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Awaiting your action, It displays the top three items on your inbox. To access your inbox, you can click on the link "Go to all Inbox Items" beneath the list or the inbox icon on the top right of your screen.
Timely suggestions
Employee-specific suggested action items.
Quick tasks
provides links to the three tasks a user accesses regularly. Click on the "View all apps" option beneath the three opens to the entire list of apps. See also global navigation panel.
Your Top Apps
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Your top 4 apps to display on your home page.
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Announcements
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In the new user interface, you can quickly find all your Workday Apps by clicking the View All Apps link as shown below. |
Announcements
The Lynn announcements moves lower on the page. 
Global navigation panel
Access the new global navigation panel by selecting the 3 lines to the left of the Lynn logo. The panel will lists all Workday's applications and shortcuts formerly displayed as icons on the landing page. The global navigation panel is on every Workday page, not just the landing page. Employees who use Workday's shortcuts option (the foursquare icon) or configure applications option (cog icon) will find those options in the global navigation panel. Shortcuts set previously in Workday will show up in this panel after Sep. 11.
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Click the cloud icon/your picture to access your profile.
Related Actions display next to an object and can be used to access relevant actions. For example, the Related Actions next to your name accesses tasks, reports, and data related to your worker record (e.g., viewing or changing your benefits). In Workday, there are multiple ways to navigate to the same task, report, or data. For example, most actions available through Related Actions are also available through applications or the search bar. The following images show three common types of Related Actions:
Related Actions may appear when hovering your cursor next to a business object or link.
In your worker profile header, you can access your Related Actions from the Actions button under your name.
Similarly, you can find Related Actions in the task and report headers.
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People Search
You can quickly lookup staff/faculty/students in global search. The employee directory is available to all Workday users. Only students that elected to make their information available in the directory in their student privacy settings or employee access in Workday.
a worker in global search, reports, and prompts. From the Search field, you can find a worker people using a couple of different methods:
- Search for a worker by first name only. Workday will sort these results by relevance, showing all workers employees with a matching first name first.
- Include additional criteria, such as location, along with a first name to narrow down search results.
After searching for a worker , their photo, business title, and supervisory organization display. This identifying information makes it easy to confirm you have found the correct person.
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