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2024
Sep
Extend Surveys
EnhancementsGive survey non-respondents a second chance to share their voices, ensuring you gather comprehensive and valuable feedback from your entire team.
Learn MoreFormula based salary components
EnhancementsSeamlessly use mathematical formulas for precise pay calculations when defining a salary component.
Learn MoreRecycle Bin
New FeatureSafeguards your custom form data by retaining deleted records for 30 days, offering a simple way to restore them if needed.
Learn MoreEnhanced organization tab
EnhancementsEmployees can now easily access their applicable services, view organization locations, and important links from the Organization tab.
Learn MoreMass recall and extend e-sign deadlines (Zoho Sign users only)
EnhancementsRecall e-sign documents and extend deadlines for multiple employees simultaneously.
Learn MoreEmployee ID generation
New FeatureAutomatically generate employee IDs with customized rules, including department, location, year, and personalized prefixes or suffixes. (This feature is currently live for English-based regions, it will be available in the coming weeks for other regions.)
Learn MoreAug
Export activity logs
EnhancementsPreparing for an audit? No worries! Effortlessly export Zoho People activity logs for seamless auditing.
Learn MoreHandle approvals right from Zoho Cliq!
New FeatureStay on top of approval requests with real-time Zoho People notifications in Zoho Cliq. Managers can quickly approve, reject, or forward requests directly within the platform, ensuring timely responses and reducing the chance of missed approvals.
Learn MoreSurvey listings in Team Space
EnhancementsEasily access surveys directly within Team Space. This feature fosters collaboration, improves the work environment, and enhances team productivity through streamlined feedback.
Learn MoreSFTP support for system and custom form data transfers
EnhancementsA extra layer of safety to ensure secure and encrypted transmission of data from Zoho People.
Learn MoreLocation tracking through Zoho People mobile app
New FeatureCapture and record employees' work locations using the Zoho People mobile app. GPS tracks precise locations during check-in and check-out hours, ensuring accurate work shift monitoring.
Learn MoreJul
More contextual daily updates!
EnhancementsStay 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.
Learn MorePeepers look away!
New FeatureData masking is implemented in various fields and forms. Protect sensitive information from unauthorized viewing.
Learn MoreImprove payroll processing accuracy!
EnhancementsAutomate 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.
Learn MoreJun
Effortless Employee Transitions with HR Process
New FeatureHR Process streamlines the management of department changes, designations, locations, and employment status, ensuring smooth transitions during organizational restructuring or personal/professional moves.
Learn MoreSafe Testing Environment: Zoho People Sandbox!
New FeatureCreates a secure virtual environment for testing changes to forms, settings, workflows, and data without affecting the live environment. Administrators can experiment safely, ensuring everything works as expected before implementing changes.
Learn MoreSetup automated reminders for courses, feedback, and sessions
EnhancementsKeep your LMS learners informed with multiple automated reminders for overdue courses, pending feedback, and upcoming sessions.
Learn MoreMay
A seamless, structured, and modernized experience crafted to enhance the workplace journey for all users, including HR professionals, managers, and employees.
Read below to see what is new with Zoho People 5.0:
- New Home tab that includes 'My Space' and 'Activities' to help you view daily updates. Contextual cards such as your work schedule, reminders, approvals, surveys, and more. Easily collaborate and engage with your team using 'Team Space,' which provides quick access to colleagues and peers. Stay informed about organization-wide announcements through 'Organization Space.'
- Easy access to Feeds and service related key updates right from Home tab.
- Calendar with holidays, leave, and absence data.
- Easy access to Projects dashboards, Team Lists, Peers, Ex-Employees, Policies, Department Tree, Employee Tree, New Hires, Birthday Folks.
- Centralized 'Settings': A centralized space for configuring and customizing Zoho People according to your requirements. With a focus on better security by ensuring access only to authorized representatives and fine-tuned permissions, user-friendly policy setup, service extendability, and automations.
- New 'Operations': Decluttered and simplified service-specific spaces to manage employee data and HR Processes with ease.
