Employment Hero Release Notes

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)

Here are our product releases for Week 14 of 2026, which includes May 11 - 14, 2026.

AI

• Hero AI can now answer natural language questions about company announcements, helping users quickly retrieve, filter, and summarise important internal updates without manually scrolling through the Company Feed. (Released: 11 May 2026)

Automations

• Custom Forms now support configurable submission notifications, allowing organisations to notify specific employees or shared inboxes and choose whether alerts are sent after every submission or only once all recipients have responded. This helps reduce missed submissions and manual follow-up. (Released: 12 May 2026, Global forms users)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

• Admins can now restrict employees from submitting unavailability during blackout periods, while managers retain the ability to override the restriction when needed. This helps organisations reduce staffing gaps during peak periods. (Released: 7 May 2026, organisations using work sites and position rostering)
• Improved roster performance by loading shifts in batches as managers scroll, significantly reducing initial load times for large schedules and creating a smoother rostering experience. (Released: 11 May 2026, organisations using work sites and position rostering)
• Managers can now choose a work type when creating an open shift before it is claimed, reducing follow-up edits and helping ensure shifts and payroll are more accurate from the start. (Released: 13 May 2026, organisations using work sites and position rostering)
• Organisations can now connect Lightspeed (O-series) POS to automatically sync sales data into rostering every 15 minutes, making it easier to forecast demand and align staffing with business activity. (Released: 13 May 2026, organisations using work sites and position rostering)
• Organisations can now prevent employees and managers from creating future-dated timesheets through a new setting, helping keep timesheet submissions cleaner and more accurate before approval and payroll processing. (Released: 13 May 2026, all organisations)
• Employees can now clock in and out at the Hero Time Clock kiosk using facial recognition, creating a faster, hands-free experience and reducing the need to search for names or enter PINs. Additional kiosk improvements also support automatic PIN generation, optional photo capture, branded colour display, and clock-out notes. (Released: 11 May 2026, admins, managers, and employees in W&P organisations using HTC Kiosk)

ITOps & Security

• Payroll users can now change their app passcode directly within the EH Work App instead of logging out and back in, bringing the payroll mobile experience into line with HR users. (Released: 11 May 2026, Payroll EH Work users)
• Updated the EH Work App reset password flow with clearer platform labels and automatic routing for single-platform users, reducing confusion and helping users recover access more easily. (Released: 11 May 2026, EH Work users)
• Users who lose access to both their account email and two-factor authentication can now complete a secure self-service recovery flow, including verification of a new email address, reducing manual intervention and improving security. (Released: 13 May 2026, users going through the Employment Hero CX supported Account Recovery flow)

Leave

• Independent contractors can now record unavailability through a dedicated self-service workflow instead of using employee leave, while managers can view contractor unavailability alongside employee leave for easier scheduling and oversight. (Released: 15 May 2026, contractors, managers, admins)

Performance Management

• Hero AI now has access to both upcoming and past 1:1 meeting information, helping users prepare for meetings, review past discussion points, summarise notes, and follow up on action items more easily. (Released: 29 April 2026 and 6 May 2026)
• The 9-Box Talent Grid now has its own dedicated page with synced filters, direct scoring actions, CSV exports, and improved empty states, making talent review easier to use and more consistent across the platform. (Released: 11 May 2026, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Elite)
• Chat now supports voice notes across web and mobile, allowing users to record, review, and send audio messages in one-to-one or group chats for faster communication on the go. (Released: 11 May 2026, Employment Unlimited + Chat add-on customers)
• Chat has been enhanced with richer message context and usability improvements, including read receipt details, reaction insights, member lists, in-app camera on mobile, thread notifications on web, and a refreshed web interface. (Released: 11 May 2026, Employment Unlimited + Chat add-on customers)
• Hero AI can now answer natural language questions about announcements in the Company Feed, helping users quickly find, summarise, and review important company communications. (Released: 11 May 2026)
• Admins can now mark approved requisitions as filled or reopen them later, helping keep active hiring lists focused on roles that still need action while retaining visibility of historical records through filters. (Released: 11 May 2026, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Elite)
• The Shoutout Report has been standardised with a more consistent interface, synchronised filtering, new trend charts, easier exports, and dashboard pinning to make recognition reporting more reliable and easier to analyse. (Released: 12 May 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)

Platform Experience

• The mobile Home screen now surfaces additional employee quicklinks, including Certifications, Documents, and HR Policies, helping employees reach commonly used areas faster without extra navigation. (Released: 11 May 2026, HR organisations)

