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Week 17, 2026 | Release notes

Loren Mathewson
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EH Content Team
  • AI: AI Job Summaries for Job Seekers — Job seekers now see AI-generated summaries at the top of job listings to quickly understand key details and decide faster.
    Subscription: Available to job board users.

  • Leave: Auto Suggest Best Leave Type Based on Reason/Context — Employees on eligible plans now receive AI-powered leave type suggestions based on their leave reason, helping reduce incorrect leave selections while keeping the existing submission flow intact if no confident suggestion is available.
    Subscription: Elite tier.

  • Core HR: Clarify Compliance Document Purpose — Contextual guidance now appears throughout the Compliance module so HR admins and users with document permissions can more easily understand where to upload or create the right type of content, reducing compliance record errors.
    Subscription: No subscription restriction stated.

  • Core HR: Compliance Document Tagging — HR admins can now create and apply compliance tags to policies, certifications, and other audit-related documents, then filter documents by tag for a clearer audit-ready view.
    Subscription: No subscription restriction stated.

  • Leave: Enhanced Employee Selection UI in Leave Booking — HR admins and managers can now distinguish employees with the same name using identifiers such as employee code and job title in leave booking forms, reducing selection mistakes and improving data accuracy.
    Subscription: All subplans.

  • Mobile App Releases: EH Work App 2.76.4 — This EH Work App release includes HeroAI enhancements, payroll security improvements such as recovery codes and mandatory 2FA support, plus general performance, stability, and security updates.
    Subscription: Relevant to EH Work App users; some included features depend on product access and payroll setup.

  • Recruitment: External Job Board Application Confirmation Emails — Candidates applying through external job boards now receive an automatic confirmation email with their submitted details, Employment Hero branding, and a withdrawal link, improving transparency and reducing application anxiety.
    Subscription: Recruitment customers; no paid plan restriction stated.

  • Performance Management: Goals: Bulk Archiving Goals — HR admins and managers can now archive or permanently delete multiple goals in one action from the goals list, reducing repetitive admin work.
    Subscription: Elite; users with access to the Goals feature.

  • Performance Management: Goals: Clone and Bulk Issue Goals — HR admins and people managers can now copy an existing goal to one or more employees at once, including selected key results and due dates, making large-scale goal creation much faster and more consistent.
    Subscription: Platinum and Elite; users with access to the Goals feature.

  • Payroll: HeroClear Payment Approvals — Payroll admins can now configure approval rules for automated payments so outgoing funds require sign-off before processing, adding stronger financial oversight and reducing payment risk.
    Subscription: Relevant to payroll customers using HeroClear; no plan restriction stated.

  • AI: HeroAI Leave Management Engagement — Managers can now see live summaries of pending leave requests, current and upcoming team absences, and more relevant prompts in HeroAI, helping them make faster leave decisions with less navigation.
    Subscription: Platinum organisations.

  • Other: Hero Points CSS Permissions — Organisation admins can now delegate Hero Points management and purchasing to trusted non-admin staff using new permission controls, giving businesses more flexibility without expanding full admin access.
    Subscription: Organisations with Hero Points access.

  • Recruitment: Hiring Criteria — Hirers can now review and customise AI-generated hiring criteria during job creation, set must-have and nice-to-have requirements, and see candidate matches broken down more clearly to support faster, more accurate shortlisting.
    Subscription: All paid subplans.

  • Recruitment: Improve Hiring Process UI to Unlock AI Agent Setup — Recruiters can now manage AI agents, evaluations, third-party assessments, and automated workflows from a single hiring process screen, making AI setup more visible and easier to configure.
    Subscription: All paid recruitment subplans.

  • ITOps & Security: Magic Link Re-authentication for Job Seekers — Job seekers using magic links can now securely re-authenticate when their Jobs session times out, extending automatic session timeout support to more authentication methods.
    Subscription: Job seeker experience; no paid plan restriction stated.

  • Payroll: Pay Run Inclusion Page - Deduction Filtering — Payroll users can now hide inactive deductions on the Pay Run Inclusions page, making it faster to review active items and reducing unnecessary scrolling in deduction-heavy pay runs.
    Subscription: Global rollout; no plan restriction stated.

  • Recruitment: Recruitment Position Templates — Recruiters can now create and reuse approved role templates that pre-fill job titles, descriptions, employment details, salary ranges, and screening questions when creating a new job posting.
    Subscription: All paid subplans; especially relevant to mid-market customers.

  • HR Rostering & Timesheets: Roster Copy-Paste Performance & Reliability — Roster managers can now paste shifts instantly, continue making bulk roster updates without waiting for each save to complete, and resolve conflicts in one place, making large rostering sessions much faster.
    Subscription: No subscription restriction stated.

  • HR Rostering & Timesheets: Roster Shift Overtime Indicator — Managers and admins can now identify overtime shifts directly on the roster through visual highlighting, improving visibility of overtime costs during scheduling.
    Subscription: Relevant where shift cost information is available.

  • HR Rostering & Timesheets: Asynchronous Processing for Bulk Actions — Organisations using advanced rostering can now run bulk publish, unpublish, and delete actions more reliably with progress feedback, reducing timeout issues when managing large volumes of shifts.
    Subscription: Advanced rostering (work sites and positions).

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