Enhanced Search Results Available with Workday Assistant

A new feature, Workday Assistant, has been enabled that provides more relevant and useful search results in the new Simplified Search view.

Workday Assistant uses natural language processing, so in many cases, you will not need to match Workday terminology exactly to get relevant results. And depending on your search, the information you are looking for may be included in the search results, no additional navigation necessary.

For example, try searching for "vacation" in the global search bar in the header. You should see upcoming absences for you (and your team, if you are a manager) or a list of university holidays if no upcoming absences are planned. There will also be links to related tasks or information. See the screenshot below for an example of the enhanced search results.

Workday Assistant also includes a chatbot focused on HR and Payroll self-service. Much of the functionality of the chatbot is available via Search but the conversational interaction may be helpful for employee self-service actions like requesting time off and viewing pay information. Click the chat bubble icon in the header to open the Workday Assistant chat.

If you aren’t seeing the enhanced results when you search for terms like “vacation” and “pay”, you may have disabled the Simplified Search view. Click the Simplified Search toggle on the search results page to enable (or disable) the new view. For more information about using Simplified Search, see the Workday Search Overview job aid.