What's New

Efficient, well-designed shift patterns are essential for streamlining your operations and enhancing employee satisfaction. The Shift Pattern feature allows you to automate employees' shift schedules based on custom shift patterns you've created for a week, month, or specific days.

Create a leave policy that automatically credits leave time to your employees based on their actual worked hours or days.

Give survey non-respondents a second chance to share their voices, ensuring you gather comprehensive and valuable feedback from your entire team.

Seamlessly use mathematical formulas for precise pay calculations when defining a salary component.

Employees can now easily access their applicable services, view organization locations, and important links from the Organization tab.

Recall e-sign documents and extend deadlines for multiple employees simultaneously.

Preparing for an audit? No worries! Effortlessly export Zoho People activity logs for seamless auditing.

Easily access surveys directly within Team Space. This feature fosters collaboration, improves the work environment, and enhances team productivity through streamlined feedback.

A extra layer of safety to ensure secure and encrypted transmission of data from Zoho People.

Stay updated about work anniversary celebrations, department, designation, location change (HR process) updates, break reminders, survey reminders, policy documents, and more. Employees can view these updates in Home > My Space > Activities List.

Automate approval or rejection of pending requests for leave or timesheet submissions. For example, selecting "Auto Reject" will decline unapproved leave requests and revert leave balances, ensuring accurate payroll processing for worked days and unused leave.

Keep your LMS learners informed with multiple automated reminders for overdue courses, pending feedback, and upcoming sessions.

Create customized rules to have varied hike percentages for employees.

Overtime and deviation details are now added to the attendance data for payroll report.

Adjust your leave request with partial cancellation. Simply check the boxes next to the dates you want to cancel, or select the entire range for complete cancellation.

Add a bunch of learners to any course with just a comma-separated list in the applicable to space.

Introducing a streamlined tab within course settings that makes adding, managing, and configuring permissions a breeze!

A new option to allow approvers to edit timesheets during approval. This allows approvers to edit total hours, billable status, and work items. Employees can also edit work items in their timesheet drafts or when editing an rejected timesheet.

Easy and error-free payroll processing experience now extended to the UAE.

An added option that restricts employees from raising OD requests for future dates.

A new setting, that when enabled, permits only the administrator to access and apply leave on behalf of an employee

Now run adaptable salary hike cycles independently or as part of an appraisal cycle

Employee ratings, such as goal ratings can now be included in emails generated and sent using mail merge templates.

Forward multiple approval requests to another approver to ensure unaffected approval flow (for managers).

It is not one-size fits all!, tune time entry overlap settings and more individually for your employees.

Liveliness detection and anti-spoofing through depth detection is now available for a limited number of iOS devices.

Import holidays in ICS format and export holidays in ICS, XLS, XLSX formats.

A new and improved user interface (UI) for online tests that simplifies the creation and editing of tests, and adds additional security features such as anti-tab switching and IP restrictions.

A new restriction that can restrict time logging to a specific time frame in the past or prevent completely.

Have half working days during weekends, wherein the first or second half of a weekend day can be a half working day.

Zoho People Enterprise plan users can now use the integrated google-maps for configuring geo restrictions.

Continuous reviews can now work with KRA and Competencies, in addition to Goals.

Now administrators can skip an unavailable reviewer to ensure that appraisal process proceeds unaffected.

Work items, billable status fields can now be included when adding job schedules.

Directly approve and reject requests on your outlook inbox after a one-time linking of your Microsoft Outlook and Zoho People accounts.

Now choose between the standard ratings scale or customizable text ratings for continuous reviews.

Now grace period can be setup to deduct leave balance alternatively when multiple deviations occur.

Similar to appraisal cycle text ratings, it is now possible to use customizable text ratings for continuous reviews.

You can now import break details while importing attendance information for your organization.

This setting lets you block check-in and check-out entries made using iOS virtual assistant Siri and related methods.

Post automated messages in Zoho Connect using workflows in Zoho People. This is useful for sharing reminders, notifications, and more directly on walls and public groups from Zoho People.

Explore an additional option related to employee information search.

Both Admins and employees now have an option to delete entries made in the Vaccination Status form.

You can now define if credited comp off days will expire within set business days or calendar days.

Save time by directly importing members into self based and blended learning courses.

This option lets you make changes to an already published review.

View ratings and reviews submitted by another reviewer and submit the same as your review data too.

Now there is a dedicated field to enter the UAN Number. The new field also supports encryption and personal data protection.

Sending a document for e-sign? Now, automatically add the the reporting manager of all the intended employees to the recipient list.

Frequently used dashboards under Advanced Analytics can now be pinned as Admin Pins and Favorites in Zoho People.

You can now create reports in Analytics and Advanced Analytics using leave applications data.

Now choose a color and pattern and add a touch of flair to your courses.

You can now define different salary hikes based on employee's designation, date of joining and total work experience.

Administrators can now multi-select users to enable or disable login access with ease.

Use the revamped health status form to collect more details from your employee who may be sick due to Covid-19.

You can now use the import option when you have a large number of job schedules to add.

You can now authorize the recipient to e-sign as the approver of a document. 

To prevent changes from being made to an appraisal, use the Complete Appraisal option.

LMS assignments gain additional assignment types along with a space to monitor submissions.

One place to manage permissions for creating, sharing and publishing courses and Learning Plans.

Continuous review can now be configured to happen once in six months.

Choose between having an uncapped weightage limit for KRA, Skill Set, and Competency or limit them to a maximum of 100%, your choice!

You can now set an overall weightage limit for all goals mapped to an employee or for the goals tagged to each KRA.

Ensure your employees have read and acknowledged official documents.

You can now assign a project head to oversee a project and also assign several managers to your project.

Schedulers and Reminders settings in Timesheets now lets you select the period for which data is to be processed for.

To Learn More:

Reminder Settings

Scheduler Settings

Categorize multi-raters and select only the specific modules you want them to assess the employee on, while adding an appraisal cycle.

To Learn More:

General Settings

Appraisal Process

Want to restrict your employees to submit timesheets only on Fridays? Do you want to allow only weekly timesheet submissions within a specific interval ? This is now possible with 'Allowed timesheet period' setting.

If you have inadvertently added a comment in an open case, or if you feel it is no longer relevant, you now have the option to delete it and remove its trace.

You can now track and alert employees who are logging less or more than the required hours you have set.

You can now schedule multiple batches for your courses, in the frequency you want.

Use the onboarding settings to further customize the onboarding process for your candidates and employees.

Add Cases Admins who will exclusively have access to settings and data of Cases.

It is now easier to create specific roles for a specific location or department. Tagging Admin role and assigning specific roles is now made simple... thanks to the newly improved Roles feature.