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Last Updated: 2025-05-02
Setup Considerations: Manager Insights Hub

Setup Considerations: Manager Insights Hub

You can use this topic to help make decisions when planning your configuration and use of Manager Insights Hub. It explains:
  • Why to set it up.
  • How it fits into the rest of Workday.
  • Downstream impacts and cross-product interactions.
  • Security requirements and business process configurations.
  • Questions and limitations to consider before implementation.
Refer to detailed task instructions for full configuration details.

What It Is

Manager Insights Hub provides managers with automated insights and actionable steps that they can take to support team career growth and development.
The Suggested Opportunities section uses machine learning to recommend personalized opportunities that managers can share with direct reports.
We support Manager Insights Hub in:
  • Arabic
  • Bulgarian
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French (Canada)
  • French (France)
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Malay
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukranian
  • Vietnamese

Business Benefits

With Manager Insights Hub, you can enable managers to:
  • Upskill and develop direct reports, supporting your organizational objectives.
  • Identify career growth opportunities for direct reports, promoting employee engagement and retention.
  • Leverage machine learning suggestions and insights, reducing time spent on individualized performance and career development.
  • Build and support high-performing teams, fostering productivity and efficiency.

Use Cases

  • Centralize and consolidate managerial tasks in a single hub to save time.
  • Promote career opportunities to direct reports to support their career development.
  • Use automated insights and suggestions to save time and promote action.
  • View the status of in-progress job changes, create position events, and job requisition events.
  • Request a compensation change or a one-time payment for an employee.
  • Manage time off and leave for your team once you view information from the reports and cards that are related to time off and leave in the
    Time Management
    section.

Questions to Consider

Questions
Considerations
Which Workday features can you access in Manager Insights Hub?
Manager Insights Hub consists of different sections and cards that display insights from:
  • Career Hub
  • Check-Ins
  • Compensation
  • Development items
  • Employee reviews
  • Feedback
  • Goals
  • Interests
  • Learning
  • Staffing
  • Talent Highlights
  • Time Management
  • Workday Peakon Employee Voice
You can initiate some actions and business processes for these features from the Manager Insights Hub. When you don't use a feature, Manager Insights Hub doesn't display cards or tasks related to it.
How does Manager Insights Hub work with Career Hub?
When you use Career Hub, Manager Insights Hub displays a
Suggested Links
section. Workday uses machine learning to suggest mentors, flex teams, connections, and learning opportunities in this section based on direct reports' skill interests.
Managers can share suggested mentors, flex teams, and connections with their direct reports from Manager Insights Hub. Workers receive the suggested opportunity in their My Tasks or email, depending on your configuration. The opportunity then displays in the direct reports' Career Hub with a
Manager Suggested
label.
Can you view suggested opportunities for direct reports when you don't use Career Hub?
When you don't use Career Hub but want to enable the
Suggested Links
section, you must configure Interests and Skills Cloud.
How does Manager Insights Hub work with Check-Ins?
Managers can view and manage check-ins from Manager Insights Hub.
Cards related to Check-Ins include an
Add as Topic to Check-In
button. If you don't use Check-Ins, Workday provides a link to the relevant View task.
How does Manager Insights Hub work with Goals?
Manager Insights Hub displays a Goals tab.
When you use the
Maintain Feature Opt-Ins
report to opt in to the Goals Redesign User Interface Changes feature, Workday displays the
Goals Awaiting Your Action
and
Recently Updated Goals
sections.
When you have the
Manage Goals
business process configured with managers as approvers, the
Goals Awaiting Your Action
section includes goals that are pending manager approval.
When you opt out of the Goals Redesign User Interface Changes feature, Workday displays a single card with 4 recently updated goals.
How can managers use Manager Insights Hub to view insights and suggestions for contingent workers?
Contingent workers display with [C] appended to their name and managers can view their career information and insights. Manager Insights Hub doesn't recommend suggested opportunities for contingent workers because opportunities are based on skill interests, which Workday doesn't support for contingent workers.
Who can managers view information about in Manager Insights Hub?
Managers can only access information about workers who report to them directly. Manager Insights Hub doesn't display information for workers more than 1 level removed from the manager.
How does the Manager Insights Hub relate to the My Team Management dashboard?
The Manager Insights Hub improves and builds upon the My Team Management dashboard. For your supervisory organizations, we recommend that you set up and use the Manager Insights Hub instead of the My Team Management dashboard.
Can I customize the Manager Insights Hub?
You can customize the Manager Insights Hub, such as by:
  • Renaming the hub, and sections.
  • Hiding sections, navigation items, and cards.
  • Including navigation items to custom reports, custom dashboards and Extend Apps.
  • Adding announcements to sections.
  • Adding suggested links.
See Set Up Hubs.
Can managers request a compensation change, such as when an employee changes location and is eligible for a higher salary?
You can access the
Request Compensation Change
task to change an employees compensation. See: Steps: Propose Compensation for Employees or Positions.
Can managers request a one-time payment for an employee as an off-cycle, special reward?
You can access the
Request One-Time Payment
task from the hub to pay an employee for any reason, including as a reward for completing a project ahead of schedule. See: Request One-Time Payments for Employees.
Can I view my total rewards statement for myself or my employees?
You can access the
Total Rewards Statement
report on the hub. See: Steps: Set Up Total Rewards Statement.
Workday recommends that you use total rewards templates.