Recruitment

• ATS system emails sent to candidates can now automatically use a company’s own branding, while recruiters can customise automated messages and use AI assistance to draft or improve email content. This creates a more professional and flexible candidate communication experience. (Released: 13 May 2026, recruiters and organisation admins using the ATS / Recruitment module)
• Recruiters can now upload up to 25 candidate CVs at once into the job pipeline, review parsed information before candidates are created, and fix missing details in bulk, making high-volume candidate intake faster and more accurate. (Released: 11 May 2026, all users)
• Recruiters can now see where search keywords matched within a candidate profile, including skills, work experience, education, and certifications, helping them assess relevance faster without manually scanning each profile. (Released: 12 May 2026, Recruiters)
• Recruiters can now attach a Position Description document to jobs in ATS and optionally publish it on the public careers page, giving candidates clearer job information and helping improve hiring criteria quality. (Released: 27 March 2026 and 12 May 2026, Recruiters and candidates)
• Candidate LinkedIn and GitHub profile links now appear directly in ATS profiles when detected from resumes or added manually, giving recruiters faster access to relevant professional and technical background information. (Released: 12 May 2026, Recruiters)
• Eligible EH Jobs candidates can now sign up directly to Hero Foundation without needing a partner referral, with a simpler onboarding flow, upfront eligibility checks, and a clearer success experience that encourages immediate job browsing. (Released: 13 May 2026, EH Jobs candidates)
• New job seekers on the Employment Hero Jobs site now use a password-first sign-up and sign-in flow aligned with the broader Employment Hero platform, making account creation more secure and more familiar while reducing friction. (Released: 13 May 2026, Job Seekers)

Here are our product releases for Week 14 of 2026, which includes April 27 - May 1, 2026.

AI & Search

• Hero AI Enhancements in EH Work: Helps users complete everyday tasks faster with direct AI actions, chat continuity, better search, and suggested prompts.

Core HR

• Support Version Numbers on Document Templates: Helps HR admins track document template versions more clearly to reduce compliance and audit risk.

HR Rostering & Timesheets

• Roster Copy-Paste Performance & Reliability: Speeds up roster creation by enabling instant shift pasting and easier resolution of multiple scheduling conflicts.

ITOps & Security

• Payslip Management: Lets HR-only organisations publish payslips in Employment Hero so employees can access them in their usual payslip view.

Performance Management

• HeroAI reading 1:1s: Helps employees prepare for upcoming 1:1s using their schedule and planned talking points.

Platform Experience

• Organisation Emails experience upgrade: Makes email notification management simpler by bringing template editing and notification settings into one place.

Recruitment

• Reference Check Fraud Detection: Helps recruiters identify suspected fraudulent reference check activity earlier with clear signals and alerts in their workflow.

Here are our product releases for Week 14 of 2026, which includes March 30 - April 3, 2026.

AI

Enhanced HeroAI personalisation and prompt management so admins can customise prompts and users receive more relevant suggestions in HeroAI experiences, including tailored prompts for rostering and timesheet workflows. (Released: 31 March 2026, All users)

Hero AI web users can now reopen past conversations from chat history and continue them with the original session context, making it easier to pick up where they left off. (Released: 31 March 2026, All Hero AI web users)

Improved HeroAI’s retrieval logic to better separate Employment Hero help content from internal organisation policies, reducing the chance of inaccurate responses in customer conversations. (Released: 30 March 2026, HeroAI users)

Core HR

Bulk Issue Documents is now available to help HR admins and document signatories manage large document sends more efficiently. Teams can assign multiple signatories, review and sign documents in batches, track progress in real time, and manage document history from one place. (Released: 1 April 2026, HR Admins and Document Signatories)

Added automated and manual offer letter reminders so candidates and HR admins can keep offers moving without repeated manual follow-up. Candidates receive reminder notifications after an offer remains unactioned, while HR admins can manage reminder settings and send reminders from the offer letter page. (Released: 27 March 2026, Organisations with access to Offer Letters)

Added a new Access & Permissions view in the employee file so HR admins can see an employee’s assigned permissions, including permissions inherited by team, and navigate directly to the relevant settings for deeper review. (Released: 26 March 2026, Elite, Unlimited and Platinum plans)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

Reintroduced the Partially Approved leave status for multi-level leave workflows, giving managers, HR admins and employees better visibility into approval progress and reducing guesswork around in-flight requests. (Released: 31 March 2026, Global)

Overnight timesheets are now available to all organisations, allowing employees to submit shifts that extend past midnight without manually splitting entries or adjusting records. (Released: 31 March 2026, All organisations)

