Deel Release Notes

HRIS

Scheduled changes improvements

Clients can now schedule Bulk Edit jobs for future execution — queuing contract and compensation changes to run at the right time without manual intervention at the point of execution.

What this means for you:
Plan compensation and contract changes in advance and let them run on schedule. Particularly valuable ahead of salary review cycles.

How you can prepare:
Identify upcoming changes that could be scheduled in advance and plan to use this from go-live.

Unify worker terminations

HR admins can now manage worker terminations and contract changes separately — keeping reporting accurate and preventing accidental access revocation for employees who are still active.

What this means for you:
Cleaner offboarding data and fewer access errors during workforce transitions, particularly for teams managing large volumes of contract changes alongside genuine terminations.

How you can prepare:
Review your current termination workflow and align your team on the new separation before go-live.

Optimize the review step

The review step when adding workers now gives admins a clearer, more efficient confirmation experience.

What this means for you:
More confidence at the point of confirmation during mass onboarding. Errors caught before they're committed.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically.

Engage

AI shareable summary

Managers can now generate AI-powered summaries for review discussions and share them directly with employees — reducing manual effort and ensuring consistency across conversations.

What this means for you:
Review discussions become more structured and transparent. Employees receive a clear summary before the conversation, not a rushed debrief during it.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically within review cycles.

AI summaries for survey results

Rather than reading through raw survey responses, HR admins and People team leads now get AI-generated summaries and insights on the Survey Detail page — distilling what the data is saying so HR teams can act on it faster.

What this means for you:
Faster time-to-insight from survey data. Less time reading raw responses, more time acting on what they reveal.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically on the Survey Detail page.

AI summaries on question detail page

At the individual question level, AI now generates structured summaries of responses — giving HRBPs and managers a distilled view of what people said about each specific area of feedback, not just the overall survey.

What this means for you:
Granular insight at the question level, enabling more targeted action on specific feedback areas rather than just overall trends.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically.

AI/Admin content recommendations in Learning

The Learning Hub now uses AI to surface relevant content recommendations directly to workers — drawing on their role, progress, and learning history to identify what's most useful to them at that moment. Admins can layer their own curated picks on top.

What this means for you:
Workers discover relevant learning without browsing. L&D teams can complement AI recommendations with their own curated picks for key audiences.

How you can prepare:
Review your current Learning Hub content and identify priority materials to feature as admin recommendations.

Improved insights for org structure views

Managers and individual contributors now have tailored dashboards for tracking goal progress — showing what's relevant to their level and scope without the noise.

What this means for you:
Goal tracking that's actually usable. Workers see their own progress; managers see their team's. Both can act on what they see.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically.

Distribution curve in calibration

Calibrators can now see live performance rating distributions during sessions — making the shape of the distribution visible as decisions are made.

What this means for you:
Data-led calibration in real time. No more discovering skewed distributions after the session is over.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically in calibration sessions.

Calibrate overall score

Managers can now choose to calibrate the overall score in downward feedback — producing a more accurate and nuanced representation of performance.

What this means for you:
Greater flexibility for organisations using 360 or multi-directional feedback. Overall scores that reflect the full picture.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically.

Admin settings for distribution curve in Reviews

Admins can now define a Reference Curve — an ideal calibration distribution — that gives managers a clear, organisation-defined benchmark to calibrate against.

What this means for you:
More consistent, more defensible calibration outcomes. Managers have a shared reference point rather than making independent judgements.

How you can prepare:
Define your organisation's Reference Curve ahead of your next calibration cycle.

Prevent sharing during calibration

Managers will now see a warning when attempting to share during the calibration phase. Admins can also lock sharing entirely until calibration is complete.

What this means for you:
Calibration integrity protected by default. Results that go to employees are ones that have been through the full process.

How you can prepare:
Decide whether to enable the sharing restriction for your organisation and configure it before your next calibration cycle.

Saved views in calibration

Calibrators can now create, save, and switch between filtered views during sessions — without rebuilding filters from scratch each time.

What this means for you:
Faster, more focused calibration for teams working across multiple segments, departments, or geographies.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically in calibration sessions.

Consolidated progress tracking and overview

The Overview and Progress Tracking pages in review cycles are now a single, unified landing page — giving admins everything they need in one view.

What this means for you:
Faster decisions during active review cycles. Everything you need to monitor progress and manage exceptions without switching between pages.

How you can prepare:
Brief your People Ops team on the new interface before your next review cycle opens.

Participant assignment rules and status-based filtering

Admins can now filter participants by employment status during cycle setup and reassign tasks when needed — keeping task distribution accurate throughout the cycle.

What this means for you:
Fewer mid-cycle corrections for HR teams managing large or changing workforces. The cycle stays aligned with reality as it evolves.

How you can prepare:
Review your participant assignment setup before your next cycle launches.

No-rating question for competencies and goals

Admins can now link open-ended questions to competencies and goals in review cycles — capturing qualitative feedback without requiring a numerical rating.

What this means for you:
More flexible review design. Capture nuanced feedback on specific competencies without forcing a rating where one doesn't belong.

How you can prepare:
Review your current question configuration and identify where no-rating questions would add value.

Richer quiz question types

Sorting and Matching auto-graded question types are now available — bringing more varied, applied assessments to your learning programmes.

What this means for you:
Better assessment quality across your programmes. Tests that measure what workers can do, not just what they can recall.

How you can prepare:
Review your current quiz content and identify where Sorting or Matching questions would improve assessment quality.

Importing goals from CSV

People Ops admins, HR managers, and team managers can now bulk create goals from a CSV template — replacing manual setup at the start of every cycle.

What this means for you:
A significant time saving at the start of every goal-setting cycle, particularly for teams cascading goals across multiple departments or entities.

How you can prepare:
Prepare your goal CSV template before your next goal-setting cycle opens.

Deel Payroll

Flexible go-live date management

Deel Payroll clients can now manage payroll entity go-live dates directly from the platform — no engineering escalation required.

What this means for you:
Self-serve control over when new payroll entities go live. A change that previously required an escalation now takes minutes.

How you can prepare:
Identify any upcoming go-live dates your team should now manage directly.

Workday benefits and deductions sync

Deel Payroll clients can now sync benefits and deductions directly from Workday — automatically, every cycle.

What this means for you:
One less manual step in every payroll run. Benefits and deductions stay accurate in Deel without intervention from your payroll team.

How you can prepare:
Confirm your Workday benefits and deductions configuration is up to date in both systems before go-live.

Workday GPC — faster integration syncing

Under-the-hood improvements — including SLO dashboards and NATS event refactoring — mean integration components between Workday and Deel now sync significantly faster.

What this means for you:
More reliable syncing between Workday and Deel Payroll, with less risk of lag during critical payroll periods.

How you can prepare:
No action needed — available automatically.

Workday Time & Attendance integration

Deel Payroll clients using Workday can now sync Time and Attendance data automatically — eliminating manual entries across both platforms.

What this means for you:
Payroll reflects accurate time data by default. One of the most time-consuming manual steps in the payroll cycle, removed.

How you can prepare:
Map which T&A data types should flow through the sync and confirm configuration with your Workday team before go-live.

Rescind onboardings via Workday GPC

When a new hire is rescinded in Workday, that action now flows through to Deel automatically — no separate cleanup required.

What this means for you:
One action in Workday, both systems stay in sync. No manual follow-up in Deel.

How you can prepare:
Confirm your Workday GPC integration is correctly configured for rescind events before go-live.

Leave of Absence sync

Deel Payroll clients using the Workday GPC integration can now fetch Leave of Absence data directly from Workday's standard path.

What this means for you:
Cleaner records during leave periods and one less source of end-of-period errors for teams running both platforms.

How you can prepare:
Confirm leave policies are configured in both systems and map which leave types should flow through the integration.

Sync by Plugin

Enterprise clients can now run targeted integration syncs — choosing exactly which data type to sync rather than triggering a full sync every time.

What this means for you:
More efficient integration management. Syncs that fit how your systems actually operate.

How you can prepare:
Review which data types your integration team syncs regularly and plan selective sync configurations.

High Wage Earner identification for retirement plans

US payroll clients can now automatically identify and manage High Wage Earners for retirement plan contributions — ensuring compliance with Secure 2.0 regulations.

What this means for you:
Automated HWE identification removes a compliance risk that has required manual oversight. Essential for US Finance and Legal teams managing retirement plan governance at scale.

How you can prepare:
Review your current HWE identification process and align with your benefits administrator before go-live.

Employer of Record

Bulk approval for EOR amendments

Enterprise EOR clients can now approve multiple amendments in one action — rather than processing them one by one.

What this means for you:
A material time saving for HR and Legal teams managing large EOR populations. Amendment approvals scale with your headcount rather than creating a bottleneck.

How you can prepare:
Identify your highest-volume amendment types and plan to use bulk approval from day one.

Kota integration for Allianz Healthcare

EOR employees now have a seamless, automated benefits enrolment flow between Deel, Kota, and Allianz Healthcare.

What this means for you:
A smoother enrolment experience for EOR employees and less manual coordination for HR teams managing Allianz Healthcare coverage.

How you can prepare:
Confirm your Kota integration is active and communicate the updated enrolment flow to affected employees before go-live.

Contractor

AI agent identifies duplicate contractor invoice submissions

An AI agent now flags duplicate contractor invoices automatically — before they reach the approval queue.

What this means for you:
Finance teams spend less time cross-checking invoices. Duplicates get caught early, not after they've caused a problem.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — active automatically.

Onboarding tracker for direct contractors

Clients can now track the onboarding progress of direct contractors with the same visibility they have for every other worker type.

What this means for you:
The same pipeline visibility your team has for employees, extended to direct contractors. No more manually chasing onboarding completion.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically.

SSN validation improvement

Enhanced SSN validation now runs during signup and personal information updates for US-based contractors — catching issues at the point of entry.

What this means for you:
Cleaner contractor data from day one, with compliance built into the onboarding flow.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — active automatically for US-based contractors.

Bulk protection for unprotected contractors

During contract creation, clients can now see a list of unprotected contractors and protect them all at once — or selectively.

What this means for you:
Risk visibility built into the contract creation process. Easier to maintain consistent protection across a growing contractor base.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — surfaces automatically during contract creation.

PEO

PEO terminations — Severance

PEO clients can now input severance amounts directly into the termination flow, with automatic off-cycle payment generation. Payments can also be delayed until a severance agreement is uploaded to the platform.

What this means for you:
A single, controlled flow for PEO terminations that includes severance — less coordination across HR, Legal, and Finance, and less risk of something being missed.

How you can prepare:
Review your current PEO termination and severance process and align with Legal on the new flow before go-live.

PEO custom fields collection

Org-level custom fields now appear in the PEO single contract creation flow — ensuring data parity with Deel Global Payroll from the point of contract creation.

What this means for you:
Consistent data capture across PEO and Deel Payroll. Fields are collected when the contract is created, not discovered missing later.

How you can prepare:
Review your org-level custom field configuration to ensure all relevant fields are set up before the release.

Deel IT

Automate device recovery upon worker termination

Device recovery is now handled automatically as part of the termination flow — with rule-based logic to determine whether to clear or store a device, and fallback notifications for cases that need manual resolution.

What this means for you:
Devices get recovered reliably and reused appropriately, without anyone needing to track them down manually.

How you can prepare:
Ensure your Deel IT device inventory is up to date and review your offboarding recovery workflow before the feature goes live.

Automated device request approvals

Deel IT admins can now set approval rules that run automatically — removing manual review from device requests that would have been approved anyway.

What this means for you:
Faster device provisioning for new hires and existing employees. IT teams focus on work that requires their judgement, not routine approvals.

How you can prepare:
Define your approval rules before go-live so automation activates correctly from day one.

Deel Mobility

Business Visa tracker and renewal

Enterprise HR, Global Mobility, Legal, and Immigration Ops teams can now track and manage business visa cases directly from the immigration dashboard — with structured validity capture, renewal workflows, and expiry and risk monitoring built in.

What this means for you:
Full visibility into your mobile workforce's visa status in one place, with proactive renewal workflows that keep your team ahead of expiries rather than reacting to them.

