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Employee Workday Help

Verify You Have Designated a “Mailing Address” in Workday

Last updated Tuesday, April 9, 2024

While most employees have at least one Home Address listed in Workday (under “Home Contact Information”), every employee must manually designate which Home Address is to be used for mailing purposes. It is the responsibility of the employee to ensure that the Mailing Address in Workday is correct. All employees should confirm and/or update their Mailing Usage as soon as possible to ensure timely and accurate delivery of tax documents.

Tax forms sent by USPS mail with undeliverable addresses are returned to the Payroll Office and shredded.

Returned tax forms are not re-mailed. It will be the employee’s responsibility to either retrieve their tax form online through Workday or contact the Payroll Office to request a replacement tax form.

Confirm or Update Your Mailing Address in Workday

  1. Log into Workday using the “Sign in to Workday” link at the top of this page. Then, in the upper left corner of Workday, select Menu > Personal Information.
  2. In the View section of the next screen, select the Addresses button.
  3. Select Edit at the top of the screen that lists your Home Contact Information and your Work Contact Information.
  4. Under Home Contact Information, choose the address you want your tax forms sent and select the Pencil Icon.
  5. In the Usage field, make sure Mailing has been selected from the menu.
  6. After making updates, select Submit then Done at the bottom of the screen.

You can check out the Edit Personal Information User Guide for more information about different address types and step-by-step guidance on any updates you need to make.

Frequently Asked Questions

Since you can list more than one Home Address in Workday (common for students, for example, who provide their Seattle address and their parents’ address), you do need to pick which Home Address you wish to use as your Mailing Address – even if you have only one Home Address listed.

First, thank you! The UW is strongly encouraging all employees to opt out of receiving paper W-2 tax forms and to instead access their tax information online through Workday.

However, you should still identify your current Mailing Address in case a situation requires a paper tax form to be sent. Your Mailing Address is also used for other important reasons, such as if your paycheck needs to be mailed or the UW has critical communications that you should be receiving.

Not necessarily. Your Primary Home Address should be the address you use while working at the UW and is the address for which your taxes will be based. (Why this is important: if your Primary Home Address is an out-of-state address, you may be assessed state withholding tax; Washington state residents do not pay state withholding tax.)

Though your Primary Home Address can certainly be designated as your Mailing Address, you can enter another Additional Home Address (including an out-of-state address) and designate that as your Mailing Address. Your Mailing Address should simply be where you want to receive your tax forms.

It is best practice to choose just one Mailing Address to ensure any of your documents go to the correct location. Though you can enter more than one Home Address, and it is possible to designate each Home Address with a “Mailing” usage, you should make sure your Mailing Address is the address where you want your tax forms sent.

In general, you should NOT designate a Work Address as a Mailing Address. Though there is a “mailing usage” option if you add an Alternate Work Location, many campus Work Addresses do not provide enough information for USPS, and your tax information will likely be returned to the Payroll Office as undeliverable mail.

Please verify that you have a Home Address listed, and that your Home Address – NOT your Work Address – is designated as your Mailing Address.

You can access the online copy of your tax documents as soon as they become available in early January – two weeks earlier than when paper tax forms are mailed. Paper tax forms are usually sent out on/around January 25 each year.

Need help?

Please contact us with tax form questions, or for assistance with updating your address in Workday.