Accounts – Setting Preferred Name (Employees Only)

This article explains how faculty, staff and student workers can update their preferred name in Workday. This process is intended for employees and student workers only and does not apply to students wanting to update their student records.

When users want to change their account name to their preferred name, they need to:

1. Log in to the MyFloridaPoly portal and navigate to Workday.

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2. Once in Workday, use the central search bar and type “Change My Preferred Name.”

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3. Locate the setting labeled “Use legal name as preferred name” and uncheck it.

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4. After unchecking it, you will be able to edit your preferred name in the First Name text field.

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Again, this only applies to university employees and student workers, this article does not apply to students.

After the changes are set in Workday it can take up to 24 hours to apply and up to a week to be distributed across all systems.