AI
Hero AI can now answer questions about tasks and onboarding or offboarding checklists, helping HR admins, managers, employees, and contractors find task information faster without needing to search manually. (Released: 19 May 2026, All organisations)
Automations
Custom form submission notifications can now be routed dynamically to managers, group leaders, groups, and work locations, helping admins keep notification recipients accurate as organisational structures change. (Released: 19 May 2026, Global forms users)
Core HR
A new Team Calendar now brings leave and public holidays into one unified view, giving users a clearer picture of schedules and improving visibility across teams. (Released: 21 May 2026, Global)
Existing organisations can now opt in to Doc Studio, a unified document editor that replaces legacy editing experiences with a modern interface, searchable variables, smart clauses, richer media support, and multiple signatories. (Released: 15 May 2026, HR Admins)
Employees now access documents from a single location in their profile, with old My Documents links automatically redirecting to the correct place for a simpler and more consistent experience. (Released: 15 May 2026, All regions)
Standard plan organisations with Doc Studio can now create and manage policy templates directly in the in-app editor, bringing policy template functionality to more customers. (Released: 18 May 2026, Standard plans with Doc Studio)
HR Rostering & Timesheets
New roster management filters now let managers narrow roster views by work site, position, shift status, work type, employee, and group, making it faster to find the shifts that matter. (Released: 15 May 2026)
The timesheet experience is being unified into a single workflow that supports hours-based and start-and-finish submissions, helping employees and managers complete timesheets more consistently with less manual effort. (Released: 20 May 2026, Global audience using work sites and positions)
ITOps & Security
Developers can now retrieve custom form definitions and response data programmatically through new OpenAPI endpoints, making it easier to integrate form data into external systems and workflows. (Released: 19 May 2026)
Leave Requests OpenAPI authorisation now aligns with platform permissions, allowing HR staff with the right access to build integrations without needing admin or owner credentials. (Released: 19 May 2026)
Eligible organisation admins can now review employee MFA reset requests directly, helping employees regain access faster while maintaining verification checks and audit trails. (Released: 18 May 2026, Global public release)
Performance Management
HR admins can now view, preview, enable, and disable 360 Review email notifications directly from organisation email settings, giving them more control over review communications. (Released: 20 May 2026, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited and Elite)
Users can now generate shareable Employment Hero links for Go1 courses, allowing colleagues to open the right course directly without broken authentication flows or extra navigation. (Released: 21 May 2026)
Platform Experience
EH Work users can now start Hero AI conversations directly from the home dashboard with an inline input, rotating prompts, and quicker access to recent chats. (Released: 18 May 2026, EH Work app users)
Hero AI now has a dedicated bottom navigation tab in EH Work, giving users faster and more consistent access to chat, voice-to-text, and in-progress conversations, alongside a refreshed chat interface. (Released: 25 May 2026 scheduled public release, EH Work app users)
Mobile users can now ask Hero AI questions using voice input, with spoken questions transcribed in real time and editable before sending. (Released: 18 May 2026 internal release, EH Work app users)
The Careers experience has moved inside the Work pillar in EH Work, giving users a cleaner navigation structure while still surfacing applications, saved roles, and referrals in one place. (Released: 18 May 2026 internal release, EH Work app users)
Recruitment
Selected organisations can now use AI Notetaker to join interviews, capture transcripts, generate summaries and question-based notes, and save them directly to candidate records. (Released: 20 May 2026, Closed beta)
Employers can now see matched candidate counts directly on job listings and jump into Find Talent with the right job preselected, making talent discovery faster. (Released: 18 May 2026, Recruiters and Hiring Managers)
Employees can now refer candidates more easily through a simplified referral programme, while hiring teams gain notifications, referral rewards, and referral filtering in ATS. (Released: 18 May 2026, Employees, Hiring Managers, Recruiters)
Recruiters and hirers can now send personalised outreach messages through Find Talent invitations, helping them create a more direct and intentional first contact with candidates. (Released: 15 May 2026, Recruiters and Hirers)
Recruiters can now search talent pools more accurately, filter by location, add and view tags, and quickly identify candidates who are already in the talent pool when they apply. (Released: 20 May 2026, Recruiters)