- All-new Compensation service to simplify the recording, tracking, and management of employee salaries and benefits.
- Policy documents: Share organization-wide documents for all employees. Such as anti-sexual harassment policies, updated leave protocols, or government mandates
- A slew of new features and enhancements: e-sign templates, appraisal templates, survey templates, custom widgets, organization structure support for Zoho Payroll and many more features on the way!
Feb
Rule based salary hikes
EnhancementsCreate customized rules to have varied hike percentages for employees.
Learn MoreJan
Improved attendance data for payroll report
EnhancementsOvertime and deviation details are now added to the attendance data for payroll report.
Learn More2023
Dec
Adjust your time off with partial leave cancellation
EnhancementsAdjust 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.
Learn MoreA direct way to add multiple learners at once!
EnhancementsAdd a bunch of learners to any course with just a comma-separated list in the applicable to space.
Learn MoreNov
Course administrator management tab in LMS
EnhancementsIntroducing a streamlined tab within course settings that makes adding, managing, and configuring permissions a breeze!
Learn MoreVersatile timesheet approvals
EnhancementsA 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.
Learn MoreOct
Zoho Payroll integration for the UAE
EnhancementsEasy and error-free payroll processing experience now extended to the UAE.
Learn MoreRestrict future OD requests
EnhancementsAn added option that restricts employees from raising OD requests for future dates.
Learn MoreAdmin managed leave type
EnhancementsA new setting, that when enabled, permits only the administrator to access and apply leave on behalf of an employee
Learn MoreSep
Run salary hike cycles anytime!
EnhancementsNow run adaptable salary hike cycles independently or as part of an appraisal cycle
Learn MoreInclude ratings in mail merge emails
EnhancementsEmployee ratings, such as goal ratings can now be included in emails generated and sent using mail merge templates.
Learn MoreAug
Forward approvals with ease
EnhancementsForward multiple approval requests to another approver to ensure unaffected approval flow (for managers).
Learn MoreEnhanced user-specific settings in a Timesheet service
EnhancementsIt is not one-size fits all!, tune time entry overlap settings and more individually for your employees.
Learn MoreImproved facial recognition for iOS devices
EnhancementsLiveliness detection and anti-spoofing through depth detection is now available for a limited number of iOS devices.
Learn MoreAdditional export options for holidays
EnhancementsImport holidays in ICS format and export holidays in ICS, XLS, XLSX formats.
Learn MoreJul
Enhanced Online Tests in LMS
EnhancementsA 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.
Learn MoreRestriction for time logging for past days
EnhancementsA new restriction that can restrict time logging to a specific time frame in the past or prevent completely.
Learn MoreHalf working day & Half weekend
EnhancementsHave half working days during weekends, wherein the first or second half of a weekend day can be a half working day.
Learn MoreGoogle Maps powered geo-restrictions
EnhancementsZoho People Enterprise plan users can now use the integrated google-maps for configuring geo restrictions.
Learn MoreJun
Multiple evaluation methods in Continuous Review
EnhancementsContinuous reviews can now work with KRA and Competencies, in addition to Goals.
Learn MoreMay
Skip reviewer during appraisal
EnhancementsNow administrators can skip an unavailable reviewer to ensure that appraisal process proceeds unaffected.
Learn MoreAudit History for attendance
New FeatureView detailed attendance logs that includes all check-in, break, regularization entries and more.
Learn MoreImproved job scheduling
EnhancementsWork items, billable status fields can now be included when adding job schedules.
Learn MoreMar
Link once and manage requests on the go!
EnhancementsDirectly approve and reject requests on your outlook inbox after a one-time linking of your Microsoft Outlook and Zoho People accounts.
Learn MoreText based ratings for continuous review
EnhancementsNow choose between the standard ratings scale or customizable text ratings for continuous reviews.
Learn MoreFeb
Multiple deviations handling in grace period policy
EnhancementsNow grace period can be setup to deduct leave balance alternatively when multiple deviations occur.