How you can prepare:
Migrate your current visa tracking process into the dashboard before go-live and brief your Mobility team on the renewal workflow.

Deel Platform

AI-enhanced validation and data correction

AI-powered pre-validation and auto-correction now runs on large CSV uploads before they go through — catching and correcting issues before they propagate.

What this means for you:
Fewer failed uploads and less manual rework for Finance Ops teams running large-scale compensation adjustments.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — active automatically on bulk CSV uploads.

Unified worker onboarding and profiles

Every worker type — employees, contractors, EOR, and PEO — now has a single profile in Deel and follows the same onboarding flow. One place to view, manage, and report on your entire workforce, regardless of how each person is engaged.

What this means for you:
Your team manages every worker type from one consistent experience. No more switching between different flows or profiles depending on how someone is engaged.

How you can prepare:
Review how your team currently manages different worker types and plan to consolidate into the unified flow before go-live.

Please note: This release will be available from end of May onwards.

MCP apps in the App Store

Clients can now discover and enable Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integrations at the org level directly from the Deel App Store — starting with Zapier, with the ability to create personal connections to external MCP servers.

What this means for you:
A faster, more scalable way to connect Deel to the tools your teams already use, without routing through engineering for each connection.

How you can prepare:
Share the MCP App Store update with your IT and Engineering teams ahead of go-live.

Country-first pre-qualification wizard

Admins now receive country-specific compliance recommendations before a contract is created — surfacing the right hiring approach at the moment it's needed.

What this means for you:
Compliant hiring decisions built into the flow, without relying on external counsel for routine calls.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — activates automatically within the add worker flow.

Revamped growth tools landing page

A redesigned landing page, tool finder quiz, and job-to-be-done organised directory make it faster and clearer to find the right Deel growth tool.

What this means for you:
The right tool is faster to find — less navigation, less second-guessing.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically.

Streamlined client onboarding

Admins can now set up their organisation and entity in one simplified, AI-assisted flow — reducing the whole process to a few clicks.

What this means for you:
Faster time-to-live for new entities and organisations, with less friction at the point where first impressions of the platform are formed.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically for new org and entity setup.

Knowledge Hub redesign

The Knowledge Hub is getting a redesigned interface — cleaner, more navigable, and rolled out in a phased manner to ensure a smooth transition.

What this means for you:
A better experience for workers and admins who rely on the Knowledge Hub daily. Less hunting, more finding.

How you can prepare:
No action needed — the rollout is phased and automatic.

Aggregate lines of the same type

Accounting teams can now aggregate invoice lines of the same type — streamlining the invoice syncing process and reducing manual consolidation work.

What this means for you:
Cleaner invoices and less manual effort for Finance teams reconciling Deel outputs against accounting systems.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically.

Assignments based on new categories

Admins can now assign time off policies based on entity, payroll group, and gender — replacing manual assignment with automated configuration.

What this means for you:
Less time spent on manual policy assignment, and policies that only appear for the workers they actually apply to.

How you can prepare:
Map your current time off policies to the new categories ahead of go-live.

Mass import history dashboard

A new dashboard gives admins real-time visibility into every mass import job — workers processed, failed items, and live progress updates as they happen.

What this means for you:
You know the status of a bulk import as it runs, not after it finishes. Errors surface immediately so your team can act before they become a backlog.

How you can prepare:
No action needed — available automatically on go-live.

Client control center for payment settings

Clients can now manage employee payment settings directly from the platform — activating or restricting features like salary distribution and crypto payouts without raising a support request.

What this means for you:
Finance and HR Ops teams make payment configuration changes in minutes, directly from the platform.

How you can prepare:
Review your current payment settings and identify which your team should own directly going forward.

Simplified ‘add a person’ experience

HR Managers and People Ops admins now have a simplified, wizard-style entry point when adding people — less jargon, clearer steps, and fewer errors at the point of entry.

What this means for you:
Faster, more accurate worker creation — especially for admins onboarding large cohorts or those who don't use Deel daily.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically.

High-visibility upgrade path for contract transitions

The contract transition flow has been redesigned to make the implications of a change clear before anyone confirms it.

What this means for you:
Workers and admins understand what a contract change means before they commit to it. Fewer surprises, fewer reversals.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically.

Postpone contract cancellation

Clients can now create a future-dated contract for a worker in a pending state — keeping the existing contract active until the new one's effective date.

What this means for you:
Cleaner contract transitions with no gaps in coverage or data consistency between old and new arrangements.

How you can prepare:
Review any upcoming contract transitions that would benefit from a future-dated replacement.

Default HRIS secure file vault folders

Admins can now define a standard folder structure that applies automatically to every new employee profile — no manual creation required.

What this means for you:
Consistent, organised document vaults from day one across your entire workforce, regardless of who set up the profile.

How you can prepare:
Define your standard folder structure before go-live so it applies to all new profiles automatically.

Improved calendar app experience

Clients using calendar integrations now have a revamped UI and better management of calendar views.

What this means for you:
A more intuitive calendar integration that works the way your team expects it to.

How you can prepare:
No configuration needed — available automatically.

NetSuite custom field sync

Clients using the NetSuite integration can now sync custom LIST fields and parent-child hierarchies — mirroring their actual NetSuite financial structure in Deel with self-serve configuration for Finance teams.

What this means for you:
Accurate invoice classification, support for complex entity hierarchies, and significantly less reconciliation work between NetSuite and Deel.

How you can prepare:
Map the NetSuite custom fields and hierarchies that should sync into Deel and validate the structure before go-live.

Original source

Every day, ops teams spend hours on work that should run automatically.

Akai by Deel fixes that—built inside Deel, proven across 100% of our ops teams. 91,000+ hours saved every single month. Now it's yours.

In complex businesses, there's always been a ceiling. You automate a few steps, then hit a wall.

The result? Skilled ops professionals spend hours every day on work that should run automatically, with humans in control when it matters.

Akai by Deel breaks through that ceiling. Whatever your team does manually, Akai can do it automatically. Its interconnected system of agents learns your workflows, automates every step, and gets smarter with every run—auditably, on any system.

We built it to solve our own problem first. Today, thousands of workflows are already running across 100% of Deel's operations teams—Finance, Tax, Treasury, Benefits, and HR. The impact has been fundamental:

• 100,000+ cases handled automatically every month
• Over 91,000 hours saved every single month
• 8,000+ hours of payment processing—now background tasks
• Reconciliation that took 20+ days—now done in minutes
• 100% automation in areas we couldn't reach through years of coding

Every team is now creating agents with no tech support. No developers. No IT tickets. Just the people who know the work, building and running it themselves.

That's what Akai can be for you, too. With built-in voice, transactions across any payment method, and the ability to process and analyse any document or dataset—out of the box. Your first agents could be running by tomorrow.

Your team, supercharged.

Ops teams are stuck in manual mode, and it's time to change

Ops teams process payments across multiple portals, file compliance submissions, and keep data in sync across systems that don't talk to each other. At scale, it's relentless—and most of it still happens manually.

The work isn't going away. Compliance filings, payout batches, payroll cycles. These happen on a fixed schedule, at growing volume, with real consequences if something is missed or wrong. For ops teams at scale, the question isn't whether to do it. It's how to do it reliably without it consuming the team.

Traditional tools can't touch the portals and government platforms that ops teams actually live in. AI browser agents produce variable results you can't always audit—a real problem when compliance is on the line. The existing options don't solve that. Keep doing it manually or wait months for an IT-led integration project that may never come.

What ops teams actually need is automation they can build themselves, that runs on any system, learns from every run, and keeps humans in control.

Akai by Deel: A new operating standard

Akai by Deel is the agent platform built for operations. It builds a brain inside your organization—an interconnected system of agents that learns your workflows, automates every step, and gets smarter with every run, on any system.

It's fast to set up and won't break when a portal changes. The people who know your workflows—your ops leads, finance directors, compliance managers—build and own the automations directly. No tickets. No backlogs.

What this means for your business:

• Scale without adding headcount. Deploy as many agents as the work demands. Handle more volume, more complexity, more markets—without growing your team.
• Catch everything. Miss nothing. At scale, human accuracy has limits. Akai surfaces anomalies, exceptions, and patterns before they become problems—every single run.
• An operation that compounds over time. Every workflow your team runs makes Akai smarter. The longer it runs, the more capable your entire operation becomes.

We were managing client onboarding, employee setup, and invoices manually. As the company grew, it was eating more and more of our week. I built my first Akai agent in under an hour and got back over three hours a week. That repetitive work just stopped. Now I can focus on the work that actually moves the business forward.
— Frankie Limmer, Operations Manager, Ostberg Sinclair & Co

Three steps to full automation with Akai

Getting your first agents running takes hours, not months:

Step 1: Show Akai your workflow. Walk through it once—or describe what you want in plain language. Akai maps every step, learns your systems, builds the connectors, and creates the workflow automatically.

Step 2: Review, approve, and connect. Your team reviews every step before anything runs. Akai connects each workflow to the others—so agents don't work in isolation, they work as a system.

Step 3: Run it, and watch it improve. Akai deploys as many agents as the work demands—each running end-to-end, fully logged and human-reviewed. Every run accumulates your team's playbooks. Every new workflow makes the whole system smarter.

Automation doesn't mean handing over control. At every stage, you define what runs, review what Akai builds, and step in when it matters.

See how Deel does it.

Akai didn't start as a product. It started as an ops challenge—and became the solution all of our teams depend on for internal workflows.

80 hours a month. Now 30 minutes.

As Deel scaled globally, certain workflows grew too complex and high-volume to handle manually. For one Benefits team, a recurring consolidation process across multiple entities was consuming 80 hours a month. With Akai, it runs automatically in the background in just 30 minutes.

"It can take our manual, repetitive tasks with a clear process and automate them." — Team Lead, Benefits, Deel

340 entities. 120 jurisdictions. Now a background task.

Every compliance cycle, Deel's Global Corporate Services team had to manually navigate 120 national registries—retrieving, naming, and filing roughly 3,000 documents across 340 legal entities. 170 hours of work, every time. Akai turned it into a single trigger.

"170 hours of manual registry navigation becomes something you initiate with a trigger and run in the background. That's not just time saved—it means the team stays on critical projects without having to choose between compliance readiness and everything else. Automate the manual work, and suddenly that team becomes a strategic asset, not just a cost center." — Senior Global Corporate Services Specialist, Deel

Thousands of hours. Automated.

Running payroll for Deel's workforce spans multiple countries, currencies, and processing systems. Akai now handles the full workflow—from pulling inputs and preparing data to processing in local payroll software. The team focuses on review and judgment, not execution.

"Payroll cycles don't wait. Every cycle, we were manually pulling inputs, formatting data, logging into local systems across multiple countries. Akai took that entire process off the team's plate. We now focus on the edge cases that actually need human judgment. The rest runs by itself." — Business Operations Manager, Payroll Strategy, Deel

What makes Akai different

No code. Owned by ops.

The people who run the workflow own the automation. No IT tickets, no waiting. If your team can do it manually, Akai can do it automatically.

Record once. Akai handles the rest—on any system.

Walk through it once. Akai maps every step, learns your systems, builds the connectors, and creates the workflows automatically. It then deploys as many agents as the work demands, each running end-to-end, fully logged and human reviewed. No connector marketplace dependency. No integration backlog. If it exists on the web, Akai can work with it.

Not just automations. A connected system of agents.

Akai doesn't build one-off automations. It builds an interconnected system of agents—each one aware of the others, sharing context, and getting smarter as a network. The longer it runs, the more it understands your entire operation.

Gets sharper with every run.

Most automation tools run a task and forget it. Akai accumulates context across every workflow—retaining patterns, playbooks, and case history your team establishes. It catches what humans miss, surfacing anomalies and exceptions before they become problems.

Compliance and security, built in from day one.

Encrypted secrets vault, zero-knowledge credential storage, human-in-the-loop, full audit trail. Tested across 100+ countries, GDPR compliant, and built for the regulatory environments ops teams operate in. Akai never trains on your data.

Not a pilot, but proven at Deel.

