In the fast-paced world of managing a distributed and busy frontline workforce, ensuring accurate work has been captured and confirmed often becomes a race against the clock. Chasing down missing entries and correcting manual errors is unfortunately all too common for managers. 

That’s why we’re excited to introduce Timesheet Confirmation in Work app.  It allows managers to request that employees acknowledge the accuracy of their authorised timesheet hours conveniently via their mobile phone, so that every minute captured is verified, accurate, and easy to process.

Let’s dive in…

🔥 What's New

Timesheet confirmation in Work app delivers instant, one-tap verification and real-time validation of works hours directly within the mobile for employees.

• Confirmation notifications - Managers in Humanforce Web/Cloud can quickly push timesheet confirmation requests directly to employees.
• One-Tap Verification - Employees can confirm their entire weekly or monthly timesheet with a single click via mobile, reducing administrative burden.
• Automated Reminders - Employees receive proactive notifications when their timesheet is ready for review.
• Instant Validation - Benefit from real-time checks that flag inconsistencies or missing entries before timesheets are confirmed.
• Mobile Accessibility - Review and approve your hours on the go directly through the Work app mobile interface.

⭐ Why it Matters

Streamline processes, improve timesheet accuracy and accelerate approval cycles, so that your teams stay focused on more meaningful and impactful work. Timesheet confirmation in Work app delivers:

• Payroll Accuracy - Ensure precise billing and payroll by validating hours at the source, minimising unnecessary corrections and administration.
• Improved Compliance - Maintain a clear audit trail of when and by whom time was confirmed, supporting organisational transparency.
• Increased Productivity - Managers spend less time chasing manual signatures and more time focusing on more pressing work.

🏁 Getting Started

Click here to learn how to review and confirm your authorised timesheets in the Humanforce Work or Humanforce (Legacy) mobile app, and to set up Timesheet confirmation, follow the guidance in this help article. 

We're excited to announce Work App Version 1.29, headlined by Timesheet Confirmation, which lets workers check and verify the accuracy of their work and break hours before payday. This release also brings shift offer notifications that take you straight to the offer and more reliable push notifications, plus a range of resolved issues across sign-in, leave, timesheets, clocking, and notifications.

Release Schedule

iOS and Android Work App v1.29 is expected to be available in the week of 19th October 2026.

Earnings

Employees can now confirm their timesheets directly from the Earnings screen in the Work app. Previously, this was only available in the Humanforce (Legacy) app.

Employees can review their work hours, leave hours and unpaid breaks in the timesheet list view, then confirm them in a few taps. If something looks wrong, they can message their manager or payroll team straight from the same screen.

Why it matters: Confirming hours at the source means fewer payroll corrections and faster approvals. It also gives you a clear record of when each employee agreed their hours were accurate, which supports annualised wage requirements and compliance. Managers spend less time chasing signatures and more time on other work.

Learn more: Sending Timesheet Confirmation Requests (for setup) and Confirm your Timesheets (for employees).

Home > Timesheets

When editing a timesheet that already has attachments, you can now tap a saved attachment to open and preview it (iOS and Android).

Notifications > Shift offers

Tapping a shift offer push notification now opens the offer detail screen directly. If the offer is no longer available, the app says so clearly. If you work across multiple employers, you'll be prompted to switch to the right employer first.

Home > Turn on notifications

If notifications are switched off on your phone, a card on Home explains what you might miss and takes you to settings to turn them back on.

Clocking

Area, Event and Function fields are hidden when your location doesn't use them.  Ability to search on events has also been added (iOS).

Earnings

The Payslip button on the Earnings tab can now be tapped again (iOS).

Home > Timesheets

Function no longer becomes editable after you add an Event when you don't have permission to edit it (Android).

Schedule > Leave

Leave requests that fail a validation check now show the actual reason instead of a generic "Something went wrong" message (iOS).

