Product Update: November 2025

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HR

Workflow and Automation Improvements

Route approvals using Groups

Available to Platinum, Plus and Unlimited

You can now use an employee’s Primary Group or Group Leader to route Employee File Change approvals. This smart update makes building cleaner, more predictable workflows easy, ensuring the right person approves changes every time.

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New Issue Policy Workflow

Available to Platinum, Plus and Unlimited

We’ve launched the Issue Policy workflow action, which automatically assigns policy documents to new hires during onboarding. This smart automation ensures instant compliance and frees up HR time for more strategic work.

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New helper text in Advanced View condition drop down

Available to Platinum, Plus and Unlimited

Building powerful workflows just got a whole lot easier! We’ve added helper text to the condition dropdown in Advanced View. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to quicker, clearer workflow creation.

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Automate compliance tasks

Available to Platinum, Plus and Unlimited

Our new Assign Certification workflow action instantly assigns required certifications (think First Aid or WWCC) to employees during onboarding. It’s a massive time-saver that boosts compliance tracking and reduces administrative work for your team.

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Automate follow-up actions based on policy announcements

Available to Platinum, Plus and Unlimited

We’ve added new triggers and conditions to let you automate post-acknowledgment tasks and set workflows based on specific policies or system access dates. This will help admins take control of your compliance process, from issue to sign-off.

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Automate Contractor codes during onboarding

Available to all subscription tiers

The Probation End Date and Status are now clearly visible on the employee profile summary. This update brings a unified, transparent view across the platform, giving admins instant access to crucial contract dates and ensuring effortless compliance and clarity.

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New multi-currency expense submission

Available to Platinum, Plus and Unlimited

Our Expenses feature now offers automatic, real-time currency conversion. Submit expenses in any currency, no manual calculations needed, and have that be automatically converted to your organisation’s default currency for reporting. Managers approve a standardised amount, making international expense processing faster, easier, and error-free.

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System and User Interface Enhancements

Improved Hero AI icon positioning

Available to all subscription tiers

We’ve moved the Hero AI icon to the top navigation bar for a clearer distinction from general support. Now, when you hover over it, the label “Ask about your organisation’s policies” instantly reminds you where to find quick policy answers.

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Improvements to Settings UI

Available to all subscription tiers

A fresh new look has arrived to your Settings pages. This new look features a more streamlined design for a smoother and more intuitive experience. As part of the upgraded experience we’ve also given admins faster access to the Settings they want, a clearer page structure, and smarter search to manage platform configurations.

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OpenAPI documentation improvement

Available to Platinum, Plus and Unlimited

New OpenAPI endpoints are now available to create, update, and read work site details. We’ve also updated our API Developer Docs to feature a new advanced search that finds nested fields and shows helpful summaries. Plus, we’ve alphabetised the APIs for effortless navigation.

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Customise your email notifications in email settings

Available to all subscription tiers

HR Admins now have greater control over Employment Document notifications via new toggles in Organisation Emails settings. We’ve consolidated four frequent email types into a tidy daily summary, significantly reducing volume. Plus, you can now preview emails before they go out.

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Employee File and Contract Details

Employment Details new fields

Available to all subscription tiers

Your team’s contract information is now much easier to view. Employee Contract Type and Contract End Date are now displayed right in the Employment Details section. No more unnecessary clicks into Employment History; get the clarity you need instantly.

Probation end date and status in Employment Details

Available to all subscription tiers

The Probation End Date and Status are now clearly visible on the employee profile summary. This update brings a unified, transparent view across the platform, giving admins instant access to crucial contract dates and ensuring effortless compliance and clarity.

Notice periods now visible in employee details

Available to all subscription tiers

All organisations now display Notice Period fields in Employee Details (including specific labels for New Zealand’s trial periods). Enjoy consistent, accurate employment records across all employee files and onboarding flows, no matter your organisation size.

Benefits in Offer Letter

Available to Premium, Platinum, Plus and Unlimited

Make your job offers even more compelling. You can now easily add a list of available employee Benefits directly into your Offer Letters. Simply select the job location, and a new variable automatically populates a professional, bulleted list.

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Rostering and Time Management

Auto-Rostering tool for custom work hours

Available to Premium, Platinum, Lite, Plus and Unlimited

The new Auto-Rostering for custom work hours lets you instantly generate complex shifts for recurring work patterns with a single click. It’s smart, checks for conflicts, and makes manual scheduling a thing of the past.