Recommendations

Enable the
Suggested Opportunities
section to recommend the best opportunities to help direct reports' careers grow and develop.
Workday also recommends using total rewards templates, and change job templates.

Requirements

Enable the Manager Insights Hub functional area and configure the
Manage: Manager Insights Hub
domain. You must have the Core HCM product area to access the hub.
Access to pages, sections, tasks, and reports depends on your organization’s Workday product subscriptions. The individual security permissions of supervisory organization managers determines what data they can view, and which tasks, reports, and cards they can use. See Reference: Manager Insights Hub.

Limitations

  • Manager Insights Hub doesn't support matrix organizations.
  • If you create a custom hub title, you can't search for Manager Insights Hub in global search using that title.
  • Managers can only see information for their supervisory reports. They can't see information for workers that report to their supervisory reports.
  • You can't suggest Workday Learning opportunities through Manager Insights Hub.

Tenant Setup

You can select the
Enable Employee Engagement in Manager Insights Hub
option on the
Edit Tenant Setup - HCM
task to enable insights from Workday Peakon Employee Voice.

Security

Configure the
Manage: Manager Insights Hub
domain in the Manager Insights Hub functional area.
Consider the other domains that you want to enable as a part of your Manager Insights Hub setup.
Access to pages, sections, tasks, and reports depends on your organization’s Workday product subscriptions. The individual security permissions of supervisory organization managers determines what data they can view, and which tasks, reports and cards they can use.

Business Processes

Ensure that managers have the relevant security permissions for business processes in order to be able to view or initiate them from the hub.

Reporting

No impact.

Integrations

No impact.

Connections and Touchpoints

Features
Considerations
Talent Optimization
With Manager Insights Hub, you can access managerial tasks from these Talent Optimization features:
  • Career Hub
  • Check-Ins
  • Development items
  • Employee reviews
  • Feedback
  • Goals
  • Interests
  • Talent Highlights
Core HCM
With Manager Insights Hub, you can access managerial tasks from these Core HCM features:
  • Time Off and Leave
  • Advanced and Core Compensation
  • Staffing
  • Recruiting
Learning
Managers can view their team's recent learning activity.
Workday Peakon Employee Voice
The
Employee Engagement
section displays these insights:
  • Engagement Score
  • Highlighted Drivers of Engagement
  • Latest Comments
Workday offers a Touchpoints Kit with resources to help you understand configuration relationships in your tenant. Learn more about the Workday Touchpoints Kit on Workday Community.