Akai was tested at scale across 100% of Deel's operations teams before any external customer touched it. Over 91,000 hours saved every single month. 100,000+ cases automated. Reconciliation that took 20+ days—now done in minutes. You get the result, not the experiment.

We had 1,300 expense reimbursements coming in every day. Our existing automation handled 78% of them—the rest sat in a manual queue. We deployed Akai as a second layer. It read context, asked for clarification instead of rejecting, and learned from every cycle. We're now at 90% and still improving.
— Fernando Domínguez, Associate Operations Director, Deel

Built for the teams that need it most

Akai works for any ops team that runs repetitive, high-volume workflows across any system. A few verticals where it’s already making the biggest impact:

• Cross-border payments & PSPs: Process payout batches across multiple banking portals without daily manual logins. Automate FX reconciliation and settlement reports on a schedule.
• Tax & regulatory compliance: File government portal submissions on time, every time. Scale filing volume without scaling headcount.
• Logistics & supply chain: Automate data entry across customs portals, carrier booking systems, and warehouse platforms that don’t connect. Bridge fragmented ops stacks post-acquisition without waiting for an integration project.

Ready to deploy your first agents?

We’re working hands-on with a select group of ops teams to get their highest-priority workflows automated, fast. Early access teams get dedicated onboarding and are first in line as we build.

Try akai.run.

Original source

Your HR team is already using ChatGPT for global workforce decisions. Which country, which hiring model, what it costs.

• Can we hire in Spain, or do we need an entity?
• What are the risks with worker classification in Japan?
• Where should we hire junior developers in Latin America?

The problem? The answers are rarely accurate. Outdated figures. No real compliance data. No country-specific accuracy. Just confident-sounding guesses presented as fact — because the data isn't there.

Today, we're launching the Deel App for ChatGPT. Powered by the world's largest proprietary compliance knowledge base, covering 150+ countries, maintained by hundreds of local legal experts, and updated as laws change. Built on $22B+ in annual payroll and seven years of real workforce transactions.

The app is now open to anyone, right inside ChatGPT. And if you're already a Deel customer or paid through Deel, you can connect your account to do even more and manage contracts, onboarding, check your pay, and review time-off approvals, all from chat.

What anyone can do: Deel expertise, no account required

You can use the Deel App without a Deel account. Built for the planning stage — when you need real data, not estimates.

Ask about:

• Global hiring costs and model comparisons (EOR vs. entity)
• Compliance and classification considerations
• Take-home pay and total employer cost across 150+ countries
• Remote work requirements and local norms

What Deel clients can do: from answers to action

Connect your Deel account and move from planning to execution without leaving chat. What ChatGPT can access follows your existing Deel permissions and approval paths.

• Start contracts — initiate a new contract flow directly from chat
• Approve requests — route PTO and other items through your existing approval paths
• Track onboarding — ask who's onboarding and what's blocking them
• Look up worker data — pull role, location, status fast

Example: "Which hires are in onboarding right now and what's blocking them?" Ask once, get the answer, act — without digging through systems.

What Deel workers can do: your employment, in chat

If you're a Deel worker — employee or contractor — you can connect your account and get answers about your own employment without navigating the platform.

• Check your onboarding status — ask what's outstanding and what comes next
• Understand your pay — ask about your take-home pay, deductions, or next payment
• Look up your benefits — ask what you're entitled to and how to access them
• Check your time off — ask how much leave you have left and what the policy covers

Example: "How much time off do I have left this year and what's the policy for carrying it over?" Get a clear answer without logging in and navigating to the right page.

How teams are using it

Pressure-testing a plan:

"We're thinking of hiring two roles in Colombia — when does it make sense to stay on EOR vs. consider an entity?" Get oriented in chat, then move into Deel to execute.

Approvals on the go:

"Should I approve our support team's two-week vacation request in July — will we have enough coverage?" Get the context, make the call, approve without switching tools.

Day-to-day ops:

"Which hires are in onboarding right now and what's blocking them?" Ask and get pointed to the next step.

As a new hire:

"What's still outstanding in my onboarding and when do I get paid for the first time?" Get a clear answer about where you are and what comes next — without emailing HR or digging through the platform.

As an employee:

"How much time off do I have left this year and can I roll it over?" Get the answer in seconds without navigating the platform.

Built on MCP

The Deel App is built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the standard that lets AI tools connect to external systems in a structured, permissioned way. Deel controls exactly what ChatGPT can access. When you connect your account, what the app can see and do follows your existing Deel permissions. Unlike read-only integrations, authenticated Deel customers can take action — start contracts, approve requests, track onboarding — directly from chat.

As AI advances, Deel will be there — new capabilities, new surfaces, new ways to work. Built on MCP means built to grow.

How we keep your data secure

Two clear modes:

• No login: Ask questions and explore options. Nothing from your account is accessed.
• Connected account: Anything that reads from or acts in your Deel account requires authentication. The app only passes what's needed for the request, based on your permissions. Actions are tied to your authenticated session.

Your data is never used to train AI models. Learn more at trust.deel.com.

The questions HR teams are asking in ChatGPT are the right ones. They've just been getting the wrong answers — because the data wasn't there. Now it is.

Deel is built to meet your team where they already work — and to connect all your workforce data in one place, so every answer is grounded in what's actually true for your business.

A platform built for the world. An AI built for you.

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The best version of Deel is one that handles more so your teams handle less. Fewer manual processes, deeper integrations, more resolved without a support ticket ever being raised. Going live on April 8th, over 20 releases will move the platform closer to that.
Here’s what’s changing, and what your team needs to do before they land.

HRIS

Worker profile redesign

Deel’s HRIS Worker Profile is being rebuilt around a new Person, Work, and Compensation data model — giving admins a cleaner, faster view and workers a more accessible profile across all devices.

What this means for you: Less time navigating a cluttered profile, fewer misdirected updates, and a layout that finally matches how worker data is structured.

How you can prepare: No migration needed — brief your HR admin team on the new structure before your next onboarding cohort.

Separate worker status into person and onboarding status

The single worker status field is splitting into two: one for personal information completeness, one for onboarding progress — giving admins a more accurate and intuitive picture of exactly where each worker stands.

What this means for you: Cleaner pipeline visibility and the ability to action incomplete records independently, without conflating two very different things.

How you can prepare: Review how your team currently tracks onboarding status and plan how you'll use the split view.

Time off request for Microsoft Teams

Workers using Deel's Microsoft Teams plugin can now submit standard time off requests directly in Teams — no context-switching required. Brings feature parity with Slack, and adds analytics on request origin for HR insights.

What this means for you: Higher completion rates from workers who live in Teams, and one fewer reason to chase people to submit requests.

How you can prepare: Confirm Deel’s Microsoft Teams plugin is active and let your workforce know before go-live.

Field level permissions and manager edit permissions for custom fields

Deel’s HRIS is getting a more flexible, self-service custom field permissions model — including the ability for managers to edit custom fields for their direct reports.

What this means for you: Managers take ownership of their team's data. HR Ops spend less time acting as an intermediary for routine field updates.

How you can prepare: Decide which custom fields should be manager-editable and configure permissions before go-live.

Mass sign for HRIS contracts

Clients managing large batches of HRIS-synced contracts can now sign in bulk — with full control over when employee invitations are triggered during onboarding.

What this means for you: Bulk onboarding gets faster and more controlled. No more processing contracts one by one or managing invitation timing as a separate step.

How you can prepare: Identify your next high-volume onboarding cohort and plan to use mass signing as your default flow.

Engage

Show/hide content in Library Hub

Admins and editors can now curate Engage's Library Hub — controlling which content is visible to which workers, with audience targeting via Job Architecture. No more one-size-fits-all content feeds.

What this means for you: The right content reaches the right people. Workers stop seeing irrelevant material; engagement rates go up.

How you can prepare: Audit your Library Hub content and identify what should be scoped by role, entity, or job level before the feature goes live.

Deel IT

Enable joining support conversations

Deel IT clients can now join support conversations directly on the platform — enabling faster, more direct resolution of IT issues without routing through external channels.

What this means for you: IT teams get a seat at the table when it matters, cutting the delay that currently comes from receiving an escalation mid-conversation.

How you can prepare: Configure access for the IT team members who should be able to join conversations.

Deel Payroll

Cycle tracker redesign UX

The Deel Payroll Cycle Tracker is being rebuilt for multi-entity scale — compact, card-based, with urgency grouping, improved filters, and a flexible architecture that handles corrections and parallel runs as they emerge.

What this means for you: See exactly what needs your attention across every entity, without having to hunt for it. Built for teams managing ten or more payroll cycles simultaneously.

How you can prepare: Familiarise your payroll team with the new layout before your next cycle runs.

Leave of absence sync enabled

Deel Payroll clients using the Workday GPC integration can now fetch Leave of Absence data directly from Workday's standard path — eliminating manual and duplicate entries across both platforms.

What this means for you: Cleaner records during leave periods, and one less source of end-of-period reconciliation errors for teams running Deel Global Payroll alongside Workday.

How you can prepare: Confirm leave policies are configured in both systems and map which leave types should flow through the Workday GPC integration.

Payroll submission — grouping columns

Deel Payroll clients can now customize column grouping on the Payroll Submission page — grouping items by use case, viewing differently by role, and renaming for clarity.

What this means for you: Finance and HR Ops can each see a Payroll Submission view that's structured for how they actually work, with better data resolution for reconciliation.

How you can prepare: Plan your default column configurations per internal persona ahead of the release.

Improved review steps for bulk edit

The Review Step in Deel Platform's Bulk Edit feature is being redesigned to clearly surface all pending changes before they're applied — ensuring nothing is committed without explicit acknowledgement. The result is fewer post-edit corrections, fewer rollbacks, and a meaningful reduction in support tickets related to misapplied changes.

What this means for you: A proper control point before bulk changes become irreversible. For teams running large-scale compensation or data updates, this is a simple but significant safety net.

How you can prepare: Add the updated Review Step to your standard bulk edit sign-off process from day one.

Simplified auto submission/approval

Payroll submission and approval automation is getting a simpler setup — decoupling automation configuration from multi-level approval policies so teams can adopt it without complex prerequisites.

What this means for you: If you've been deferring payroll automation because the setup felt too tangled, that blocker is gone.

How you can prepare: Identify which payroll groups are ready candidates for auto submission before the simplified setup lands.

Employer of Record

Per diem — rate conditions and restrictions

Deel’s EOR clients can now customize expense categories, define tax-free rates, and activate automated allowance creation — with employees getting immediate feedback on applicable tax-free rates at the point of submission.

What this means for you: Reduced compliance risk across tax jurisdictions, less manual work for admins, and fewer payroll queries from employees who weren't sure what was covered.

How you can prepare: Map your EOR expense categories and identify which need tax-free rate definitions before go-live.

Contractor

Contractor withdrawal method prioritisation

All Contractors are getting a redesigned withdrawal experience that leads with high-speed, high-margin methods — simplifying the decision, highlighting instant options, and reducing the cognitive load of choosing how to access funds.

What this means for you: Fewer contractor queries about withdrawal options. The right choice gets surfaced upfront, without requiring contractors to navigate a full list.

How you can prepare: Give your contractor population a heads-up that the withdrawal experience is changing.

Deprecation of SOW

Deel’s Contractor of Record clients are moving from the Statement of Work (SOW) to the Quote Work Order Form (WOF) — streamlining the contract flow and unifying the contract experience across COR and EOR.

What this means for you: A cleaner, more consistent contract flow for contingent workforce engagements. Legal and Finance teams managing high volumes of COR contracts benefit from reduced overhead, and the unified experience across COR and EOR makes cross-product contract management more predictable.

How you can prepare: Align with your Legal team on how the WOF maps to your existing SOW templates. Identify any contract language that needs migrating before the SOW deprecation lands.

Deel Mobility

Document Intakes

Deel Mobility clients are getting a redesigned document intake experience — clearer instructions, smarter categorisation, automatic field extraction, and full visibility on when intake is complete. End-to-end processing time is set to drop by 60%.

What this means for you: More documents correct on the first upload, fewer stalled cases, and a significantly faster path from intake to filing for your Mobility team.