Enhanced the Roster vs Timesheet report with clearer cost breakdowns in the interface and richer export data, helping payroll teams distinguish base rates from top-ups and audit labour spend more easily. (Released: 30 March 2026, Global rollout)

ITOps & Security

Aligned OpenAPI employee custom fields permissions with platform permissions, allowing authorised HR staff to build integrations without requiring admin or owner credentials. (Released: 2 April 2026, OpenAPI users)

Added Microsoft Single Sign-On to the EH Jobs careers portal so job seekers can sign up and log in more easily with a one-tap Microsoft option. (Released: 1 April 2026, All job seekers)

Separated HeroAI support mode from general HeroAI interactions when customers use Get Help, creating a clearer support experience and improving support routing and measurement. (Released: 27 March 2026, Customers accessing support via Get Help)

Added custom fields to the Asset Register so HR teams can track and export organisation-specific asset details such as storage locations, warranty fields, dates and other internal hardware data points. (Released: 30 March 2026, HR users with Asset Register permissions)

Aligned OpenAPI permissions for emergency contacts and superannuation details with platform permissions, making these endpoints more accessible to authorised HR users and managers. (Released: 27 March 2026, OpenAPI users)

Added granular Custom Security Settings for Public Holidays Management so organisations with CSS entitlement can delegate public holiday access with separate view, modify and delete permissions. (Released: 27 March 2026, Organisations with CSS entitlement)

Performance Management

Managers now receive consolidated performance review notifications instead of multiple individual emails, reducing inbox clutter and making review assignments and changes easier to understand. (Released: 2 April 2026, Global)

Added drag-and-drop reordering to Performance Review Templates so HR admins can rearrange questions more easily without deleting and recreating them. (Released: 2 April 2026, Global)

HR admins can now schedule performance reviews to start in the future, with automatic launch timing, optional pre-launch reminders, and a clear scheduled status for better planning and visibility. (Released: 1 April 2026, Global)

Vacant Positions is now supported in General Permissions under Workforce Planning, allowing HR admins to delegate access with more precise view, modify and delete controls. (Released: 27 March 2026, Platinum, Unlimited and Elite)

Updated 1:1s with clearer role labels and organiser-only session confirmation controls, making meeting records more reliable while preserving collaboration for both participants. (Released: 27 March 2026, Global)

Platform Experience

Added HeroForce calls to action into key moments of the onboarding wizard so employers can more easily explore managed employment options, including support for international hiring scenarios. (Released: 27 March 2026, Employers using the Employment Hero onboarding wizard)

Expanded and personalised manager Quicklinks on the mobile Home screen, helping managers get faster access to high-use tools like Events, Forms and Staff Directory. (Released: 24 March 2026, Managers on HR mobile organisations)

Recruitment

Added a new Hire Conversion Rate by Source view in Recruitment Reports so talent acquisition teams can see which sourcing channels are converting candidates into hires, helping them make more informed sourcing and budget decisions. (Released: 2 April 2026, Users with recruitment reports access)

Added new recruitment reporting for candidate disqualifications and withdrawals, helping hiring teams see why candidates are leaving the pipeline and at which stage so they can identify patterns and improve hiring workflows. (Released: 2 April 2026, Users with recruitment reports access)

Added a Refine Search panel in Find Talent so recruiters can fine-tune talent search results with structured controls like keywords, filters, industry and radius without rewriting their natural language search. (Released: 5 March 2026, Recruiters)

AI

• Added a dedicated HeroAI widget to the home dashboard so customers can discover AI capabilities faster, access suggested prompts, and launch chat in one click. (Released: 24 March 2026)
• Added Hero AI conversation history to the chat widget so users can revisit previous chats and open full transcripts from a unified history panel. (Released: 19 March 2026, All Hero AI users)
• Improved Hero AI feedback controls with larger colour-coded icons, confirmation messaging, and detailed negative feedback reasons so users can share more useful feedback on responses. (Released: 18 March 2026, All Hero AI users)
• Improved HeroAI answer accuracy by prioritising knowledge base content that matches the user’s platform context, helping users receive more relevant how-to guidance. (Released: 20 March 2026, All users)
• Refined the HeroAI widget and chat experience with a more native interface, clearer navigation between new and recent conversations, and higher visibility on the home dashboard. (Released: 26 March 2026)

