Employment Hero Release Notes

Automations

Added Compensation Cycles as a data source in Build Your Own Report, allowing HR admins to combine compensation review data with other employee reporting data in a single export for faster analysis and decision-making. (Released: 19 August 2026, HR Admins and managers with reporting access)

Added Preview Mode to the Custom Forms builder so form creators can review layout, test validation, and confirm how draft forms will appear before publishing them to employees. (Released: 19 August 2026, HR Admins and Managers)

Core HR

Added a date-only field type for additional information fields, making it easier for admins to collect consistent date-based information. (Released: 20 August 2026)

Added flexible certification timing in onboarding so admins can choose which certifications must be completed during onboarding and which can be completed afterward with reminders and due dates. (Released: 20 August 2026)

Added required subject lines to new management notes, making notes easier to search, organise, and audit. Existing notes can also be updated with a subject line. (Released: 18 August 2026)

Added the Worker Code column to people reports, helping teams filter and align report data with compliance reporting requirements. (Released: 18 August 2026)

Doc Studio is now available to all customers for creating new templates, making the new document editing experience broadly accessible across organisations. (Released: 17 August 2026)

Updated Doc Studio’s variable library to label volunteer-related variables more clearly, making template creation easier for organisations managing volunteer documentation. (Released: 18 August 2026)

ITOps & Security

Added support for integration builders to retrieve leave requests with a new employee-specific endpoint and enhanced filtering on the organisation-level endpoint, improving efficiency for leave-related integrations. (Released: 19 August 2026)

Added support for programmatically approving and declining leave requests through OpenAPI, enabling more automated approval workflows. (Released: 19 August 2026)

Added support for programmatically updating and permanently deleting leave requests through OpenAPI, helping integrations keep leave data accurate without manual platform access. (Released: 17 August 2026)

Added step-up identity verification for sensitive payroll account changes, helping protect payroll users when updating passwords, email addresses, or two-factor authentication settings. (Released: 19 August 2026, All users)

Added extra recaptcha checks to the payroll login flow, improving protection against automated attacks and aligning payroll login controls with HR. (Released: 18 August 2026, Payroll Web Users)

Added a new permission for viewing the Access Permissions widget in the employee file, allowing organisations to grant view-only access without full admin rights. (Released: 17 August 2026, Admins, owners, and assigned users)

Added a new permission for viewing payslips and payslip history in the employee file, allowing authorised users to view, download, and print payslips without needing full admin or owner access. (Released: 17 August 2026, Admins, owners, and assigned users)

Enhanced the request ticket portal with comments, ticket history, priority levels, assignment options, and improved ticket navigation to make request management easier and more transparent. (Released: August 2026, visibility based on request ticket feature access)

Simplified switching between payroll two-factor authentication methods during login, reducing the process to a single click. (Released: 17 August 2026, Payroll Web Users)

Payroll

Added an Active only filter to the Rule Tester so payroll admins can quickly see which rules actually applied in a test, reducing clutter when reviewing large rule sets. (Released: 19 August 2026, users with Rule Tester access)

Payroll Ops

Added automatic weekend adjustments for forecasted pay dates and task deadlines in Payroll Service Hub, along with schedule guardrails and a live preview of projected pay dates before saving. (Released: 14 August 2026)

Platform Experience

Added dedicated CSS permissions for the Organisation Emails page, giving admins more granular control over who can access delivery settings, delivery logs, and audit logs. (Released: 14 August 2026)

Added email delivery and audit logs across organisation emails and templates, giving admins better visibility into email status, troubleshooting, and configuration history. (Released: 14 August 2026)

Recruitment

Added a dashboard credit-balance widget and upgrade path for SARA Free users, making it easier to understand plan options and move to paid Recruitment Agent plans. (Released: 19 August 2026, SARA PLG users)

Added a first-login two-factor authentication bypass for SARA Free users so they can reach ATS immediately after activation, with two-factor authentication enforced from their second login onward. (Released: 18 August 2026, SARA PLG users)

Refreshed SmartMatch tokenised job pages so candidates can see richer job details, salary information, AI-generated summaries, personalised match insights, and sticky response actions. (Released: 17 August 2026, Candidates)

Updated hiring stage setup with a more consistent card layout, clearer enabled-state details, inline setup improvements, and automatic conflict prevention between incompatible options. (Released: 13 August 2026, Recruiters)

Rostering & Timesheets

Added standalone photo capture to Hero Time Clock so organisations can capture clock-in and clock-out photos without needing facial recognition enabled. (Released: 18 August 2026, Admins and owners with kiosks)

Added bulk updates for timesheet and clocking access settings, making it faster for admins to manage access across large employee groups. (Released: August 2026, organisations with access to the new timesheet settings)

Here are our product releases for Week 31 of 2026, which includes July 27 - 31, 2026.

AI

• HeroAI now shows a live thought process that explains the searches, lookups, and actions it is taking before presenting an answer, giving users more transparency and confidence while keeping the workspace tidy once the task is complete. (Released: 29 July 2026, All HeroAI users on web and desktop)
• Hero AI can now answer questions about a specific candidate directly from their profile, explain scoring, compare candidates side by side, and help draft interview questions or email invites without recruiters leaving the ATS workflow. (Released: 29 July 2026, Recruitment admins, hiring managers, collaborators)
• Hero AI can now help recruiters review video interview evaluations and in-person panel feedback directly from the HR dashboard, making it easier to understand interview outcomes and identify candidates needing attention. (Released: 29 July 2026, Recruitment admins, hiring managers, collaborators)

Automations

• Added in-canvas AI editing to the report builder so users can add, remove, or adjust modules and fields in new or existing reports using plain-language instructions, while reviewing changes before applying them. (Released: 28 July 2026, Admins, Owners, and Managers)
• Added a read-only workflow run log so admins can inspect workflow histories, filter runs by status and date, identify failed or stuck runs faster, and investigate issues without risking accidental edits to live workflows. (Released: 28 July 2026, Employment Unlimited and HR Elite customers)

Core HR

• Added worker code columns to compliance reports, including sorting and CSV export support, making it easier for admins to review and share compliance data. (Released: 28 July 2026, All plans)
• Added management notes to contractor profiles so admins can create, view, edit, and delete notes directly within the contractor record. (Released: 28 July 2026, Essentials+)
• Added an audit trail tab to contractor records so admins and owners can review contractor-related audit history directly from the employee file. (Released: 28 July 2026, Essentials+)
• Admins can now create and apply additional information fields to volunteer profiles, including onboarding fields, with all updates tracked in the audit trail. (Released: 24 July 2026, Global Engage+ customers)

ITOps & Security

• Added a new Company Feed Post Insights permission so admins can grant selected non-admin users access to post engagement data through permission groups. (Released: 29 July 2026, Admins, Owners, and team members managing Company Feed reporting)
• Added SMS rate limiting to payroll user 2FA setup in the EH Work app to better protect payroll accounts from SMS pumping attacks and align the mobile experience with web safeguards. (Released: 27 July 2026, Payroll EH Work users)

Mid-market

• Expanded Employee File Change workflow email variables so approval notifications can include richer employee, manager, and custom field details, helping approvers make faster decisions without logging into the platform. (Released: 24 July 2026, Where workflows are supported)
• HR administrators can now exclude specific employment types, groups, and worker cohorts from milestone rewards, giving organisations more control over who receives automated HeroPoints for birthdays and work anniversaries. (Released: 30 July 2026, Global)
• Admins can now export HeroPoints transaction data as a CSV for financial reporting, making it easier to reconcile spending across entities, cost centres, departments, and employee structures. (Released: 30 July 2026, Global)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

• Employment Hero’s developer documentation now provides a dedicated page and markdown version for each API endpoint, along with improved AI discovery through llms.txt, sitemap.xml, and robots.txt updates. (Released: 28 July 2026, Developers and integration users)

Payroll

• Payroll teams can now configure and use off-cycle pay schedules in Payroll Service Hub, making it easier to create off-cycle pay runs without generating unnecessary forecasted pay cases. (Released: 28 July 2026)
• Payroll partners can now edit pay dates on upcoming paycases and update payroll task deadlines directly, helping them correct dates affected by weekends or public holidays without impacting future cycles. (Released: 28 July 2026)

