Employee Readiness Core
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Summary of Employee Readiness Core
The ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Core application centralizes employee data tracking across the Safe Workplace suite and Emergency Response Management applications. It introduces the Employee Health and Safety Status feature and provides shared data structures supporting related apps such as Employee Readiness Surveys, Employee Health Screening, and Contact Tracing. This application supports organizations in managing workforce readiness and workplace safety during emergencies and pandemics.
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Key Features
- Employee Health and Safety Status: Tracks employee readiness for returning to the workplace.
- My Safe Workplace Page: Allows employees to view their workplace return information, manage requirement statuses, update health status, reserve workspaces, and request PPE or testing.
- Privacy Consent Management: Maintains employee data privacy and manages consent for privacy policies across Safe Workplace suite applications.
- Approval Portal: Enables administrators to approve or deny COVID-19 vaccine doses, exemptions, and health tests.
- Guided Setup: Provides a task sequence to configure Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management applications efficiently.
Integration with Safe Workplace Suite Applications
Employee Readiness Core works alongside other Safe Workplace suite applications to support organizational preparedness:
- Employee Readiness Surveys: Assesses user readiness to return via surveys.
- Employee Health Screening: Ensures compliance with workplace entry requirements like temperature checks and PPE.
- Explore Workplace Core: Manages clean and socially distanced workspace configurations.
- Workplace PPE Inventory Management: Tracks safety equipment inventory.
- Contact Tracing: Utilizes badge scans, Wi-Fi logs, and contact logs to identify potential interactions.
Installation and Licensing
Employee Readiness Core is available for installation by users with admin roles. It can be downloaded from the ServiceNow Store for commercial on-premise deployments. Federal customers using IL4 or FedRAMP environments can install the suite on nonproduction instances without special requests but require licenses for production use. Specific instructions vary for commercial, federal hosted, and federal on-premise environments, with guidance available through ServiceNow support and documentation.
Compliance and Usage Considerations
- Organizations are fully responsible for legal compliance, including data protection and employment laws, and must tailor application templates accordingly.
- ServiceNow does not guarantee legal compliance or provide legal advice through the application.
- Government agencies receive the application free of charge for a limited time and must verify acceptance with their Ethics Office or authorized representatives.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
By implementing Employee Readiness Core, organizations can streamline employee health and safety tracking, facilitate informed decisions about workplace re-entry, and integrate with a comprehensive suite of Safe Workplace tools. This improves operational readiness during emergencies, ensures regulatory compliance responsibilities are clear, and enhances employee engagement through self-service capabilities.
Use the ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Core application to track employee data across all Safe Workplace suite and ServiceNow® Emergency Response Management applications.
The Employee Readiness Core app also provides shared functionality and data structures for Employee Readiness apps, such as ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Surveys, ServiceNow® Employee Health Screening , and ServiceNow® Contact Tracing .
- Use guided setup to implement Safe Workplace suite apps
- The Safe Workplace guided setup provides a sequence of tasks that help you configure the Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management applications on your ServiceNow instance. To open the Safe Workplace guided setup, navigate to . For more information about using the guided setup interface, see Using guided setup.
Use with other Safe Workplace suite applications
- With the Employee Readiness Surveys application, evaluate the readiness of your users to return to the workplace by asking them to fill in a survey.
- Before users re-enter workspaces, use the Employee Health Screening application to screen users and ensure compliance with your entry requirements, such as a temperature check and PPE.
- With the Explore Workplace Core application, prepare for the return of users by configuring and maintaining clean and socially distanced workspaces for them to use.
- You can manage the inventory of safety equipment for your workforce with the Workplace Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management application.
- With the Contact Tracing application, evaluate the readiness of your users to return to the workplace by using data such as badge scans, Wi-Fi access logs, and daily contact logs to help identify potential user interactions.
All Safe Workplace suite applications are available in the ServiceNow Store.
Safe Workplace suite for federal customers
Federal customers using IL4 or FedRAMP environments will see the Safe Workplace suite applications ready and available to install on their nonproduction instances without having to make any special requests. Licenses are required to use Safe Workplace suite applications on production instances. Customers are responsible for configuring the apps to meet U.S. federal regulations and guidelines.
| Type | Instructions |
|---|---|
Commercial on-premise |
Visit the ServiceNow® Store to download and install the application. |
Federal hosted |
See the Federal downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps [KB0030260] article in the Store Help Center for more information. |
Federal on-premise |
If you are a federal on-premise customer and you would like to install this application, reach out to your sales representative or open a Now Support or HIWAVE ticket. In the ticket, request to be routed to the SHOT team. See the Federal downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps [KB0030260] article in the Store Help Center for more information. |
On-premise |
See the Commercial downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps [KB0030258] article in the Store Help Center for more information. |
Notice regarding use by organizations
All decisions in connection with the implementation of this application are at the sole decision of the Organization utilizing this application. Organizations agree that use of the application is not a representation by ServiceNow regarding the application’s compliance with any law or regulation and any suggested language provided out of the box with the application does not constitute legal advice by ServiceNow.
Organizations remain solely responsible for complying with their legal obligations under applicable law, including (but not limited to) data protection and employment laws, and should modify any language within the templates provided to meet the Organizations' specific requirements.
Notice regarding use by government agencies
ServiceNow is offering this application to government agencies and their authorized users, not to employees of government agencies in their individual capacities. Use of this application is being offered free of charge for a limited or extended time period and with no expectation of payment from the government agency to ServiceNow for use during that time period, nor does usage create an actual or implied future obligation on behalf of the government. ServiceNow hereby expressly waives any future claims for payment from the agency in connection with usage of the application. Government customers are solely responsible to confirm with the agency’s Ethics Office or its authorized representative that acceptance and usage of the application is permissible.
All decisions in connection with the implementation of this application are at the sole decision of the government agency utilizing this application. Agencies remain solely responsible for complying with their legal obligations under applicable laws and regulations, including (but not limited to) data protection and employment laws and regulations, and should modify any language within the templates provided to meet the agency’s specific requirements.