Employees Update Info During 'Check Yourself'
Addresses and phone numbers most edited in profiles
Slightly more than 1,700 total changes were made to faculty and staff addresses or phone numbers as part of the "Check Yourself" campaign, an effort to have employees check and verify their personal information on the Duke@Work self-service website.
A total of 1,734 changes were made during the contest, which ran from Aug. 6 to 19. Five "golden tickets" were hidden among personal information in the "My Profile" section of Duke@Work and one lucky employee claimed a "golden ticket" in the address section of her profile on Duke@Work.
Karolina Angell, business manager with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, said she recently started in the department after working in the Office of Research Support. After seeing a story announcing the Check Yourself campaign on Duke Today, she realized she should update her new campus mailbox, office number and title.
"It was easy to go in and make the simple changes," she said. "As a business manager, people send me a lot of important documents so it was important for me to have up-to-date information so I receive them all."
As a prize for claiming a golden ticket, Angell will receive two tickets to a show at the Durham Performing Arts Center. She said she's looking forward to seeing the play "War Horse," which was recently made into a movie directed by Steven Spielberg.
To participate in the Check Yourself campaign, individuals had to check all of their personal data fields to find a potential ticket, including home address and phone number, internal office address, external work address, cell phone number, race/ethnicity, county of residence and dependent information.
Between last year's inaugural Check Yourself campaign and this year, faculty and staff have made almost 5,000 total changes to their personal information. That's important, said Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration, because it ensures Duke can successfully send communications about health insurance, retirement and other benefits.
"Accurate and updated information is essential to faculty and staff communication, along with the variety of interfaces we have with our benefit and retirement vendors," Cavanaugh said.
Even though the Check Yourself contest is over, employees are still encouraged to double-check their personal information listed in Duke@Work to verify accuracy.