Performance Management

• Custom Surveys now include in-platform reporting with a dedicated Results tab, completion statistics, per-question breakdowns, and aggregated CSV exports, making it easier for admins to review survey outcomes without leaving the platform. (Released: 27 July 2026, Customers with Custom Surveys)
• Hero AI now shows the review subject automatically when opened from a 360 review page, helping users ask more relevant questions without manually specifying who the review is about. (Released: 27 July 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)
• Hero AI now shows the review subject automatically when opened from a performance review page, making review discussions more focused and context-aware. (Released: 27 July 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)
• Hero AI now shows the compensation review subject automatically when opened from a compensation management page, helping users ask context-aware compensation questions more easily. (Released: 29 July 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)

Platform Experience

• Customers can now customise organisation email templates for 360 reviews, performance reviews, and timesheets while preserving the underlying template logic and formatting rules. (Released: 29 July 2026, Premium, Platinum, Unlimited, Unlimited Lite, Unlimited Plus, Engage, Elite)
• Updated the mobile notification bell so it opens a standalone full-screen notifications page from anywhere in the app, letting users review notifications without losing their place. (Released: 27 July 2026, All EH Work users)

Recruitment

• Improved the candidate activation flow to reduce friction during applications, increase CV upload success, and help more candidates complete job applications successfully. (Released: July 2026, Job seekers)
• Recruiters can now mark jobs as confidential so only explicitly selected hiring team members can view the role, candidates, and activity, supporting sensitive hiring scenarios. (Released: 29 July 2026, Recruitment admins and hiring managers)
• Updated the free standalone Recruitment Agent activation flow so recruiters can create a job with just a title, move through setup more quickly, and receive better guidance during account activation. (Released: 28 July 2026, New free standalone Recruitment Agent customers)
• Delivered a set of LinkedIn integration fixes that improve location handling, source tracking, and job feed behaviour, helping recruiters post more accurately and report candidate sources more reliably. (Released: 29 July 2026, Recruitment admins and hiring managers)
• Recruiters posting jobs to LinkedIn Premium can now manually override incorrect or missing locations directly in the posting form, helping jobs reach the right audience without needing support assistance. (Released: 30 July 2026, Global)

Here are our product releases for Week 30 of 2026, which includes July 20 - 24, 2026.

AI

• Hero AI now shows an employee context banner when opened from a 1:1 session page, helping managers ask questions about the right employee without manually adding extra context. (Released: 22 July 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)
• Hero AI can now answer questions about learning assignments, due dates, overdue items, and team learning progress based on each user’s existing permissions. (Released: 17 July 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)
• Hero AI can now summarise performance review feedback, highlight strengths and development areas, identify recurring themes, and surface review status using each user’s existing review permissions. (Released: 21 July 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)
• HeroAI users on web can now mention colleagues directly in chat from a dropdown, making questions more precise and improving search accuracy when multiple people share similar names. (Released: 22 July 2026, All HeroAI users on web/desktop)

Core HR

• Contractor profiles and contractor onboarding now support emergency contacts, bringing the contractor experience in line with the employee experience. (Released: 21 July 2026, All regions, Essentials and above)
• Document templates can now use an employee FTE hours variable sourced from the full-time equivalent weekly hours field in salary data. (Released: 21 July 2026, All regions, Essentials and above)
• Document templates can now include both primary and additional cost centre values from the employee file, making document generation more flexible. (Released: 21 July 2026, All regions, Essentials and above)
• Employee, volunteer, and contractor profiles now retain policy visibility after termination in most cases, helping organisations preserve policy history and status. (Released: 20 July 2026, All regions, All plans)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

• Admins and owners using Hero Time Clock can now securely log out or switch kiosks directly from the app, removing the need for a reinstall workaround. (Released: 20 July 2026, Admins and owners in W&P orgs using HTC)
• Admins and owners in cost-centre-based rostering organisations now see an upgrade prompt for worksites and positions directly in roster management. (Released: 21 July 2026, Admins and owners in CC orgs)

ITOps & Security

• Payroll business users can now add an SSO email address and enable SSO during user onboarding, reducing setup steps for organisations with SSO enabled. (Released: 20 July 2026, Payroll business users with SSO enabled)

Leave

• The employee profile now includes a dedicated leave section, bringing balances, requests, and leave actions into one place for a more complete leave management experience. (Released: 22 July 2026, All customers)
• Leave calendar views now use the new Calendar UI across the dashboard widget, employee leave calendar, and leave management calendar for a more consistent experience. (Released: 23 July 2026, UK, CA, SEA and all orgs created after 1 June 2026)
• Open-ended leave is now visually distinguished in the Calendar UI with a filled first-day marker, hatched continuation, and end-date messaging to make leave status easier to understand at a glance. (Released: 22 July 2026, UK, CA, SEA and all orgs created after 1 June 2026)
• Sickness reports now display absence rate visually across team, reason, and day-of-week charts, making trends easier to interpret. (Released: 23 July 2026, UK, CA, SEA paid plans with sickness reporting)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

• Rostered shifts OpenAPI endpoints now follow the platform’s rostering permissions model, allowing authorised team members to use integrations without needing admin or owner credentials. (Released: 20 July 2026, Team members with rostering permissions)

Other

• Custom forms can now include pending employees in Employee Picker fields, making it easier to complete forms for new starters before they accept their invitation. (Released: 21 July 2026, Global)
• HR admins can now build bulk Hero Points recipient lists using organisational filters such as entity, location, group, worker type, and employment type, making large-scale recognition campaigns faster and more accurate. (Released: 20 July 2026, Global where Hero Points are offered)
• Onboarding workflow emails now support expanded employee, manager, and custom field variables so shared service teams can prepare equipment, access, and services without logging into the platform. (Released: 23 July 2026, Global where workflows are supported)
• Offboarding workflow emails now support expanded employee, manager, termination, and custom field variables so shared service teams can revoke access, recover equipment, and process final pay more efficiently. (Released: 23 July 2026, Global where workflows are supported)

Payroll

• Payroll users now see clearer progress indicators for pay category updates, while new API and webhook support improves visibility and coordination during update processing. (Released: 15 July 2026, Payroll users, all plans)

Performance Management

• Chat now sends a single unread message reminder email after 48 hours, helping members return to stalled conversations without receiving duplicate reminder emails. (Released: 20 July 2026, Employment Unlimited and Chat add-on customers)
• Compensation Management now supports 0% guidance increases, multi-select filters, and clearer visibility help text for cycle setup and review. (Released: 21 July 2026, Global)

Platform Experience

• Branding settings now prevent low-contrast colour combinations from being saved, helping organisations maintain accessible and legible client-facing interfaces. (Released: 1 July 2026, All regions with branding access)
• Organisation email management now offers a consolidated editor and preview experience alongside a clearer table view, helping admins review and update email settings more efficiently. (Released: 22 July 2026, All regions)

Recruitment

• ATS users using the platform’s native email channel can now see candidate email replies within minutes instead of waiting up to a day, with a new unread indicator to highlight activity. (Released: 23 July 2026, Global ATS users using the native ATS email channel)

Here are our product releases for Week 34 of 2026, which includes August 17 - 21, 2026.

Automations

• Added Compensation Cycles as a data source in Build Your Own Report, allowing HR admins to combine compensation review data with other employee reporting data in a single export for faster analysis and decision-making. (Released: 19 August 2026, HR Admins and managers with reporting access)
• Added Preview Mode to the Custom Forms builder so form creators can review layout, test validation, and confirm how draft forms will appear before publishing them to employees. (Released: 19 August 2026, HR Admins and Managers)

Core HR

• Added a date-only field type for additional information fields, making it easier for admins to collect consistent date-based information. (Released: 20 August 2026)
• Added flexible certification timing in onboarding so admins can choose which certifications must be completed during onboarding and which can be completed afterward with reminders and due dates. (Released: 20 August 2026)
• Added required subject lines to new management notes, making notes easier to search, organise, and audit. Existing notes can also be updated with a subject line. (Released: 18 August 2026)
• Added the Worker Code column to people reports, helping teams filter and align report data with compliance reporting requirements. (Released: 18 August 2026)
• Doc Studio is now available to all customers for creating new templates, making the new document editing experience broadly accessible across organisations. (Released: 17 August 2026)
• Updated Doc Studio’s variable library to label volunteer-related variables more clearly, making template creation easier for organisations managing volunteer documentation. (Released: 18 August 2026)

