HR Direct Chosen First Name

UMass Amherst employees can designate a Chosen First Name in HR Direct Employee Self Service. A Chosen Name is a name by which one wishes to be addressed and which may differ from legal name. Only legal name is shared by UMass with other agencies/organizations such as the MA Group Insurance Commission, the MA State Retirement Board and the PostDoctoral Health insurance vendor.

An employee's HR Direct chosen first name may differ from chosen and/or preferred names in SPIRE (the student system). Note that name information does not data-feed from SPIRE to HR Direct, nor does HR Direct Chosen Name data-feed to SPIRE.