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Roster management update

Available to Premium, Platinum, Lite, Plus and Unlimited

You can now assign distinct colours to positions, making large or multi-week rosters crystal clear. Easily spot staffing gaps and avoid costly overstaffing issues with this handy new visual feature. Rostering just got simpler.

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New geofencing for Work Sites

Available to Lite, Plus and Unlimited

Our new Geofencing feature lets you create a virtual fence around your work sites, ensuring employees clock in and out from the right location. Choose between blocking off-site clock-outs or simply flagging them for review.

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Customise Rota weekly start date

Available to all subscription tiers

Our new Geofencing feature lets you create a virtual fence around your work sites, ensuring employees clock in and out from the right location. Choose between blocking off-site clock-outs or simply flagging them for review.

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Recruitment and Onboarding

Introducing the Recruitment Agent

Available to Unlimited

The Recruitment Agent is now available for Employment Unlimited users. It’s designed to save you hours of prescreening time with automated, structured video interviews. The Recruitment Agent generates, delivers, and evaluates candidate interviews for you, ensuring fairness, consistency, and faster shortlisting.

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Updated applicant management

Available to all subscription tiers

Our Applicant Management updates include a new Board View for easy drag-and-drop pipeline control and powerful new filtering by matching score. Complete essential tasks faster with the improved quick action toolbar and spend more time engaging with the best candidates.

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Post jobs to Indeed for free via a new integration

Available to all subscription tiers

Our new direct integration with Indeed lets you post all roles on your careers page to Indeed as free ads. Benefit from 1-click applications and integrated screening questions, dramatically increasing your candidate pool and speeding up your shortlisting process.

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Change to National Insurance category selection

Available to all subscription tiers

To enhance security, employees will now only enter their National Insurance number during onboarding. The complex category selection is now managed by the employer, with a handy link to HMRC guidance, guaranteeing compliance and eliminating the risk of payroll errors.

Internal Communications and Learning

Company Feed updates

Available to Platinum, Lite, Plus and Unlimited

The Company Feed just got an engagement boost. Never miss an update thanks to the new notification bubble. Plus, you can now add fun images to birthday and anniversary posts and easily manage all your upcoming scheduled posts from one handy tab.

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Introducing: Company Feed Post Insights

Available to all subscription tiers

Admins can now measure internal communication success with the new Company Feed Post Insights. See detailed views, reactions, comments, and read status for every post. Understand what resonates with your employees to make your company announcements effective and engaging.

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Go1 Learn updates

Available to Premium, Platinum, Lite, Plus and Unlimited

It is now easier to find, assign, and track learning across your organisation with a refreshed, AI-powered Go1 Learn interface.

Admins will experience smarter tools for curation, reporting, and skill insights, helping you save time and better measure learning impact. 

Some core administrative tasks will continue to be managed in the legacy Go1 platform until they are transitioned to the new experience.

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Grant learning access to contractors

Available to Premium, Platinum, Lite, Plus and Unlimited

You can now enable Learning access for contractors directly from the platform via Settings. This automatically provisions their accounts, creating a consistent and unified learning experience for your entire workforce—all while ensuring you maintain compliance integrity.

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Security and Account Management

Improved security for emails

Available to all subscription tiers

We’ve implemented a strict new measure to prevent unauthorized access. Owners and Admins can no longer update the email address of a system-locked employee account, ensuring maximum data integrity and keeping your platform safer than ever.

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Improved account recovery notifications

Available to all subscription tiers

We’ve made the decline notifications during your account recovery process crystal clear. If your attempt is declined, the email now tells you exactly why (like missing the ID in your selfie, for example) so you can fix it fast and get back into your account quickly.

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Payroll

Authenticator App for 2FA

Available to all subscription tiers

Payroll users with two-factor authentication will now be prompted to set up an Authenticator App or SMS for login. This change phases out email for stronger protection, keeping your sensitive data safer than ever before.

Extra security measures for inactive Payroll users

Available to all subscription tiers

Inactive Payroll Web Users without two-factor authentication will now see an extra email verification step upon logging in. This added protection stops credential stuffing attacks dead in their tracks, keeping your account secure even if you haven’t logged in for a while.

Configure custom work Hours for up to 8 Weeks

Available to Standard and Premium

You can now configure Custom Work Hours for up to eight weeks. This massive expansion ensures your complex schedules (like FIFO) seamlessly integrate with payroll, leave calculations, and auto-rostering.

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Jump into the Employment Operating System today 

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