Introduction to WX
Role: Team Member
The WX self-service portal powered by Sage People brings all of your company's HR processes to your desktop or mobile. Sign in to access all the day-to-day HR-related tasks you need to do, such as booking vacation, registering an absence, or entering goals and objectives.
There's full support for the collaborative, less frequent tasks like performance review and objective setting. With WX, you also get social performance management capability through an integrated Recognition process. Snapshot views of total staff numbers, new hires, and birthdays add extra value.
Finding other people and connecting with them is easy, and you can see where they fit in with clear and interactive organization charts.
If you're running a team, you'll get immediate access to all team processes. WX makes it easy to raise requests for HR to change employment details for your team members.
We designed the WX portal to work natively on all devices including desktops, tablets, and mobiles.
WX features
Because it's highly configurable, what you see in WX depends on the parts of the system your organization uses. Your company can integrate extra in-house or third-party data feeds within WX. This can include things like a social feed, news feed, or stock price ticker.
We've detailed the full list of available WX features and processes in the following table.
| Process | Description |
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| Absence | A combined process covering all forms of voluntary and involuntary absence from work. Graphical calendar date selection and display, with clear identification of absence. Shows past, requested, and confirmed, in a single view. |
| Actions | Outstanding actions you need to do, the system categorizes them by Service. Includes links to complete each action, with bulk selection for multiple actions. Notification badges against each Service and Process in the menu show where actions are due. |
| Async Reporting | Generate and view a regular report on vacation absence balances for your team. Presents managers with a single page view of current and forecast predictable absence for their direct reports. |
| Benefits | Access to your employment benefits and the benefit enrollment process. |
| Bonus Planning |
Salary Planning and Bonus Planning are available through the Compensation Planning package. Managers complete compensation plans within WX. For information about using the Compensation Planning process in WX, see Completing a Plan in WX. |
| Competency Assessment | Assess Team Members against a list of competencies and behaviors. From a simple manager assessment, through manager, Team Member, and peers to a full 360 assessment including input from external assessors. |
| Dependants |
Names, relationships, and other details for your dependants. In WX, you can create separate Dependants processes. They don't have to be part of the Personal Profile. |
| Development Needs | Manager and Team Member can identify and track the skills and competencies that they want to develop. You can also track objectives you've defined as a single item that team members need to achieve. You can record required skill levels, action plans, and target dates. |
| Education History | Your academic achievements with places, dates, qualifications, and awards. |
| Emergency Contacts |
Names, contact details, and priority to call information for your emergency contacts. In WX, you can create separate Emergency Contacts processes; they don't have to be part of the Personal Profile. |
| Employment Details | Summary employment information about your Team Members. You'll typically use these for salary and salary-related information. |
| Forms | Access to e-forms for completion, submission, approval, and viewing. |
| Hiring Manager | View and edit vacancies in your organization for which you're the Hiring Manager. Requires Sage People Recruit and Sage People Resource Manager. |
| Text and image messages that you can show at the top or bottom of the WX homepage, service pages, and process pages. HR Managers or administrators set up Noticeboards. | |
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Internal communications display as tiles on WX homepages, with some linking to a detail page providing further information. You can provide information as rich text, video, or website content embedded in Sage People WX. Internal communications can include requests for feedback, enabling simple acknowledgment, voting or scoring. HR Managers or administrators set up Internal Communications. |
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| Internal Portal | Access to your organization's internal vacancies, with links to let you apply or nominate someone else. Requires Sage People Recruit and Sage People Resource Manager. |
| Job Description | Record the roles and responsibilities of a job. Draw on your organization's established library of approved job descriptions. Or create a new one by copying and editing or by creating from scratch. |
| Manager Notes |
Record brief information related to a specific Service or Process for a Team Member. You'll typically use these as an informal record of interactions between a Manager and a Team Member. You can use Notes to contribute to any of the more formal review processes. Also use this to add information relevant to any other process. The level of confidentiality is configurable, and you can set up Manager Notes to let Team Members add notes to their own profiles. |
| Metrics Review | Rate employee performance using the requirements of a Job Profile against a number or a scale. This can be things like frequency, expertise, or agreement. You can also record a simple text assessment. Conduct and view the review through WX. |
| My Applications | View the status of internal vacancies for which you've applied. Requires Sage People Recruit and Sage People Resource Manager. |
| Objectives | Collaborative manager-team member objective development. Recording and review, with options for contributory milestones. Linked to Actions for prompting and timely review |
| Organization Chart |
The system displays a graphic organizational information with Team Member pictures, job titles, and contact information. Drill down to teams and link to individual profiles. Print your org chart for offline use. A configuration option lets you hide org chart links in WX. |
| Passports | Information about your current passport and associated visas. |
| Payslips | View pay details that the system extracts from payroll runs. |
| People Management Workflow | As a manager, submit requests to change employment details for your team. |
| Performance Management | Access Conversations, Enhanced Objectives, and Feedback in the Performance Management app. |
| Performance Overview | A consolidated view of Team Member performance. Brings together Objectives, Performance Review, and Continuous Feedback. Performance Overview supports the full Performance Review process and is fully compatible with Performance Review Templates. |
| Performance Review | Collaborative, periodic review of team member performance. Linked to Actions. |
| Personal Details |
Essential information about you such as your full name, residential address, home contact details. Includes other information your organization requires. In WX, you can create separate Personal Details processes; they don't have to be part of the Personal Profile. |
| Recognition | Social performance management. Allows all Team Members to give positive and visible feedback to others. |
| Reporting | Tabular and graphical reporting for managers and team members in WX. Each report starts as an underlying Salesforce report with full access to Sage People data. Administrators can change field content and data filtering before reports display to groups of employees you've targeted. |
| Risk Mitigation |
Enables tracking of team members' vaccination and test status. Helps you to comply with regulatory requirements around workplace risk mitigation. |
| Salary Planning |
Salary Planning and Bonus Planning are available through the Compensation Planning package. Managers complete compensation plans within WX. For information about using the Compensation Planning process in WX, see Completing a Plan in WX. |
| Skills | Record skills with your current level of expertise. Drill down to detail and to see others in your organization with the same skills. |
| Stock Options | Displays the stock option component of employee compensation and benefits. Lets employees view options granted, vested, and exercised in graphical and tabular form. |
| Succession Plan | Lets managers designate successors for key Team Members, along with readiness ratings. |
| Summary |
A configurable, high level reporting process, initially with three options:
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| Talent Plan | Assess current Team Member performance against their potential and risk of leaving against the business impact of loss. Represents the results on an overall 9-box grid or organization chart layout for your team. |
| Targets | Set financial targets or quotas for Team Members. Monitor actuals in the active period, and record comments on the level of success that Team Members have achieved. |
| Timesheets | Record your time at work by date and duration. With setup options that enable recording by total time, start-end time, pay code, or work allocation. Can also record by project, customer, or some other measure. |
| Training | Identify, record, request or assign, and track your development-related training needs. |
| Work Details | Information about your role in the organization. Typically includes your function, division, contact details, and so on. |
| Work History/Experience | Information about your previous employment. Includes locations, job titles, manager names, dates, and brief descriptions. |