Learn MoreText ratings for continuous review
EnhancementsSimilar to appraisal cycle text ratings, it is now possible to use customizable text ratings for continuous reviews.
Learn MoreImporting breaks in attendance
EnhancementsYou can now import break details while importing attendance information for your organization.
Learn MoreJan
Introducing Annual Engagement surveys!
New FeatureCreate extensive surveys with multiple questions to capture employee engagement levels in your organization
Learn MoreRestricting attendance entries via iOS automation
EnhancementsThis setting lets you block check-in and check-out entries made using iOS virtual assistant Siri and related methods.
Learn More2022
Dec
Post to Zoho Connect
EnhancementsPost 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.
Learn MoreSearch Settings
EnhancementsExplore an additional option related to employee information search.
Learn MoreNov
Goal Setting Period
Plan, schedule or limit the timeline for adding and assigning goals to the employees in your organization.
Learn MoreManager Evaluation
A new system for managers to assess, evaluate and score learners' performance in courses.
Learn MoreOct
Introducing Zoho People for Microsoft Teams
With Zoho People for Microsoft Teams, you can enable your employees to stay updated on their HR tasks (approvals), raise leave requests, and get project insights, right from Microsoft Teams.
Learn moreCourse Cost
Categorize and track the various course related expenses with ease.
Learn moreSep
Introducing FTP Plugin in Attendance
FTP Plugin configuration helps you transfer your files with attendance data in a secure way without having to install a service in the host's data server.
Learn moreRestrict appraisal cycle deletion
This setting now allows you to select the specific admins who alone will be able to delete appraisal cycles.
Learn moreAdjusted Marks
Help a learner get pass marks by awarding a few grace marks using the Adjusted Marks feature.
Learn moreMessage Members
A quick tool to send a custom message to your learners. Remind them about the next session, or about what they need to bring or prepare for the next session, etc.
Learn moreReason for shift change
Employees and managers are now required to share a reason when a shift change action is performed.
Learn moreAug
Enhanced leave cancellation
Approvers, reporting managers and record owners can also be authorized to cancel leave requests.
Learn moreJul
Additional goals report
To view a list of employees who have not been assigned goals, use the employee with no goals report.
Learn moreCategory admin enhancement in Cases
You now have the option of adding a group or a department as a category admin.
Learn moreJun
Documents acknowledgement in employee onboarding
You can now ensure that employees have read through the important documents during their onboarding process.
Learn MoreNew settings for appraisal cycles
An option to end an appraisal cycle once the final level reviewer has completed their review, plus an option to commonly exclude employees serving notice period from being added to appraisal cycles can be found in this new section under Performance General Settings.
Learn moreDescriptive question type in LMS
This type of question is ideal to include essay type questions in your LMS online tests.
Learn moreMay
Enhanced Attendance Integration Settings
You can now push time logs that are submitted with start and end time from Timesheet to Attendance.
Learn MoreCourse entity based lock in LMS Courses
Manage how a learner progresses through the course by unlocking course entities on the completion of another selected course entity.
Learn MoreApr
Exporting Timesheets
It is now possible to export your timesheets!
Learn MoreSubcategory filter in cases
Cases listing and reports now get a new subcategory filter option.
Learn MoreReport scheduler gets a new home!
You can now automate report sharing from the reports settings space.
Learn MoreMar
Selective archiving of goals
You now have the option to restrict an employee from archiving only the goals they have added.
Learn MoreApproval for appraisal review
Automatically sends review for approval when the reviewer completes a review.
Learn MoreOrganization structure based payroll
Based on your organization structure, sync employee payroll data pertaining to a location, department, division, business unit, legal entity, and employee type.
Learn MoreFeb
Learner's progress report
This new report in LMS gives you complete details of each learner's progress with details on course completion and more.
Learn MoreRevamped members section in courses
Enroll members from different departments, groups, roles and locations with ease. Check progress of course entities, last accessed time and other details.
Learn MoreDropdown questions for online tests
Dropdown question type is the latest addition to join the extensive question types available in LMS online test.
Learn MoreRecalculate learner grades
Use this feature to display updated grades when there is a change in marks as the course progresses.