How you can prepare: Brief your Mobility team on the new intake flow so they're ready to guide applicants through it from day one.

Business Visa Letters automation

Deel Mobility clients can now generate Business Visa Letters automatically — cutting manual effort for Mobility Ops agents, reducing error rates, and enabling consistent delivery at scale across contractors, COR, and partners.

What this means for you: BVLs go from a days-long manual process to on-demand. A meaningful time saving for any team managing high volumes of business travel.

How you can prepare: Communicate the new self-serve timeline to your mobile workforce and travel coordinators before go-live.

Deel Platform

Fern — new API documentation platform

Deel's API documentation is moving to Fern — improving clarity, discoverability, and developer onboarding across the full API surface, with particular improvements to MCP documentation for teams building agent-based integrations.

What this means for you: Engineers onboard faster, integrations get built with fewer errors, and your team spends less time deciphering documentation.

How you can prepare: Share the updated Fern docs with your engineering team and flag them as the new reference source for any integration work in flight.

OneTrust integration

Through Deel Platform's new OneTrust integration, clients and workers can now exercise their privacy rights directly on the platform — with pre-filled forms and no support ticket required.

What this means for you: Faster privacy rights resolution, a lighter load for support and Legal teams, and a stronger audit posture with every exercise documented and actioned by the requester.

How you can prepare: Update internal guidance to direct workers to the platform for privacy requests before this goes live.

New e-signature experience and PDF editing

Deel's new internal e-signature engine lets admins upload a PDF, place signature and input fields, and send for signing — entirely within Deel. Reusable templates, a full audit trail, and dual OTP for external signers included. No more Adobe Acrobat or DocuSign.

What this means for you: Faster document turnaround with better security, built into the platform you're already using. One fewer external tool in your HR and Legal stack.

How you can prepare: Identify which workflows currently rely on external signature tools and plan the migration.

NetSuite syncing custom fields

Enterprise clients using Deel Platform's NetSuite integration can now sync custom LIST fields and parent-child hierarchies — mirroring their NetSuite financial structure in Deel with self-serve configuration for Finance teams.

What this means for you: Accurate invoice classification, support for complex entity hierarchies, and significantly less manual reconciliation work between NetSuite and Deel.

How you can prepare: Map the NetSuite custom fields and hierarchies that should sync into Deel and validate the structure before go-live.

Assignments based on new categories

Admins can now assign time off policies based on entity, payroll group, and gender — replacing the manual assignment work that currently consumes significant hours during onboarding and ongoing management.

What this means for you: Fewer hours spent on manual policy assignment, a cleaner experience for workers, and gender-specific policies that stop appearing where they don't apply.

How you can prepare: Map your current time off policies to the new entity, payroll group, and gender categories ahead of go-live.

Anytime Pay card to bank withdrawal

EOR and Deel Payroll employees can now transfer funds from their Anytime Pay Deel Card directly to their bank account — no support contact needed. A withdrawal history table gives full visibility into transfer status.

What this means for you: Workers get direct, self-serve access to their earned pay. For HR and Total Rewards teams, this makes Anytime Pay a stronger financial wellness benefit — especially in markets where card spending is less convenient.

How you can prepare: Let your EOR and Deel Payroll employees know the new transfer option is coming.

Expense overview revamp

The Expense Overview page is being redesigned with a new side navigation menu, quick-action tab, inline approval buttons, improved detail view, and more powerful filtering — reducing complexity and speeding up review times for approvers.

What this means for you: Faster expense processing and fewer review errors. Inline approvals alone cut the clicks required to clear a standard queue.

How you can prepare: Brief your Finance Ops team and approvers on the new layout before it lands.

Enhanced mass upload experience

The bulk upload experience for expenses, allowances, and bonuses is getting improved CSV templates, cleaner employee filtering, better document handling, and more specific error messaging — reducing upload errors and manual rework for Finance and Payroll teams.

What this means for you: Fewer failed uploads, faster diagnosis when something goes wrong, and a smoother process end-to-end for high-volume compensation adjustments.

How you can prepare: Download the updated CSV templates when they go live and update your internal documentation.

Reorder actions in Workflow Builder

Operations Managers, Workflow Builders, and Developers can now reorder action nodes in the Deel Platform Workflow Builder using drag-and-drop — no deleting and rebuilding required. Supports complex branching, reduces workflow edit time by 50%, and lays the foundation for AI-driven workflows.

What this means for you: Half the time spent editing workflows, with significantly less risk of introducing errors when correcting sequences. One of the most frustrating parts of building in Deel — fixed.

How you can prepare: No configuration needed. Identify the workflows your team iterates most often and start there.

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Managing payroll in Brazil can be a real challenge for companies. Today, many even do it manually, taking on significant risk. In a recent Deel study, almost 60% of HR and finance executives said that they spend "too much time" doing manual payroll tasks. At Deel, we want to help companies focus on the strategic, not the tactical. So we're expanding our native payroll technology to Brazil with Deel Payroll engine Brazil.

Deel Payroll engine Brazil is a complete, self-sufficient solution for companies of all sizes that reduces costs and time spent on manual tasks, while providing local compliance expertise. Its payroll platform automates the transmission of data to Brazilian government system eSocial, minimizing the risk of errors in filing employee taxes and social contributions (INSS, FGTS, etc.).

Deel Payroll engine Brazil, combined with its revolutionary eSocial integrator, offers several benefits

• Streamlined Payroll Processes: Automate routine payroll tasks, reducing errors and freeing HR teams to focus on strategic initiatives.
• Enhanced Compliance: Ensure adherence to eSocial regulations through automated data validation and submission.
• Data Security: Safeguard sensitive employee data with robust security measures.
• Scalability: Grow your business without compromising payroll efficiency.
• Cost-Effectiveness: Reduce payroll processing costs through automation and streamlined operations.

Employee and management Self-Service Via WhatsApp

The platform also offers self-service via WhatsApp, providing quick and efficient support to both HR professionals and their teams. That means workers can obtain a pdf of their payslip, apply for leave, or request a tax certificate just by talking to our virtual assistant. Puma Sports, a Deel Payroll engine Brazil client in South Africa, saw a notable reduction in the processing time of HR information and requests for its more than 550 employees using this WhatsApp feature.

The launch of Deel Payroll engine Brazil marks a significant step in Deel's commitment to scaling payroll to more countries and more customers, backed by Deel's full HR product suite. With this new offering, Brazilian companies now have access to a truly global payroll solution that is automated, integrated, and customized to their specific needs.

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Speed has always been part of how Deel operates. We've shipped features fast, iterated constantly, and built the platform into what it is today by moving with urgency. That pace has been one of our biggest strengths and our customers have benefited from it. That's not changing.

But as Deel has grown into a platform that thousands of enterprise teams rely on to run their global workforce, we've listened carefully to what matters most at that scale. The answer is clear: alongside innovation, you need predictability. You need to know what's coming, when it's coming, and that it's been thoroughly tested before it reaches your team.

That's exactly what we’ve built.

Introducing Deel's new product release framework

Starting now, every new customer-facing feature on Deel ships through a structured, phased rollout process purpose-built to give enterprise and mid-market customers more visibility, stability, and control over how product changes reach them.

The updates aren't changing. The way you discover them is.

What this means for you

You'll know what's coming before it arrives. Unless you are on our early access list, you will receive advance notice of upcoming platform changes one week before they go live for your organization. No more surprises. No more logging in to find a workflow that looks different without warning.

Updates arrive on a predictable monthly schedule. Rather than rolling out continuously, new features for enterprise and mid-market customers will land on a consistent monthly cadence — the second Wednesday of each month. Your team can plan around it, brief internal stakeholders, and prepare your workflows accordingly.

Features reach you after they've been rigorously validated. Before any new functionality is released, it travels through multiple quality gates. It's tested internally, validated with our test group, and rolled out progressively. By the time it reaches you, it's stable, it meets defined success metrics, and it has zero open bugs.

Early access is available if you want it. If you'd prefer to see new features sooner, you can opt into our early release program. Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to be added to the list.

What to expect going forward

Your customer success manager will be available to walk through upcoming changes and answer any questions ahead of each release window. Every month you will receive monthly product update emails that outline what's being released.

Why this matters

Deel now supports tens of thousands of customers worldwide, many of them running complex, multi-entity global payroll and HR operations. For those teams, a surprise change to a workflow isn't just inconvenient, it can have real downstream consequences for your people and your operations.

The feedback we've heard from customers has been consistent for some time: more notice, more predictability, more stability. This framework is our direct response to that.

It also reflects something broader about where Deel is as a company. We've built the infrastructure, the team, and the processes that a truly enterprise-grade platform requires. This release framework is one part of that — a commitment to operating with the rigor and discipline that global organizations expect from the platforms they trust with their workforce.

Great products deserve a great experience around them. This is one more step toward making sure Deel delivers both. We're not slowing down on building. We're getting smarter about how we deliver.

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Seven years ago, Deel started with a single belief: opportunity shouldn't be limited by geography. Today, more than 40,000 companies, from SMEs and startups to household name enterprises, use Deel to manage their global workforces. And at The Big Deel 2026, we showed what comes next.

This year's event was about more than features. We unveiled a new operating model for global work—one that's connected, intelligent, and built around the people who actually do the work. Here's everything we announced.

Deel AI: A real teammate, not a chatbot

Most AI sits on top of your tools. You ask it questions, and it gives you answers. In global work, that breaks down fast. Data is fragmented, rules change by country, and answers without context create real risk.

We took a different approach. Deel AI works like a real teammate. It has the reasoning to understand what's happening, the knowledge to stay within your policies and local laws, and the ability to take action directly inside the platform. It's always on, continuously monitoring your workflows, detecting anomalies, flagging risks, and surfacing missing information as things happen. No one has to ask it to work.

Building on that foundation, we launched our AI Workforce, a suite of proactive AI agents. These aren't generic assistants. Each agent owns a real part of the workflow—hiring, onboarding, payroll, IT, compliance, and more. They follow your rules, your approvals, and your risk thresholds. Sometimes you ask an agent to step in. Other times, it steps in before something breaks.

Here's what that looks like across the full employee lifecycle:

• Hiring agent: Recommends the right talent partners, generates job descriptions, and guides sourcing from day one, including directly inside ChatGPT. Deel is the first B2B HR and payroll app in ChatGPT.
• Onboarding agent: Proposes the right equipment, places orders, and sends updates automatically. No tickets. No back-and-forth.
• Payroll AI: Catches anomalies before a cycle starts, traces changes back to their source, and surfaces risk while there's still time to fix it, so the payslip goes out accurately every time.
• PTO agent: Handles time-off requests for managers, checking policy, local law, and approvals automatically.
• Build your own agent: Upload your handbook, define your rules, and give employees a benefits agent that answers questions with the right context every time—during life events, performance reviews, offboarding, and more.

Deel AI isn't a layer on top. It's embedded directly into the platform, taking ownership of real work.

Deel HR: The connected system that makes everything work

For AI agents to work effectively, they need a single place where workforce data actually lives and stays consistent. That's Deel HR.

Over the past year, we invested heavily in making our HRIS truly AI-native. It's the single source of truth for your workforce—every worker, every role, every country, every change. That structured, global data is what makes our AI workflows possible.

• Workforce planning: Headcount planning used to mean mismatched spreadsheets between HR and Finance, and no single view of costs. Workforce planning gives HR, Finance, and Management teams real-time access to accurate workforce data straight from your HRIS.
• Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS): Approved roles flow automatically into job openings, no data re-entry, no handoffs. AI supports screening, scoring, and sourcing, surfacing the most relevant profiles first. When an offer is accepted, everything captured in the ATS flows directly into HRIS—automatically powering what comes next.
• Automations that connect onboarding, learning, performance, and compensation: Once a hire is confirmed, Deel IT orders and ships the right laptop, provisions apps, and sets up secure access—anywhere in the world. Learning journeys launch automatically. Performance, development plans, and compensation cycles all live on the same HRIS foundation. And when compensation decisions are made, changes flow automatically into payroll.

