We’re pleased to announce the upcoming release of Humanforce Workforce Management (Cloud) version 6.0.67, delivers a set of performance improvements, permission-based controls and data accuracy fixes across Rostering, Payroll, Workforce Analytics and Employee Management. This release enhances system responsiveness, strengthens security and access governance, and ensures more accurate reporting and data visibility, helping managers work faster, administrators maintain tighter control, and employees experience clearer, more reliable information.

Release Schedule

• Staging environments were updated on Thursday, 11th December 2025.
• All Humanforce WFM (Cloud) accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated overnight on Wednesday, 14th January 2026.

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.

Roster Manager

Controlled Editing of Event & Function Fields

Rostering > Roster Manager > Shift Edit

A new “Edit Event & Function” permission has been introduced to manage who can modify Event and Function fields when editing existing shifts. These fields now remain read-only unless the user has the required permission, ensuring clearer access control while still allowing authorised users to make necessary updates.

Correct role assignment when adding multiple shifts

Rostering > Roster Manager > Add Multiple Shifts

Shifts now correctly inherit the selected role filters, counts and break rules, ensuring consistency and reducing the need for manual corrections. Users will no long experience the application of incorrect roles, shift counts or break times when using role filters while adding multiple shifts. 

Improved Shift View performance when grouping by department

Rostering > Roster Manager > Shift View

Shift View performance has been enhanced when grouping shifts by department. Rosters now load more quickly in this view, providing a smoother and more responsive experience when reviewing departmental coverage and making scheduling decisions.

Faster people view load times

Rostering > Roster Manager > People View

The People View in Roster Manager has been optimised to significantly improve shift loading performance. When navigating back to People View, shifts now load faster, reducing delays and allowing roster managers to review and adjust staffing more efficiently, particularly beneficial for large or complex rosters.

Template Manager

Assign & Un-assign actions now permissions-based

Rostering > Template Manager 

Assigning or unassigning shifts in Template Manager now requires the new “Assign & Unassign” permission. Users without this permission can no longer perform these actions, strengthening governance and ensuring template changes are only made by authorised users.

Employee Management

Gender field display

Employee > My Details

Employee gender field  now accurately displays if a value has not been assigned. The field now correctly shows “None”, matching the behaviour of other optional fields and improving data clarity for employees.

Timesheets

Accrual balance checks applied during bulk shift type changes

Timesheets > Timesheet

The timesheet system now correctly validates accrual balances, helping prevent unintended negative balances and improving payroll accuracy. Insufficient accrual balance checks are now triggered when changing shift types via Bulk Edit. 

Payroll

Faster Payrun history loading for high-volume customers

Timesheets > Payroll 

Performance improvements have been made to the Payrun History screen. For customers with large numbers of historical payruns, loading times are now significantly faster, reducing wait times and improving access to payroll history.

Workforce Analytics

Correct week grouping across year boundaries

Management > Advanced > Workforce analytics

Workforce Analytics reporting involving weeks spanning a year boundary have been improved by removing unnecessary duplicate entries. The KPI Weekly Wage Budget Report now correctly groups these weeks spanning a year boundary, ensuring accurate wage reporting and clearer year-end insights.

Pay rate description visibility now fully permission controlled 

Management > Advanced > Workforce analytics

Employees with disabled access levels can no longer view the Pay Rate Description field in the Employee Extended Data report, unless both the parent and child permissions are enabled. This ensures sensitive pay information is properly restricted and aligns analytics visibility with security expectations.