Workday Active Consent feature addresses the need for companies to collect explicit consent from their users to process their personal information. You must inform your users of what they’re consenting to and this information must be easy to understand. You have the option to require a consent for a processing purpose that you configure.

In countries that regulate data privacy, active consent directly impacts a company's ability to effectively collect and process personal information.The Workday Active Consent feature uses the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law as guidelines for data privacy.

Active consent differs from passive consent, which is consent by silence or omission of information. Passive consent is essentially implied and companies assume that if the data exists, they can use it.