Learn MoreRestrict approval cancellation
Only allow cancelling an approval request within a specific time-frame.
Learn MoreJan
Export all data of an appraisal cycle with ease!
Use this export option to backup all data of an appraisal cycle and prevent any data loss.
Learn MoreEnhanced bulk time logs
Revamped reminder settings
Use applicability and exceptions to choose the specific set of employees you want to send reminders to.
Learn More
2021
Dec
Deleting Vaccination Status data
EnhancementsBoth Admins and employees now have an option to delete entries made in the Vaccination Status form.
Learn MoreCompensatory off expiry
EnhancementsYou can now define if credited comp off days will expire within set business days or calendar days.
Learn MoreImporting members into courses
EnhancementsSave time by directly importing members into self based and blended learning courses.
Learn MoreNov
Introducing Vaccination Status!
New FeatureCollect vital information about your employee's Covid-19 vaccination status using the Vaccination Status form.
Learn MoreYou can now unpublish reviews in Performance
EnhancementsThis option lets you make changes to an already published review.
Learn MoreIntroducing Report Access Settings
New FeatureThese settings let Admins define the access to the entire reports sections and individual reports.
Learn MoreOct
Custom feedback templates
New FeatureCreate a custom feedback template for your courses and award marks to learners when they submit feedback.
Learn MoreCopy and submit the same review data as another reviewer
EnhancementsView ratings and reviews submitted by another reviewer and submit the same as your review data too.
Learn MoreDedicated field to enter UAN in employee form
EnhancementsNow there is a dedicated field to enter the UAN Number. The new field also supports encryption and personal data protection.
Learn MoreAutomatically add an employee's manager to the recipient list
EnhancementsSending a document for e-sign? Now, automatically add the the reporting manager of all the intended employees to the recipient list.
Learn MorePin your Advanced Analytics Dashboards!
EnhancementsFrequently used dashboards under Advanced Analytics can now be pinned as Admin Pins and Favorites in Zoho People.
Learn MoreSep
Custom reports using leave applications data
EnhancementsYou can now create reports in Analytics and Advanced Analytics using leave applications data.
Learn MoreColorful & stylish courses
EnhancementsNow choose a color and pattern and add a touch of flair to your courses.
Learn MoreZoho People Kiosk Mobile Application
New FeatureZoho People Kiosk now comes as a mobile application available on the App store and Playstore.
Learn MoreAug
Zoho People Kiosk
New FeatureFacial recognition enabled check-in, simplified for remote offices and front-desks.
Learn MoreApprovals for cancellations
New FeatureSetup an approval process for cancelling any requests raised in Zoho People.
Learn MoreMore Course Reports
New FeatureCourse reports gains six new insightful course reports in Zoho People's LMS.
Learn MoreOn Duty in Attendance
New FeatureUse this feature to mark the presence of an employee who is working away from their office location such as a work site, client location or working from home.
Learn MoreJul
Normalization in Performance
New FeatureUse the Normalization feature to adjust employee ratings based on defined ideal rating distribution.
Learn MoreDefine Salary Hikes based on criteria
EnhancementsYou can now define different salary hikes based on employee's designation, date of joining and total work experience.
Learn MoreePHI fields
New FeatureMark fields containing sensitive medical data as ePHI data (electronic protected health information) ensuring that its encrypted and secured.
Learn MoreEnable/Disable login for multiple users at once
EnhancementsAdministrators can now multi-select users to enable or disable login access with ease.
Learn MoreJun
Permissions in Attendance
New FeatureYou can now design rules to track employees' short periods of time away from work.
Learn MoreIntroducing Leave Grant!
New FeatureUse leave grant to manage special leave requests on a case-to-case basis.
Learn MoreQualitative insights for appraisals
New FeatureUse Review Questions to gather important information to supplement your appraisal process.
Learn MoreNew report in Office Readiness!
New FeatureUse the Daily premises capacity report to know the current seats available at your office premises.
Learn MoreRaise shift change requests with ease!
