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Last Updated: 2026-10-16
Maintain Attributes for Terminated Workers

Maintain Attributes for Terminated Workers

Security:
Calculated Fields
 domain in the Reporting functional area.
When you terminate a worker in Workday, their employment status changes from active to inactive. Workday then clears the fields that belong to the worker's position rather than to the worker, and leaves those fields empty (
null
). This is expected behavior.
Workday clears fields tied to the position, such as:
  • Cost Center
  • Supervisory Organization
  • Job Profile
  • Job Family
  • Job Family Group
  • Time in Position
  • Time Type
Fields that describe the worker as a person stay on their profile, such as:
  • Date of Birth
  • Gender
  • Home Address
  • Email addresses
This behavior can affect integrations that reference cleared fields. In the Peakon integration, any attribute or eligibility condition that uses one of these fields has no value for terminated workers.
When an effective-dated field used in your Peakon integration becomes
null
:
  • The terminated worker may no longer meet the eligibility criteria in Workday.
  • The Peakon integration updates their record with
    null
     values:
    • Survey targeting using affected Attributes is unavailable for terminated workers.
    • Viewing and filtering results by Attributes is unavailable for terminated workers.
To address this, set up calculated fields to ensure terminated workers retain attribute values in the Peakon integration when effective-dated fields lose their values after termination. This configuration is required if the customer uses PEAKON_INCLUDED logic or a custom eligibility field that references a Workday field that clears on termination, ensuring retroactive terminations continue to sync correctly to Peakon.
Eligibility fields that reference Workday attributes cleared upon termination are affected by this behavior. If your Peakon integration uses eligibility logic (Example: custom fields or PEAKON_INCLUDED), review those fields to ensure they continue evaluating correctly for terminated workers. The calculated fields described below help preserve the necessary values for those eligibility conditions.
  1. Create an
    Increment Date
     calculated field for termination -1.
  2. Access the
    Create Calculated Field
     task. When completing the task, consider:
    3. Field
    Value
    Field Name
    CF IDD Peakon Termination Date - 1
    Business Object
    Worker
    Function
    Increment or Decrement Date
    Calculation Date Field
    CF EE Peakon Termination Date
    Days to Add or Subtract
    -1
    Return Blank Date on Error
    Yes
  3. Create a
    Lookup Value As of Date
     calculated field.
  4. Access the
    Create Calculated Field
     task again. When completing the task, consider:
    5. Field
    Value
    Field Name
    CF LVAOD Peakon Worker ATTRIBUTE_NAME As of Termination Date - 1
    Business Object
    Worker
    Function
    Lookup Value As of Date
    Source Field
    WORKDAY_FIELD
    (Example: Employee Type)
    Effective Date
    CF IDD Peakon Termination Date 1
  5. Create an
    Evaluate Expression (EE)
     calculated field.
  6. Access the
    Create Calculated Field
     task again. When completing the task, consider:
    7. Field
    Value
    Field Name
    CF EE Peakon ATTRIBUTE_NAME As of Termination Date - 1
    Business Object
    Worker
    Function
    Evaluate Expression
    Field Type
    Appropriate field type
    Business Object
    Appropriate business object
    Default Value
    WORKDAY_FIELD
    Terminated (based on report date)
    CF LVAOD Peakon Worker ATTRIBUTE_NAME As of Termination Date - 1
  7. When defining the eligibility conditions, reference
    CF EE Peakon ATTRIBUTE_NAME As of Termination Date - 1
     to include the value as of one day before termination.
  8. Add the field to the
    Field Override Service
    .
  9. Access the
    Maintain Field Overrides
     task and in
    External Parameter Assignment(s)
    , select the following to calculate the correct effective moment:
    10. Field
    Value Type
    Value
    ATTRIBUTE_NAME
    CF EE Peakon ATTRIBUTE_NAME As of Termination Date – 1
    Report Writer Provided Top Level Effective Moment
    Determine Value at Runtime
    Current Effective Moment
When eligibility rules are evaluated for terminated or rescinded workers, Workday uses the calculated value from one day before termination. This ensures that eligibility conditions continue to evaluate correctly and that terminated workers are properly deactivated in Peakon.
Regularly reconcile worker data between Workday and Peakon to identify and resolve any remaining discrepancies.