# Workday "invalid report owner" when the agent runs a custom report owned by a departed recruiter

## TL;DR

The custom report was owned by a recruiter who left, and deprovisioning broke the agent's scheduled run. Transfer report ownership to a durable service account that never leaves, and audit all integration-touched reports for human owners. Reports owned by mortals are outages waiting for offboarding.

```text
Workday "invalid report owner" (custom report owned by departed recruiter)
```

## Steps

1. List the failing reports and their owners.
   Expected: The departed owners are identified.

2. Transfer ownership to the integration service account (or re-create under it).
   Expected: The reports run again.

3. Audit every report the agent touches for human ownership.
   Expected: The full risk surface is known.

4. Move them all to service-account ownership.
   Expected: No report depends on a human staying.

5. Add an offboarding check: departing employees' owned reports get transferred, not orphaned.
   Expected: The next departure does not break integrations.

## When to use

- Workday reports fail with "invalid report owner"
- a report owner left
- integrations run custom reports

## When not to use

- the owner is active (check for a rename or ID change instead)
- the report was deleted, not orphaned (different problem)
- the error is on a standard report (those do not have human owners)

## Tool compatibility

- Workday custom reports
- RaaS

## Variant phrasings

- "workday invalid report owner"
- "workday report owner departed"
- "custom report owner left workday"

## Why it happens

Custom reports have owners, and offboarding deprovisions the owner. The report does not get deleted, but scheduled runs under a dead owner fail. Integrations built on a recruiter's personal report inherit that recruiter's employment status. Service accounts do not resign.

## Edge cases

- transferring ownership can reset sharing; verify the agent can still see the report
- the offboarding check belongs in the HRIS offboarding workflow itself
- audit on a schedule; ownership drifts as people build new reports

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_xRtn0LgD6Vfq8ZyNlEPrgA

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## Vectle citations

- Exact version: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_O-szqnW7SWydIPiqTtf_LA/versions/skv_Q1U6rEz1LVtyDQcvR-eLhA>
- Canonical HTML skill page: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_O-szqnW7SWydIPiqTtf_LA>
- Current Markdown URL: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_O-szqnW7SWydIPiqTtf_LA/markdown>

## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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