You have an employee assistance plan that you offer at no cost to eligible employees. How do you automate employee enrollment in this plan?

Workday provides a specific "Auto Enroll" checkbox on the benefit plan configuration page. When this option is selected for a plan (typically a no-cost plan like an Employee Assistance Plan), Workday automatically enrolls all eligible employees into that plan when a relevant benefit event is triggered. This eliminates the need for any employee action and ensures 100% participation among the eligible population.

A: Configuring a default in an enrollment rule still often requires the employee to review and submit their elections; it is not fully automatic enrollment.

B: The "Only One Election" checkbox restricts choices within a coverage type; it does not automate the enrollment into a specific plan.

D: Enrollment instructions are simply text displayed to the employee; they do not perform any system action or automation.

1. Workday Documentation, "Set Up Benefit Plans". The section on creating Health Care, Insurance, or other plan types details the "Auto Enroll" checkbox and its function.

2. Workday Benefits Administration Training Manual. Module: Benefit Plan Setup. This course material explicitly covers the use case for the "Auto Enroll" feature for employer-paid benefits.