By Sudarshan Mondal | Oracle Cloud HCM Transformation Leader
If you are running Oracle HCM Cloud Compensation and have Redwood pages enabled in your environment, this is a message worth paying attention to.
Oracle is actively seeking customers to participate as early adopters of the Redwood Workforce Compensation (WFC) worksheet in the 26B timeframe. This is not a roadmap preview or a future promise — it is a direct invitation to get hands-on access to new functionality before it is broadly released, and to provide feedback that shapes the final experience.
Why the Redwood WFC Worksheet Is Significant
If you have been following Oracle’s 26B release, you already know that payroll finally got its Redwood moment with the unified Earnings and Deductions page and QuickPay Cycle flows. The Workforce Compensation worksheet is the next major piece of that modernization story.
The WFC worksheet is where compensation administrators and managers spend some of their most critical time — running merit cycles, reviewing salary recommendations, applying increases, and managing approvals. Moving this experience to Redwood is not cosmetic. It means:
- A unified, modern interface that eliminates the context-switching between Classic and Responsive pages that compensation teams have navigated for years
- Access to Oracle’s AI capabilities on the most-used compensation pages — the same AI-ready infrastructure that is already transforming payroll validation in 26B
- A consistent user experience for managers who are increasingly being asked to do more compensation work directly, without HR intermediaries
For organizations planning their next merit cycle, this is a meaningful shift in how that cycle will feel — for administrators, managers, and ultimately employees.
What Oracle Is Looking For
Kathy Marlow’s team at Oracle is looking for customers who meet one key prerequisite: Redwood pages must already be enabled in your environment.
If that box is checked, they want to know:
- Your customer name and partner name (if applicable)
- Key customer contacts for the early adopter program
- Your plan cycle timing — specifically when your cycle opens for managers
- Whether you plan to go live on your next cycle using Redwood
This is a relatively low-friction participation model. Oracle is not asking for a lengthy commitment — they are asking for engaged customers who are ready to use the new worksheet in a real cycle context and provide honest, direct feedback.
My Take: Why You Should Consider Participating
Early adopter programs like this one are genuinely valuable — and not just for the access.
The feedback loop is real. Oracle’s product teams listen to early adopters, and the organizations that participate consistently have a disproportionate influence on how features are refined before general availability. If you have pain points with the current WFC experience, this is the moment to surface them directly.
It also positions your organization as a forward-leaning Oracle HCM shop. Being an early adopter of a major UX modernization — especially one tied to Oracle’s AI-ready Redwood architecture — is the kind of thing that matters internally when you are making the case for continued platform investment.
And practically: if your next compensation cycle is coming up anyway, piloting on the new worksheet gives you real-world validation before the broader rollout hits your environment.
How to Express Interest
If you are interested in participating, reach out directly to Kathy Marlow at Oracle:
Email: kathrine.marlow@oracle.com
Include the following in your message:
- Customer Name
- Partner Name (if applicable)
- Customer Contacts
- Plan cycle timing (when your cycle opens for managers)
- Whether you plan to go live on your next cycle on Redwood
Prerequisite reminder: Redwood pages must already be enabled in your environment before you can participate.
The Redwood modernization of Oracle HCM Cloud is not a distant roadmap item. It is happening now, release by release, across the modules that matter most. The Workforce Compensation worksheet is next. If your organization is ready, this is the right time to get ahead of it.
Sudarshan Mondal is a Solution Manager and Oracle Cloud HCM Transformation Leader at Deloitte Consulting LLP, with 24+ years of global experience leading enterprise HCM transformations across Healthcare, Higher Education, Energy, and Financial Services. Four-time Deloitte Outstanding Performance Award recipient. Executive MBA, University of Central Florida.
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