Automations

• Added a personalised My Reports view so users can pin, reorder, and manage frequently used reports more efficiently. (Released: 26 March 2026, Reports users)
• Added leave requests and leave balance data to Custom Report Builder so HR teams can combine leave metrics with workforce data in a single report. (Released: 25 March 2026, HR Administrators)
• Added saved filters and a unified filter bar across reports, making it easier for users to reopen reports with their preferred views and keep charts and tables in sync. (Released: 24 March 2026)
• Added tenure, voluntary departure, and time-since-termination fields to Custom Reports so teams can analyse attrition trends without manual spreadsheet work. (Released: 24 March 2026, HR Admins and people managers)
• Users can now edit live workflows in place without unpublishing them first, helping HR administrators and payroll managers make updates faster without interrupting active processes. (Released: 24 March 2026)

Core HR

• Added audit logging for banking detail creations and updates so HR administrators can track changes more easily and verify previous and updated details. (Released: 23 March 2026, HR Administrators)
• Added rich text hyperlink support in tasks and subtasks so HR administrators can create clearer, more professional onboarding and checklist content. (Released: 20 March 2026, HR Administrators and Employees)
• Employees can now set a preferred first name that appears across the platform, helping protect privacy while preserving legal names for payroll and compliance documents. (Released: 23 March 2026)

ITOps & Security

• Added account settings directly on the Jobs website so existing HR users can manage passkeys, MFA, linked social sign-on accounts, passwords, and recovery settings without leaving Jobs. (Released: 20 March 2026)
• Added reporting line sync with Microsoft 365 so manager updates made in Employment Hero can flow through to the Microsoft 365 org structure more reliably. (Released: 25 March 2026)
• Improved the password reset flow to recognise company email addresses and guide users toward the correct Employment Hero login email, reducing confusion and failed reset attempts. (Released: 23 March 2026, All users with company emails)
• Updated the Asset Register toolbar to make import and export actions easier to find, reducing friction for users managing assets. (Released: 24 March 2026, HR users with Asset Register permissions)

Mobile App

• Released EH Work app version 2.74.2 with Hero AI interface updates, refreshed knowledge content, expanded manager quicklinks, improved search accuracy, setup mode restrictions, and better SSO back-button behaviour. (Released: 24 March 2026)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

• Added employee certificate write operations to OpenAPI, including support for uploading certificate files and updating assigned employee certificate records. (Released: 24 March 2026)
• Added new OpenAPI endpoints for Hero Time Clock access, improved permissions alignment for employee documents and policies, and introduced custom webhook user agent support for broader third-party compatibility. (Released: 24 March 2026)
• Expanded OpenAPI capabilities with certificate write and webhook events, improved certificate data responses, overnight timesheet support, and a new work type endpoint for payroll-connected organisations. (Released: 12 March 2026)
• Updated the Get Pay Details endpoint so API access now follows the same permission model used in-platform. (Released: 20 March 2026)

Performance Management

• Added a detailed goals reporting dashboard and CSV export so organisations can track goals and key results in a single centralised view. (Released: 20 March 2026)
• Added goal and key result data to Custom Report Builder so HR admins and owners can combine OKR reporting with employee data in one export. (Released: 24 March 2026)
• Added optional questions, employee-only and reviewer-only questions, and internal assessment visibility controls to performance review templates, giving organisations more flexibility while keeping scoring accurate. (Released: 24 March 2026)
• Admins and owners can now export anonymised happiness survey responses to CSV for easier trend analysis and leadership reporting. (Released: 23 March 2026)
• Replaced individual learning assignment emails with a single daily digest, helping reduce inbox noise while keeping employees informed about new modules. (Released: 26 March 2026, Global)

Recruitment

• Added a candidate pipeline report so recruiters can compare live candidate counts across open roles and stages in one place. (Released: 24 March 2026)
• Added Expression of Interest job listings so employers can keep long-term talent pipeline roles open without expiry and automatically send applicants into the Talent Pool. (Released: 20 March 2026, Employers and Recruiters)
• Added native Criteria Corp and Codility integrations so recruiters can send assessments, automate invitations, and review results directly in ATS without switching systems. (Released: 26 March 2026, Recruiters and Hiring Managers)
• Added time-in-stage reporting so recruiters can see how long candidates spend at each stage and identify hiring bottlenecks earlier. (Released: 24 March 2026)

Here are our product releases for Week 14 of 2026, which includes March 16-20, 2026.

