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We’re pleased to announce the upcoming release of Humanforce Workforce Management (Cloud) version 6.0.66, delivering improvements across rostering, leave, payroll exports, timesheets, templates, and system performance. These enhancements support more accurate scheduling, stronger data integrity, smoother workflows, and a reliable experience during the end-of-year period.

Release Schedule

• Staging environments were updated on Thursday, 27 November 2025
• All Humanforce WFM (Cloud) accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated overnight on Wednesday, 10 December 2025

Holiday Season Release Schedule

Release Freeze: Friday 12 December 2025 – Monday 12 January 2026

To ensure stability throughout the busy holiday period, we will be pausing the Humanforce Cloud release schedule from Friday 12 December 2025 through Monday 12 January 2026. This pause helps ensure smooth operations for customers during a high-activity time of year.

Our first Humanforce WFM release for 2026 will take place on Wednesday, 14 January, with release notes published the following week (week commencing 19 January 2026). We will then resume our normal release cadence.

Back Office to Humanforce Cloud

We continue to transition key configuration, payroll, and templating capabilities from Humanforce Back Office into Humanforce Cloud. The following updates improve parity between platforms and reduce reliance on legacy tools.

New option to control template generation date behaviour

Management > Rostering > Template Manager

Template Generation now allows you to choose whether to:

• Respect the template’s original Start Date (Effective Date) - ideal for multi-week templates where shift patterns must align week-to-week, or
• Generate from any date you select - useful for one-off events or restarting patterns after a break. 

This improvement ensures template generation behaves consistently with Back Office and gives you greater control over how recurring patterns are continued.

Help guide: Generate a roster template in Template Manager.

Event templating with Labour Groups

Management > Rostering > Template Manager

Template Manager now fully supports Labour Groups for event-based planning. When viewing a single day, you can create labour groups and associate shifts directly to those groups. This helps event-based teams organise staff more clearly, maintain structure during planning, and reuse templates with greater accuracy.

This enhancement replaces the Back Office event template workflow. However, Back Office event templates created in Event Planner are not compatible with Humanforce Cloud and will not appear in Template Manager. If you need to bring a Back Office template into Humanforce Cloud, you can import the roster into Roster Manager, then use “Save as Template” to create a Cloud-compatible version. For detailed steps, please refer to the updated help guide.

Help guide: Use Labour Groups in Template Manager.

Import Template now supports Labour Groups

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Templates containing Labour Groups can now be imported into Roster Manager with all groups and shifts preserved. Labour Groups are created automatically, and shifts are placed correctly in each group, ensuring template structure is replicated seamlessly during live roster creation.

Save as Template now supports Labour Groups

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

When saving a roster as a template, the Keep Labour Groups checkbox now ensures your existing labour group structure is preserved. This keeps templates consistent with the roster layout you designed, especially useful for event repeatability.

Help guide: Save a roster as a template.

PayGlobal Timeband Export – consolidation of adhoc allowances

Management > Timesheets > Payroll > PayGlobal Timeband Export

The PayGlobal Timeband Export has been migrated from Back Office to Web, introducing a smarter export logic that consolidates multiple adhoc allowances for a single timesheet into a single line. Each allowance is now allocated to separate columns, ensuring totals and values are aggregated accurately while streamlining export management and improving reporting clarity.

Rostering

Bulk Add Shifts now supports Custom Fields

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

You can now include Custom Roster Fields when creating shifts using Bulk Add Shifts, ensuring important operational details are captured consistently at scale. This update reduces manual cleanup and provides richer, more accurate shift data from the moment shifts are created.

Improved sorting consistency in the Roster by Roles Report

Reports > Roster > Roster by Roles

The Roster by Roles report now presents shifts in a more reliable order when Order shifts by start time is turned off. This refinement ensures predictable grouping and makes the report easier to read and analyse, especially for multi-role rosters.

Bid Manager

Management > Shift > Bid Manager

Hourly Rate now displays correctly when a Rate Override is applied

The Hourly Rate column in Bid Manager now correctly displays values when a Rate Override has been applied in the employee’s role revision. Previously, this value showed as $0.00, creating uncertainty for managers reviewing bids. This fix ensures the displayed rate accurately reflects the employee’s pay configuration, improving transparency during bid evaluation.

Timesheets and Clocking

Enhanced Split Timesheet screen performance

Management > Timesheets > Split Timesheet

We’ve optimised the Split Timesheet process to reduce load time and eliminate interface delays, making it faster and easier to review and adjust long or complex timesheets. These performance improvements ensure a smoother experience for payroll administrators and managers working with high volumes of data.

Faster performance on the Clocking page

Clocking

The Clocking page now loads faster thanks to optimised retrieval of timesheet data. This update delivers a smoother experience for employees when clocking out, particularly in high-volume environments or when multiple timesheets are associated with a single user.

Employee Availability

Employee > Availability

Improved unavailability management during leave block-out periods

We’ve improved availability management so that users with permission to submit requests during black-out periods can now correctly select “Unavailable” on block-out days. This ensures authorised employees can still manage their availability as intended without receiving permission errors, supporting better workforce planning and compliance during restricted periods.

Employee Management

Management > Employee > Employee Management

Enhanced auto-population of profiles and pay rates when assigning roles

When adding new roles to an employee, the system now correctly auto-populates profile and pay rate details even for users without permission to manually create pay class revisions. This ensures that the “Auto populate employee profile and rate when adding new roles” setting works consistently, preventing incomplete or misleading updates and maintaining data integrity across employee records.

Default role selection consistency when Start Date edits are restricted

We’ve enhanced role and department assignment behaviour so that an employee’s default role remains correctly selected when users without Start Date edit permissions add new departments. This ensures consistent role assignment and avoids accidental unselection of defaults when managing employee configurations across teams with different permission levels.