We're pleased to announce the release of Humanforce Workforce Management (Cloud) version 6.0.88.

This release delivers usability, accuracy and reliability improvements across rostering and payroll, helping you roster with greater accuracy and efficiency, manage larger pay runs in bulk, and customise the pay run screen to suit your workflow. It also streamlines timesheet and template management, giving you clearer information and more flexibility across everyday workforce management tasks.

• Staging environments: Friday, 23 October 2026.
• All Humanforce WFM (Cloud) accounts and UAT environments: Wednesday, 4 November 2026.

To help ensure stability over the end of year period, we’ll be pausing production releases across the holidays. Regular releases will resume in mid-January.

Last release of 2026

• AU & US customers: Wednesday, 2 December 2026
• UK customers: Thursday, 3 December 2026

First release of 2027

• AU & US customers: Wednesday, 13 January 2027
• UK customers: Thursday, 14 January 2027

Keep pinned unassigned shifts visible when searching for employees

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Pinned unassigned shifts now stay visible when you search for an employee by name or code in People view, so you can find the person and drag an unassigned shift straight onto them.

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager / Template Manager

The "With overlapping rosters" filter in Fill Shift no longer hides employees whose existing shift finishes exactly when the open shift starts, or starts exactly when it ends, so staff with back-to-back shifts remain available to be assigned.

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager / Template Manager

Fill Shift now gives you a clearer view of employee availability, helping you make assignment decisions with greater confidence:

• Shows a mixed status for overnight shifts where availability differs across the two days.
• Recognises an unavailable period that falls within a shift, even when the shift starts before it and ends after it.
• Does not flag a conflict when a shift starts immediately after an unavailable period ends or finishes immediately before one begins.
• Ignores separate unavailability that does not overlap the shift being filled.

Management > Rostering > Template Manager

Users with the "Override mandatory qualification requirements" permission can now save templates when employees are missing mandatory role or location/department qualifications. These are shown as warnings rather than blocking errors, so template preparation is not held up for managers who have been granted this permission.

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets

Bulk editing timesheets now follows shift type hierarchy rules in the same way as editing an individual timesheet, so leave hours are deducted from the correct shift types when balances are limited.

Management > Timesheets > Payroll

The pay run screen now gives you more control over employee filtering, making it easier to focus on the employees and alerts that need attention:

• Hide employees with no timesheets to reduce noise from "Employee has no timesheets" alerts.
• Continue filtering by "Log Message" while hiding employees with no timesheets, giving you two layers of filtering.
• Clear all table filters in one action while keeping "Hide employees with no timesheets" selected.
• Keep your filter selections throughout your session, including when you close and reopen the filter window or move between pay runs.

Management > Timesheets > Payroll

You can now select how many records to show on each page of the pay run screen, up to 200, making it easier to review large pay runs without navigating through multiple pages.

Management > Timesheets > Payroll

The timesheets section for each employee on the pay run screen now shows up to 50 timesheets before paging, with tighter column spacing so more detail fits on screen and horizontal scrolling is reduced.

Management > Timesheets > Payroll

Timesheets shown for an employee on the pay run screen are now sorted by date and pay start time in ascending order by default, so you no longer need to sort them manually each time you review a pay run.

Management > Timesheets > Payroll

A new "Payroll Screen & Report Settings" window lets you customise the pay run screen and reports to suit your workflow. You can choose which pay type columns appear, reorder them by dragging, hide unused or non-exported pay types, switch column headings between pay type names and export codes, and choose whether to exclude data for non-exporting employees. Your settings are remembered, and "Reset to default" restores the standard layout.

Preserve pay rates in Chris21 leave exports when Consolidate Leave is enabled

Management > Timesheets > Payroll

When "Consolidate Leave" is enabled, Chris21 exports now preserve the correct pay rate for each leave entry, so consecutive leave at different rates is paid accurately, including for employees who work across multiple roles.

Management > Timesheets > Payroll

Finalised pay runs now follow a consistent process on the pay run screen, helping you keep pay results aligned with the timesheets included in the run:

• Inline editing and "Manual Interpretation" are disabled after finalisation. If changes are needed, reverse the pay run finalisation before making them.
• New timesheets cannot be added after finalisation, helping ensure they are reviewed and included before the pay run is completed. If a timesheet was missed, reverse the finalisation before adding it.

These controls help keep pay results, exports and reports aligned with the timesheets in the run.