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; salary including super and super amount apply to AU organisations only)
Connected Employment Hero HR directly to the ATO so employers can validate TFNs in real time, lodge tax file number declarations within onboarding, and identify stapled super funds during new hire setup. (Released: 11 June 2026, AU only)
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
Added support for multiple pay condition rule set periods within a single rule set, making it easier for AU payroll teams to manage employees on different pay frequencies without duplicating configurations. (Released: 10 June 2026, AU payroll users on Plus/Premium plans using pay conditions engine functionality)
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)
Preserved the ordering of custom award rules during award updates, reducing the need for AU payroll users to manually inspect and reorder custom rules after updates are installed. (Released: 10 June 2026, AU awards users on Plus/Premium payroll plans)
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)