ITOps & Security

• Added support for integration builders to retrieve leave requests with a new employee-specific endpoint and enhanced filtering on the organisation-level endpoint, improving efficiency for leave-related integrations. (Released: 19 August 2026)
• Added support for programmatically approving and declining leave requests through OpenAPI, enabling more automated approval workflows. (Released: 19 August 2026)
• Added support for programmatically updating and permanently deleting leave requests through OpenAPI, helping integrations keep leave data accurate without manual platform access. (Released: 17 August 2026)
• Added step-up identity verification for sensitive payroll account changes, helping protect payroll users when updating passwords, email addresses, or two-factor authentication settings. (Released: 19 August 2026, All users)
• Added extra recaptcha checks to the payroll login flow, improving protection against automated attacks and aligning payroll login controls with HR. (Released: 18 August 2026, Payroll Web Users)
• Added a new permission for viewing the Access Permissions widget in the employee file, allowing organisations to grant view-only access without full admin rights. (Released: 17 August 2026, Admins, owners, and assigned users)
• Added a new permission for viewing payslips and payslip history in the employee file, allowing authorised users to view, download, and print payslips without needing full admin or owner access. (Released: 17 August 2026, Admins, owners, and assigned users)
• Enhanced the request ticket portal with comments, ticket history, priority levels, assignment options, and improved ticket navigation to make request management easier and more transparent. (Released: August 2026, visibility based on request ticket feature access)
• Simplified switching between payroll two-factor authentication methods during login, reducing the process to a single click. (Released: 17 August 2026, Payroll Web Users)

Payroll

• Added an Active only filter to the Rule Tester so payroll admins can quickly see which rules actually applied in a test, reducing clutter when reviewing large rule sets. (Released: 19 August 2026, users with Rule Tester access)

Payroll Ops

• Added automatic weekend adjustments for forecasted pay dates and task deadlines in Payroll Service Hub, along with schedule guardrails and a live preview of projected pay dates before saving. (Released: 14 August 2026)

Platform Experience

• Added dedicated CSS permissions for the Organisation Emails page, giving admins more granular control over who can access delivery settings, delivery logs, and audit logs. (Released: 14 August 2026)
• Added email delivery and audit logs across organisation emails and templates, giving admins better visibility into email status, troubleshooting, and configuration history. (Released: 14 August 2026)

Recruitment

• Added a dashboard credit-balance widget and upgrade path for SARA Free users, making it easier to understand plan options and move to paid Recruitment Agent plans. (Released: 19 August 2026, SARA PLG users)
• Added a first-login two-factor authentication bypass for SARA Free users so they can reach ATS immediately after activation, with two-factor authentication enforced from their second login onward. (Released: 18 August 2026, SARA PLG users)
• Refreshed SmartMatch tokenised job pages so candidates can see richer job details, salary information, AI-generated summaries, personalised match insights, and sticky response actions. (Released: 17 August 2026, Candidates)
• Updated hiring stage setup with a more consistent card layout, clearer enabled-state details, inline setup improvements, and automatic conflict prevention between incompatible options. (Released: 13 August 2026, Recruiters)

Rostering & Timesheets

• Added standalone photo capture to Hero Time Clock so organisations can capture clock-in and clock-out photos without needing facial recognition enabled. (Released: 18 August 2026, Admins and owners with kiosks)
• Added bulk updates for timesheet and clocking access settings, making it faster for admins to manage access across large employee groups. (Released: August 2026, organisations with access to the new timesheet settings)

Here are our product releases for Week 32 of 2026, which includes August 3 - 7, 2026.

AI

• HeroAI can now detect product gaps during customer conversations and prompt admins to submit a feature request on the spot, helping teams capture missing capability feedback without leaving the chat. (Released: 30 July 2026, Admins interacting with HeroAI)
• HeroAI now detects active problem tickets in Zendesk and adds customer-facing incident updates and available workarounds to relevant troubleshooting responses, helping customers get accurate information faster during live incidents. (Released: 31 July 2026, All customers using Hero AI)

Core HR

• Customers can now access a single Issues Summary Hub that brings together workforce data issues across employee files, salary versions, contractor files, lodgement, leave requests, timesheets, expenses, and work eligibility, with dashboard visibility for eligible plans. (Released: 3 August 2026, All sub-plans for Hub; HR Elite and Unlimited for Dashboard; SG release)
• HR admins can now automate recurring compliance tasks with reusable templates, shared ownership, scheduled distribution, and automatic assignment for new joiners in targeted groups. (Released: 3 August 2026, All sub-plans, SG release)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

• Employees and managers can now complete more day-to-day rostering tasks using natural language with Hero AI, including visibility into shifts, roster gaps, staffing coverage, publishing, editing, and compliance checks. (Released: 3 August 2026, Organisations using work sites and position rostering)
• Managers can now configure operating hours, default shift durations, and break lengths for each work site by day, helping speed up roster creation and support more intelligent staffing decisions. (Released: 4 August 2026, Organisations using Work Sites & Positions)
• Managers can now see staffing requirements directly inside the roster with visual indicators that show whether positions are understaffed, fully staffed, or overstaffed, making roster decisions faster and easier. (Released: 30 July 2026, Organisations using work sites and positions rostering)

ITOps & Security

• Organisations can now delegate permissions management to selected non-admin users through a dedicated general permission, while keeping control of permission assignment with admins and owners. (Released: 4 August 2026, Admins, Owners, and delegated users)
• Customers using the request ticket portal can now manage boards in a table view, create new boards from settings, archive boards, assign unique ticket codes, and configure default SLA settings more easily. (Released: 5 August 2026, Visibility follows the main request ticket portal release)

Leave & Time Off

• Customers in Singapore can now create, view, edit, and delete custom events across Employment Hero calendar surfaces, with configurable permissions for who can manage them. (Released: 5 August 2026, SG release)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

• Integration engineers can now publish, unpublish, archive, unarchive, and delete pay periods programmatically through new lifecycle endpoints, reducing reliance on manual platform actions. (Released: 4 August 2026, Integration engineers)
• Integration engineers can now upload and create up to five payslips in a single API request, making automated payslip distribution easier at scale. (Released: 4 August 2026, Integration engineers)
• Integration engineers can now update payslip display names, reassign payslips to different employees, or delete individual payslips programmatically. (Released: 6 August 2026, Integration engineers)

Performance Management

• Product owners can now configure suggested Hero AI prompts independently for individual Performance Review-related SAP pages, so updates to one page no longer affect others. (Released: 3 August 2026, Global plans including Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, and Elite)

Platform Experience

• Customers can now customise additional organisation email templates for time unavailability and company feed notifications while preserving the logic that powers dynamic email content. (Released: 4 August 2026, Premium, Platinum, Unlimited, Unlimited Lite, Unlimited Plus, Engage, and Elite customers)
• HR users now get a more consistent table row actions layout across high-traffic features, making common actions easier to find and reducing visual clutter across the platform. (Released: 6 August 2026, HR users)

Recruitment

• Recruiters and hiring managers can now automatically invite eligible Employment Hero candidates to free AI video interviews, helping pre-qualified candidates become decision-ready faster. (Released: 4 August 2026, Recruiters and Hiring managers)
• Recruiters can now filter candidate lists using plain-language prompts based on score, location, and every screening answer type, helping them identify relevant candidates faster. (Released: 5 August 2026, Recruitment users)
• Organisation owners and admins can now manage the visibility of Salary Benchmarking and Find Talent directly from menu customisation settings without developer intervention. (Released: 31 July 2026, Organisation Owners and Admins)

AI

Employees and managers can now create, update, delete, summarise, and approve timesheets using natural language through HeroAI on web and EH Work, making day-to-day timesheet tasks faster and easier to complete. (Released: 12 August 2026, All regions and orgs)

Mobile users can now @mention colleagues directly in HeroAI chat, making people-related queries faster and more accurate. (Released: 10 August 2026, All HeroAI users on mobile)

Mobile users can now view HeroAI’s live thought process as it searches, looks up information, and completes actions before returning a final answer. (Released: 10 August 2026, All HeroAI users on mobile)

Automations

Admins and IT managers can now build custom reports that combine employee and asset data in one place, making audits and offboarding workflows easier to manage. (Released: 10 August 2026, HR Admins and IT Managers with Asset Register and Custom Reports permission)

HR admins and finance teams can now report on leave liability values directly inside Custom Reports, helping them understand the financial value of leave balances without manual calculations outside the platform. (Released: 10 August 2026, HR Admins and Finance teams with leave and custom report permissions)