Cancelling leave inside the minimum notice period now explains the notice rule, rather than saying you don't have permission (Android).

When custom hours are missing for several days of a leave request, the message now covers all affected days, not just the first.

Profile

The back button no longer opens the profile photo picker by mistake (Android).

Choosing "Pick another" for your profile photo now returns you to your profile after you confirm (Android).

Attendance

Home > Attendance

Going back after sending a shift offer now returns you to the Department screen, not the offer screen you just finished (Android).

We're pleased to announce the release of Humanforce Workforce Management (Cloud) version 6.0.87. Building on the improvements introduced in the previous release, this release continues to enhance Roster Manager and Template Manager with more compact shift cards, the option to hide empty rows, improved Labour Group workflows and a more flexible Fill Shift experience. It also expands payroll connector availability, strengthens payroll export accuracy and improves employee profile visibility and roster confirmation handling in Humanforce Cloud.

Release Schedule

• Staging environments: Friday, 9 October 2026.
• All Humanforce WFM (Cloud) accounts and UAT environments: Wednesday, 21 October 2026.

Holiday Release Schedule

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

Rostering & Templates

More compact shift cards in Roster Manager and Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager / Template Manager

Shift cards now have a more compact layout, so you can see more shifts at once with less scrolling. Shift details and status indicators are easier to read, and assignee names now appear in bold. The changes apply in both People and Role views.

Hide empty rows in Roster Manager and Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager / Template Manager

You can now hide empty rows in Roster Manager and Template Manager, so you can focus on the rows that have shifts and spend less time scrolling. Hidden rows reappear automatically as soon as they have a shift.

Shift Editor validation now uses configured alert names and messages

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Roster Manager’s Shift Editor now shows your configured alert names and custom messages in validation warnings and blocking errors. This makes it clearer why a shift needs attention before you save it.

More efficient Fill Shift screen with adjustable page size

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager > Fill Shift

The Fill Shift screen now makes better use of the modal space, so you can see more at a glance. You can also choose how many employees to display per page (10, 20, 50 or 100), and your preference is remembered for next time.

Labour Group values now populate new single shifts

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager / Template Manager

When you add a single shift under a Labour Group in Roster Manager or Template Manager, it now inherits the Labour Group’s Area, Event, Function, Shift Definition, unpaid break time and duration. This makes single shift setup consistent with bulk shift creation, so there’s less to fill in manually.

Update Labour Group changes across existing shifts

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

When you edit a Labour Group in Roster Manager, you can now choose Save & Update Shifts... to apply your changes to the shifts within it. The Bulk Edit Shifts dialog opens automatically, so you can review the changed Labour Group values before applying them. This saves you from re-entering the same details on each shift.

Automatically unconfirm edited or unassigned shifts

Admin > System Config > Location Settings

You can now enable "Unconfirm shift when unassigned or edited" in Location Settings. When enabled, editing, reassigning or unassigning a confirmed shift in Roster Manager automatically changes it to Unconfirmed status to reflect that the shift details have changed and it warrants reconfirming - either by the manager or the assignee (via a confirmation request).

Employee Management

Incomplete employee profiles are now visible to authorised users

Management > Employee > Employee Management

Employee Management in Humanforce Cloud now displays incomplete employee profiles when you have the "View incomplete profiles" permission, so you can find and complete profiles even when location, department or role information is incomplete.

Payroll & Integrations

WageEasy exports no longer duplicate leave entries

Management > Advanced > Integration Central

WageEasy payroll exports in Humanforce Cloud now include leave entries only in the "Leave" summary, preventing leave hours from being duplicated in the timecard and leave sections of the exported file.

More payroll connectors are now available in Humanforce Cloud

Management > Admin > Award Config > Payroll Companies

Additional payroll connectors are now available directly in Humanforce Cloud, including EPayroll/AussiePay, HR3, Micropay, MYOB Premier, Payforce, AcePayroll, Aurion, Comacc, GreenTree, InfiniteCloud, Kingstreet, MYOB EXO, Payline, Pulse, SAP, Talent2 and TechnologyOne Special, so more of your payroll integrations are available to manage in Humanforce Cloud.