New FeatureThe flow of raising and approving shift change requests is now more streamlined for employees and managers alike.
Learn MoreMay
Introducing Consolidated Reports!
NewReports of all services come together under one common space on the bottom left corner of your screen.
Learn MoreEmployee Information
New FeatureA new section of reports is added. The Admin dashboard widgets can now be viewed as reports under this section.
Learn MoreSettings gets a new home!
NewSettings (gear icon) can now be accessed from the top right corner of your screen.
Gather more details about your employee's health
EnhancementsUse the revamped health status form to collect more details from your employee who may be sick due to Covid-19.
Learn MoreDetailed reports on courses
New FeatureAccess insightful reports on various aspects of a course such as grades, attendance and much more.
Learn MoreApr
Import your job schedules
EnhancementsYou can now use the import option when you have a large number of job schedules to add.
Learn MoreE- approve documents
EnhancementsYou can now authorize the recipient to e-sign as the approver of a document.
Learn MoreMar
Give appraisals a closure
EnhancementsTo prevent changes from being made to an appraisal, use the Complete Appraisal option.
Learn MoreSemi monthly logs
New FeatureYou can now submit your time logs once a fortnight!
Learn MoreImproved LMS Assignment system
EnhancementsLMS assignments gain additional assignment types along with a space to monitor submissions.
Learn MoreManage Permissions in LMS
EnhancementsOne place to manage permissions for creating, sharing and publishing courses and Learning Plans.
Learn MoreFeb
Additional tools to evaluate learner proficiency
FeaturesWith Zoho People LMS's pre course and post course activities, you can now evaluate learner proficiency before and after a course.
Replicate courses with ease
FeaturesIf you want to create a course similar to an existing one, simply clone it!
Learn moreFacial recognition becomes versatile
FeaturesIn addition to the mobile application, Zoho People's facial recognition feature is now available also through your web browser!
Learn moreJan
A review system with more flexibility!
EnhancementsContinuous review can now be configured to happen once in six months.
Learn MoreWeightage limits for performance modules
EnhancementsChoose between having an uncapped weightage limit for KRA, Skill Set, and Competency or limit them to a maximum of 100%, your choice!
Learn More2020
Dec
Grant a certificate!
New FeatureCreate a well-deserved certificate for your learners to reward them for their successful completion of a course.
Learn MoreSet a weightage limit for goals
EnhancementsYou can now set an overall weightage limit for all goals mapped to an employee or for the goals tagged to each KRA.
Learn MoreNov
Introducing Facial Recognition
New FeatureImprove your organization's security with secure AI-enabled face recognition technology.
Learn MoreIntegrating with Zoho Directory
New FeatureA one-stop solution for user access management. Manage and monitor multiple product access credentials and login attempts with ease.
Learn MoreDocument Acknowledgement now in Files
EnhancementsEnsure your employees have read and acknowledged official documents.
Learn MoreOct
Assign a Project Head to lead your project
EnhancementsYou can now assign a project head to oversee a project and also assign several managers to your project.
Learn MoreScheduler and Reminder settings get a face lift!
EnhancementsSchedulers and Reminders settings in Timesheets now lets you select the period for which data is to be processed for.
To Learn More:
Create types of Multi-raters
EnhancementsCategorize multi-raters and select only the specific modules you want them to assess the employee on, while adding an appraisal cycle.
To Learn More:
Sep
Is your Office Ready?
New FeatureZoho People brings you Office Readiness that will help you sail through all the processes to ensure you reopen safe offices for your employees.
Learn moreAI is here!
New FeatureZoho People meets Zia, the AI chat bot. Summon Zia anytime, anywhere to perform a handful of actions with ease.
Learn morePlanning to conduct an online test for your employees?
New FeatureThe new Online Test feature in LMS offers a comprehensive test creation tool including a central question bank, random question generator, grading and much more!
Learn moreIntroducing Module Administrators!
New FeatureNow assign exclusive Module Admins for various modules who will have special access to view, edit, module specific entities, and to view corresponding reports.
