Here are our product releases for Week 40 of 2025, which includes September 29-October 3, 2025.

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

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.