Payforce Payroll Export - Leave entries with different pay rates remain separate

Management > Admin > Award Config > Payroll Companies

When generating Payforce payroll exports, leave consolidation logic now factors in differing pay rates. For employees who work across multiple roles or pay tiers, separate leave entries with distinct rates are preserved as individual export lines. This ensures rate integrity and alignment with your downstream payroll system.

We are excited to announce the launch of Humanforce UK Payroll, integrated within the Humanforce HCM suite.

Disconnected HR, Workforce Management, and Payroll systems slow frontline organisations down — driving manual errors, compliance risk, and a disjointed experience for teams and employees alike. Humanforce UK Payroll solves this by unifying the entire workforce journey, from onboarding and rostering through to approved timesheets and compliant pay runs, creating a single source of truth with compliance built in, not bolted on.

As the UK Employment Rights Act 2025 comes into effect, the need for connected, auditable systems has never been greater. Humanforce bridges HR, WFM, and Payroll so organisations can reduce manual hand-offs, improve data accuracy, and maintain the clear records required to meet their obligations — across every moment that matters.

Let’s dive in…

🔥 What’s New?

Humanforce UK Payroll brings together powerful native capabilities designed to simplify payroll complexity for frontline teams.

• Zero-Touch Data Sync: Automatically create HR and payroll records directly from Talent. New starters, role changes, and terminations sync instantly, eliminating double-handling.
• Automated Pay Calculations: Instantly calculate base pay, overtime, penalties, allowances, and leave with near real-time updates—perfectly suited for multi-site and multi-company environments.
• UK Compliance: Built-in compliance for HMRC Real Time Information (RTI), PAYE, National Insurance, and Pension Auto-Enrolment, handled accurately in one system of record.
• Unified Employee Experience: Empower your people with self-service access via the WorkApp, where digital payslips flow straight into their HR record securely.

Available seamlessly within the Humanforce HCM suite, these tools intelligently deliver the most comprehensive and accurate payroll outcomes for UK frontline teams.

⭐️ Why it matters

Humanforce UK Payroll is more than just a processing engine. It unlocks the potential of a truly connected workforce platform—HR, WFM, and Payroll working as one to deliver UK compliance, accuracy, and speed.

• Accelerate processing times - achieve up to 75% faster pay runs with event-driven automation that updates data in under a second.
• Eliminate manual calculations - say goodbye to fragile CSV workflows and manual workarounds with 47+ UK pay elements supported natively.
• Protect compliance - maintain HMRC RTI compliance with system-driven configuration that reduces reliance on specialist payroll admin.
• Elevate employee experience - deliver a smooth transition from onboarding to payday, reducing HR support tickets and boosting engagement.
• Maintain data integrity - rely on a single source of truth with GUID-based matching that prevents duplicate records and simplifies auditing.

As the UK’s Employment Rights Act 2025 is implemented, frontline organisations will need stronger control over how employee records, working hours, shift changes, absence and payroll outcomes are managed and evidenced. Humanforce helps connect HR, WFM and Payroll so organisations can reduce manual hand-offs, improve data accuracy, and maintain clearer records across the moments that matter, from onboarding and rostering through to approved time, leave, pay and employee self-service.

Disconnected systems drive manual work, errors, delays, and compliance risk. Humanforce UK Payroll within the Humanforce HCM suite creates a single source of truth without third-party integrations, ensuring compliance is built in rather than bolted on and simplifying your payroll and workforce complexity.

🏁 Getting Started

Humanforce UK Payroll is now available to all UK Humanforce HCM customers.

For more information on UK payroll see our Help article here.

