Zoho People Whats New - Q2 2026
Hello Users!
We're excited to share the latest updates introduced in Zoho People during Q2 2026. This release brings a range of new features and enhancements designed to simplify HR operations, automate routine processes, and deliver a smarter, more connected employee experience.
Introducing Zia: AI HR Assistant New Feature
Get answers, complete HR tasks, and access information faster with Zia.
- Get instant answers to HR-related queries using natural language.
- Get workforce insights with reports, analytics, charts, summaries, and key trends.
- Quickly find HR information, FAQs, and policy details without searching through documents.
- Perform routine actions like approvals, reminders, and updates with ease.
- Receive step-by-step guidance for navigation and configuration within Zoho People.
- Interact through chat or voice for a seamless experience across web, mobile app, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.
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Benefit from secure, role-based access ensuring data privacy and compliance.
Introducing OKR in Zoho People New Feature
OKR service in Zoho People helps you define, align, and track goals in a clear and measurable way across teams and employees.
- Turn organizational goals into measurable outcomes using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
- Create and align objectives across the organization, departments, locations, and employees to ensure consistency.
- Track progress through measurable key results and regular check-ins.
- Improve accountability through clear goal ownership and continuous tracking.
- Use OKRs as an evaluation parameter in performance reviews for more objective and goal-focused assessments.
Offer and appointment letter management New Feature
Enhance onboarding with offer and appointment letter management. Create customized offer and appointment letters using mail merge templates, send them digitally, track responses, and manage the entire journey from offer rollout to candidate-to-employee transition—all from a single place.
- Create multiple templates for different roles, regions, and hiring scenarios
- Generate customized offer and appointment letters with compensation and joining details using mail merge templates
- Send offer and appointment letters digitally, get them e-signed, and track their acceptance, rejection, and expiry status
LOP reversal for past pay periods Enhancement
Auto-reverse sandwiched absences Enhancement
Leave gallery templates for Italy, France, Chile, Brazil, and Malaysia Enhancement
Leave gallery now includes preconfigured leave policy templates for Italy, France, Chile, Brazil, and Malaysia, designed to align with region-specific regulations and leave requirements.
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Avoid double penalty for attendance deviations on the same day Enhancement
You can now choose to consider only the highest attendance deviation penalty for a day, preventing multiple deductions when both grace period and strict mode policies are enabled.
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Export attendance data for payroll with detailed overtime Enhancement
You can now include overtime split details based on your organization's overtime configuration when exporting the Attendance Data for Payroll report.
Learning plan outcomes with approval settings Enhancement
Set up outcomes for learning plan completion and automatically update a learner’s designation, department, skills, location, or group. The enhancement also introduces approval settings for learning plan outcomes with support for both single and multiple conditions.
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LMS course activity log for configuration tracking Enhancement
Track all changes made to course configurations with the course activity log. View additions, removals, and setting updates along with details of the user who performed each action.
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LMS training sessions now sync with Outlook calendar Enhancement
Training sessions in Zoho People's LMS can now be automatically synced with Microsoft Outlook Calendar. Trainers and enrolled learners can view upcoming sessions directly in Outlook, and any session updates are synchronized automatically.
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Leave and attendance metrics in performance review Enhancement
Leave and attendance metrics can now be included in performance reviews, providing reviewers with greater visibility into employees' attendance and leave patterns. This helps support more comprehensive and informed performance evaluations.
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Reviewer acknowledgment for normalized ratings Enhancement
Administrators can now send updated normalized ratings for reviewer acknowledgment. Reviewers can review, accept, or reject the changes made to their assigned ratings.
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Custom button and scheduler logs Enhancement
Gain better visibility into your automations by tracking custom button actions and scheduler executions with detailed logs. Access detailed execution records in Settings > Service > Automation > Workflow and Custom Button Logs.
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