Available for the following plans: Employment Lite, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited
Available for the following HR plans: Standard, Premium, Platinum
Available for the following user access levels: Admin
Employment Hero occasionally releases new features in open beta—this means the feature is functional but still being fine-tuned before it's added to the standard HR platform.
You can choose to try out these features early and help shape their development. However, it’s important to understand how open beta features work before enabling them.
What you need to know about open beta features
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Not yet part of the core product
Open beta features are still under development. They may be missing polish, functionality, or performance enhancements found in our standard product. -
Optional participation
You can opt in or out at any time. These features might not meet all your needs just yet. -
Lower support priority
Bugs or issues with open beta features are reviewed but not treated with the same urgency as standard platform issues. -
Features may change
These features are in active development and may look or behave differently once officially released.
💡 We welcome your feedback. If you're using a beta feature, let us know what you think—your input helps us improve!
Getting started
- Click the Beta Flask drop-down.
- Click on the open beta feature you want to enable for your organisation.
- Click the Yes, Count Me In button.
Removing data
- Click the Beta Flask drop-down.
- Click on the open beta feature you want to disable for your organisation.
- Click the Yes, Opt Me Out button.
Further information
| Approvals | The open beta feature allows you to turn on the Approvals module, which you can use, for example, if you want an admin to approve a new employee request or an employee file change. |
| Email templates. | This open beta feature will introduce the ability to customise three of the HR platform's default emails. You can read further details in the following article. |
| Employee happiness survey feedback loop. | This open beta feature allows you to comment on an employee's happiness survey response. You can read further details in the following article. |
| Policies annual renewal feature | This beta feature means that new and existing policies can be set with renew options as one-off or yearly. When set to Yearly, the system will use the assigned employees' existing acknowledgment date as the basis for when the next acknowledgment cycle will happen. When a policy is due for acknowledgement, it will be marked as required and a subsequent email will be sent to notify the assigned employee. |
| HR PR Experience Employment Hero Work. | If you use both HR and payroll, this feature will allow you to set up your business so that you can provide your employees access to HR features such as HR documents, Certifications, Policies, and many more, while also having access to features that you were familiar with on WorkZone such as Clocking In/Out with Timesheets, Rostering, Unavailability, Expenses, and Leave article. |
| Prevent negative leave balances. | The open beta feature allows you to prevent an employee from submitting a leave request if it goes into a negative balance. You can read further details in the following article. |
| Weekly Timesheets with Start/End Times | The open beta feature adds a new weekly timesheet type for your organisation to use. You can read further details in the following article. |
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