 To discover more about how a fully connected payroll and HCM experience can transform your organisation, speak to your Humanforce UK representative today. 

Introducing contracted-hours management designed for the complexity of frontline workforces. HR and Payroll teams can now record, manage and track each employee’s contracted working arrangements with date-effective precision, visible revision history and shift-level Location, Department and Role context.

For Back Office (TimeTarget) customers, Employee Work Patterns provides a more capable, web-native path to transition existing default-hours data into Cloud WFM while maintaining continuity for approved workflows.

Let's dive in.

🔥 What's New

Employee Work Patterns is now available via Early Access in Employee Management > Profile > Work Pattern and delivers the following capabilities in Cloud WFM:

• Work Pattern creation and management - Define recurring contracted working arrangements per employee, including shift start and end times, paid or unpaid breaks, location, department, role and net-hours calculations.
• Date-effective scheduling - Set precise effective dates for current and future contracted arrangements, with a clear timeline of what applies and when.
• Revision management - Update an existing Work Pattern or create a new version while preserving the history of previous arrangements.
• Status tracking - View whether a Work Pattern is Current, Upcoming or Outdated, giving HR and Payroll visibility of changes over time.
• Award Profile context - Work Patterns inherit the applicable Award Profile context through the employee’s Role.
• Work App - Mobile support for Employee Work Patterns allows leave applications and timesheet creation in the Work App to use contracted hours, with a targeted release in version 1.29 shortly after the web launch.
• Leave integration - Where a Work Pattern applies, leave calculations can use the applicable Work Pattern hours, including the relevant shift context and unpaid-break treatment.

⭐️ Why It Matters

Standard default-hours records fail to capture complex frontline schedules, such as split shifts, varying breaks, multiple locations, or changing contracted hours. This creates accuracy and compliance risks across leave, timesheets, costing, and Award Interpretation.

Employee Work Patterns provides HR and Payroll teams with a flexible, auditable solution to record exact shift arrangements, roles, and locations with date-effective precision and complete revision histories.

• Compliance confidence— A date-effective, auditable record of contracted working arrangements reduces reliance on manual workarounds and makes it easier to understand what applied, when it applied and what changed.
• More accurate workforce processes - Work Patterns provide a structured contracted-hours source for relevant leave, timesheet, costing and Award Interpretation workflows. 
• Support for complex arrangements - Multiple shifts, flexible breaks and shift-level Location, Department and Role details help represent more realistic working arrangements, including multi-hiring employment scenarios.
• Stronger foundation for managing change - Effective dates allow organisations to prepare future contracted arrangements in advance and manage changes in a controlled way. 
• Accelerate BackOffice transition - For TimeTarget customers, Employee Work Patterns in Cloud WFM superceeds 'EmpHours', helping you migrate to our modern cloud platform with confidence and continuity with added capabilty. Experience a more flexible, date-effective, and auditable web-native model that supports multiple daily shifts, complex break combinations, and shift-level location context, whereas Back Office default hours are limited to a single daily shift with basic on/off management.

🏁 Next Steps

Work Patterns is available for early access. Please reach out to your customer support representative to gain access or log a support ticket. 

To learn more about Employee Work Patterns, view our Help article.

For assistance with your transition from the Back Office (TimeTarget) platform to Cloud WFM, contact your Humanforce representative today.

We're pleased to announce the release of Humanforce Workforce Management (Cloud) version 6.0.86. This release brings a wave of usability improvements to Roster Manager, including clickable status indicators, faster shift assignment, re-sending of shift confirmation requests, remembered groupings and improved alert handling. Leave Approvals and Availability get clearer request details, more flexibility during grey-out periods and faster loading, and kiosk clock-in photos now display in full in Timesheet Admin.

• Staging environments: Friday, 25 September, 2026.
• All Humanforce WFM (Cloud) accounts and UAT environments: Wednesday, 7 October, 2026.