Core HR

Admins can now create and manage departments in Organisation Settings and assign workers to departments during onboarding, from profiles, or via CSV, improving workforce organisation and reporting. (Released: 11 August 2026, Global)

The Issues Summary Hub and Dashboard are now available to all supported regions, including Singapore. (Released: 11 August 2026, All sub-plans for Hub; HR Elite and Unlimited for Dashboard)

Recurring Compliance Task Distribution is now available across all regions, including Singapore, helping HR admins automate repeat compliance work. (Released: 11 August 2026, All sub-plans)

Workers can now open, read, and sign HR documents directly in the EH Work app on iOS and Android, removing the need to switch to desktop. (Released: 11 August 2026, Mobile-first and deskless workers)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

Sensitive leave details are now masked across key manager-facing web, mobile, and email surfaces, helping protect employee privacy while preserving approval workflows. (Released: 13 August 2026, Global)

The Unified Calendar is now publicly available for all customers, with added visibility of team schedules, blackout periods, contractors, and leave management actions. (Released: 13 August 2026, Global)

ITOps & Security

Users with Pay Details permissions can now manage employee portal access within their permitted scope, reducing the need to grant full admin rights for onboarding tasks. (Released: 11 August 2026, KeyPay-connected organisations using Custom Security Settings)

Payroll login audit logs now include device fingerprint IDs, giving organisations stronger visibility to help detect suspicious activity and potential account takeovers. (Released: 10 August 2026)

Users with Asset Register - Manage permission can now assign, return, and reassign assets across the whole organisation, including employees, contractors, and volunteers. (Released: 13 August 2026, Users with Asset Register - Manage permissions)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

HR staff with the right platform permissions can now use the Member Delete and Tax Declaration endpoints without needing admin or owner credentials, making integrations easier to manage. (Released: 9 August 2026)

Builders can now upload supporting documents and attach them to leave requests through the API, enabling fully automated leave request workflows. (Released: 12 August 2026)

Payroll

Payroll admins can now include employee tags in Custom Reports, making it easier to build richer reporting outputs without workarounds. (Released: 12 August 2026, All users with access to custom reports)

Performance Management

Employees can now open Chat in a side panel from anywhere in the platform and start messages or give shout-outs directly from the Org Chart, making communication more seamless alongside daily work. (Released: 7 August 2026, Employment Unlimited plus Chat add-on customers)

Platform Experience

Admins can now delegate editing access to specific organisation email categories through Security Groups, reducing admin bottlenecks without exposing full admin access. (Released: 7 August 2026, All regions)

Daily summary emails can now be scheduled more flexibly based on organisation or employee timezones, with options to respect working hours and days off. (Released: 13 August 2026, Global)

Platform-generated emails now use employees’ preferred names by default, making automated communications more personal and respectful. (Released: 13 August 2026, All regions)

Recruitment

Recruitment teams can now bulk import up to 1,000 candidate CVs into the Talent Pool, reducing manual entry and making platform migrations faster. (Released: 13 August 2026, Users with talent pool access)

Rostering & Timesheets

Managers can now edit timesheet entries directly in the EH Work mobile app, allowing corrections to be made quickly without switching to desktop. (Released: 12 August 2026, Managers and admins using timesheet management)

Volunteers can now view shifts, swap shifts, and bid for open shifts in the EH Work app, giving them the same rostering experience as other workers. (Released: 10 August 2026, Organisations using rostering with work sites and positions)

AI

• Hero AI can now surface happiness survey scores, response rates, trends, and comment themes, helping admins, owners, and permitted managers understand employee sentiment faster while protecting anonymity in low-response surveys and in-progress survey periods. (Released: 16 July 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)

Automations

• HR admins can now set dynamic audience rules for chat channels using groups, locations, or worksites, so the right employees are added automatically as organisational data changes. (Released: 14 July 2026, Employment Unlimited + Chat add-on customers)
• Users can now ask Hero AI to build custom reports in plain language, with AI recommending the right modules and fields, checking for existing reports first, and pre-populating the report builder in one click. (Released: 13 July 2026, Premium, Platinum, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited, and HR Elite plans)
• Workflow users can now describe a process in plain English and have AI generate a workflow with triggers, conditions, and actions, making workflow creation much faster for admins who do not know workflow logic in detail. (Released: 14 July 2026, Global workflow users)

Core HR

• Contractor profiles now display assigned policies and their status, making it easier for admins to review contractor compliance information without leaving the file. (Released: 16 July 2026, All plans)
• Admins can now edit uploaded contractor documents and view document details in a way that better matches the employee file experience. (Released: 16 July 2026, All organisations)
• People List search now supports worker code, helping teams find employees more quickly and combine that search with other filters. (Released: 16 July 2026, All regions)
• HR admins can now create and issue documents that only require recipient signatures in Doc Studio, simplifying document workflows where an employer signature is not needed. (Released: 14 July 2026, Global, Doc Studio only, Engage, Elite and Unlimited)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

• Roster managers now see clearer public holiday indicators across roster and timesheet views, helping reduce the risk of scheduling shifts on public holidays by mistake. (Released: 15 July 2026, Organisations using advanced rostering)
• HeroAI chat can now help employees and managers complete common timesheet tasks, such as copying timesheets, checking variances, reviewing overtime, sending reminders, and jumping to approvals or reports without leaving the chat. (Released: 14 July 2026, Employees and managers with Hero AI chat access)
• Hero Time Clock now makes facial recognition enrolment easier by letting employees enrol directly at the kiosk, while giving admins better visibility of enrolment status and tools to send reminder emails. (Released: 15 July 2026, Unlimited, Unlimited Lite, Plus, and organisations with the T&A add-on)
• Rostering Management now updates overnight shift end dates automatically when a shift runs past midnight, and success notifications on roster and timesheet pages can now be dismissed when no longer needed. (Released: 14 July 2026, Organisations using advanced rostering)

ITOps & Security

• Returning users invited to a new organisation can now sign in with their existing credentials and have onboarding details securely prefilled from prior records, reducing friction and preventing accidental password overrides. (Released: 15 July 2026, Existing account holders invited to join an organisation)
• Company feed permissions now support location and worksite scopes, giving admins more precise control over who can post to selected audiences. (Released: 14 July 2026, Demo, Platinum, Unlimited, Elite plans, all regions)

Digital Onboarding

• HR admins and owners can now choose whether onboarding custom fields are completed by the employee, the employer, or both, helping keep sensitive or organisation-managed information in the right hands during onboarding. (Released: 16 July 2026, Global)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

• OpenAPI now supports approving and declining form responses programmatically, helping teams action response workflows without relying on manual steps in the platform. (Released: 13 July 2026)
• OpenAPI now supports creating, updating, and deleting forms programmatically, giving integration teams end-to-end form management outside the UI. (Released: 15 July 2026)
• OpenAPI now supports publishing draft forms, assigning forms, closing active forms, and archiving forms through lifecycle action endpoints. (Released: 14 July 2026)
• OpenAPI now supports creating, updating, deleting goals, and uploading attachments, helping teams manage OKR workflows from external strategy and planning tools. (Released: 13 July 2026)
• OpenAPI now supports creating, updating, and deleting key results under goals, helping integration teams manage OKR milestones programmatically. (Released: 13 July 2026)
• OpenAPI now supports key result archive management and status updates, enabling programmatic progress check-ins and lifecycle control. (Released: 16 July 2026)
• OpenAPI now supports real-time webhook events for goals and key results, allowing integrations to react immediately when records are created, updated, or deleted. (Released: 15 July 2026)
• OAuth 2.0 authorisation code flows are now more secure with PKCE support, updated documentation, and stronger credential handling rules for token requests. (Released: 16 July 2026)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

• Integration partners can now write employee custom field values through the public API, helping complete onboarding end-to-end without manual UI data entry. (Released: 14 July 2026, Global)

Payroll

• Payroll admins can now filter pay run employee lists by one or more tags, reducing manual cross-checking during pay run review. (Released: 15 July 2026, Payroll Admins, Restricted Access Users)

Performance Management

• Review period statuses on the web now correctly show as Ended when a review can no longer be actioned, with ended reviews opening in view-only mode for clearer status parity with mobile. (Released: 13 July 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)

Platform Experience

• Timesheets Management and Expenses Management now show the most common row actions directly in each table row, with remaining actions grouped in an overflow menu to reduce clutter and make frequent actions easier to reach. (Released: 16 July 2026, Starting with Timesheets Management and Expenses Management)

