Advanced Work Assignment (AWA) release notes

Release version: Australia
Updated March 12, 2026
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The ServiceNow® Advanced Work Assignment (AWA) application automatically assigns work items to your agents based on their availability, capacity, and, optionally, skills. AWA was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.

About Advanced Work Assignment (AWA)

Use AWA with non-task and non-interaction tables such as leads, opportunities, orders, and quotes.

See Advanced Work Assignment for more information.

Activation and other requirements

Activation information

AWA is a ServiceNow AI Platform feature that is available with activation of the Glide Advanced Work Assignment plugin (com.glide.awa). For details, see Activate Advanced Work Assignment.

Browser requirements

Advanced Work Assignment doesn’t support mobile devices or Microsoft Edge browsers. Instead, use Microsoft Edge - Chromium or one of the other supported browsers that are listed in Browser support.

Australia

The ServiceNow® Advanced Work Assignment (AWA) application automatically assigns work items to your agents based on their availability, capacity, and, optionally, skills. AWA was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.

What's new

Advanced Work Assignment
Configure routing for non-task and non-interaction tables such as leads, opportunities, orders, and quotes in AWA.
Advanced Work Assignment
Use telephone-style transfer workflows in AWA to enable warm transfers where agents consult privately before merging calls with the customer.