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Week 43 2026 | Release Notes

Updated

Here are our product releases for Week 43 of 2026, which includes October 19 - 23, 2026.

Core HR

  • Admins can add company links, such as the intranet, EAP and learning platforms, as tiles on the home dashboard, giving employees one-click access to the tools they use for work. Each person can hide or restore the widget on their own dashboard. (Released: 19 October 2026, Global)
  • HR admins can exclude individual employees, contractors, volunteers, groups or locations from a certification, with a preview of how many people will be removed before the change is saved. (Released: 21 October 2026, HR admins, all tiers, Global)
  • Admins can include a new hire’s previous and new start date in the subject or body of the Send Email step in Employee File Change workflows, helping teams such as IT and Finance act sooner when a start date moves earlier. (Released: 12 October 2026, Global)
  • The To Do widget in the EH Work app now pins urgent compliance items, such as HR documents, mandatory policies and certifications that are due within 3 days or overdue, in a highlighted section at the top of the Personal tab. Badges show how many days remain or are overdue, items without a due date get a 30-day countdown, and items overdue by more than 30 days move to the bottom. Some compliance items still need to be completed on the web. (Released: 21 October 2026, EH Work app users, Global)
  • Approving several items in a row from the To Do widget in the mobile app now shows one combined confirmation with a single Undo all, sends waiting approvals straight away if the app is closed, and brings the card back with an error message if an approval fails. (Released: 19 October 2026, managers, admins and owners using the mobile app, Global)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

  • Daily Labour Metrics now appear on the roster, showing daily sales, hours, wages, Sales Per Labour Hour and Labour % for each work site, with target indicators and a comparison of scheduled and actual performance, so managers can judge staffing efficiency alongside their scheduled shifts. (Released: 19 October 2026, organisations using work sites and positions, Global)

ITOps & Security

  • Request Tickets are now publicly available. Custom forms are now called Basic Forms, and employees can submit Basic and Request forms, and see My Submissions and Approvals, from the Forms module, while admins choose the form type when creating a form. (Released: 22 October 2026, plans with Forms, Global)
  • A new Independent Contractors (Pay details) permission lets admins give View or Modify access to contractor pay details (rates, standard hours, work schedules and payroll sync settings), for all contractors or only a manager’s reporting contractors, without granting full admin access. (Released: 19 October 2026, org admins and owners, Global)
  • A new system-managed People Manager (All Reporting Lines) permission group is created automatically for every organisation and lists what people managers can access. Asset Management access is the first to move into it, and managers keep the same access as before. (Released: 23 October 2026, admins and owners, Global)
  • Two new permission templates, Worksites Manager and Learning and Development Manager, make it quicker to set up permission groups for common roles. (Released: 16 October 2026, organisations with the Permissions module, Global)

Leave & Time Off

  • Anyone with access to the Calendar can download their current view as a print-ready PDF in a team rows layout. The PDF shows only a generic Approved leave indicator, never the leave type, alongside public holidays and weekends. (Released: 19 October 2026, Global)
  • The Team Calendar now hides employee rows with no leave matching the active leave status or leave type filters, and the Leave Calendar shows only people with approved or pending leave, making it easier for shift managers to plan rosters. (Released: 21 October 2026, Global)
  • Employees on desktop now request time off from a single in-page modal, wherever they start, instead of a separate full-page form. Old links and bookmarks open My Leave with the request modal ready. (Released: 21 October 2026, all subplans, Global)

Payroll

  • Payroll Services Hub dashboards can now be switched between Pay Date and Processing Date, re-aligning date ranges, quick filters, sorting and urgency tags to operational deadlines instead of payment dates. (Released: 19 October 2026, Global)
  • Partners can mark an upcoming pay period as Finalised (Nothing to Pay) in Payroll Services Hub, closing empty pay periods without creating an unnecessary pay run. Linked super tasks and compliance filings (AU STP and NZ IRD) automatically change to Not Required. (Released: 20 October 2026, Global)
  • Pay and leave categories linked to a packaged Award can no longer be deleted, and Award-linked leave categories can no longer be renamed, preventing failed Award updates, pay run errors and duplicated leave categories. (Released: 21 October 2026, Australia)

Performance Management

  • Managers and mentors can drag talking points into any order when building 1:1 agendas and templates, setting up a 1:1 and editing recurring sessions, and the new order saves automatically. (Released: 20 October 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage and Elite)
  • 1:1s now sync with Google Calendar and Microsoft 365, with calendar invites, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams video links, participant availability when scheduling, and recurring 1:1s that create a recurring calendar series. (Released: 22 October 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage and Elite)

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