To learn more:
Attendance Module Administrator
Merge limits from Zoho Writer
Effective November 1st 2020, a maximum of 1000 merges in a month, can be generated by an organization, free of cost. Every record data merge is considered as one merge. This limitation applies to all merges generated, including those in Onboarding, Automation, E-Sign and Forms. Click here to know more about increasing your merge limit.
Aug
Learning Plan
New FeatureHow do you ensure your employees progress in their career?
Use our learning plan to chart out various levels and courses that can help you achieve this.
Learn moreConnections
New FeatureYou can now securely connect with a collection of pre-configured third-party services or create your own connection in a few simple steps.
Learn moreStreamline timesheet submission
EnhancementsWant 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.
Learn moreDelete your comments in Cases
EnhancementsIf 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.
Learn moreMinimum and Maximum hours criteria for timesheet
EnhancementsYou can now track and alert employees who are logging less or more than the required hours you have set.
Learn moreJul
Bradford Score
New FeatureA renowned employee absence measuring system is now a part of Zoho People!
Use the Bradford formula to encourage employees to avoid frequent, short unplanned absences.
Learn MoreTurn Around Time based Approvals
New FeatureNow fine-tune approvals based on TAT (Turn Around Time). Pending approvals can now be configured to automatically move to the next approver when TAT has elapsed.
Learn MoreExclusive administrators for Performance Module
New FeatureYou now have a way to assign specific users and define their view and edit permissions for performance data. This helps maintain confidentiality and confine responsibility to few selected Admins while conducting an appraisal cycle.
Learn moreMark users Present by Default!
New FeatureDoes your top management find it cumbersome to swipe in every day due to frequent travel? Are some of your workers unable to mark their attendance from a remote location? Use Present by Default to mark specific users' attendance as 'Present' automatically.
Learn moreJun
Handy HR forms and templates
New FeatureYou can now access ready-to-use forms and a company handbook template, that can be shared, and also sent for e-sign to many employees, powered by Zoho Sign.
Learn moreManagers and Admins can now take a break from managing employee shifts!
New FeatureCreate shift groups for a specific set of employees and assign an exclusive shift admin.
Learn moreNow group employees from similar designations into Streams
Create streams to bring similar designations together, or operate designations independently if it suits your organization better.
Learn moreCheck on your employee's health with a simple survey!
During this Covid-19 crisis, you can check on your employees' health and wellness, with a simple survey added to their employee dashboards. You can record this information in the Employee health status form and configure automated mail-alerts, to support employees.
Learn moreMay
Scheduling multiple batches is now a breeze!
EnhancementsYou can now schedule multiple batches for your courses, in the frequency you want.
Learn moreNew Integration - Zoho Vault
New FeatureAvoid the painstaking process of coming up with new random passwords when adding users. Now with Zoho Vault integration, auto-generate complex passwords with ease.
Learn moreFine tune the onboarding experience
EnhancementsUse the onboarding settings to further customize the onboarding process for your candidates and employees.
Learn moreApr
Continuous Review
New FeatureEvaluate employee performance throughout the year and improve employee focus and engagement.
Learn moreZoho Recruit add-on
New FeatureAdd Zoho Recruit as an add-on to purchase recruiters and sync users from your Zoho People account.
Learn moreAdmin for Cases
EnhancementsAdd Cases Admins who will exclusively have access to settings and data of Cases.
Learn moreMar
Adding users through mobile number verification
New FeatureNo email address ? No problem! Now you can add users to Zoho People by mobile number verification. Adding new users has never been this simple!
Learn moreIntegration with Zoho WorkDrive
New FeatureYou can now attach files through Zoho Workdrive, enabling changes made to the shared document to be automatically reflected.
Learn moreFeb
Now create and assign Specific Roles with ease!
EnhancementsIt 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.
Learn moreJan
Activity Log to the rescue!
New FeatureManually keeping track of the numerous actions made in your Zoho People account can be painstaking. With the activity log feature, this information is now automatically tracked and stored.
Learn MoreClick here to view 2015-2019 updates