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Welcome to our little year-end rewind 🤗

Below are our favorite Workday deep dives, strategy breakdowns, and hot takes we shared this past year…

Whether you missed a few, need a refresher, or just want to give your brain something tasty and nutritious to chew on while you ease into that lovely holiday haze ❄️…

We’ve got you 💜 See you in the links!

We started off the year covering 2025R1…

What’s 2025R1 all about?

2025R1's must-know Workforce Management features

Workday 2025R1’s hottest HCM features

2025R1’s hottest Platform and Product Extensions features

2025R1’s head-turning Talent Management features

Wave goodbye to these features… 2025R1 retirements

Then taught ya how to wire up your testing tenants to the WD mobile app…

Connect your testing tenants to the WD mobile app

In the spring, we did a whole 5-part (😱) series on custom objects…

Custom Objects in Workday: When and why (Part 1)

Custom Objects in Workday: Let’s get under the hood! (Part 2)

Custom Objects in Workday: Get your custom data into WD (Part 3)

Custom Objects in Workday: Displaying your data (Part 4)

Custom Objects in Workday: When and how to get rid of ‘em (Part 5)

After getting our Workday Extend certifications and attending DevCon, we offered an honest take on Extend…

Workday Extend: Worth the hype or overrated?

Onboarding Plans were delivered in 2025R1. In addition to presenting on them at the New England RUG, we shared a whole newsletter on ‘em…

Workday’s biggest core upgrade of the year: Onboarding Plans, demystified

We walked ya through Job Profiles and the strategy behind their plentiful variables…

Your tour of a Job Profile

We helped ya prep your people and tenant for the Workday Release with our 2025R2 release prep guide and checklists (and this all applies every release, btw)…

How to ensure your Workday tenant is ready for 2025R2

And then, of course, we covered what’s hot with the 2025R2 release…

What’s 2025R2 all about?

Workday 2025R2’s hottest HCM features

Workday 2025R2’s Platform upgrades

After all the hubbub of Workday Rising, we broke all the chaos down…

What’s happening in the Workday world—a recap of Rising 2025

We made a strong case for the Review & Recommend project (we flippin’ LOVE these at Well Built)…

The case for the Review and Recommend project

We ghost-busted the spook out of segment-based security groups 👻

You’re not-so-spooky guide to segmented security in WD

The Unified Duplicate Management Framework got utterly and completely demystified (seriously, the level of detail in this 2-part guide was wild)…

Your survival guide to managing duplicates in Workday (Part 1)

It’s merging time, ya’ll (Part 2)

And most recently, we broke down why the single sign-on button flip is your most impactful config change this quarter…

Fix your #1 candidate drop-off

As always, thank you for being a reader.

We’re celebrating you and your pursuit of a Well Built Workday 🥳

Until next time!

the Well Built Team 🌞🏗️