Roles and Time Zones

Opt-in to the

Workday 32 - Time Zone

functionality by accessing the

Maintain Feature Opt-Ins

report.

Security: Manage: Role Assignment Time Zone
domain in the System functional area. You can use this domain to override default time zones in role assignment tasks. It also enables you to specify a time zone when you add, remove, or change a role assignment for a worker on a task or business process.

Workday enables you to configure the time zone in which role assignments become effective. A worker's time zone is determined, in order of preference, by:

Their specified time zone.

The time zone of the location of their primary position.

The tenant default time zone.

Pacific Standard Time

Access the

Edit Tenant Setup - System

task.

In the Time Zone Configuration
section of the task, select one of these options from the

Role Assignment Time Zone Option

field:

Option	Description
Assignee Location	Workday sets the time zone based on the location of the role assignee.
Tenant Default	Configure this time zone for your tenant to default to when no other time zone is selected.

If you leave the

Role Assignment Time Zone Option

blank, Workday populates the time zone as Pacific Time. Workday recommends configuring a time zone to avoid ambiguity in future transactions.

When you assign a role to an unfilled position, Workday uses the location specified on the job requisition for that position. If an assignee is changing location, Workday uses the location of the effective date of the role assignment change.

Once you select a

Role Assignment Time Zone Option

, you can't disable it.

Business Processes

Workday will use the Tenant Default
option, if you use one of these business processes to assign roles on a role assigner:

Create Subordinate

Divide Organization

Job Requisition

Job Requisition Change

Manage Flex Team

Evergreen Requisition

Evergreen Requisition Change

Workday uses the Assignee Location
option, if you initiate the

Assign Roles - Change Assignments for Worker

subprocess on one of these business processes:

Change Job

End Additional Job

End Contingent Worker Contract

End International Assignment

Request Return from Leave of Absence

Request Leave of Absence

Evergreen Requisition Change

Termination

Assign Roles

If you select the

Roles

Assign Roles

related action on a role-enabled business object, Workday populates the time zone with:

The default time zone you configured on the

Edit Tenant Setup – System

task when the

Role Assignment Time Zone Option

is Tenant Default
.

The time zone of the processing user when the

Role Assignment Time Zone Option

is Assignee Location
.

If you select the

Assign Roles - Add/Remove

task as a related action from a worker, Workday populates the time zone with:

The default time zone you configured on the

Edit Tenant Setup – System

task when the

Role Assignment Time Zone Option

is Tenant Default
.

The time zone of the target worker when the

Role Assignment Time Zone Option

is Assignee Location
.

If you select the

Assign Roles - Add/Remove

task as a related action from a position, Workday populates the time zone with:

The default time zone you configured on the

Edit Tenant Setup – System

task when the

Role Assignment Time Zone Option

is Tenant Default
.

The time zone of the position location when the

Role Assignment Time Zone Option

is Assignee Location
.

The time zone of the processing user when the position is unfilled and the

Role Assignment Time Zone Option

is Assignee Location
.

Web Services

When you use the EIB framework with the

Assign Roles

web service, and a role has multiple assignees, Workday uses the earliest time zone. If you use the framework and the

Assign Roles

web service with a job requisition that has multiple locations, Workday uses the earliest time zone.

If you use one of these web services to assign roles, Workday defaults to Pacific Standard Time:

Create Job Requisition

Create Evergreen Requisition

Edit Job Requisition

Edit Evergreen Requisition