Deel Mobility:

Even companies with great HR and payroll systems hit a wall when it comes to moving people across borders. Immigration cases live in spreadsheets and with disconnected external vendors. Processes are slow. Compliance is reactive. The cost is real—more risk, more admin, more confusion.

Deel Mobility is your new system of record for all immigration cases—combining real-time visibility with built-in compliance. It connects directly to your HRIS, so updates flow automatically. No manual syncing. No stale data.

• Initiate services in-platform, like short-term business travel, permanent relocation, right-to-work checks, and more
• Track every case, document, and timeline in one place, with proactive alerts on immigration law updates, contract changes, and renewal windows
• Use AI-powered eligibility tools to understand visa options upfront and get instant quotes
• Get support from 100+ mobility experts in more than 100 countries, or let Deel fully own execution on your behalf

Immigration becomes predictable, trackable, and compliant by design. This is mobility at Deel speed.

Mobile app updates: The world of work in the palm of your hand

We redesigned the Deel mobile app from the ground up. The new app is a central hub for your entire professional life—with powerful financial tools built into the core, and a personalized experience that shows only what's relevant to you in the moment.

Here's what's inside:

• Clarity from the first screen—upcoming tasks, pay date, time off balance. Peace of mind built in.
• Submit expenses, request time off, access contracts, view the org chart, and manage your own growth—all in one place.
• A modern financial experience built into payroll. Contractors can view transactions, access Deel Cards, use Deel Advance, and now hold earnings in stablecoins and earn rewards. Employees get clear payslips, Anytime Pay (fee-free), and the new option to receive part of their salary in stablecoins.
• Approve time off and expenses with a swipe. Deel AI surfaces directional insights to help managers make confident decisions fast.

Deel at enterprise scale

The largest organizations in the world can't pivot their entire tech stack overnight. Deel is built with that reality in mind. Here's what we announced for enterprise teams.

• Modularity: Start where the pain is biggest—EOR, contractors, or fragmented payroll. Deel’s enterprise path starts anywhere, integrates easily, and expands when you’re ready.
• Deep integrations: Deel is now a certified Workday Global Payroll Cloud partner, with expanded integrations across SAP, UKG, and NetSuite, and open APIs for custom connections. Barings used Deel and Workday together to unify payroll across 18 countries.
• Governance and AI guardrails: One global approval chain, one audit trail, one control framework across every legal entity. Deel’s AI agents operate fully within your enterprise rules—you set the guardrails.
• Enterprise Operations: Every enterprise customer now gets a dedicated Enterprise Operations Manager in their timezone, guaranteed operational SLAs, and executive sponsorship for fast escalation.

Discover the future world of work

Everything we showed at The Big Deel 2026 exists for one reason: to make global work simpler and more reliable for your team.

Catch up on everything from The Big Deel — product demos, expert insights, and much more — in our new Content Hub.

Original source

Seven years ago, Deel started with a single belief: opportunity shouldn't be limited by geography. Today, more than 40,000 companies, from SMEs and startups to household name enterprises, use Deel to manage their global workforces. And at The Big Deel 2026, we showed what comes next.

This year's event was about more than features. We unveiled a new operating model for global work—one that's connected, intelligent, and built around the people who actually do the work. Here's everything we announced.

Deel AI: A real teammate, not a chatbot

Most AI sits on top of your tools. You ask it questions, and it gives you answers. In global work, that breaks down fast. Data is fragmented, rules change by country, and answers without context create real risk.

We took a different approach. Deel AI works like a real teammate. It has the reasoning to understand what's happening, the knowledge to stay within your policies and local laws, and the ability to take action directly inside the platform. It's always on, continuously monitoring your workflows, detecting anomalies, flagging risks, and surfacing missing information as things happen. No one has to ask it to work.

Building on that foundation, we launched our AI Workforce, a suite of proactive AI agents. These aren't generic assistants. Each agent owns a real part of the workflow—hiring, onboarding, payroll, IT, compliance, and more. They follow your rules, your approvals, and your risk thresholds. Sometimes you ask an agent to step in. Other times, it steps in before something breaks.

Here's what that looks like across the full employee lifecycle:

• Hiring agent: Recommends the right talent partners, generates job descriptions, and guides sourcing from day one, including directly inside ChatGPT. Deel is the first B2B HR and payroll app in ChatGPT.
• Onboarding agent: Proposes the right equipment, places orders, and sends updates automatically. No tickets. No back-and-forth.
• Payroll AI: Catches anomalies before a cycle starts, traces changes back to their source, and surfaces risk while there's still time to fix it, so the payslip goes out accurately every time.
• PTO agent: Handles time-off requests for managers, checking policy, local law, and approvals automatically.
• Build your own agent: Upload your handbook, define your rules, and give employees a benefits agent that answers questions with the right context every time—during life events, performance reviews, offboarding, and more.

Deel AI isn't a layer on top. It's embedded directly into the platform, taking ownership of real work.

Deel HR: The connected system that makes everything work

For AI agents to work effectively, they need a single place where workforce data actually lives and stays consistent. That's Deel HR.

Over the past year, we invested heavily in making our HRIS truly AI-native. It's the single source of truth for your workforce—every worker, every role, every country, every change. That structured, global data is what makes our AI workflows possible.

• Workforce planning: Headcount planning used to mean mismatched spreadsheets between HR and Finance, and no single view of costs. Workforce planning gives HR, Finance, and Management teams real-time access to accurate workforce data straight from your HRIS.
• Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS): Approved roles flow automatically into job openings, no data re-entry, no handoffs. AI supports screening, scoring, and sourcing, surfacing the most relevant profiles first. When an offer is accepted, everything captured in the ATS flows directly into HRIS—automatically powering what comes next.
• Automations that connect onboarding, learning, performance, and compensation: Once a hire is confirmed, Deel IT orders and ships the right laptop, provisions apps, and sets up secure access—anywhere in the world. Learning journeys launch automatically. Performance, development plans, and compensation cycles all live on the same HRIS foundation. And when compensation decisions are made, changes flow automatically into payroll.

Deel Mobility

Even companies with great HR and payroll systems hit a wall when it comes to moving people across borders. Immigration cases live in spreadsheets and with disconnected external vendors. Processes are slow. Compliance is reactive. The cost is real—more risk, more admin, more confusion.

Deel Mobility is your new system of record for all immigration cases—combining real-time visibility with built-in compliance. It connects directly to your HRIS, so updates flow automatically. No manual syncing. No stale data.

• Initiate services in-platform, like short-term business travel, permanent relocation, right-to-work checks, and more
• Track every case, document, and timeline in one place, with proactive alerts on immigration law updates, contract changes, and renewal windows
• Use AI-powered eligibility tools to understand visa options upfront and get instant quotes
• Get support from 100+ mobility experts in more than 100 countries, or let Deel fully own execution on your behalf

Immigration becomes predictable, trackable, and compliant by design. This is mobility at Deel speed.

Mobile app updates: The world of work in the palm of your hand

We redesigned the Deel mobile app from the ground up. The new app is a central hub for your entire professional life—with powerful financial tools built into the core, and a personalized experience that shows only what's relevant to you in the moment.

Here's what's inside:

• Clarity from the first screen—upcoming tasks, pay date, time off balance. Peace of mind built in.
• Submit expenses, request time off, access contracts, view the org chart, and manage your own growth—all in one place.
• A modern financial experience built into payroll. Contractors can view transactions, access Deel Cards, use Deel Advance, and now hold earnings in stablecoins and earn rewards. Employees get clear payslips, Anytime Pay (fee-free), and the new option to receive part of their salary in stablecoins.
• Approve time off and expenses with a swipe. Deel AI surfaces directional insights to help managers make confident decisions fast.

Deel at enterprise scale

The largest organizations in the world can't pivot their entire tech stack overnight. Deel is built with that reality in mind. Here's what we announced for enterprise teams.

• Modularity: Start where the pain is biggest—EOR, contractors, or fragmented payroll. Deel’s enterprise path starts anywhere, integrates easily, and expands when you’re ready.
• Deep integrations: Deel is now a certified Workday Global Payroll Cloud partner, with expanded integrations across SAP, UKG, and NetSuite, and open APIs for custom connections. Barings used Deel and Workday together to unify payroll across 18 countries.
• Governance and AI guardrails: One global approval chain, one audit trail, one control framework across every legal entity. Deel’s AI agents operate fully within your enterprise rules—you set the guardrails.
• Enterprise Operations: Every enterprise customer now gets a dedicated Enterprise Operations Manager in their timezone, guaranteed operational SLAs, and executive sponsorship for fast escalation.

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Deel Team

LAST UPDATE

March 16, 2026

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Forget cash. Pay in Crypto!

More efficiency, fewer fees, and no middlemen

A, B… USDC. Which Crypto do you want next?

Today, we’re happy to announce that Deel is the first company in the global hiring space to allow businesses to pay their international team using Crypto, starting with USDC. Why? Because flexibility shouldn’t just be about where you hire, but also how you pay your team.

Forget cash. Pay in Crypto!

It’s 2022, and the demand for Crypto

is soaring, both from businesses who want to pay their team using their company’s Crypto balance and from team members who wish to receive their earnings in digital currency. At Deel, we’ve seen a

in demand for Crypto salary payments.

Just last year, we enabled Crypto Withdrawals for contractors, allowing anyone paid through Deel to withdraw their earnings right to their Coinbase account in Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, Solana, and Dash for almost instant withdrawals.

Today, we’re taking things a step further by enabling businesses to fund payroll in USDC. Companies that hold their money in USDC can make a payment directly to Deel via their Coinbase account to cover payroll and payments for their global team. Once the business has paid the money into Deel, contractors can withdraw in over 150 currencies, including Crypto. ✌️

More efficiency, fewer fees, and no middlemen

By paying in with USDC, businesses no longer need to convert their balance into fiat currencies just to run global payroll. It’s an end-to-end Crypto payment experience, with near-instant settlements and fewer transaction and currency fees, plus, it cuts out the need for businesses and contractors to hold money in a bank account.

A, B… USDC. Which Crypto do you want next?

We started with USDC because it’s one of the fastest-growing Stablecoin, and because it’s pegged to the dollar, there’s less room for volatility. With Coinbase as a partner, we’re looking forward to introducing more Stablecoin in the future.

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Simplify global HR with the new full-stack Deel platform

DEEL NEWS

AUTHOR

Deel Team

LAST UPDATE

March 16, 2026

Introducing Deel HR—the free global HRIS for your entire workforce

Over the past few years, Deel has disrupted the distributed world of work. By simplifying every aspect of international hiring and payroll, we've helped over 15,000 businesses like Nike, Subway, Reebok, Forever21 and Klarna to hire and pay workers anywhere, becoming the market leader in the space. In 2022 alone, we:

• Increased our
  annual recurring revenue from $57 million to $295 million

• Became
  EBITDA
  positive

• Hit a
  valuation of $12 billion

• Paid out $5 billion in salaries to hundreds of thousands of workers

Now, we're disrupting the whole HR industry.

Introducing Deel HR—the free global HRIS for your entire workforce

Today, we’re launching Deel HR, the first truly global HR platform to compliantly manage your entire workforce in just one system—from direct employees to international workers and everything in between. In just 5 minutes, onboard any team member with Deel, then manage everyone in our free (yes, free) global HRIS.

Now with contractors, EOR employees, and direct workers all in one platform, Deel’s the only tool that can evolve with every stage of your company’s growth, no matter who, how, or where you want to hire. Whatever your team setup, and however it changes, we have the global infrastructure and expertise to support your business needs.

Save a minimum of $20,000 on your tech stack

The HR market is highly commoditized. We believe essential HR features should be free. That’s why we’re offering Deel HR for free for any business. This means Deel customers can save at least $20,000 on their tech stack while we keep handling the hard stuff!