Platform Experience / Mobile

• Employees can now long-press a colleague’s avatar or name in chat to open a compact profile preview showing details like job title, location, and local time, making it easier to understand who they are messaging without leaving the conversation. (Released: 13 July 2026, HR users)

Recruitment

• Recruiters and hiring managers can now send candidates a self-scheduling interview link with real-time attendee availability, helping interviews get booked faster with fewer scheduling conflicts. (Released: 13 July 2026, Recruiters and hiring managers)
• Hiring managers can now see contextual pipeline banners highlighting qualified Employment Hero candidates and quickly invite them to AI video interviews using free monthly credits. (Released: 16 July 2026, Recruiters and Hiring Managers)

AI

Recruiters can now view a more detailed candidate summary in Find Talent candidate profiles, including role-specific hiring criteria, criterion-level match indicators, AI highlights, and an overall score. This helps teams assess fit faster using the requirements defined for the role. (Released: 2 July 2026, Recruiters and Hiring Managers)

Automations

Workflow users can now preview notification emails with sample data before publishing. This makes it easier to validate formatting and content without creating test workflows. (Released: 29 June 2026, Global workflow users)

Core HR

Compliance tags are now managed through a single unified tagging experience for documents, policies, and certifications. This reduces duplicate data and makes compliance records easier to maintain. (Released: 29 June 2026, All regions)

Admins can now import and export volunteers through theCSVemployee import workflow by setting the worker type to Volunteer. This makes it easier to manage volunteer records at scale without changing existing employee import behaviour. (Released: 1 July 2026, All regions)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

Employees and managers can now subscribe published shifts to Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, or Apple Calendar. This makes it easier to view work schedules alongside personal commitments and plan ahead. (Released: 1 July 2026, All regions)

Admins can now manage timesheet submission and clocking permissions from a central timesheet settings page. This reduces setup friction and helps ensure employees have the correct timesheet and clocking access from one place. (Released: 29 June 2026, Global audience)

ITOps & Security

Jobs site login sessions are now blocked from accessing sensitive HR data such as payroll and personal records. This strengthens account security by preventing career site access from being used to reach protected employee information. (Released: 29 June 2026, All global organisations and employees)

Payroll users can now register, manage, and sign in with passkeys in theEHWork app. This improves login security and brings payroll users into line with the existing passkey experience for HR users. (Released: 29 June 2026, PayrollEHWork users)

Restricted access payroll users can now be granted access to the Security Dashboard to view security settings and manage 2FA andSSOconfiguration. This allows businesses to give the right users access without requiring full payroll permissions. (Released: 30 June 2026, Payroll Web Users)

Leave

Leave information and request actions are now available in a dedicated employee profile section, making it easier to view balances, history, and requests in one place. This new experience improves navigation and helps users manage leave more efficiently. (Released: 8 July 2026 for SEA organisations, MY andSG)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

Developers can now archive or unarchive goals and submit goal health check-ins through new OpenAPI endpoints. This gives teams more flexibility to manage goal progress from external systems and BI tools. (Released: 29 June 2026, Integration engineers and developers)

OpenAPI access for timesheet entries now aligns with in-platform permissions, allowing authorised HR staff to build integrations without needing admin or owner credentials. (Released: 25 June 2026, OpenAPI users)

Performance Management

Clients and prospects can now browse theGo1course catalog directly from the Employment Hero website before purchase. This helps buyers explore available content, assess fit, and engage sales with greater confidence. (Released: 2 July 2026, All regions)

Hero AI can now use an organisation’s company values when generating feedback, guidance, and performance-related responses. This makes AI answers more relevant by grounding them in what each organisation values most. (Released: 26 June 2026, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Elite)

Performance Reviews on mobile now include improved navigation, global search support, PDF viewing, better text input behaviour, and a range of interface improvements. These updates make reviews easier to find, complete, and manage on the go. (Released: 30 June 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)

Platform Experience

The latestEHWork app phased rollout includes improvements to passkeys, bug reporting, timesheet settings, performance reviews, staff directory, org chart, chat stability, and security protections. (Released: 29 June 2026,EHWork users)

EHWork users can now report bugs immediately after taking a screenshot in the app, or at any time through a manual bug reporting flow in their profile. Screenshots are automatically attached to make issue reporting faster and clearer. (Released: 29 June 2026,EHWork users, HR and HR+Payroll only)

Staff Directory and Org Chart inEHWork now include refreshed profile cards and quick long-press actions for contacting or recognising colleagues. This makes it faster to find people and take action directly from the directory experience. (Released: 29 June 2026,EHWork users, HR and HR+Payroll only)

Payroll

Partner and brand admins can now impersonate authorised customer users directly from the Partner Dashboard. This helps partners investigate issues faster without needing to rely on support for initial troubleshooting. (Released: 3 July 2026, Partner admins and brand admins)

Recruitment

Recruitment teams can now use HeroFlow workflows to automate candidate acknowledgements, custom emails, and hiring notifications based on key recruitment events. This helps reduce manual follow-up and improves consistency in candidate communications. (Released: 29 June 2026, Platinum, Elite, and Unlimited ATS customers)

Recruiters can now bulk import candidate databases into Talent Pool usingCSV, including column mapping, duplicate review, merge options, and background processing for larger files. This makes it easier to migrate candidates from spreadsheets or other ATS platforms. (Released: 26 June 2026, Recruitment admins on Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)

Screening questions entered earlier in the job creation or edit flow now automatically pre-fill into Seek additional fields. This removes repetitive copy-and-paste work and speeds up job setup. (Released: 29 June 2026, Recruitment users)

Here are our product releases for Week 25 of 2026, which includes June 22 - 26, 2026.

AI

• Employees and managers can now ask Hero AI natural-language questions about feedback to quickly identify strengths, recurring themes, and next steps, helping them act on feedback faster. (Released: 22 June 2026)
• Hero AI can now answer natural-language questions about recognition in the company feed, helping users quickly surface meaningful recognition insights without manually searching through posts. (Released: 25 June 2026)
• Employees and managers can now complete common rostering tasks through Hero AI, including finding and bidding on open shifts, requesting swaps, responding to published shifts, and checking roster issues through natural conversation. (Released: 25 June 2026)

Automations

• Users can now open reports by clicking anywhere on a report tile, making it faster and easier to navigate the reports page. (Released: 19 June 2026)
• Admins, managers, and employees can now export completed form submissions directly from an employee file as PDF or CSV, making audits and record-keeping faster and easier. (Released: 22 June 2026)

Core HR

• HR admins and managers can now create and send one-off documents directly from an employee profile without needing a template, with auto-save and existing permission controls supported throughout the workflow. (Released: 19 June 2026)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

• Managers can now customise which information appears on their roster view, such as costs, weather, and extra shift details, helping them reduce clutter and work more efficiently. (Released: 25 June 2026)
• Roster templates now load asynchronously with visible progress tracking, allowing managers to continue working while templates apply in the background. (Released: 25 June 2026)
• Managers can now self-serve shift and roster audit history to see who made roster changes, what changed, and when, improving visibility and reducing reliance on support teams. (Released: 18 June 2026)

ITOps & Security

• Customers can now customise key organisation email templates, including leave, payslips, offboarding, offer letters, and onboarding emails, while preserving the backend logic needed for reliable delivery. (Released: 19 June 2026)

Payroll

• Payroll admins can now better control how pre-tax deductions affect qualifying earnings and SG calculations, supporting more accurate 2026/27 pay run setup and reporting. (Released: 24 June 2026, Payroll Admins)

Performance Management

• Managers and authorised users can now view 360 review records from the Employee File, making it easier to access relevant performance information in one place. (Released: 19 June 2026)
• HR admins and authorised users can now create onboarding approvals directly from the approvals screen and onboarding flow, reducing navigation and giving organisations more precise permission control. (Released: 23 March 2026)

Platform Experience

• Payroll SAP users can now create, schedule, and launch standard notifications and full-width promotional banners directly from the admin console, giving them more control over in-app messaging. (Released: 19 June 2026)

