Workday basic guide

Sign in

Workday can be found above, and in the Tools menu in the upper right corner of aalto.fi, or you can choose to navigate directly to workday.aalto.fi.

Before signing in is possible, you need to activate your Aalto account, or your student Aalto account needs to update to employee account. Both are depended on the employment contract dates registered in Workday.

If your Aalto computer is connected to the secure Aalto network, you will automatically be signed in to Workday once you navigate to Workday. If your computer is not connected to the secure Aalto network, you will be asked to sign in with Aalto Single Sign On (SSO). In this case you will need to log in with your Aalto account credentials (user name + password). After the Single Sign On, you're also required to confirm your identity with a Multifactor Authentication (MFA-authentication).

Please note, all Workday functions are not available if you're not using the secure Aalto network, eg. adding or updating bank details is not possible. However, a remote secure connection is possible via Aalto VPN even from home.

If you have activated your aalto account and you have a valid employment contract, but you are not able to sign in even in incognito mode via Single Sign On, please contact your local HR unit.

Home page

Once signed in you land on this view, where you can control and manage your own data as well as begin tasks, such as edit (1.) Personal information (address, ICE contacts) or Career information (education). New employees will receive a task to update personal information in their (2.) My Tasks as part of their Onboarding. Please remember to Submit the task also from My Tasks, if you navigate to your personal information via landing page. All tasks in your My Tasks require your attention and a reaction.

(3.) Notifications are for your information and only require an acknowledgement. You will receive a notification eg. when you employment data is being edited by HR.

Employment details:

These details are as agreed on your employment contract. Updating or correcting these details can only be done through HR.

• Job title: the official title for your job or position in Aalto, that follows the official Aalto guidelines for titles 
• Business title:  can be used to specify the work tasks along with the official title
• Job profile: Broad job description that corresponds with your position, no specified tasks
• FTE: working percentage
• Location: building you mainly work at, tied to contract details (only HR can edit)
• End and start dates of your current contract

Work contact details

You can update your work contact details in section Contact in your worker profile: Press Edit and choose Edit work contact information.

Address allows you to add a work adress. Please mark the address you added as alternate location above in Business location section for it to be visible in your aalto.fi profile.

(Primary business location is defined in employment details.)

Add or edit work phone.

Your work email is based on your preferred name. If you have an incorrect work email here, please check first your preferred name (section Personal; tab Names)

Change Daily Digest -email notification frequency or language preferences

• Go to My account (eg. click your profile icon on the upper right corner) > Change preferences
• To change email frequency: scroll down to section Channel > on the left you can choose email > change the dispatch frequency to eg. "daily" (start writing daily, and hit enter to choose). Default setting is "immediatly".
• To change language: Preferred Display Language >  Suomi > Sign out and back in