We’re excited to announce the release of Humanforce Workforce Management (Cloud) version 6.0.62, delivering meaningful updates to rostering, timesheets, payroll, and integrations. This release focuses on improving system reliability, usability, and data accuracy to help managers, payroll teams, and administrators save time and work with greater confidence.

Release Schedule

• Staging environments were updated on Thursday, 2 October 2025
• All Humanforce WFM (Cloud) accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated overnight on Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Roster Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Future terminations are now visible in People View
Employees with a future termination date are now correctly displayed in People View when you’re viewing dates where the employee is still active. This ensures they can be included in roster planning right up until their termination date, avoiding coverage gaps.

Improved workflow for Request Confirmation
To prevent duplicate notifications to employees, the system now blocks retriggering a shift confirmation request if a shift is already in “Request Confirmation” status. Users must first unconfirm the shift before sending a new request. This eliminates repeated messages from bulk confirmations and improves employee experience.

Roster Alerts performance improved
Large rosters with many employees could occasionally fail to return alerts due to performance issues, particularly with the “Hours Required” alert. This has been optimised for reliability, ensuring alerts continue to work even in very large rosters.

Event Management – Labour Groups

As part of our continued focus on improving the rostering experience for event-based workforces, several enhancements have been made to how Labour Groups work within Roster Manager.

New actions for Labour Groups in Role View

When working in Role View, with Group by Labour Group enabled and viewing a single day, you can now perform key actions such as Edit, Copy, or Delete Labour Groups directly from the kebab menu. In addition, you can use Bulk Edit Shifts and Add Multiple Shifts to quickly apply updates or create shifts in one action. This enhancement makes it faster and more intuitive to manage event rosters at scale, saving time and improving consistency when handling large or complex group schedules.

Create Labour Groups directly in Role View

You can now create new Labour Groups directly within Role View when Group by Labour Group is enabled and viewing a single day. This allows event managers to add and manage groups without leaving the roster screen, improving efficiency and supporting faster event setup workflows.

Remember the Labour Group grouping in Role View

Roster Manager now remembers your Group by Labour Group setting when switching between single-day Role View and other views. This means that when you return to Role View, your grouping preferences are preserved, reducing repetitive setup and ensuring a consistent rostering experience, particularly valuable for event managers working across multiple views.

Timesheets

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets/Daily Authorisation

Optimised saving of timesheet costing data

We’ve enhanced system performance by enabling costing data to be saved in bulk rather than one record at a time. This reduces database load and accelerates authorisation and costing workflows, allowing timesheets to process faster, especially during high-volume payroll periods.

Leave Approvals

Management > Timesheets > Leave Approvals

Grace period for leave editing
Leave approval rules have been updated to respect the “No. of days grace editing for elapsed periods” setting in Access Levels. Managers can now unauthorise or delete past leave requests within the configured grace window, instead of seeing a blanket “no permission” error. This provides flexibility for late adjustments while maintaining governance.

Payroll

Management > Timesheets > Payroll

Standardised PayType export format

The PayType value [PAYTYPEVALUE:HH.MM] export logic in Humanforce Web has been standardised to match BackOffice. Decimal-hour to HH.MM conversions now apply consistent rounding (e.g., 7.6 hours exports as 7.36), ensuring payroll exports are uniform and accurate across both systems. This alignment prevents data inconsistencies and eliminates manual correction of time values.

Employee Management

Management > Employee > Employee Management

Improved handling of role and location assignments

When multiple managers edit an employee’s record, updates are now applied without overwriting existing department or role assignments made by others. This enhancement ensures employee configurations remain accurate and consistent, reducing errors caused by limited location visibility and supporting smoother multi-manager collaboration.

Admin Settings

Prevent duplicate Location Settings records

Admin > Org Structure > Locations

The Location Settings save process has been strengthened to prevent duplicate entries when the save button is clicked multiple times. This change safeguards against data duplication, improving system stability and ensuring administrators always work from a single, accurate configuration record.

Save custom shift type ordering

Admin > Award Config > Shift Types

You can now save the sequence order of shift types in the Shift Type Maintenance screen when sorting by name or export code. The confirmation message has been updated to clarify that saving applies the new sequence across all related areas. This update gives administrators greater control and consistency over how shift types appear throughout the system.

Integration Central

Management > Advanced > Integration Central

MYOB terminated employee imports
Based on customer feedback, employee termination dates from MYOB will now always be imported into WFM, regardless of the employee’s status in MYOB. This ensures employee records are more accurate and up to date for reporting and compliance. Help article

Improved employee emergency contact sync
Emergency contacts in Humanforce HR are now imported into WFM with primary and emergency contact checkboxes ticked, ensuring details are correctly reflected. Employees can also update their primary emergency contact in the Work-App, and this will flow through WFM to HR. This closes data gaps and reduces admin overhead.

Qualification import improvements
Only approved qualifications with statuses Current, Future, or Expiring Soon  will now be imported from HR into WFM. This ensures only valid and actionable qualifications are carried across. Note: deleted qualifications in HR will still need to be manually deleted in WFM until auto-delete support is introduced.