Recruitment

• Candidates now receive a redesigned shortlist email with clearer text, richer job details, and a low-friction way to view the full role before responding. (Released: 22 June 2026, Job Seekers)
• Candidates can now see employer personal messages and clearer outreach wording in the Find Talent banner before expressing interest in a role. (Released: 11 June 2026, Job Seekers)
• Recruiters and hiring managers now receive the “Hero AI has found candidates” email four hours after job creation instead of two days later, helping them engage with candidates while hiring activity is still fresh. (Released: 22 June 2026)
• Recruiters can now pin up to three priority jobs and monitor live candidate pipeline activity from a dedicated dashboard widget, reducing the need to switch between roles in the ATS. (Released: 22 June 2026)
• Recruiters can now filter candidates by video interview status within the pipeline, making it easier to spot progress and take follow-up action. (Released: 13 March 2026)
• Recruiters can now work from a deduplicated candidate list, edit richer candidate profiles, and view unified application history in Talent Pool, making candidate management cleaner and more efficient. (Released: 25 June 2026)

AI

Hero AI can now answer natural language questions about employee profile data, helping teams quickly find information such as tenure, probation status, and upcoming birthdays without manually searching records. (Released: 15 June 2026)

Hero AI can now answer questions about employee HR documents and signature status, making it easier to identify unsigned contracts and pending document actions. (Released: 15 June 2026)

Hero AI can now summarise 360 review themes, strengths, and development areas for employees, managers, and admins while protecting reviewer anonymity through built-in thresholds and access controls. (Released: 12 June 2026, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited and Elite)

Automations

Employees can now save partially completed forms as drafts on web and mobile, then return later with answers and uploaded files preserved. (Released: 16 June 2025, Global forms users)

Core HR

HR admins can now view all members of any group directly from the Groups settings screen, making it easier to confirm group composition before sending surveys or checking compliance. (Released: 17 June 2026)

HR admins can now record probation periods in either weeks or months, with the system automatically calculating the correct end date and supporting the same format in HR documents. (Released: 12 June 2026)

eBenefits and FinTech - Benefits

Employers can now configure HeroPoints anniversary rewards using tenure-based models, allowing more tailored recognition programs that automatically apply the right reward based on years of service. (Released: Global rollout following AU and NZ, Employer Admins and HR Managers)

Finance Ops

Admins, managers, and authorised employees can now submit expense claims on behalf of other employees from web and mobile, with policies, approvals, and audit trails applied to the selected employee. (Released: 16 June 2026, Admins, People Managers, and employees with submit-on-behalf permission)

Finance Ops - Heroforce

Admins now see a clear notice when active employees are not assigned to an expense policy, helping them resolve configuration gaps before employees encounter claim submission problems. (Released: 17 June 2026, Admins and Owners with expense management permissions)

ITOps & Security

Payroll users can now review their account security health from a dedicated Security page, with clear actions for issues such as two-factor authentication, password risk, and email verification. (Released: 16 June 2026, Payroll Web Users)

CSRF validation is now fully enforced across the payroll platform, helping block unauthorised requests and strengthening protection against malicious submissions. (Released: 17 June 2026, Payroll Users)

Leave (Core HR)

The Unified Calendar now includes team schedules, blackout periods, contractor unavailability, direct leave request actions for managers, and visibility toggles for key day states. (Released: 16 June 2026 for all new customers created after 1 June 2026 and broader rollout continues, Global)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

New OpenAPI read endpoints for Goals key results now let integration engineers retrieve key result information programmatically for reporting and workflow automation. (Released: 17 June 2026)

Payroll

Partner and brand admins can now access a brand-wide event log in the Partner Dashboard, making it easier to monitor activity across customer businesses and export records when needed. (Released: 3 July 2026, beta release 10 June 2026, Partner admins and brand admins)

Partner admins can now reset stuck pay runs directly from the Partner Dashboard, turning a repeat support task into a fast self-service workflow. (Released: 3 July 2026, beta release 12 June 2026, Partner admins managing payroll across multiple businesses)

Partner admins can now override incorrect timesheet statuses individually or in bulk from the Partner Dashboard, with compliance warnings and full audit logging for every change. (Released: 3 July 2026, beta release 17 June 2026, Partner and brand admins managing payroll across multiple businesses)

Performance Management

Managers and authorised users can now view employee feedback and goals directly in the Employee File, giving them a more complete picture of development and performance in one place. (Released: 15 June 2026)

HR admins and managers can now edit questions in the review bank even after they have been added to published templates, avoiding the need to recreate questions for wording changes. (Released: 16 June 2026, Users with access to Performance Reviews)

Performance Reviews on mobile now offer clearer statuses, improved admin visibility, stronger filtering, search, and UI fixes that make review navigation faster and more reliable. (Released: 17 June 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)

Platform Experience

Platform admins can now browse, understand, enable, and track beta features from a new self-service Early Access page, improving visibility into product changes and upcoming releases. (Released: 16 June 2026, all users)

Recruitment

Recruiters can now view, review, and invite matched Talent Marketplace candidates directly inside ATS job workflows, helping teams discover relevant talent without leaving the job view. (Released: 12 June 2026, Recruiters and Hiring managers)

Recruiters can now request compliance documents and residential addresses from candidates directly inside the ATS, with submitted information flowing into the employee record during onboarding. (Released: 15 June 2026, Platinum and Employment Unlimited subplans, Mid-market)

Recruiters can now view more than 200 applicants per board column through pagination, making it easier to manage large hiring pipelines without switching views. (Released: 17 June 2026)

Referral workflows now support configurable digest cadence, redesigned mobile referral experiences, digest notifications, and unsubscribe preferences to improve employee referral engagement. (Released: gradual rollout this week, Recruiters and Hiring managers)

Recruitment & AI

Recruitment Agent customers can now use AI Notetaker publicly across Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, receiving transcripts, summaries, and AI insights directly in the candidate record. (Released: 18 June 2026, Recruitment Agent customers)

Recruiters can now see Recruitment Agent credit balances, low-credit warnings, and usage context directly where they make hiring decisions, reducing disruption during recruitment workflows. (Released: 18 June 2026, Recruitment Agent customers)

Rostering & Timesheets

Managers using Unified Timesheets can now filter by cost centre on the Timesheet Management page, helping them find and approve relevant timesheets more efficiently. (Released: 15 June 2026, Global audience)

Rostering and Timesheets now include easier break duration entry, bulk resolution of outstanding shift swaps, and configurable minimum notice periods for employee unavailability. (Released: 16 June 2026, Admins and managers using Rostering and Timesheets)

Chat

Chat now supports public channels, mobile search across people and messages, improved channel management, offboarded user indicators in direct messages, and notification preference nudges. (Released: 16 June 2026, Employment Unlimited and Chat add-on customers)

Automations

Added a daily summary notification option for custom forms, helping teams reduce inbox noise by receiving a single digest of form submissions each day instead of multiple individual notifications. (Released: 5 June 2026, Global forms users)

Core HR

Added a unified worker onboarding entry point with an Add Worker button and classification wizard, helping HR admins onboard employees, contractors, volunteers, and HeroForce workers from one place while reducing misclassification risk. (Released: 9 June 2026, Global, all plans)

Added reusable headers and footers to document templates, making it easier for HR admins to apply consistent branding and formatting across issued documents. (Released: 11 June 2026, All regions)

Added new document template variables for salary change letters, allowing HR admins to automatically insert upcoming pay change details and reduce manual editing at scale. (Released: 3 June 2026, Global, all plans)

Expanded the org chart to show employees, contractors, and volunteers together, giving organisations a more complete view of their workforce. (Released: 9 June 2026, Global, all plans)

Introduced volunteers as a recognised worker type alongside employees and contractors, with payroll guardrails and a unified workforce experience that removes the need to create volunteers as zero-dollar employees. (Released: 9 June 2026, All regions, Beta)

Renamed optional certification statuses from “Outstanding” to “Optional” where appropriate, making compliance views clearer and ensuring dashboard counts focus on mandatory certifications only. (Released: 5 June 2026, All regions)

Updated contractor status labels to better reflect contractor relationships, replacing “Terminated” with “Concluded” and “Eligible for Rehiring” with “Eligible for Future Contract” for contractors. (Released: 9 June 2026, Global, all plans)

Unified the People List so employees, contractors, and volunteers can be viewed together with worker-type filters and visibility into workforce totals by type. (Released: 9 June 2026, Global, all plans; workforce header available to Elite and Unlimited only)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

Added new OpenAPI read endpoints for Goals so integration engineers can retrieve goals, individual goal details, and goal comments programmatically from Employment Hero Goals. (Released: 11 June 2026)

Payroll

Improved security for payroll self-setup by expiring invitation links after 72 hours, helping protect new hires from bank detail tampering and allowing admins to issue fresh secure links when needed. (Released: 4 June 2026, Payroll organisations across all regions)

