Special Note:  We will be starting to send out a FSCM Newsletter in 2024, if you or your colleagues would like to receive the newsletter, email [email protected] to be added.

Upcoming PeopleSoft HCM 2024 User Groups/Webinars/Conferences:

• Oracle Public Sector HCM Meeting – January 2, 2024
• Payroll for NA SIG Meeting – January 9, 2024
• PeopleSoft India SIG 2024 – February 8-9, 2024, Bangalore
• PeopleSoft Week 2024: Game Changers – February 26 – March 1, 2024
• PeopleSoft RECONNECT Live! at BLUEPRINT 4D – May 7-10, Dallas, TX

Strategy Spotlight– The Questionnaire Framework Team is reviewing its Roadmap for 2024. We are looking to understand how customers are currently utilizing the framework in activity guides or having created their own Questionnaire Events using emails or notifications. Please email [email protected] with your current use cases or if you have use cases that are on your roadmap to be deployed.

This will be the last newsletter for 2023, we want to take this opportunity on behalf of the entire PeopleSoft HCM Strategy team to wish you and yours a joyous holiday season and happy new year!  Thank you for being a PeopleSoft HCM customer and we look forward to continue to working with you in 2024.

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

• Congratulations to Altec for deploying Fluid Open Enrollment
• Congratulations to Bloomberg for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
• Congratulations to Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) for deploying Drop Zones, Fluid Position Management and upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
• Congratulations to California State University, Fullerton for upgrading to PeopleSoft 9.2
• Congratulations to California State University, Stanislaus for upgrading to PeopleSoft 9.2
• Congratulations to California State University, Channel Islands for upgrading to PeopleSoft 9.2
• Congratulations to California Maritime for upgrading to PeopleSoft 9.2
• Congratulations to Chapman University for deploying Fluid Open Enrollment
• Congratulations to County of Alameda, CA for deploying Benefits Compare
• Congratulations to County of Hennepin, MN for deploying fluid and upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
• Congratulations to Deakin University for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
• Congratulations to East Kentucky Power Cooperative for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
• Congratulations to Evergy for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
• Congratulations to Government of Yukon, Canada for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
• Congratulations to Omaha Public Power District for deploying Onboarding
• Congratulations to School District of Palm Beach County, FL for deploying Remote Worker
• Congratulations to State of Connecticut for deploying PeopleSoft in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Congratulations to U.S. Coast Guard for deploying Fluid Self Service
• Congratulations to Uestra for deploying ePayslip

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

• Insights – The Insights Workgroup November meeting featured a discussion on possible future enhancements for PeopleSoft OpenSearch and Insights.
• Performance – There was no focus group in November, the next focus meeting is on December 12^th.  We will be discussing & reviewing requirements for Recognition Integration with Performance Management.
• Tuition Reimbursement– Next focus group meeting is January 9^th , if you would like to be part of this focus group please email [email protected]
• Enterprise Learning Management (ELM) – Focus group met in November and discussed the design of the fluid course ratings.  We are now working on notifications and will discuss the new notifications in January’s meeting.  December’s meeting will be canceled due to scheduling conflicts.
• Time and Labor – There was no focus group meeting in November.  The next focus group meeting will be on December 13^th with a discussion on the design for the Configurable Time Summary feature and requirements for the Meal Waiver feature.
• HR Helpdesk – Focus group will meet next on January 18th to discuss about Post Case Survey and Case Questionnaire enhancement that team is currently working on.
• US Federal -The focus group will meet next on January 25th. We plan to validate the scope of changes needed to support the new fields required by OPM for EHRI reporting

***Important Note*** Focus Groups are open to all customers, calls are typically once a month for an hour or as needed.  Your organization needs to have a current CPCA (customer participation confidentiality agreement) since Oracle discloses future design and prototypes.

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

• 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. Here is a link to the current Position Statement and the Planned Features and Enhancement Page which outlines our current roadmap.
• United States – IRS Announces an Administrative Transition Period for Section 603 of the SECURE 2.0 Act
• United States – Posted a special posting for the EEO-4 reporting updates (new electronic file)
• United States -Posted a special posting for EEO-1 reporting (several changes for the EEO-1 file format)
• Australia – Child Support and the Protected Earnings Amount in 2024
• Malaysia – The Malaysian government presented the budget on 13th October 2023, for the Financial Year 2024-25

PeopleSoft Update – Click here for schedule of release dates

• HCM Image 48 – posting January 19, 2024*
• ELM Image 23 – posting July 19, 2024*
• CRM Image 21 – posting July 26, 2024*

*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

• 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– Popular Idea
• HR – Manager Dashboard for Dotted Line Reports – New Idea
• HR – OnBoarding – Activity Guide Group/Parent Step – Mark Complete Configuration – Popular Idea
• Time and Labor – Additional Quick Fill Management Options – New Idea
• Time and Labor – Add Active/Inactive Employee filter on MSS Manager Search Options – New Idea
• Time and Labor – Make the exception icon red (again) on the timesheet! – Hot Idea
• Absence Management – Make the Approval Chain visible in View Requests tile after Absence Request is submitted from TS – New Idea
• Absence Management – Absence Request History – allow to be downloaded to Excel – Hot Idea

PeopleSoft General Update

• PeopleSoft Now! Rebekah talks with Paco Aubrejuan on the Investment Update for 2023 – https://youtu.be/DhPxslytsPw – Video
• 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)
• Image 47 Highlights Video – Video
• Episode 3.7. Rebekah shares the annual announcement of the PeopleSoft Innovator awards for 2023. – Video
• The PeopleSoft Page and Field Configurator Video Feature Overview – Video
• PeopleSoft Spotlight Series: Working With PeopleSoft Insights Using PeopleTools 8.60 – Video
• PeopleSoft HCM Image 47 Highlights – Blog
• Get notified and feel empowered with PeopleSoft Notification Composer – Blog
• Top 10 Frequently Asked Questions to PeopleSoft about SECURE 2.0 – Blog
• Clean Up those Open Life Events Using the Multiple User Activity Guide Configuration – Blog
• EEO4 Reporting – Blog
• EEO1 Reporting – Blog
• PeopleSoft privacy in your hands! – Blog
• A step-by-step guide to set up alerts for Pending Approvals – Blog

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