Upcoming User Groups/Webinars/Conferences:

• PeopleSoft India SIG – February 16 & 17; Bangalore, India
• PeopleSoft Week: Game Changers – March 6-10, 2023; Virtual
• Oracle Public Sector HCM Meeting – March 7, 2023
• Payroll for NA SIG Meeting – March 14, 2023
• PeopleSoft RECONNECT Live! at BLUEPRINT 4D – May 8 – May 11, 2023; Dallas, TX
• Pacific Northwest Rug – June 1, 2023; Seattle, WA
• HIUG (Healthcare) Interact User Group – June 11-13, 2023; Las Vegas, NV

Strategy Spotlight – HCM Image 45 is now available for download. Among new features for HR, Payroll, Time & Labor, Absence Management, and Recruiting, this image also contains the much anticipated enhancements for Performance Management. PeopleSoft Performance Management (ePerformance) has been redesigned in Fluid to provide a more modern user experience with better visibility and flexibility for your employees and managers. The redesign includes configuration to allow your organization to track an employee’s performance review throughout the year with multiple checkpoints. Check out this blog for an update on the major enhancements made available for customers with Image 45.

Customer Corner – Highlights customers who have implemented, upgraded or deployed new HCM Features

• Congratulations to Alberta Health Services for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to Children’s Hospital Colorado for deploying Remote Worker and Kibana analytics
• Congratulations to City of Indianapolis & Marion County for deploying Fluid Job Data
• Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago for deploying Remote Worker
• Congratulations to County of Lancaster, PA for deploying Recruiting, Benefits and HR Kibana Analytics
• Congratulations to County of Rockland, NY for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to European Investment Bank for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to Harvard University for deploying Payroll Workcenter
• Congratulations to Hong Kong Univ of Science and Tech for upgrading to PeopleSoft 9.2
• Congratulations to Illinois Central College for deploying on OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
• Congratulations to Kirkland & Ellis LLP for deploying Health & Safety’s Vaccination Tracking
• Congratulations to Lockton Companies for deploying Guided Self Service
• Congratulations to Northwestern University for deploying Gender Identity
• Congratulations to Ontario Public Service for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to Portland Public Schools for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to Public Health Institute (PHI) for deploying Gender Identity
• Congratulations to Saint Joseph Healthcare for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to Southeastern Grocers for deploying Fluid Self Service
• Congratulations to State of Delaware for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to State of Georgia for deploying Fluid Self Service and Employee Snapshot
• Congratulations to State of North Dakota for deploying HR, Benefits, Remote, and Recruiting Kibana Analytics
• Congratulations to State of Tennessee for deploying on OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
• Congratulations to Stony Brook University for upgrading to PeopleSoft 9.2
• Congratulations to The Heritage Group for deploying Gender Identity
• Congratulations to The Ottawa Hospital for deploying Fluid Self Service
• Congratulations to Trane Technologies for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to University of California for deploying Fluid Self Service
• Congratulations to University of Hawaii for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to University of Minnesota for deploying ESS Leave of Absence
• Congratulations to University of Utah for deploying Fluid Self Service

Focus Group Updates:   Click on the link to find a focus group to join

• Visualization Working Group – The group was provided a deep dive into the capabilities of Search Suggestions
• Enterprise Learning Management (ELM) – The ELM group did not meet in January but will be meeting in February to discuss ideas space and focus group enhancement requests. Starting in March the meeting will move to the first Thursday of the month (10am Central Time). The March meeting will have a special guest presenter from our tools organization to talk about PeopleTools 8.60 and what you can expect for ELM with that tools update.
• Benefits – The group received an email notification announcing a Position Paper, new blog on SECURE 2.0 Act – Position Paper Posted (oracle.com), and a homework assignment to start gathering their organization’s legal opinions. This group will be meeting soon for an open discussion where everyone can share their compliance strategy.
• Performance Management – With the release of Image 45 came the new fluid performance management module. Development has been working on fluid business objectives. The focus group will meet again on February 23rd (if you would like to join email [email protected])
• Accessibility – The next Accessibility focus group call is scheduled for March 22 (if you would like to join email [email protected])
• HR Helpdesk – The focus group met to discuss the design for the Solution Effectiveness Analytics Dashboard and saw a demo (POC).  The group also discussed and prioritized the new features for HR Helpdesk Roadmap with the group. The next focus group call is on 20th April to review design for sending post case survey questionnaires to employees after a case is resolved.

