Deel Release Notes

Last updated: Apr 1, 2026

  • Apr 1, 2026
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    Deel

    What's coming to Deel in April

    Deel adds a broad April 8 release wave across HRIS, payroll, contractor, mobility, platform, and IT workflows, bringing redesigned profiles, smarter permissions, bulk signing, automation, integrations, self-serve requests, and faster approvals to cut manual work and streamline operations.

    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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  • Mar 31, 2026
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    Revolutionizing payroll in Brazil

    Deel expands its native payroll technology to Brazil with Deel Payroll engine Brazil, a self-sufficient payroll solution that automates eSocial data transmission, reduces manual work, and adds WhatsApp self-service for payslips, leave requests, and tax certificates.

    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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  • Mar 24, 2026
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    Product updates you can plan around

    Deel introduces a new product release framework that gives enterprise and mid-market customers more predictability, stability, and control. New customer-facing features now roll out on a monthly schedule with advance notice, phased testing, and optional early access.

    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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  • Mar 20, 2026
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    The Big Deel 2026: Everything We Announced

    Deel launches a major global work platform update with Deel AI agents, a more connected Deel HR, new Deel Mobility tools, mobile app upgrades, and enterprise enhancements including deeper integrations and stronger governance for global teams.

    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.

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  • Mar 19, 2026
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    The Big Deel 2026: Everything We Announced

    Deel introduces an AI-native global work platform with Deel AI agents, a more connected Deel HR, new Deel Mobility tools, a redesigned mobile app, and expanded enterprise integrations and governance for global teams.

    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.

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    Cha-ching! Businesses can now fund payroll in USDC

    Deel releases crypto payroll capability, letting businesses fund global payroll in USDC and contractors withdraw in 150+ currencies. The move promises faster settlements, fewer fees, and fewer middlemen, with plans to add more stablecoins later.

    DEEL NEWS

    AUTHOR

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    Table of Contents

    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 releases the new Deel HR, a free global HRIS unifying contractors, EORs and direct workers in one platform, plus Engage Slack plugins to boost culture and adoption. It also expands US payroll with an in‑house engine, introducing a truly global, integrated HR and payroll stack.

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    Simplify global HR with the new full-stack Deel platform

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    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

    We've raised our Series D

    Deel releases news of a Series D and outlines upcoming product launches, including Deel Premium, Global Payroll expansion, an Open API, and 80 live Deel-owned entities. The post emphasizes a customer-first approach and aims to accelerate international hiring and compliance worldwide.

    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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    Less admin, more impact: What's new at Deel this February

    Deel unveils major updates across HR, payroll and IT that reduce manual work and boost data visibility. New analytics, calibration visuals, Snowflake goals, weighted feedback, resubmission until deadline, templates, guided SMB onboarding, mobile improvements, and streamlined payroll compliance and IT workflows.

    DEEL NEWS

    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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    Kick off 2026 with confidence: January product updates

    Deel unveils January upgrades turning it into a high‑definition, global people platform. New HR, Payroll, and IT enhancements standardize data, boost visibility, automate compliance, and accelerate workflows across countries.

    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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