2025 has been a transformative year for Humanforce HR. As organisations continue to navigate ever-changing compliance requirements and rising expectations around employee experience, our product mission has remained focused on making every part of HR work better, faster and more consistently for the frontline businesses we serve. 

This year we focused on strengthening the foundational workflows that power HR operations, including onboarding, contract management, job changes, qualifications and record-keeping, while also laying the groundwork for deeper, cross-suite connectivity across the Humanforce ecosystem. 

Here’s a deeper look at what we accomplished in 2025: 

The new Compensation Planner 

One of the biggest milestones of 2025 was the launch of the new Compensation Planner tool, a dedicated workspace for managing salary reviews and pay cycles with structure, accountability and visibility. 

For many HR, Finance and people leaders, compensation reviews have long relied on spreadsheets that are fragile, inconsistent and hard to scale. This year, we changed that, bringing together budgets, eligibility rules, business data and approval workflows into one central, intuitive view. It supports collaboration across departments and gives leaders the confidence that decisions are fair, compliant and aligned to organisational goals. 

Cross-suite employee data sync 

Another defining moment for the year was our launch of Employee Data Sync across HR, Workforce Management and Payroll, a major milestone driven by Humanforce HR’s role as the single source of truth. For frontline industries where accuracy, compliance and timeliness matter, this sync helps eliminate the costly gaps that occur when HR, rostering and payroll work from disconnected systems. 

With near real-time updates to job, pay rate, bank, tax and superannuation details, information flows effortlessly from onboarding to rostering to payroll. That means fewer manual updates & errors, and no surprises on payday. It’s a foundational step toward a more unified Humanforce experience, and one that will continue to grow in capability into 2026 and beyond. 

Contracts, job changes and compliance made clearer than ever 

This year we also focused on clarity and compliance across contracts and job changes. From contract reject reasons, to expanded contract template variables, new formatting tools and clearer date displays, every enhancement was designed to help streamline processes, reduce ambiguity and improve communication. 

On the job management side, we rolled out a major improvement to Job Approvals, including a fully refreshed Pending Job Updates page, more informative change summaries and Job Update Reasons now enabled by default across the platform. 

These updates strengthen your compliance posture while empowering your team to move with more confidence and consistency. 

Paperless, compliance-focused and fully automated onboarding 

Onboarding improvements were a major investment area this year, and the experience is now faster, easier and more welcoming for every new hire. We introduced onboarding completion notifications, employee bank/tax/super update alerts, expanded webhooks, and deeper API support for probation and onboarding events, helping your systems stay aligned and your teams stay informed. 

Australian customers saw meaningful improvements to superannuation visibility, with clearer processing indicators and the ability to send bank/tax/super requests even if a Business Entity configuration is incomplete. 

Together, these enhancements help new hires hit the ground running, while giving payroll, HR and managers the visibility they need to support them properly from day one. 

Strenghtening the connecting between Humanforce HR and Benefits 

This year, we expanded the link between Humanforce HR and our Thrive mobile experience with HR Tasks now surfaced directly in Thrive. Employees can complete important HR tasks from the same app they use for wellbeing, supported by mobile notifications that reduce delays and improve task completion. This enhancements brings HR processes closer to employees, wherever they work. 

More flexibility with fewer limitations 

A big theme of 2025 was removing friction and expanding customization, ensuring Humanforce HR can flex to fit your business. 

 This included: 

• Custom variables in contract templates 
• Job Custom Field Categories for cleaner data organisation 
• Single-select custom fields without the two-option requirement 
• Expanded address fields to support international formats 
• New variables for Event Notifications, including location and address data 

These updates give admin teams more control over configuration, data quality and system behaviour, helping Humanforce HR fit more comfortably into diverse HR ecosystems. 

A more polished and intuitive everyday experience 

We also spent this year investing heavily into platform usability improvements that are felt immediately in day to day work, including: 

• A redesigned Qualifications experience with fewer clicks 
• A refreshed Issued Tasks layout 
• A clearer Issue Onboarding flow 
• Better PDF printing for contracts 
• More reliable searching in Contracts and Permissions 
• Corrected job timelines, probation data and multi-select displays 
• Significant improvements to large data exports 

These refinements may be small on their own, but together they create a more intuitive and enjoyable HR experience. 

Looking ahead to what’s coming in 2026 

As we head into the new year, our focus remains on making HR workflows more connected, intelligent and effortless. 

Here’s a glimpse of what’s coming next: 

• HR Analytics – powerful new dashboards built on our enhanced Humanforce Analytics platform, giving leaders deeper visibility into workforce trends, with AI-driven insights and natural language querying that surfaces what matters most. 

• Deeper HR and Benefits (Thrive) connectivity – next year, we’ll continue to bring more HR interactions into the Thrive app to help create a more unified experience across the Humanforce suite. Some additions include: 
• Rewards & Recognition within Thrive, powered by the HR people directory – enabling lightweight, mobile-first recognition moments across the workforce 
• Mobile onboarding flows – allowing new starters to complete key steps directly within Thrive 
• In-app employee detail updates – giving staff the ability to update personal details more easily, without switching platforms 
• Position management – a structured, centralised way to define, track and govern positions across your organization, helping to improve workforce planning, job hierarchy clarity and driving alignment between HR, Finance and Operations. 
• Bulk contract issuing – we’ll be introducing a new bulk contracts capability soon that simplifies high-volume contract processes, reducing manual effort during mass hiring, contract updates and remuneration cycles. 
• The next phase of Compensation Planner, bringing deeper insights and richer pay decision-making tools. 
• Expanded cross-suite connectivity, deepening the flow of data across HR, Talent, WFM, Benefits and Payroll. 

There’s a lot more on the horizon, and your feedback will continue to guide what we build next. 

Thank you for your continued partnership, insights and feedback throughout 2025. Many of this year’s improvements were shaped directly by customer suggestions, a reminder that the best part of Humanforce is the community that uses it. 

We can’t wait to show you what’s coming next.