USA/Global Legislative Updates –https://blogs.oracle.com/PsftLegUpdates/

• United States – Form I-9 is expiring this October, Dept of Homeland Security has announced significant changes to the form, but has yet to release a finalized new form (TBD).  They did announce that organizations should continue to use the expired form until a new form is released.
• United States – On December 29, 2022 the SECURE 2.0 Act was signed into law by President Biden as part of the Consolidate Appropriations Act of 2023 (HR 2617).  It contains 92 provisions affecting United States retirement savings plans.
• New Zealand – The New Zealand Cabinet agreed on new rates for Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) Levy and Threshold for the tax year 2023 (1^st  April 2023 to 31^st  March 2024).  The changes are effective from 1^st April 2023.
• New Zealand – The student loan repayment threshold has increased from $21,268 to $22,828 for the 2023/24 tax year.  The changes are effective from 1^st of April 2023.
• India – On the 1^st  of February 2023, the Indian Government presented the union budget for Financial Year 2023-24
• United Kingdom -Further to the Start of Year (SOY) changes for 2022-23, the Department of Works Pension (DWP) has announced that there are no changes to the Pension Thresholds for 2023-24.

PeopleSoft Update – Click here for schedule of release dates

• HCM Image 46 – posting May 26, 2023*
• ELM Image 23 – posting July 28, 2023*
• CRM Image 21 – posting August 4, 2023*

*Tentative Dates – Oracle Safe Harbor Statement applies.

“Popular &  New” HCM Ideas – Check out and VOTE for your favorite Idea, click here to see all the PeopleSoft Ideas

• HR – Ability for employees to enter a Preferred/Chosen Middle and Last Name – New/Popular Idea
• Health & Safety – Enable End Date field on the Vaccine Details Grid on the EE Health Card – New Idea
• HR – Allow for Multiple attachments download in one click in Fluid Job Data– New Idea
• HR – Create Tuition Request/Approval/Reimbursement Module – Popular Idea
• HR – OnBoarding – Activity Guide Group/Parent Step – Mark Complete Configuration – Popular Idea
• ELM – Delegations in ELM – Popular Idea
• Absence – Put the Limit of 4000 Characters on the Comments Section of the Request Absence Page – New Idea
• Approvals – Add Additional Filters to Fluid Pending Approvals – Popular Idea
• Time & Labor-  Fluid Timesheet – Remember the Elapsed vs. Punch selection with Previous/Next employee navigation – New Idea
• Time & Labor – Enhance the Update Time Reporter Status page to allow ECD and flag update for a batch of employees – New Idea

PeopleSoft General Update

• Oracle announces the extension of support for PeopleSoft to 2033, once again reaffirming its commitment to support PeopleSoft for a rolling 10 years. – Blog (Important)
• Announcing Our Image Delivery Schedule Next Year – Blog (Important)  
• Oracle Market-Driven Support for Select Global Payroll Country Extensions begins January 2023 – Blog (Important)  
• Top 10 most popular PeopleSoft blog posts of 2022 – Blog
• HCM Image 45 is now available!  Here are some of the top features to take note of! – Blog
• Assist in Preventing Duplicate Dependents. The Ideas Space Request Has Been Delivered.  – Blog
• Get PeopleSoft Absences to Payable Time with Each Absence Calculation – Blog
• Rethinking Performance Reviews for the Mobile Workers – Blog
• Graham Smith – My experience of patching PeopleTools 8.60 using PeopleSoft Cloud Manager – Blog
• Using Analytics to Bring Efficiency to the Benefits Specialist – Blog
• Time to pay attention to Oracle Guided Learning – The next generation of training and guided processing in PeopleSoft – Blog
• Image Highlights, PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 45 – Video
• The PeopleSoft Payroll Insights Video Feature Overview – Video
• PeopleSoft Now! A school district’s journey to modern PeopleSoft in the Cloud – St. Paul Public Schools describe the school district’s journey to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Video

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