Image Highlights, PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 44

Overview

The video presents a comprehensive overview of new features and enhancements introduced in PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 44. The focus areas include Employee Self-Service, benefits management, payroll, recruiting, and analytics capabilities.

Key Technological Concepts and Product Features

1. Employee Self-Service Schedule Change Requests

• Employees can request to give up or swap shifts via a new schedule change page.
• Requests can be configured for managerial approvals and customized naming per organizational standards.
• Features include calendar views, conflict-free co-worker selection, comment boxes for managers, and multi-step approval routing.

2. Processed Absence Insights Dashboard

• Visualizes absence data over customizable date ranges, including paid/unpaid absences and negative balances.
• Displays absence costs by department and type.
• Tracks entitlement balances over time.

3. Manage Benefits Dashboard and Life Events Insights

• Centralized dashboard for benefits configuration and administration.
• Life Events Insights dashboard provides real-time visualizations of employee life events, including expiration tracking, missing attachments, and pending approvals.
• Includes detailed grids for employee notifications and document management.
• Visualization tools help identify prevalent life event types and track employee activity guide usage.

4. Benefits Admin Processing Insights

• Interactive dashboards replace traditional reports for troubleshooting benefits processing errors.
• Features include schedule ID cloud visualizations, error summaries, and links for validation and employee notifications.

5. Configurable Benefits Statement

• Administrators can customize benefits statements by enabling/disabling sections and selecting specific fields.
• Statements are consistent for both online viewing and print formats.

6. Fluid Benefits Plan Comparison Enhancements

• Drag-and-drop plan comparison interface with plan images for easier identification.
• Usability improvements include a back-to-top button, footnote pop-ups, data alignment options, and rich text editing for instructions and descriptions.

7. Remote Workforce Analytics

• New visualizations for tracking remote work eligibility and status (fully remote, hybrid, office-based).
• Displays top reasons for remote work.
• Historical request tracking and geographic visualizations by state and postal code support tax and emergency planning.

8. Payroll for North America Enhancements

• Expanded direct deposit configuration options:
  • Mandatory accounts for remaining balances.
  • Disabling checks.
  • Preventing deletion of last deposit account.
  • Job action-based overrides.
• Ability to create W2 and W2C import files for tax preparation software, including audit reporting and file compression.
• Program Funding Configuration feature enables quick setup of state programs (e.g., paid family medical leave) with centralized management of program definitions and tax rules.
• Year-end form details accessible to employees without enabling screen reader mode, with country-specific settings.

9. Recruiting Enhancements

• Duplicate applicant management via manual or batch merge processes.
• Post-merge, duplicate applicants are set to inactive with configurable status reasons.
• Applicant lists update automatically or can exclude updates based on administrator choice.

10. Global Payroll for Core

• Advanced element trace generation for payees, with options to limit by calendar ID.
• Ability to generate traces even if payroll execution fails.
• Payee selection activated via installation settings.

Tutorials and Demonstrations

The video includes step-by-step demonstrations of:

• Employee Self-Service schedule change requests (give up/trade shifts).
• Processed absence insights dashboard usage.
• Manage benefits dashboard with life events and benefits admin processing insights.
• Configuring benefits statements.
• Using fluid benefits plan comparison enhancements.
• Remote workforce analytics interpretation.
• Payroll direct deposit configuration and tax file generation.
• Recruiting duplicate applicant merge process.
• Generating element trace in global payroll.

Main Speakers and Sources

• The video is a product update and tutorial presentation from PeopleSoft (Oracle), showcasing new features in PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 44.
• No individual speakers are named; narration is provided by an official PeopleSoft/Oracle presenter or voiceover.

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This summary highlights the technological innovations, administrative tools, and usability improvements in PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 44, aimed at enhancing workforce management, benefits administration, payroll processing, and recruiting workflows.