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Hide Your Campus Phone Number from the Cornell Online Directory

Cornell employees can use a privacy setting in Workday to prevent their university phone number from appearing in the online directory.

This article applies to: Faculty , IT Professionals , Security & Policy , Staff

Hiding your campus phone number from the public is one way to help deter harassing calls.

Note: After you flip your office phone number's visibility setting to Private in Workday, it takes about two hours for the change to be implemented in the online directory.
  1. In Workday, click Personal Information from Your Top Apps or from View All Apps.
    Step 1 to change privacy flag in Workday for office phone number
  2. Under Personal Information, look for the Change column and click Contact Information.
    Step 2 to change privacy flag for phone number in Workday
  3. Under My Contact Information, click Edit.
    Step 3 to change privacy flag for phone number in Workday
  4. Scroll past Home Contact Information and find Work Contact Information. Check each campus phone number listed. Click the Edit button represented by a pencil icon.
    Step 4 to change privacy flag for phone number in Workday
  5. Under Visibility, change the Public setting to Private. Then Save your update by clicking on the checkmark.
    Step 5 to change privacy flag for phone number in Workday
  6. Finalize your changes by clicking the Submit button.
    Step 6 to change privacy flag for phone number in Workday

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