Deel HR comes with new and improved features to manage HR for everyone, including:

• HR Reports: Track changes, global costs, and churn
• Custom reporting: Make impactful reports by tailoring them to your business need
• Time off and expenses: Easily track, approve, and analyze any request
• Documents: Request, add, and store documents with enterprise-grade security
• Org Charts: See your worldwide team in a snapshot
• People Directory: Manage your worldwide team in just one system
• App accesses: Onboard new hires with Google Suite
• Custom Permissions: Set permissions by manager, role, and more
• Add ons: Equipment, background checks, Wework access
• Workflows: Trigger custom workflows to automate any process

Deel's Built-In HRIS

Manage your global workforce compliantly
Deel HRIS is custom-built for your entire team, so you can easily manage HR for workers compliantly in 150+ countries. Unify reporting, automate HR admin, and supercharge your HR stack with our streamlined platform.

When we say "global," we mean it

Unlike domestic HR platforms, Deel is purpose-built for global teams. We tailor every aspect of Deel automatically based on local laws specific to every country and worker, from contracts and employee onboarding details to holidays, terminations, benefits, and way more. This means you can stay compliant everywhere, reduce the time to onboard new hires, and automate any workflow to suit your business.

While many companies claim they’re global, the reality is they’re not. Some US companies have started to add global coverage but still don’t fully understand the nuances of regulation for every market. Once onboarded, the products often don’t live up to their promise. In fact, it’s sometimes questionable whether they can handle US compliance alone.

At Deel, we’re our first customer and relentlessly automate processes to power our team of 4,500 people in 104 countries. We’ve been global-first since day one and spent years building out our global infrastructure and in-house expertise while offering the best coverage on the market, helping the world’s best companies to hire and pay teams anywhere compliantly.

Engage - powerful plugins for today’s world of work

In addition to Deel HR, we’re introducing Engage, a set of HR Slack plugins designed to help distributed teams build stronger culture, improve employee engagement, and measure adoption with powerful metrics. They connect effortlessly with Deel HR in just a few clicks to give businesses and teams the ability to manage time off requests, 1-on-1s, candidate referrals, formalize connections, and more, all from Slack for complete convenience.

By streamlining HR processes into a platform that teams use daily, adoption rates for essential HR processes can often exceed 90%. This helps companies hire faster, streamline unnecessary HR admin, and help managers keep track of things like burnout and holiday allowances.

Introducing US Payroll, global team management, and everything in between—made (actually) manageable

Today, we’re also announcing the expansion of our global payroll offering by building our first in-house payroll engine, starting with The US. It’ll never be simpler to handle everything for your team with one platform so you can work faster, better, and smarter worldwide. Whether you want to hire worldwide without opening legal entities, streamline HR for your global team, or consolidate payroll for everyone, Deel does it all.

Our customizable platform is packed with automations to keep your HR team lean as you scale worldwide. With 15+ integrations and our Deel API, automate onboarding, time tracking, expense management, accounting, and so much more, with all your data synced.

Finally, with everything, and everyone, consolidated in Deel, you can:

• Save on your tech stack with only one HR platform
• Reduce time to onboard workers anywhere to just 5 minutes
• Eliminate errors and duplicate work with one process for everyone
• Get a holistic view of employer costs, headcount and churn
• Give your whole team a consistent experience

Deel Payroll

Run payroll in Deel. Anywhere. Your way.
Manage global payroll through one platform that scales with your business. Easily run payroll on your own or let Deel’s experts manage it for you.

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Deel Series D Announcement

Today, the entire Deel team and I are pleased to announce that we've raised our Series D led by Coatue of $425 million, bringing Deel's valuation to $5.5 billion.

It’s further proof that when you put customers at the center of your business, everyone wins, which is why everything we build, test, and do at Deel keeps businesses and their teams around the world top of mind. This motto has been ingrained into our business since Deel’s inception.

It's our attention to our customers that keeps the Deel team building a better Deel for all. Innovative integrations, seamless features, and tools built to break down hiring barriers help us keep businesses and their teams working faster, smarter, and better.

To help continue making Deel the best it can be for our 4,500+ customers and their teams, we've raised funding from one of the biggest private investment firms, Coatue. Knowing the rigorous measures Coatue takes to vet potential investments clearly shows they've seen how game-changing Deel has been in creating a more equitable hiring economy worldwide.

With our Series D we’ll be focusing on some exciting things to shape the future of work. Starting with launching
Deel Premium
to further protect companies against misclassification risks, bringing Global Payroll to every business in the world, releasing our Open API, and opening a total of 80 live Deel-owned entities (with 60 live already) to make employee hiring a breeze.

With Coatue’s Senior Managing Director + Partner, Rahul Kishore, and General Partner Lucas Swisher, leading the round, along with Altimeter Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Neo, Spark Capital, the YC Continuity Fund, Green Bay Ventures, Emilie Choi of Coinbase, Claire Johnson from Stripe, Instacart’s Fidji Simo and 37 other top angel operators. This series D is a huge Deel for us, the team, investors, and our customers everywhere.

It's been a determined journey from A, B, C, and now series D, so to break down what we've done and what we look forward to doing with this new funding, let's revisit some letters the Deel team is quite familiar with.

A is for: Accessible hiring and payments for businesses and workers worldwide.

At Deel, we're all about creating a better international employment experience for all. Whether contractors or employees, we want companies spending less time navigating cross-border hiring, payroll, and international law and more time building and giving their distributed teams an experience that rivals a domestic one.

More teams are saying goodbye to open office concepts and hello to open office hiring. With around 400 customers at our Series A to 4500+ now, we're grateful and happy to see teams adopting and embracing remote life. And using Deel to do it.

B is for: Being the compliance and payroll industry benchmark.

There are a lot of elements crucial to growing an international team. At Deel, we pride ourselves on being the best at it. Compliance is and will always remain an essential core component of our company as we continue to offer the most substantial compliance worldwide. Through our network of top vetted legal and accounting experts, we ensure navigating foreign hiring and laws stays a breeze and no one gets left behind.

Also, along with our unmatched hiring coverage of 60 live Deel-owned entities (80 by year's end), we've simplified payroll for businesses and teams. We offer payments in employees' local currencies with taxes and deductions handles, and we arm contractors with automation and 15 payment choices. Plus, our in-app support means we're always around to help in 14 different languages (and counting) because handling payments is serious stuff.

C is for: Cultivating an unmatched team experience.

Customers at Deel are a pivotal part of our entire business. For us, the entire experience starts internally with our team of more than 400 spanning 50 countries using the platform daily. In order to provide the best experience possible we’ve put ourselves in the driver’s seat, passenger seat, and every seat in between (it’s a big SUV).

Listening, learning, and improving the Deel experience for all keeps our team going. After all, companies should be able to offer a working environment no matter location and teams should be able to get the same benefits and experience even if they live on opposite sides of the world.

D is for: Doing our best (remote) work for all.

Whether creating more accessible ways for contractors to get paid or ensuring foreign employees get the same onboarding experience as domestic counterparts, we'll continue to build better tools for businesses to hire and run their global teams. After all, it's at the forefront of our rocket's path.

Just in the past year, we've helped numerous businesses hire in countries all over and made managing employee expenses seamless and straightforward. We also launched integrations with BambooHR, Quickbooks, Netsuite, Xero, Ashby, and Greenhouse to make HR and accounting admin a breeze. We even empowered contractors to spend earnings without limits using Deel Card while enabling companies to offer stock options fast and compliantly through Deel. Plus, so, so much more.

It's an exciting time at Deel, in the global workforce, and for international teams everywhere. We owe a lot of our growth to our amazing customers, contractors, employees, legal, accountant, tax, and mobility partners. Without every one of you, Deel would not be in this accelerated position to transform working as we know it. So, a big thanks from me and the rest of the Deel team. Without you all, there'd be no Deel.

"D" is for Doing Things Right,

Alex Bouaziz, Co-founder & CEO

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The small frictions add up: a payroll request with no status, a review you can't correct before the deadline, a tax line that doesn't match local rules. This month's updates target exactly these moments across HR, payroll, and IT. Turn them on and get time back. No extra tools, no extra steps.

Here's what's new inside Deel.

HR and people teams

Performance management, learning, and onboarding all got meaningful upgrades. The common thread: less manual overhead, more signal from your data, and processes that hold up at scale.

Understand performance, deeply

L2 analytics for Reviews: Stop working around limited reporting, Review data is now available in Engage analytics. Build custom reports using two new datasets, filter by cycle, question type, feedback type, and employee attributes, and save them as dashboards you can reuse every cycle.

Calibration distribution chart: Make calibration decisions you can defend with Engage. Admins and managers can now see score distributions before and after calibration in a visual chart, switch between heatmap and distribution views, and filter by manager or group, so score alignment isn't guesswork.

Snowflake integration for Goals: If your team tracks goal progress in Snowflake, now Deel's Engage tracks it too. Connect once and progress syncs daily via SQL queries, no more manual numeric updates. Goal status and comments stay with you; Snowflake handles the numbers.

Run reviews that people trust

Weighted feedback types: Not all feedback carries equal weight, and now your review setup can reflect that in Engage. Assign different weights to self, upward, downward, and peer feedback, reconfigure whenever your setup changes, and trust that totals always sum to 100%.

Allow resubmission until deadline: Employees caught a mistake in their review submission, they shouldn't need to raise a ticket to fix it. Now they can edit and resubmit freely until the deadline, and once it passes, resubmission locks automatically in Engage.

Survey question categories: Asking the right questions is one thing, making sense of the answers is another. Admins can now group rating questions under meaningful categories like onboarding or manager relations, analyze results at the category level, and manage categories centrally from Engage settings. Categories are reusable across surveys and can be updated even after a survey has launched.

Survey templates: Skip the blank canvas. Use Engage to launch surveys using Deel-certified templates for new hire surveys, engagement surveys, event feedback, and more. Apply a template, customize freely, and you're ready to go.

Scale training, hiring, and onboarding

Training Sessions: Live training has always happened outside Deel — on spreadsheets, in email threads, with no audit trail. Now admins can schedule sessions, manage attendance, and report on completion all within Engage’s Learning module. The overhead disappears; the record doesn't.

Talent mobile app, polished: Talent clients on mobile now get a smoother, more reliable experience. Navigation is back where it belongs, CTAs work as expected, and the layout issues that crept in have been resolved.

Guided onboarding for new SMB clients: Getting started on a new platform shouldn't feel like navigating without a map. New SMB clients and onboarding managers now move through Deel HR setup with a structured, guided framework. Faster to value, less reliant on manual hand-holding.

Customize worker types in white label: White Label admins can now show or hide specific worker types and contract options on the Add People page, so the experience stays clean, on-brand, and aligned with what your commercial model actually offers.

Payroll and finance teams

Speed and accuracy on the same side. This month's updates make payroll support trackable, contractor invoicing locally compliant, and the employee experience around pay more transparent, without adding steps for your team.

Track requests, not threads

Payroll support revamp: Payroll requests used to disappear into conversations. Now, Deel Payroll and PEO clients submit and track requests through structured Workbench processes, giving every request a clear status, owner, and path to resolution. Conversations are still there when you need them; they're just no longer the default.

Compliance newsletter, refreshed: Your legal team's inbox stays cleaner. The compliance newsletter now delivers only timely, relevant regulatory updates, filtered down to what actually matters for your organization, so important changes don't get lost in the noise.

Stay compliant across borders

Automated equity documents for UK workers: If you have UK EOR employees with equity, S431 documents used to be a manual task. Now Deel detects and provisions them automatically, reducing compliance risk and one more thing to chase.

VAT, GST, or HST on invoices: Tax labels on contractor invoices now match local rules. Contractor clients can choose whether to include VAT, GST, or HST on each invoice, adapting to their region and internal accounting preferences without a workaround.

Consistent branding in Employee Agreements: Contractor admins can now configure headers and footers across all pages of Employee Agreements, including signature pages. Every document goes out looking like it came from your organization, not an off-the-shelf template.

Clearer visa eligibility checks: Clients and workers going through visa applications now get an improved eligibility check experience, with a streamlined flow and better transparency around associated fees.

Hire fast, equip faster

Order equipment right after hiring: EOR clients can now browse and order equipment immediately through Deel IT after accepting an EOR quote — no need to navigate to the IT tab separately. A prompt appears at exactly the right moment, making equipment ordering a natural next step in the hiring flow.