Management > Employee > Employee Management

Employee-specific Pay Type Overrides no longer need to be set up in Back Office. You can now create, edit and remove them directly in the web app: open an employee's profile in Employee Management and select View Pay Type Overrides to see their current overrides on the Employee Overrides page.

To manage overrides, your access level needs Maintenance Screens > Award Profiles > Allow editing > Pay Type Overrides.

The new workflow includes several time-savers:

• Add in bulk. When adding an override, list additional employees in the Employee(s) field to apply the same override to several people at once.
• Copy to other employees. Select Copy to other employee(s) on an override to apply it to other employees without re-entering it from scratch.
• See the full picture. Clear the employee filter on the Employee Overrides page to view overrides across all employees you have access to.

You'll also be warned if a selected employee already has an override for the pay type you're adding. Overrides are best reserved for genuine employee-specific exceptions; if the same change applies to a whole group, update the award profile instead.

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

The status indicators along the bottom of Roster Manager are now clickable. Selecting an indicator instantly applies or clears the matching filter, so you can move between views of assigned, unassigned, confirmed, published and other shift states in a single click instead of building each filter manually.

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Assigning employees to unassigned shifts in the Shift view is now quicker. A new Assign All Shifts option is available in the shift grid menu, with a matching button in the shift detail modal, and both open the existing Assign Employees workflow with your relevant shifts ready to assign. All existing assignment permissions continue to apply.

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

You can now follow up on shifts that are still waiting for confirmation. When you request confirmation for shifts that already have an open request, Roster Manager lets you choose to resend to all of them or send only new requests, so you can chase unresponsive employees without unconfirming shifts or losing your filtered view.

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Alerts in Roster Manager now display the alert name you've configured on shift tooltips and in the notifications panel, and your custom alert message appears as the alert detail when enabled, so roster alerts match the names and messages you've configuring within Clock-in Settings, rather than generic alert labels.

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

The Availability and Leave alert in Roster Manager now also triggers for employees with no availability entries when the Employee is Unavailable by default setting is enabled, so shifts rostered against these employees are correctly flagged for review.

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Newly added shifts now appear immediately in the People and Role views of Roster Manager when Location or Department grouping is applied, so you no longer need to refresh the page to see the shift you've just added.

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Roster Manager now remembers which groups you've expanded as you work. Your expanded groups stay open when you switch between the Shift, People and Role views, and when you move away from the roster and return within the same session, so you no longer lose your place in large rosters.

Management > Availability > Leave Approvals

The Leave Request Details popup in Leave Approvals now displays the requested hours value alongside the hours label, for example 8 hrs, so managers can see the full detail of a leave request without cross-checking the main list.

Management > Availability > Staff Availability

Employees can now set Available or Preferred availability on days covered by a grey-out period, even when the maximum number of employees on leave has been reached, as these entries do not affect the grey-out maximum. Leave requests and Unavailable entries continue to follow your existing grey-out settings.

Management > Availability > Staff Availability

Opening the Leave/Availability dialog is now faster, so adding or updating an employee's leave and availability takes noticeably less time.

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets

The clock-in photo in the Timesheet Information modal now displays the full image rather than a cropped view, so you can accurately verify which employee clocked in, regardless of the kiosk camera's orientation.

Humanforce Talent now includes native video interviewing for recruitment teams managing high-volume frontline hiring. Recruiters can run structured video interviews, review responses, and move candidates forward without switching to a separate platform.

Candidates receive a secure link and record their answers in-browser on mobile or desktop, with no login or software download required. Recruiters keep recordings, transcripts, summaries, and team review in the candidate profile, reducing manual handoffs and keeping the hiring workflow together.

What it includes

Reusable templates - Create structured interview templates with configurable questions, preparation time, and response limits so every candidate for the same role receives a consistent screening experience.

AI-assisted questions - Generate role-relevant questions from a job description or prompt, helping recruiters prepare structured interviews faster.

