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Last Updated: 2023-12-15
Concept: Moving Workers by Organization

Concept: Moving Workers by Organization

Workday enables you to move workers, positions, or jobs to another organization as a stand-alone business process, without requiring you to select a reorganization event. You can move workers belonging to these organization types:
  • Company
  • Cost Center
  • Region
  • Supervisory
You can also move workers in custom organizations when the position assignment is unique.
Moving workers by organization requires you configure these business processes and security policies in the Staffing functional area:
  • Change Job
  • Move Workers (By Organization)
  • Move Workers (Supervisory)
The
Move Workers (By Organization)
 business process is available on nonsupervisory organizations with these options selected in the
Position Assignment
 section of the
Maintain Organization Types
 task:
  • Allow Reorganization Tasks
    .
  • Unique
    .
Move Workers (By Organization)
 is a stand-alone business process that initiates the
Move Worker (By Organization)
 subprocess for each worker who is moved.
For supervisory organizations, you can only move workers between organizations with the same staffing model (job or position management). If you move open jobs or positions, you can't fill them until after the effective date of the
Move Workers (By Organization)
 event.
You can also move workers with these tasks:
  • From the related actions menu of a supervisory organization, select
    Job Change
    Move Workers (Supervisory)
    . The
    Move Workers (Supervisory)
     business process moves multiple workers from one supervisory organization to another.
  • From the related actions menu of a worker or position, select
    Job Change
    Transfer, Promote or Change Job
     to move a single worker, position, or job. The
    Change Job
     business process enables you to enter detailed position or job data as part of the transfer. If you move a manager, you can also move the teams that report to that manager.
When you move workers out of an organization, the selection list depends on the organization type and its (or its associated supervisory organization's) staffing model:
Staffing Model
Supervisory Organization
Non-Supervisory Organization
Job Management
Move jobs.
Move jobs.
Position Management
Move filled positions or unfilled position restrictions.
Job Overlap
: If a position restriction overlaps, you can't select it from the prompt.
Move positions or unfilled position restrictions. If you select a position, the move also affects the position restriction.
Job Overlap
: If you select a position that overlaps another position, the move only affects the position you select and not the corresponding principal or overlap position.
When you move workers, their positions, roles, and compensation rules remain the same in the new organization.

Rescind Move Worker

To rescind the move for all workers, select
Business Process
Rescind
 from the related actions menu of the business process (not the related actions menu of the step). When you rescind the
Move Workers (By Organization)
 business process, Workday returns all moved workers to their original organization.
You can also rescind the
Move Worker (By Organization)
 business process for a single worker. To rescind a
Move Workers (By Organization)
 transaction, you must be a member of a security group specified in the business process security policy for the
Rescind
 action.