Keep workers informed

Expense Card notifications: Employees using Expense Cards now receive automated, event-based email notifications covering card issuance, funding, RFIs, and declined transactions. No more guessing, workers always know what's happening with their card.

Anytime Pay notifications: Employees can now receive automated notifications about Anytime Pay tailored to their status, helping more workers discover and activate a feature that puts them in control of when they get paid.

Mobile transactions, rebuilt from the ground up: The Transactions List and Transaction Details screens in the Deel mobile app are now fully native in React Native. Workers get a fast, clean experience with transactions grouped by date. The kind of detail that makes checking your pay feel effortless.

Cleaner experience, everywhere

"IT" is now "Equipment" in navigation: A simple rename that makes a real difference. The device procurement flow now lives under "Equipment" in the main navigation, so you can easily find it without a second guess.

A better first look at Deel IT: The in-product landing page for Deel IT has been redesigned to be value-driven, form-free, and contextually tailored. Whether you're exploring or ready to buy, the experience now meets you where you are.

IT and operations teams

IT admins need visibility and control, not more tickets. This month's update gives both.

Always-on support, with better controls

Enhanced 24x7 Tech Support: Deel IT and Org admins now have improved permissions to view and manage requests, plus full tracking for request creation, views, and state changes. Add in new platform-level controls, automation integrations, and demo environments, and 24x7 support scales with you, not against you.

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January marks an ambitious expansion of how we power global scale

In 2026, we’re amplifying Deel’s core capabilities into a high-performance people platform built to support every worker type, in every country, with greater speed and consistency.

Our focus this quarter is high-definition control. By unifying our HR data architecture, we’ve standardized how workforce and compensation data move across your global footprint.. Whether you are managing an advisor in London or a director in New York, these improvements ensure your operations run with less friction and more confidence.

This month’s updates are the first steps in this journey, strengthening the foundation behind Deel HR, Deel Payroll, and Deel IT. The result is clearer visibility, tighter compliance, and more automation where it matters most, helping you scale with confidence.

HR: Total Workforce Visibility

A global HRIS is only as strong as its data. Our January updates focus on standardizing your workforce architecture so you can stop managing via "workarounds" and start managing with total clarity.

The headlines

• Allocate and track fixed salary budgets for managers
  HR teams using Deel HR can now assign fixed compensation budgets during review cycles, ensuring managers stay within limits while HR and finance track total budget impact in real time.
• Draft better performance reviews with AI assistance
  To improve quality and reduce friction, managers using Deel Engage can generate high-quality feedback drafts from short prompts, ensuring more constructive growth conversations.
• Manage approvals directly within Microsoft Teams
  Deel HR is moving sensitive HR approvals into the flow of your team's work, allowing managers to handle changes in seconds without leaving their primary chat tool.
• Automate identity verification for new hires
  Strengthen your compliance perimeter by requiring Independent Contractors to finish identity verification before a contract is signed, ensuring no worker begins services until documentation is fully vetted.

More updates to support your team

• Measure real course engagement with active learning time: Deel Engage users can now track actual interaction time with learning content, excluding idle time for more accurate audits.
• Connect self-reviews to manager feedback: Create a more seamless review flow in Deel Engage by giving managers full context before starting feedback.
• Match performance scores to your internal rating scales: Performance insights now support custom scales (e.g., 1-5 or 1-10) or original "Actual Scores" to align perfectly with your company's unique rating culture.
• Integrate learning courses into employee development plans: Help your team close skill gaps faster in Deel Engage by embedding relevant training courses directly into their personal growth journeys.
• Add mandatory policy acknowledgments to courses: Ensure compliance in Deel Engage by requiring learners to check a native agreement block for policies or terms, creating a timestamped record for your audits.
• Tailor your reporting with custom org chart fields: Add specialized data points to your organizational hierarchy in Deel HR to track and report on the metrics that matter most to your business.
• Store termination records in a secure offboarding vault: Protect your legal records by automatically centralizing termination letters and documents in a secure, easy-to-access digital vault.

Finance & Payroll: High-Definition Treasury

Global finance requires more than just processing payments. It requires instant, actionable insight. This month, we are delivering features that turn payroll data into a searchable knowledge base and bring transparency to global spend.

The Headlines

• Audit global spend instantly with AI-powered payslip search
  Stop digging through manual files. Use natural language in Deel AI to surface insights like overtime trends or tax breakdowns directly from payslips.
• Schedule contractor payments and adjustments in advance
  Gain better control over month-end close by planning bonuses and one-off payments weeks ahead.
• View clear breakdowns of contractor maintenance fees
  We’ve made management costs fully transparent. Contractor maintenance fees are now productized and clearly categorized within your invoices, allowing for instant reconciliation without the guesswork.

More updates to support your team

• Bulk Edit for Calendar Milestones: Update global payroll due dates across multiple countries in one action.
• Tax Form Downloads: Reduce admin tickets by letting contractors self-serve their 2025 tax forms and export data directly from their dashboard.
• Unify Mass Create with PEO: A faster, consolidated onboarding experience for bulk hiring within PEO entities.

Global IT & Systems: Automated Operational Control

Scalability fails when it creates more manual work. In January, we are focusing on zero-click insights automating the procurement, security, and access management cycles so you can focus on growth.

The headlines

• Automate app access with Google Workspace integration
  Centralize identity and app access management in Dee ITl, with automatic revocation when contracts end. Especially valuable for SMBs that need stronger control without added complexity.
• Centralize IT support with on-platform ticketing
  Deel IT admins and workers can submit, track, and resolve support requests directly in Deel, keeping communication centralized.
• Scale global hardware orders with a redesigned request flow
  A redesigned, e-commerce-style experience that makes it easier to select, order, and track equipment for a global workforce. The improved UI helps Deel IT admins find the right devices faster and reduces shipping errors, so teams can get productive sooner.
• Consolidate platform alerts into a streamlined Slack feed
  Stay ahead of critical alerts by bundling payouts, security, and compliance notifications into a single Slack feed.

More updates to support your team

• Track asset delivery status in real-time in Deel IT: Provide full transparency by showing assigned equipment and live shipping status on worker profiles.
• Cancel hardware orders instantly before they ship: Save on unnecessary equipment costs by allowing admins to cancel hardware orders directly within the platform if plans change before fulfillment.
• View historical device logs for audit-readiness: Maintain a clear security audit trail with accessible logs detailing device assignments, recoveries, and support history for every asset in your fleet.

One Last Thing: Your Q1 roadmap

These updates are just the beginning of a massive Q1. Our north star for the quarter is a fully rebuilt mobile experience and proactive compliance intelligence that make global management frictionless.

We are rebuilding the Deel mobile app from the ground up using React Native, designed to deliver 90% faster performance and a more intuitive interface. Managers will soon handle approvals and time-sensitive tasks on the go with secure biometric access.

Beyond mobile, we are embedding proactive risk protection directly into your workflow. Our upcoming unified misclassification hub will automatically flag risk signals before they lead to legal friction, and we're expanding our AI to offer "Zero-Click Insights" for immediate answers on localized labor laws. Together, these investments give your team more control without sacrificing the guardrails needed to scale with confidence.

Stay ahead of the curve by bookmarking the in-app Changelog in your Knowledge Hub to track the improvements we ship every single day.

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IT & DEVICE MANAGEMENT

Leasing IT equipment sounds easy—until you’re doing it across 20 countries at once. Without a centralized system, leased devices go missing, lease terms get lost in spreadsheets, and offboarding turns into a compliance risk.

Take logistics alone: Deel IT found that organizing a single international delivery takes 1.5 hours on average, plus 2–3 more for collection tasks like couriers and customs. Multiply that by every hire, and you’re looking at days of manual work—and thousands in wasted time.

That’s where Deel IT comes in. From procurement and shipping to returns and data erasure, it automates the full equipment lifecycle. You get global visibility, built-in compliance, and 24/7 support—all in a few clicks.

This guide breaks down how Deel IT helps you lease, track, and manage IT equipment efficiently—without chaos, delays, or surprises.

Why lease IT equipment instead of buying?

Owning IT equipment gives you control, but it also comes with higher costs, more admin work, and the constant headache of maintenance and replacements. Leasing eliminates those problems while giving businesses more flexibility.

Here’s why leasing often makes more sense than buying equipment outright:

• Lower upfront costs
  Cost of ownership ties up capital that could be used elsewhere. Leasing spreads the cost over time, keeping cash flow predictable, making it easier to stay within your IT budget. Supplying and shipping home office equipment worldwide can add up to hundreds of dollars in courier and custom fees. With Deel IT, you no longer need to account for customs fees, currency exchange fees, or additional charges. No matter where your hire lives—the UK or Brazil—you get transparent pricing and no hidden fees.

• Same onboarding and offboarding experience worldwide
  Hiring new employees means you need more laptops and monitors. Leasing lets you scale up or down without committing to long-term hardware investments. Provide your new hires with a structured IT onboarding experience to make everyone feel welcomed—from receiving top-notch equipment to door-to-door delivery. With Deel IT's 99% worldwide on time-delivery rate and protection, your new hire is set up for success ahead of their start date.

• No maintenance headaches
  Leased equipment usually comes with built-in support. If a laptop breaks, it gets replaced. No repair costs, no downtime. Even if you're a small company of 50, this can mean over 100 devices to manage. That's a small business with not-so-small IT demands. Fear not; Deel IT provides on-demand lifetime device support and warranties and loaner devices.

• Simplified tax and compliance
  Many regions offer tax advantages for leased equipment—such as tax deduction for lease payments or reduced capital expenditure reporting. But managing local tax codes and compliance requirements across countries can quickly get complicated.

  With Deel IT, you don’t have to worry about varying tax rules, labor classifications, or data privacy regulations. All leased devices are sourced from compliant vendors and configured to meet regional health, safety, and security standards. Deel IT automatically enforces local compliance—from proper lease documentation to device clearance at offboarding—so you avoid legal risks and audit headaches.

  Need to prove compliance in Brazil, Germany, or Singapore? It’s all logged, centralized, and exportable. You get full visibility into lease terms, audit trails, and asset status—without manual tracking or spreadsheets.

• See also: IT’s Biggest Compliance Gaps: Are You Breaking the Law Without Realizing It?

Deel IT
Automate IT operations in 130+ countries
Simplify equipment lifecycle management with Deel IT—procure, deploy, repair, and recover devices all in one place with 24/7 support.

Benefits of leasing with Deel IT vs in-house equipment management

Managing equipment in-house vs Managing equipment with Deel IT:

• Finding & purchasing equipment: Search local stores and websites to find the right equipment. Ensure the devices you ordered are in line with local Health & Safety regulations. This can take 1.5-2 hours. vs Select from 400+ new devices available on the Deel platform, from laptops to headware. All devices on the platform comply with local Health & Safety regulations. This takes 5-10 minutes.
• Navigating equipment shipment, local tax and custom documentation: Understand local customs regulations, arrange courier service, fill out customs forms, pay import duties, and arrange device collection with your new hire. This can take 2-3 hours. vs Deel IT will manage door-to-door delivery and all formalities such as customs and shipping documents. There's no work required on your part; you'll receive a status update notification when the laptop has gets delivered.
• Device management: Search for a trusted repair service provider or a local store to purchase new equipment, and provide dedicated IT support to onboard a new device. This can delay a project an employee was working on or cause additional IT risks if they decide to work using a personal device. vs Deel IT's 24/7 IT support will help you with repair service and a loaner device whenever it's needed.
• Offboarding & tax compliance: Arrange retrieving equipment from outgoing employees or prepare all necessary tax documentation to gift it to them. vs Deel IT manages equipment collection at the end of a rental contract. They take care of retrieving the equipment in line with tax and InfoSec compliance.