Vacancy connection - Attach interview templates to job vacancies so candidates receive the right screening invitation at the right stage of the hiring process.

Flexible recording - Candidates record responses asynchronously from a mobile or desktop browser, making it easier to complete an interview around work and other commitments.

Fast review - Scan AI-generated transcripts and summaries to understand each response quickly, without rewatching every recording from start to finish.

Team collaboration - Recruiters and Hiring Managers can review responses together, compare candidates consistently, and align before making next-step decisions.

Human oversight - AI outputs are configurable and auditable, giving your team practical support while keeping hiring decisions with people.

One connected workflow - Keep interviews, recordings, transcripts, and summaries with the candidate profile in Talent, reducing integration overhead and duplicate administration.

Getting started

Native video interviewing is available within Humanforce Talent for early access. To learn more about setup and availability for your organisation, contact your Customer Success Manager. 

We're pleased to announce the release of Humanforce Workforce Management (Cloud) version 6.0.85. This release brings significant usability and performance enhancements to Roster Manager and Template Manager, including customisable modal layouts, the ability to pin unassigned shifts while navigating schedules, increased bulk-edit limits, and improved leave validation handling.

• Staging environments: Friday, 11 September, 2026.
• All Humanforce WFM (Cloud) accounts and UAT environments: Wednesday, 23 September, 2026.

Rostering & Templates

Pin and resize the Unassigned shifts section in People View

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

You can now pin the Unassigned shifts section at the top of the People View grid using the new pin icon toggle. When pinned, the section remains fixed at the top with its own scrollbar while you scroll through employee rows underneath, making it effortless to review unallocated shifts and drag them into employee schedules. You can also drag the bottom divider of the pinned section to adjust its height to suit your screen size.

Customise and reorder columns in Edit Shifts and Add & Assign modals

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager / Template Manager

The Edit Shifts and Add & Assign Shifts modals across Roster Manager and Template Manager now feature a Screen Settings control. Managers can choose exactly which columns appear and reorder them to match their workflow.

Column spacing has also been tightened and key headers, such as the Role column in Add & Assign, remain frozen, ensuring critical details like start times, finish times, and breaks can be viewed and edited without horizontal scrolling.

When opening Template Manager, the Active Only filter toggle is now switched on by default. This ensures the template list immediately displays only active templates, cutting through clutter and preventing accidental edits to inactive or historical templates. Your filter preference is also remembered when you leave and return to the page.

When copying a Labour Group to a date where an assigned Event or Function is no longer valid, Roster Manager now automatically unassigns the out-of-range Event or Function and displays a clear notification banner. Previously, copying labour groups always copied Event and Function, which could leave shifts attached to invalid event dates. Shifts are now safely copied with only valid event associations intact.

A new Expired visa option has been added to the Hide Employees filter in Advanced Search within Fill Shift (across both Roster Manager and Template Manager). This filter is enabled by default so managers immediately focus on eligible staff, while allowing the flexibility to uncheck the filter when reviewing overall workforce availability. In addition, visa expiry dates now consider an employee's visa valid through the end of the specified expiry day.

Expand or collapse all roster groupings in a single click

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

The Expand All and Collapse All toolbar controls are now available across all flat grouping types in Roster Manager, including Location, Department, Area, and Role views. Previously available only for Labour Groups, managers can now instantly expand or collapse all grouped sections at once, significantly accelerating navigation across large rosters.

Roster Manager now remembers your Sales Budget panel toggle choice. Whether you prefer to keep the Sales Budget panel open or collapsed, your preference remains, making your workflow faster, easier and more consistent.

To support large venues and complex operations, the maximum number of shifts that can be edited in a single bulk action has been increased from 500 to 2,000 shifts. Managers can now apply shift adjustments across entire operational rosters in one go without encountering batch threshold limits.

