What’s the difference between Promote and Promote and Change Position processes?

Promote and Promote and Change Position are two employment processes with a slightly different flavour.

Process	When to Use
Promote	You want to change only the assignment, salary, and payroll details without changing the position configuration.
Promote and Change Position	You want to change the position configuration, assignment, salary, and payroll details in a single promotion transaction. Position configuration includes position details, customer-defined extensible flexfields, legislative extensible flexfields, evaluation criteria, associated profiles, and costing.

Earlier, line managers had to change the position details using Request a Position Change and wait for the changes to be approved. Line managers had to initiate the promotion after the position is synchronized in the assignment with the changes, update a few attributes (if needed) and change the salary. With the Promote and Change Position flow, they can update position, assignment, and compensation in a single transaction.

Benefits of Promote and Change Position Flow

• Managers aren’t forced to make upfront decision on the flow to use - Request a Position Change or Change Assignment.
• Allow managers and HR to make changes to a worker's position, assignment, salary, and payroll, all in a single transaction.
• Eliminate the need for multiple approvals when using multiple flows.
• Currently you have to wait until the position change is approved and only then you can initiate the assignment and compensation change. The new flow does it in a much more intuitive way and saves a lot of time.
• No waiting time for assignment changes to synchronize from position changes.
• Prevent having to update salary, compensation, and payroll, separately after the assignment synchronization.
• Reduce overall business process completion time.