AI

• Hero AI is now available on mobile for employees, with secure read access to records like leave balances, pay, rosters, and company policies, plus a more natural streaming experience. (Released: 16 March 2026)

Automations

• Added a Tenure column to the Termination Report so HR teams can review length of service directly in the report and export it for easier attrition analysis. (Released: 19 March 2026)
• The Is-Manager field in custom workforce and headcount reports now reflects current active reporting lines more accurately, reducing manual report checks. (Released: 17 March 2026)
• HR admins can now build custom reports using salary data alongside other employee fields, making pay analysis and auditing easier. (Released: 17 March 2026)

Core HR

• Admins can now create and apply additional information fields to contractors as well as employees, and fields marked for onboarding will also appear in the contractor onboarding form. (Released: 19 March 2026)
• Added more employee details to the document template variable picker, including personal email, mobile number, middle name, and emergency contact details, reducing manual work when building document templates. (Released: 17 March 2026)
• Tasks can now be assigned to multiple owners, allowing any assigned owner to complete the task and helping HR teams avoid bottlenecks when one person is unavailable. (Released: 17 March 2026)
• Employers can now edit templates and change the number of sending signatories in the new document editor, making HR document approval workflows more flexible. (Released: 17 March 2026)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

• You can now connect Square POS to automatically bring sales data into your roster every 15 minutes, improving visibility and reducing manual uploads. (Released: 19 March 2026)
• You can now forecast sales for rostering using AI Forecast, Last 3 Weeks Average, Compare to Last Year, or Same Day Last Year to better align staffing with demand. (Released: 19 March 2026)

ITOps & Security

• The Security Dashboard’s User Security Overview now includes pagination, search, and filters to help payroll users review large user bases faster. (Released: 17 March 2026)
• Organisations can now control whether employees can remember devices for 2FA and choose the memory period, improving security configuration flexibility. (Released: 17 March 2026)

Performance Management

• HR admins can now assign a custom permission for Learning Administrator, giving selected users access to learning management without broader admin permissions. (Released: 18 March 2026)
• Admins can now export Requisitions and Onboarding Approvals data from Vacancies & Requisitions for a complete and verifiable activity record. (Released: 17 March 2026)
• The Performance Review module now includes guided onboarding and ready-to-use system templates for probation, annual reviews, and regular check-ins. (Released: 18 March 2026)

Platform Experience

• EH Work Payroll users now have key actions like outstanding payroll documents and organisation switching surfaced on Home, with improved navigation across the app. (Released: 26 February 2026, phased rollout)
• EH Work HR users now have key features consolidated into the Home Dashboard, including surveys, leave balances, Hero AI, and improved navigation and security checks. (Released: 16 February 2026, phased rollout)
• The Personal Email Settings page has been refreshed with a more modern interface that makes it easier for employees to manage account emails and notification preferences. (Released: 17 March 2026)

Recruitment

• Recruiters can now send themselves a Preview Interview to experience the candidate journey, test questions, and refine Recruitment Agent setup before going live. (Released: 19 March 2026)

Here are our product releases for Week 2 of 2026, which includes March 2-6, 2026.

Automation

• HR admins and payroll managers can now export CSVs directly from report cards, saving time and reducing navigation. (Released: 3 March 2026, All subplans)

Digital Onboarding

• Organisations can now automatically assign Go1 learning content to new hires and other workflow triggers. (Released: 4 March 2026, Mid-market orgs)

• Assigned Learning Report now includes new visualisations, filters, and richer data for mid-market clients. (Released: 25 February 2026, Mid-market orgs)

HR Core

• Clause creation in the document editor is now simpler and more intuitive, reducing errors and confusion. (Released: 2 March 2026, All users)

ITOps & Security

• The asset register now displays assignee company emails and includes this data in CSV exports for easier audits. (Released: 4 March 2026, HR admins)

• The Asset Management tile now defaults to showing only current assets, with improved metadata and filtering. (Released: 4 March 2026, HR users)

Leave & Expenses

• Public holiday calendars are now automatically updated and include new state-specific holidays in AU, reducing manual work for admins. (Released: 5 March 2026, All regions)

• Enhanced expense policies and allowance cards give admins more control and employees greater visibility. (Released: 13 January 2026, All regions)

Performance Management

• Performance review setup and reviewer assignment are now more flexible and streamlined. (Released: 27 February 2026, HR admins, managers)

Recruitment

• Job seekers now see personalised authentication messages based on their entry point, improving clarity and reducing confusion. (Released: 4 March 2026, Job Seekers)

• Job seekers can now import their LinkedIn profile as a PDF to streamline profile setup and reduce manual entry. (Released: 4 March 2026, Job Seekers)

• Added confirmation and feedback options to job reporting, reducing accidental reports and improving issue tracking. (Released: 4 March 2026, Job Seekers)

• Recruiters can now paste job descriptions with formatting preserved and use standard editing shortcuts. (Released: 5 March 2026, Recruiters and admins)