When generating or converting timesheets for leave types measured in days, timesheet duration validation now correctly respects the configured roster source hours. Previously, system validation could trigger a "no default hours" error if the shift times fell outside standard award profile hours, even when valid roster source hours were present. The validation logic now accommodates non-standard shift times, allowing timesheets to process smoothly.

When exporting payruns using the PayGlobal connector, leave pay types configured with Reduce Quantity now export strictly as dedicated leave transactions rather than outputting both a normal and a leave row. This eliminates duplicate records and prevents double-counting of employee hours downstream. In addition, date formatting has been strengthened so calendar months export reliably.

Employee Management

Strengthened access permissions for Biometric Registration

Management > Employee Management > Biometric Registration

Access rules on the Biometric Registration screen have been refined so that users with the Employees Screen permission can view and register biometric profiles for colleagues within their authorisation level, without requiring full View Employee Management access. In addition, deletion controls have been standardised so that removing existing facial registrations universally requires the dedicated Allow deletion of facial registrations permission, ensuring consistent security and delegated onboarding across all admin levels.

We are excited to announce Shift Linking, a powerful new way to produce better rosters with ease, is now available for existing customers via Early Access.

For scheduling coordinators managing complex, multi-event, or distributed frontline workforces, assigning the same employee across multiple shifts in a day has always meant hunting down individual shift tiles and applying changes one by one; a slow, error-prone process.

Shift Linking was built to solve this problem. Shift Linking is a purpose-built mechanism to group, select, and edit connected shifts instantly, so that you can eliminate manual effort, prevent data loss, and maintain scheduling integrity from roster build through to supervisor review.

Let’s dive in…

🔥 What's New

Shift Linking introduces a set of tightly integrated capabilities that make managing complex, multi-shift structures faster, smarter, and more reliable within Roster Manager.

• One-click group selection – Click the link icon on any shift tile to instantly select every shift in that linked group simultaneously — replacing manual, tile-by-tile hunting with a single action that takes under two seconds.
• Floating bulk-action toolbar – A new viewport-pinned selection toolbar appears automatically whenever two or more shifts are selected, surfacing Edit, Link, and Unlink actions directly in the coordinator's workflow — no more buried context menus or top-bar dropdowns.
• Unsaved changes protection – A new navigation prompt prevents silent data loss: if a coordinator clicks away mid-edit, the system prompts them to save or keep editing before navigating — ensuring in-progress work is never silently discarded.
• Persistent validation warnings – When a conflicted or overtime-triggering assignment is saved, clear visual warning indicators — yellow cards, warning icons, and text blocks — persist on the roster grid and in the Shift Editor, keeping compliance issues visible for supervisor review until they are explicitly resolved.
• Cascading bulk unassign – Unassigning any shift within a linked group automatically cascades the action across the entire group, maintaining the structural integrity of linked assignments and preventing orphaned or inconsistent shift states.

⭐ Why it Matters

Shift Linking replaces fragmented, manual roster workflows with structured, auditable scheduling operations.

• Smarter Rostering – Shift Linking replaces slow, manual roster workflows with structured, one-click group management across connected shifts.
• Instant Group Control – Coordinators can select, edit, and unassign entire linked shift groups instantly, with every in-progress change protected from accidental loss.
• Compliance Visibility – Persistent validation warnings keep compliance and overtime conflicts visible on the roster until they are explicitly resolved.
• Lower Labour Costs – Labour costs are reduced by making it easy to combine shorter shifts, eliminate scheduling gaps, and meet minimum call-out requirements.
• Easy Transition from Back office  – Existing linked shifts from Back Office surface automatically in Roster Manager on day one.

🏁 Getting Started

Shift Linking is being made available in cloud via Roster Manager, through an Early Access program. Initially this is for customers who've used this functionality in the Back Office Event Planner, and later will be opened up for all interested customers.

Early access allows your team to review the functionality, plan for and adjust any necessary workflows, and provide direct feedback to our product team regarding further improvements or user experience suggestions.