Performance Management

Added safeguards for award-based employees in compensation cycles, including ineligibility alerts, a dedicated review step, and preservation of award and classification details after cycle completion. (Released: 5 June 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)

Brought 1:1 meeting and learning information into the Employee File, giving managers and authorised users a centralised view of employee development history without switching modules. (Released: 5 June 2026, Global)

Hero AI can now answer natural language questions about shoutouts in the Company Feed, helping users retrieve recognition insights and patterns more quickly. (Released: 11 June 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)

Platform Experience

Improved UI consistency across EH Work by updating interface patterns, layout spacing, colour usage, and top navigation so the mobile app feels more cohesive and polished. (Released: 25 May 2026, 1 June 2026, and 15 June 2026, All EH Work users)

Recruitment

Added pipeline visibility to the recruitment dashboard so recruiters and hiring managers can see candidate counts in each recruitment stage and quickly identify roles needing attention. (Released: 10 June 2026, All regions)

Enhanced the recruitment reference check process so recruiters can manually add referees, cancel requests, include hyperlinks in candidate notes, and complete reference checks without requiring sign-in or sign-up for candidates or referees. (Released: 4 June 2026, Global, Recruiters and hiring managers in Recruitment)

Improved Jobs site account security for job seekers with a hard 2.5-hour server-side session timeout and streamlined re-authentication flow that protects accounts without disrupting active sessions. (Released: 11 June 2026, All Job Seekers)

Rostering & Timesheets

Added CSV export to the Budget Overview page so managers can download roster budget data for reporting, identify over- or under-budget work sites, and analyse multiple sites more easily. (Released: 9 June 2026, Organisations using work sites and position rostering)

Introduced the new TimePickerV2 across rostering and timesheet management, making time entry faster with a single dropdown list, shorthand typing, real-time filtering, and improved keyboard navigation. (Released: 9 June 2026, Admins, managers, and employees using Rostering and Timesheet Management in HR Platform)

AI

Added AI-generated insights above standard reports, helping HR teams quickly identify trends, risks, and recommended actions without manually analysing raw data. (Released: 29 May 2026, HR Admins, Managers, and System Administrators)

Automations

Introduced Private Channels in Connect, giving organisations secure, invite-only spaces for project, department, and team communication across web and mobile. (Released: 1 June 2026, Employment Unlimited + Chat add-on customers)

Core HR

Added document sharing and tagging options for contractor profiles, allowing authorised users to share contractor documents with relevant stakeholders and improve reporting. (Released: 4 June 2026, All organisations)

Improved the offboarding checklist experience by showing which checklists are available, already triggered, and able to be triggered again, making offboarding workflows easier to manage. (Released: 3 June 2026, All organisations)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

Launched a first-time timesheets setup experience that centralises employee and organisation settings, making it easier for admins and owners to configure timesheets and update settings in bulk. (Released: 29 May 2026, Global audience)

ITOps & Security

Added SAML single sign-on for Payroll, allowing businesses to set up secure login using supported identity providers including Okta, Microsoft Entra, and Google Workspace. (Released: 1 June 2026, Payroll users)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

Added new OpenAPI endpoints for Forms Categories so integration engineers can list, create, rename, and delete custom form categories programmatically. (Released: 4 June 2026)

Aligned OpenAPI Work Sites permissions with the platform so HR staff with the right permissions can build integrations without requiring admin or owner credentials. (Released: 1 June 2026)

Payroll

Added a new pay condition based on number of days worked, helping businesses apply award and agreement rules more accurately when employees work multiple shifts in one day. (Released: 3 June 2026, Plus/Premium payroll plans)

Performance Management

Enabled Hero AI to read 9-box talent grid data so employees and managers can ask natural-language questions about ratings, trends, strengths, and development priorities. (Released: 4 June 2026, Global, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited and Elite)

Brought performance reviews to the Employment Hero mobile app, allowing employees and managers to complete, submit, and track reviews directly from their phone. (Released: 1 June 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)

Recruitment / Connect

Updated the Connect dashboard widget with a Chat tab and unread message counts, making it easier for employees to discover and access conversations from the dashboard. (Released: 29 May 2026, Employment Unlimited + Chat add-on customers)

Here are our product releases for Week 14 of 2026, which includes May 25 - 29, 2026.

AI

• Employees, managers, and admins can now ask Hero AI natural-language questions about goals to get quick insights into progress, risks, and priorities without manually navigating the goals experience. (Released: 22 May 2026)

Automations

• Added real-time current and projected leave balance conditions to the workflow engine so HR teams can automate approvals, escalations, and declines for leave requests with greater policy control. (Released: 26 May 2026, HR Managers and Leave approvers)

Core HR

• Added contractor support to the Termination Report, including a new Personnel Type filter to make workforce reporting more complete and flexible. (Released: 20 May 2026)

Finance Ops - Expenses

• Expanded expense management permissions so admins can give managers access to expense claims across their full reporting line, including indirect reports. (Released: 22 May 2026, Admins and people managers)

Finance Ops - HeroForce

• Managers can now see payroll costs for HeroForce employees directly in timesheet breakdowns, improving labour cost visibility for HeroForce-related work. (Released: 15 May 2026, HeroForce clients)
• Managers can now see HeroForce employee shift costs directly on the roster and in budget totals, helping make labour planning more accurate. (Released: 15 May 2026, HeroForce clients)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

• Introduced roster and timesheet quality-of-life improvements including sticky headers and action buttons, plus better employee ordering for certified shifts to speed up scheduling tasks. (Released: 27 May 2026, Advanced rostering and timesheets users)

ITOps & Security

• Existing job seekers using magic-link sign-in are now being prompted to set up passwords, creating a more consistent login experience and unlocking stronger security options such as MFA and passkeys. (Released: 28 May 2026, Job Seekers)
• Payroll users with permission can now export a CSV version of their user security overview to support audit and record-keeping needs. (Released: 26 May 2026, Payroll Users)
• Removed email-based 2FA in the EH Work App for payroll users and added in-app account recovery flows to create a more consistent and secure mobile sign-in experience. (Released: 26 May 2026, Payroll EH Work Users)
• Expanded the vetted admin MFA reset rollout with email notifications for eligible admins, organisation member filters, and clearer visibility to help streamline secure account recovery. (Released: 26 May 2026)
• Improved permissions enforcement for Goals and OKRs so goal creation, editing visibility, and available UI actions now match each user’s actual access. (Released: 22 May 2026)

Leave & Time Off

• Added a Leave Balance API so supported customers and developers can retrieve and update leave balances programmatically, reducing manual reconciliation with external systems. (Released: 27 May 2026, OpenAPI users, HR Standalone subplans, and AIO plans)
• Enhanced leave workflow automation with smarter auto-approval conditions for team coverage and probation status, helping organisations tailor leave decisions more precisely. (Released: 25 May 2026)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

• Added new OpenAPI endpoints for Employment Hero Forms so developers can retrieve member form responses and form assignments programmatically. (Released: 27 May 2026)
• Added new OpenAPI endpoints for Custom Forms so developers can list, create, update, and delete reusable form templates programmatically. (Released: 27 May 2026)

Performance Management

• Added recurring review cycles so HR admins can automatically schedule and launch ongoing performance reviews without manually recreating each cycle. (Released: 27 May 2026, Global plans including Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, and Elite)
• Improved Chat discoverability and notifications by adding a new navigation entry point, quiet-hours visibility inside conversations, and catch-up nudges when notification schedules resume. (Released: May 2026, Employment Unlimited and Chat add-on customers)

Platform Experience

• Added a customisable email editor for Tasks and Milestones so customers can update template content and formatting while preserving the existing logic behind those emails. (Released: 27 May 2026, Premium, Platinum, Unlimited, Engage, and Elite customers)

Recruitment

• Recruiters can now bulk upload up to 25 CVs directly into Talent Pool, making candidate intake faster for high-volume workflows. (Released: 27 May 2026)
• Added a job match preview popover on the jobs table so recruiters and hiring managers can quickly preview matched candidates and jump straight to their profiles. (Released: 25 May 2026, Recruiters and Hiring Managers)
• Completed the migration from SmartMatch to Find Talent, consolidating customers into the newer talent discovery experience and automatically migrating saved candidates. (Released: 26 May 2026)

Recruitment & AI

• Added Google Calendar and ATS event sync so interview changes made in Google Calendar automatically flow back into the ATS, helping keep scheduling and AI Notetaker sessions accurate. (Released: 20 May 2026, Closed beta)