How to lease IT equipment with Deel IT

Leasing IT equipment shouldn’t be a manual, time-consuming process. Deel simplifies every step, from selecting devices to tracking leases and handling returns. Here’s how we help businesses rent equipment with minimal effort:

1. Select equipment during contract creation
   Instead of managing IT leasing separately, Deel integrates device selection directly into the hiring and onboarding process. When creating a contract for a new hire, simply:

• Choose laptops, monitors, or accessories from Deel IT’s catalog.
• Customize device configurations based on role-specific requirements.
• Set lease terms that align with company policy and help you stay on the right side of your balance sheet

See also: The Most Popular IT Products for Every Team in 2025

1. Automate approvals and cost allocation
   Leasing computers for employees often involves budget approvals across many departments. Deel IT streamlines this by automating workflows:

• IT, HR, and finance teams can approve lease requests with one-click workflows.
• Equipment costs are automatically allocated to the correct department, location, or cost center.
• Centralized reporting ensures full transparency on IT leasing expenses.

1. Track order status and delivery in real time
   Once equipment is ordered, employees and IT teams can monitor shipments in real time, reducing confusion and delays.

• Employees receive automated tracking updates to know exactly when their devices will arrive.
• IT teams can monitor delivery status for all active orders in one dashboard.
• Proactive issue resolution ensures smooth international shipping without customs delays.

1. Manage leases and compliance effortlessly
   Keeping track of lease agreements, expiration dates, and compliance requirements is tedious without automation. Deel IT handles this by:

• Automatically tracking every leased device and sending alerts before lease expirations.
• Ensuring all equipment meets local compliance and tax regulations.
• Providing easy access to lease terms, renewal options, and device status in one platform.

See also: IT Asset Tracking: A Complete Guide to Smarter Device Management

1. Automate offboarding and device retrieval
   When an employee leaves, retrieving leased equipment is often chaotic. Deel IT prevents lost devices and unnecessary renewal fees by:

• Triggering an automatic equipment return request as soon as offboarding is initiated.
• Providing prepaid shipping labels or local drop-off points to ensure smooth returns.
• Tracking returned devices and updating inventory in real time.
• Reassigning or renewing leases for existing equipment to avoid unnecessary replacements.

Case study

Filtered, a content intelligence platform, struggled with delivery inefficiencies as it expanded internationally. Their previous provider caused delays, duplicate shipments, and frustrating logistical hurdles. Deel IT provided the seamless solution Filtered needed to streamline its operations.

“Deel IT is incredibly efficient. Equipping a new hire now takes just 10 minutes of my time. It used to take hours,”
— Cath Hammond, People Operations Manager at Filtered

Leasing PC equipment: What often goes wrong—and how to prevent it

Leasing IT equipment solves a lot of problems, but without a proper system in place, it can create new ones. Businesses that lease devices at scale often struggle with tracking assets, managing logistics, and ensuring compliance. Without visibility and control, costs add up, and devices go missing.

Here are the biggest challenges companies face when leasing IT equipment:

• Tracking and managing leases: When multiple vendors, lease terms, and device lifecycles are involved, keeping track of who has what and when leases expire can quickly become overwhelming.
• International logistics and compliance: Shipping leased devices across borders means dealing with customs, taxes, and local regulations. A lack of centralized management can lead to delays, extra fees, or compliance risks.
• Ensuring proper maintenance and security: Leased devices need to be kept up to date, secure, and properly configured. Without oversight, businesses risk using outdated or non-compliant equipment.
• Offboarding and retrieving devices: When employees leave, collecting leased equipment can be difficult, especially for remote teams. Devices can be lost, unaccounted for, or left in the hands of former employees.
• Unexpected costs and penalties: If devices are lost, damaged, or not returned on time, businesses may face unexpected fees from leasing providers. Poor tracking leads to unnecessary expenses.

Read more: Top IT Procurement Challenges and How to Solve Them

Get visibility, gain control, and scale IT operations with Deel IT

Deel IT isn’t just a leasing company. It replaces disconnected systems and reactive processes with one unified, end-to-end global IT platform built for visibility, control, and compliance.

• Smart procurement, built-in customization
  Whether you're hiring a designer in Germany or a support rep in Argentina, Deel IT improves your procurement process by letting you source and configure the right equipment for the role as part of a standardized global IT workflow. Choose from 400+ enterprise-ready devices, customize specs (RAM, storage, OS), and ensure every device meets IT policy and regional health and safety standards.

• Transparent, predictable costs
  With Deel IT, you know exactly what you're paying for. Lease costs are fixed and tied to region and device type, with no hidden fees or surprise renewal charges. Loss and damage policies are clearly defined—and covered within the same platform that manages your devices and lifecycle events.

• Integrated into every new hire
  Deel IT isn’t bolted on—it’s part of the hiring flow. Devices are assigned when contracts are created, with automatic provisioning and tracking triggered by HR data. This reduces the risk of delays and ensures your new hires start with the tools they need, wherever they’re located.

• Lifecycle automation and real-time visibility
  Every device is tracked across its lifecycle—from procurement to delivery, active use, and return. Get automated alerts before leases expire, reassign or renew with one click, and keep your inventory always up to date.

• End-to-end compliance without the legwork
  Sourcing equipment globally means navigating local tax, labor, and data security laws. Deel IT handles all of it—compliantly, and automatically—as part of the full IT lifecycle. All devices are sourced from certified vendors, configured securely, and logged for audit-readiness in one centralized dashboard.

• Seamless, structured offboarding
  When an employee leaves, Deel IT initiates the return automatically and ties offboarding to device recovery and inventory updates. Prepaid shipping, local drop-off, and live tracking make retrieval straightforward. You recover assets on time and stay compliant—without the operational drag.

Book a demo today and see how Deel IT can transform the way you manage global IT equipment—one hire, one device, one click at a time.

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HR: Smarter Planning, Faster Answers!

Q1 planning is already underway. These updates give you clearer visibility into your workforce and remove manual admin from verification requests, onboarding, and follow-ups.

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Salary Budgets 2.0: Planning compensation cycles is now more flexible, and far less manual. With Salary Budgets 2.0, you can configure budgets top-down to assign fixed pots to managers, or bottom-up to calculate totals based on worker data. The system handles the math automatically, eliminating spreadsheet errors and giving you a clear, real-time view of your Q1 spend.

Integrated Learning with OpenSesame: Level up your team’s skills without the administrative headache. You can now sync your OpenSesame library directly into Deel Engage, unlocking instant access to over 50,000 curated courses. From leadership training to compliance checks, employees can access world-class learning content right within their existing workflow.

Flexible Probation: Local labor laws don't always fit into neat monthly boxes. That’s why we’ve added more precision to contract creation for EOR. You can now define probation and notice periods in specific time units, like weeks or days, instead of just months. This ensures your contracts align perfectly with local policy requirements, keeping you compliant without requiring manual workarounds.

Mandatory Onboarding Gating: Stop chasing contractors for missing ID scans or certifications after they’ve already started. You can now configure workflows that lock contract signatures until all mandatory onboarding steps are 100% complete. This automated gatekeeping ensures every new file is compliant from Day 1, saving your team hours of follow-up emails.

AI Employment Letters: Free your HR team from the repetitive task of writing proof-of-employment letters. Deel EOR employees can now self-serve compliant, personalized Verification Letters (EVLs) instantly from their dashboard. Whether they need it for a lease or a loan, they get the documents they need immediately, and you get time back in your day.

Other Notable Enhancements

• Smarter AI Experience: We’ve upgraded the Deel AI ecosystem with a refined "Build Your Own Agent" workflow, a polished Agent interface, and a new context-aware Assistant that offers prompts based on the page you are viewing.
• Customizable Org Chart Cards: You can now customize exactly which fields (like location, job title, or department) appear on employee cards in your Org Chart, keeping the view clean and relevant.
• Last Day of Work Trigger: Trigger offboarding workflows based on the actual last day of work, rather than just the contract end date.
• Automated Re-Hiring: The system now automatically triggers a re-hire event when your HRIS sends an "Active" status for a previously terminated worker.
• See Workflow Creators: Admins can now filter the Workflow Builder by "Creator" to easily audit who set up which automation.
• Redesigned Documents Tab: A cleaner, tabular interface for managing employee documents makes files easier to find and organize.

Finance & Payroll: Precision and Speed for Year-End

Closing the year requires precision. We’ve added tools to automate tax compliance and sync data to your ledger more quickly, so you don’t have to wait for the next cycle to gain clarity.

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Real-Time Invoice Sync: Speed up your month-end close and get better visibility into your cash flow. You can now sync invoices to NetSuite, Xero, or SAP the moment they are created, rather than waiting for the payment cycle to finalize. This gives your Finance team immediate insight into upcoming liabilities, allowing for faster reconciliation and smarter cash management.

Automated Talent Invoicing: We’ve removed the manual math from hiring via Deel Talent. The system now automates invoicing calculations for every new hire, ensuring your billing is accurate and timely. This minimizes the risk of human error during data entry and streamlines your accounts payable process, so you can focus on talent strategy instead of spreadsheet corrections.

Other Notable Enhancements

• Streamlined NetSuite Setup: Add new entities to your NetSuite integration without needing to re-authenticate the entire connection.
• Equity Compliance Flags: The Workers Overview now automatically flags "Compliance Risk" for externally imported equity grants so you can take timely action.
• AI Expense Compliance: AI now offers real-time feedback during expense submission to catch policy issues before they reach the approver.
• Bulk VAT Upload: Upload tax info for multiple contractors via CSV to streamline invoicing setup.
• Instant Withdrawals (Colombia): Cash flow matters to your contractors. We’ve integrated with the Bre-B payment system to offer instant withdrawals for contractors in Colombia.

IT & Platform: High-Stakes Alerts

As your security perimeter grows, you need faster signals. This month, we added real-time SMS alerts for critical events, helping you stay ahead of security risks even when you’re away from your desk.

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SMS Notifications: When security is at risk, email isn't fast enough. You can now enable SMS Notifications for high-stakes events like security alerts, payout failures, or fraud warnings. This ensures you and your employees receive critical information instantly, even when away from a desk, allowing for faster reaction times when it matters most.

SSO for Extended Leave: Improve your security hygiene without burdening your admins. You can now configure specific Single Sign-On (SSO) rules for users on long-term leave. This allows you to automatically restrict or modify access for employees who are away, ensuring your perimeter stays secure while maintaining a smooth re-entry process when they return.

Child Org Feature Management: Managing complex corporate structures just got easier. Parent organizations can now toggle feature visibility, like specific modules or tools, for their child entities independently. This gives you granular control to customize the platform experience for different subsidiaries or branches without affecting settings for the entire group.

Other Notable Enhancements

• Asset Command: We've strengthened Deel IT with comprehensive asset visibility (including items in transit), a simplified MDM activation flow, and a new flexible per-seat billing model.
• Advanced Notifications Hub: A new inbox with intelligent grouping and filtering to declutter your platform alerts.
• Group-Based API Tokens: Assign API tokens to specific groups instead of organization-wide for tighter security scopes.
• Consolidated Email Notifications: We now bundle multiple updates into a single digest to reduce inbox noise.

2025 in Review: 1,624 Ways We Evolved

December isn't just about closing the books before the holiday rush; it's about stepping back to reflect on the scale of what we built together.

This year, our engineering team released 1,624 product updates, roughly 4.4 improvements every single day. We didn't just build features in a vacuum; we built them to help you scale. Here’s what that velocity looks like in practice:

• For People Leaders: We released 206 Core HR Updates and 153 Onboarding Enhancements, helping you relocate over 17,000 people and pay 1 million workers on time.
• For Payroll/Finance Teams: We shipped 117 Fintech Innovations and processed $20 Billion in payroll, giving you the tools to pay teams in 114 local currencies and over $250 Million in crypto.
• For IT Leaders: We secured your perimeter with 157 Connectivity Updates and shipped 40,000+ devices globally through Deel IT without you ever visiting a post office.

One Last Thing: Your cheat sheet for product updates

We know that staying on top of 1,600+ updates can feel overwhelming. That’s why we introduced the Centralized Changelog in your Knowledge Hub back in October. If you haven't checked it recently, consider this your reminder. It’s your dedicated home to filter releases by product and catch up on anything you might have missed without digging through emails.

Next steps: Bookmark the changelog in your Knowledge Hub to stay ahead of the curve.

Ready for 2026? 1,624 updates is a lot. But we're just getting started. As we head into the new year, our promise remains the same: We will keep moving as fast as you do.

To our clients, partners, and the entire global workforce: Thank you for building with us in 2025.

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