Here are our product releases for Week 40 of 2025, which includes September 29-October 3, 2025.
AU Payroll
Payroll Tax Report by Employee Address
Description: We've released a new group by filter for the Payroll Tax Report in Australia, "Employee residential address". This filter will sort the results of the report by the residential state that each employee has configured in their settings, provided that the employee is within an Australian state. We hope that this new filter will make the maintenance of employee locations more convenient for our payroll admin users.
Release date: 01/10/25
Target users: AU region
Core HR
Settings Uplift - Recognition
Objective: Uplift of Recognition settings pages
Description: We’ve refreshed the Recognition UI with consistent language, formatting and design for a clearer, more engaging experience. The uplift makes recognition moments more intuitive and impactful.
Release Date: 26/09/2025
Target Users: All regions with the New Settings Look & Feel open beta enabled
Settings Uplift - Slice 3
Objective: Restructure and uplift of settings pages.
Description: Insights from user research helped us better understand how people navigate settings and which terms are most intuitive. Based on these findings, we made the following updates:
- Introduced a new consolidated People controls page under the People section
- Relocated the following fields from Employment Details to People Controls
- Typical hours
- Typical work day
- Automatically pay
- Lock contract fields
- Relocated the following fields from System setup to People Controls
- Show staff details
- Deprecated Notification Frequency Settings (this has been deprecated for all users publicly)
- Renamed Custom fields to Additional Information
- Minor uplifts for all settings pages for formatting consistency, e.g. button titles and placements, removal of irrelevant headers
- Authorising Signatory - removed ability to create a new employee from this page
Release Schedule: 29/09/2025
Target Users: All regions with the New Settings Look & Feel open beta enabled
Add-ons Settings Page UI uplift
Description: We’ve revamped the Add-ons settings page with a cleaner, more consistent design to match the style of other settings pages. In addition to the updated design, the page now highlights key benefits for each integration and includes filters to make it easier and faster to navigate.
Release schedule: 29/09/2025 - Updates have been added to the existing open beta ‘New Settings Look & Feel’. Additionally, any new customers who joined from 15/05 onwards will automatically receive these updates.
Target users: All regions
eBenefits - Super
Fund Merge / SFT Notifications - Phase 1
Objective: Payday Ready / Compliance
Description: We’ve introduced a new flow to allow for employee's to review their scheduled fund mergers via the SFT process governed by the ATO. This initiative aims to reduce payroll delays, lower risk of SG charges and support tickets, and improve financial literacy for our employers and employees. We've also built the necessary infrastructure to audit these scheduled changes and manual configuration on SAP to allow for new SFT records to be implemented without extra code changes! Next we plan to integrate with ATO services (FVS), come Payday Super to allow for automatic scheduled fund merge changes.
Release Schedule: 01/10/2025 - Released!
Target Users: AU HR
IT Ops and Security
Aligning MFA Methods across All Payroll Brands under Employment Hero
Description: Email as a 2FA method has now been removed from Employment Innovations related brands on payroll web. Users on these brands can submit an account recovery request the same way users on Employment Hero and Keypay branded payroll.
Release Date: 1 October 2025
Target Users: All web users on Employment Innovations-related branded payroll
Performance Management
Clarify Permissions for Requisitions and Onboarding Approvals
Objective: The custom security setting for Requisitions and Onboarding Approvals was previously grouped under “Workflows”, which caused confusion with our new Workflows engine. By renaming this group of permissions, we aim to reduce ambiguity and make it clearer where customers should manage access for these features. This update is purely a renaming change and does not affect functionality.
Release date: 29/09/2025
Target user: Premium, Plat, Plus and Unlimited.