We’re happy to announce the release of Humanforce Workforce Management (Cloud) version 6.0.71, delivering important improvements across bid management, roster visibility, reporting, and everyday workflow efficiency. From enhanced Fill Shift functionality to richer WFA reporting data, these updates are designed to help your teams work faster, with clearer context and fewer clicks.

Release Schedule

• Staging environments were updated on Thursday, 26 February 2026
• All Humanforce WFM (Cloud) accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated overnight on Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Enhanced Bid Management in Roster Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Bid management is now fully embedded inside Roster Manager bringing greater visibility, stronger compliance, and a more streamlined workflow to your shift filling process.

Shift Bidding allows employees to express interest in vacant shifts. With this enhancement, employee bids are now visible directly within Roster Manager, enabling managers to review and action them within the same unified rostering workflow, rather than navigating to Bid Manager separately. 

Managing shift bids in Roster Manager provides greater context and visibility. Managers can view all eligible employees including those with existing shift offers and active bids on a single screen, supporting more informed and transparent prioritisation decisions when allocating shifts. It also ensures stronger compliance, as the Fill Shift process applies key validation checks such as availability, qualifications, maximum hours, and additional shift warnings when assigning the shift within Roster Manager.

New capabilities include:

• Active Bids and No Active Bids filters to quickly identify shifts requiring attention
• A visual bid indicator on shift tiles for at-a-glance awareness
• A dedicated “Bid” status label within the Fill Shift workflow
• A new Bid/Offer Time column to track when bids or offers were submitted
• Automatic employee ordering by priority — placing bids first, followed by offers and other employees

These enhancements eliminate manual effort, reduce unnecessary clicks, and allow managers to act confidently within their existing rostering workflow.

To learn about the functionality, review our help article Managing shift bids in Roster Manager

Improved Labour Group Visibility in Role View

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

We’ve introduced two enhancements to make labour group management clearer and more flexible across Roster Manager and Template Manager.

New “Sort By” options

You can now sort labour groups by:

• Start time
• Alphabetically

This makes it easier to review rosters and templates in the order that suits your workflow.

Function name displayed in headers

The Function name now appears in the labour group header (alongside Event details), giving you clearer context at a glance and helping reduce confusion when managing complex event rosters.

Fill Shift Remembers Your Filters

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

The Fill Shift window now remembers if you had disabled certain filters - to widen your search - so you don’t have to reconfigure them every time you fill a shift. This reduces repetitive clicks and makes it faster to see the right employees for the shift you’re filling, especially when you’re working through a lot of shifts in a row. 

For example, if you've disabled the "Default Department" filter, then next time you open the Fill Shift window, it will remain unchecked - even if you're dealing with a shift in a different location than before. 

That means:

• Less deselecting filters each time
• Faster processing when working through multiple shifts

A small change that makes a big difference when managing high volumes.

Faster Employee Search in Timesheet Admin

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets

When the Roster Name column is enabled in your view, you can now search by Roster name - as well as Employee name or code.

This ensures you can find employees using the naming convention you rely on day-to-day — making timesheet management quicker and more intuitive.

Expanded WFA Variance Reporting

Management > Advanced > Workforce Analytics

We’ve enhanced WFA Variance Reports with additional data fields for greater visibility and reporting accuracy.

New fields now available in report output and underlying data:

• Labour Group
• Event
• Event Export Code

These additions improve insight across Variance Analysis by Hours and PayType Reports, giving you richer data to support more accurate workforce analysis.