Time & Attendance

• Managers can now create approved leave directly from a shift in the roster, automatically removing the employee from the shift and leaving the shift open for reassignment. (Released: 26 May 2026)

AI

Hero AI can now answer questions about tasks and onboarding or offboarding checklists, helping HR admins, managers, employees, and contractors find task information faster without needing to search manually. (Released: 19 May 2026, All organisations)

Automations

Custom form submission notifications can now be routed dynamically to managers, group leaders, groups, and work locations, helping admins keep notification recipients accurate as organisational structures change. (Released: 19 May 2026, Global forms users)

Core HR

A new Team Calendar now brings leave and public holidays into one unified view, giving users a clearer picture of schedules and improving visibility across teams. (Released: 21 May 2026, Global)

Existing organisations can now opt in to Doc Studio, a unified document editor that replaces legacy editing experiences with a modern interface, searchable variables, smart clauses, richer media support, and multiple signatories. (Released: 15 May 2026, HR Admins)

Employees now access documents from a single location in their profile, with old My Documents links automatically redirecting to the correct place for a simpler and more consistent experience. (Released: 15 May 2026, All regions)

Standard plan organisations with Doc Studio can now create and manage policy templates directly in the in-app editor, bringing policy template functionality to more customers. (Released: 18 May 2026, Standard plans with Doc Studio)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

New roster management filters now let managers narrow roster views by work site, position, shift status, work type, employee, and group, making it faster to find the shifts that matter. (Released: 15 May 2026)

The timesheet experience is being unified into a single workflow that supports hours-based and start-and-finish submissions, helping employees and managers complete timesheets more consistently with less manual effort. (Released: 20 May 2026, Global audience using work sites and positions)

ITOps & Security

Developers can now retrieve custom form definitions and response data programmatically through new OpenAPI endpoints, making it easier to integrate form data into external systems and workflows. (Released: 19 May 2026)

Leave Requests OpenAPI authorisation now aligns with platform permissions, allowing HR staff with the right access to build integrations without needing admin or owner credentials. (Released: 19 May 2026)

Eligible organisation admins can now review employee MFA reset requests directly, helping employees regain access faster while maintaining verification checks and audit trails. (Released: 18 May 2026, Global public release)

Performance Management

HR admins can now view, preview, enable, and disable 360 Review email notifications directly from organisation email settings, giving them more control over review communications. (Released: 20 May 2026, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited and Elite)

Users can now generate shareable Employment Hero links for Go1 courses, allowing colleagues to open the right course directly without broken authentication flows or extra navigation. (Released: 21 May 2026)

Platform Experience

EH Work users can now start Hero AI conversations directly from the home dashboard with an inline input, rotating prompts, and quicker access to recent chats. (Released: 18 May 2026, EH Work app users)

Hero AI now has a dedicated bottom navigation tab in EH Work, giving users faster and more consistent access to chat, voice-to-text, and in-progress conversations, alongside a refreshed chat interface. (Released: 25 May 2026 scheduled public release, EH Work app users)

Mobile users can now ask Hero AI questions using voice input, with spoken questions transcribed in real time and editable before sending. (Released: 18 May 2026 internal release, EH Work app users)

The Careers experience has moved inside the Work pillar in EH Work, giving users a cleaner navigation structure while still surfacing applications, saved roles, and referrals in one place. (Released: 18 May 2026 internal release, EH Work app users)

Recruitment

Selected organisations can now use AI Notetaker to join interviews, capture transcripts, generate summaries and question-based notes, and save them directly to candidate records. (Released: 20 May 2026, Closed beta)

Employers can now see matched candidate counts directly on job listings and jump into Find Talent with the right job preselected, making talent discovery faster. (Released: 18 May 2026, Recruiters and Hiring Managers)

Employees can now refer candidates more easily through a simplified referral programme, while hiring teams gain notifications, referral rewards, and referral filtering in ATS. (Released: 18 May 2026, Employees, Hiring Managers, Recruiters)

Recruiters and hirers can now send personalised outreach messages through Find Talent invitations, helping them create a more direct and intentional first contact with candidates. (Released: 15 May 2026, Recruiters and Hirers)

Recruiters can now search talent pools more accurately, filter by location, add and view tags, and quickly identify candidates who are already in the talent pool when they apply. (Released: 20 May 2026, Recruiters)

AI

Hero AI can now answer questions about tasks and onboarding or offboarding checklists, helping HR admins, managers, employees, and contractors find task information faster without needing to search manually. (Released: 19 May 2026, All organisations)

Automations

Custom form submission notifications can now be routed dynamically to managers, group leaders, groups, and work locations, helping admins keep notification recipients accurate as organisational structures change. (Released: 19 May 2026, Global forms users)

Core HR

A new Team Calendar now brings leave and public holidays into one unified view, giving users a clearer picture of schedules and improving visibility across teams. (Released: 21 May 2026, Global)

Existing organisations can now opt in to Doc Studio, a unified document editor that replaces legacy editing experiences with a modern interface, searchable variables, smart clauses, richer media support, and multiple signatories. (Released: 15 May 2026, HR Admins)

Employees now access documents from a single location in their profile, with old My Documents links automatically redirecting to the correct place for a simpler and more consistent experience. (Released: 15 May 2026, All regions)

Standard plan organisations with Doc Studio can now create and manage policy templates directly in the in-app editor, bringing policy template functionality to more customers. (Released: 18 May 2026, Standard plans with Doc Studio)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

New roster management filters now let managers narrow roster views by work site, position, shift status, work type, employee, and group, making it faster to find the shifts that matter. (Released: 15 May 2026)

The timesheet experience is being unified into a single workflow that supports hours-based and start-and-finish submissions, helping employees and managers complete timesheets more consistently with less manual effort. (Released: 20 May 2026, Global audience using work sites and positions)

ITOps & Security

Developers can now retrieve custom form definitions and response data programmatically through new OpenAPI endpoints, making it easier to integrate form data into external systems and workflows. (Released: 19 May 2026)

Leave Requests OpenAPI authorisation now aligns with platform permissions, allowing HR staff with the right access to build integrations without needing admin or owner credentials. (Released: 19 May 2026)

Eligible organisation admins can now review employee MFA reset requests directly, helping employees regain access faster while maintaining verification checks and audit trails. (Released: 18 May 2026, Global public release)

Performance Management

HR admins can now view, preview, enable, and disable 360 Review email notifications directly from organisation email settings, giving them more control over review communications. (Released: 20 May 2026, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited and Elite)

Users can now generate shareable Employment Hero links for Go1 courses, allowing colleagues to open the right course directly without broken authentication flows or extra navigation. (Released: 21 May 2026)

Platform Experience

EH Work users can now start Hero AI conversations directly from the home dashboard with an inline input, rotating prompts, and quicker access to recent chats. (Released: 18 May 2026, EH Work app users)

Hero AI now has a dedicated bottom navigation tab in EH Work, giving users faster and more consistent access to chat, voice-to-text, and in-progress conversations, alongside a refreshed chat interface. (Released: 25 May 2026 scheduled public release, EH Work app users)

Mobile users can now ask Hero AI questions using voice input, with spoken questions transcribed in real time and editable before sending. (Released: 18 May 2026 internal release, EH Work app users)

The Careers experience has moved inside the Work pillar in EH Work, giving users a cleaner navigation structure while still surfacing applications, saved roles, and referrals in one place. (Released: 18 May 2026 internal release, EH Work app users)

Recruitment

Selected organisations can now use AI Notetaker to join interviews, capture transcripts, generate summaries and question-based notes, and save them directly to candidate records. (Released: 20 May 2026, Closed beta)

Employers can now see matched candidate counts directly on job listings and jump into Find Talent with the right job preselected, making talent discovery faster. (Released: 18 May 2026, Recruiters and Hiring Managers)

Employees can now refer candidates more easily through a simplified referral programme, while hiring teams gain notifications, referral rewards, and referral filtering in ATS. (Released: 18 May 2026, Employees, Hiring Managers, Recruiters)

Recruiters and hirers can now send personalised outreach messages through Find Talent invitations, helping them create a more direct and intentional first contact with candidates. (Released: 15 May 2026, Recruiters and Hirers)

Recruiters can now search talent pools more accurately, filter by location, add and view tags, and quickly identify candidates who are already in the talent pool when they apply. (Released: 20 May 2026, Recruiters)