To request access, please contact support@humanforce.com or to learn about Shift Linking, read this help article.

We're pleased to announce the release of Humanforce Workforce Management (Cloud) version 6.0.84. This update ensures Sales Budget forecast labour accurately reconciles between Roster Manager and Workforce Analytics by incorporating unassigned shifts into the data model.

Operational control is enhanced through the introduction of a dedicated "Assign & Unassign" permission for Template Manager, decoupling it from standard rostering access. Additionally, we’ve expanded Chat capacity to support team-wide communications for groups exceeding 100 participants.

Release Schedule

Staging environments were updated on Friday, 28th August, 2026.

All Humanforce WFM (Cloud) accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated overnight on Wednesday, 9th September, 2026.

Rostering & Templates

New dedicated Assign & Unassign permission for Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Template Manager

Template Manager now has its own Assign & Unassign permission for both Normal Templates and Master Templates, separate from Rostering Screen permissions. Previously, assign/unassign access for shifts in Template Manager was tied to the shared Rostering permission, which made it difficult to provide this functionality in one space and not the other. Template permissions are now self-contained, so you can grant shift assign/unassign access independently of rostering and keep template access aligned with each user's role.

Any users who already had the Rostering > Allow editing > Assign and Unassign permission will automatically have the new template Assign and Unassign permissions enabled.

Managers can now override an insufficient leave balance when re-assigning a shift

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

When re-assigning a published shift in Roster Manager to create an employee's leave timesheet, managers can now invoke the configured Shift Type Hierarchy when the target shift type has one, or override the insufficient accrual warning where their access level includes TimeTarget Online > View Timesheet Authorisation > Allow editing > Allow override of insufficient accrual warning. Previously both actions were blocked when the employee had insufficient leave balance, which could prevent leave from being recorded for employees with a low balance.

Employee Communications

Chats support more than 100 participants

Employee > Messages > Chat

When starting a new chat, you can now add more than 100 people using Add All, so team-wide and department-wide conversations are no longer limited to 100 participants. Users are added in batches automatically, letting you bring larger groups into a single conversation.

Reporting & Analytics

Sales Budget forecast labour now includes Unassigned shifts

Management > Advanced > Workforce Analytics

This update brings consistency to the Forecast Labour values in Roster Manager's Sales Budget panel and the Workforce Analytics Sales Budget report, by now including Unassigned shift hours and cost. Previously, these were excluded on both surfaces, so forecast totals could differ from the older Department Rostering and the Sales Budget report tool. Forecast Labour now reconciles across these views for the same date range, location and department - giving you consistent, accurate forecast data.

Separate controls for Planned and Unplanned leave in Sales & Budget

Admin > Admin Config > System Settings > Roster/Roster Templates

Also in the Sales Budget space, we've introduced flexibility in how leave timesheets should be handled with regards to the Actual Labour values. The Leave exclusion setting in System Settings > Roster/Roster Templates is now split into two controls:

• Exclude Planned "Leave Type" timesheets
• Exclude Unplanned "Leave Type" timesheets

This lets you independently decide whether planned or unplanned leave is excluded from Actual Labour cost calculations in the Sales & Budget module, matching your organization's requirements.

Payroll, Costing & Awards

New "Use no folder" option for SFTP exports

Admin > Award Config > Payroll Companies

The SFTP export configuration for Pay Companies is now more flexible; offering three folder options instead of two:

• Use default folder - exports to /payroll-export/[paycompany]
• Use custom folder - exports to /payroll-export/[your custom folder]
• Use no folder - exports to the base /payroll-export/ directory

Each option now includes helper text showing the target path. The new Use no folder option writes export files directly to the base payroll-export/ directory, matching Back Office export behaviour. This is particularly useful for customers with custom payroll integrations who may not be able to adjust their downstream integration quickly — providing a configuration path to target the base directory without requiring changes to their current export process.