
Zoho People now includes built-in accessibility controls to make the platform more inclusive and easier to navigate. Enable features that improve usability for users with visual, hearing, and mobility needs, helping your teams work comfortably and efficiently.
Connect your Zoho People organization with Microsoft SharePoint to securely backup Zoho People data directly to your SharePoint folder.
Note: This feature is enabled on request. Contact support@zohopeople.com to enable it for your organization.
Set up automated reminders to notify administrators in advance about organization file expiry.
Configure custom administrators to view and manage continuous review data.
Allow employees to switch to remote work on the same day without approval after an office check-in.
Employees cannot use the same time log description more than once within a month, ensuring more accurate timesheet records.
Extend existing leave requests directly without cancelling and submitting a new request. Employees, reporting managers, and approvers can perform this action based on permission.
Automatically check out employees and notify their reporting managers or specific users when an employee’s location is detected outside the geo-restricted range.
Notify employees and their reporting manager when absence is automatically converted to leave at the end of the pay period.
Survey questions can be added in bulk by importing them into the Question Pool. You can import Single, Multiple, Date, Star, Comment, and NPS question types.
Payroll setting changes for Zoho Payroll, Greythr, Paybooks, and Xero are now logged in the activity logs, giving admins better visibility and traceability.
Note: This feature is supported through the Zoho Sign integration in Zoho People.
Yearly recurring date-based workflow events can now automatically skipped or rescheduled when they fall on weekends or selected days.
Quickly sync timesheet data from Zoho Projects to Zoho People by selecting a custom start time.
Set minimum and maximum character limits for time log descriptions when the description is marked as mandatory.
Overtime and extended overtime rules can be configured for bi-monthly, quarterly, and yearly periods, in addition to existing rules.
Control the inclusion or exclusion of weekends and holidays based on employee leave duration with the sandwich leave policy.
You can now edit the reminder email templates sent for each holiday. This enables an option to include holiday-specific messages and greetings to the reminder emails.
Course administrators can now enable or disable feedback for specific courses from the 'Course Settings' page.
Configure bulk time log submission options to allow employees to submit time logs for a day, week, month, or semi-monthly.
A new Methods tab in the timesheet service lets administrators enable or disable timesheet methods such as projects, clients, timesheets, job schedule, billing, and breaks based on organizational timesheet service requirements.
Configure breaks in the timesheet service and allow employees to log break time in their time logs. Breaks can be logged manually or automatically based on break preferences.
Survey owners can now trigger reminders manually for users who haven’t completed a survey. This ensures timely follow-ups and higher response rates.
Multi-channel notification in WhatsApp
You can now create multiple WhatsApp channels and enable specific notifications for each. This keeps communication structured and helps streamline notifications.
Support for multiple notification types
You can now create multiple WhatsApp channels and enable specific notifications for each. This keeps communication structured and helps streamline notifications.
Note: Notifications are sent only if the corresponding email notifications are enabled.
Configure remote work policy to limit remote work days per week or month for your employees, ensuring consistent workforce availability and effective remote work management.
You can now retrigger onboarding to resend the latest flow to candidates or employees who have already started the process. A notification will be sent to complete onboarding again.
Organizations can now request employee consent for specific important documents. For documents marked as mandatory, access to Zoho People will be restricted if consent is not provided by the specified deadline.
Now customize your rebranded Zoho People landing page. Customization options include custom background image, button colors, custom favicon, font color and more!
Failed custom functions can now be retriggered from workflow logs, with the option to edit the Record ID or Form ID before rerunning.
Click the icon on the recurring survey to view all ongoing and completed schedules, along with their response rates.
Export timesheet data of upto 6 months (184 days) in a single file.
Choose whether to include or exclude weekends and holidays within a leave period for leave calculation. Leave can be calculated using calendar days or business days, offering greater flexibility in leave tracking.
Loss of Pay can now be pushed for all pay cycle types, including role-based, location-based, and employment type-based, making payroll management more flexible.
Continuous review cycles will be paused automatically if no self or manager reviews are submitted for three consecutive cycles. To restart, you must resume the continuous review.
SFTP connections now support SSH key authentication in addition to passwords, giving users a more secure and flexible setup.
Integrate Zoho People with Slack to perform HR actions directly within your Slack workspace. Receive real-time approval notifications, check in/out, apply for leave, log time, and manage requests, all within Slack.
Employee IDs can now be generated automatically when converting a candidate to an employee or employee profile, making ID assignment faster and easier.
Automatically round employees’ early or late check-ins and check-outs to the shift start or end time. Total work hours can also be rounded up to the shift duration.
Set permissions to control who can change past shift schedules within the current pay period and calendar year.
You can now retrigger onboarding for candidates or users whose onboarding is already in progress or completed, ensuring they follow the latest updates in your onboarding flow.
You can now use an employee’s current salary as a component in formula-based salary components, enabling smarter and more dynamic compensation calculations.
Course admins can now create custom course completion certificate templates, in addition to the system templates, for a course.
Configure reminders to automatically notify users when a course is due or overdue for completion, helping ensure timely course completion.
Pulse surveys can now be scheduled to repeat daily, helping you collect continuous employee feedback with ease.
Admin and group admin users can now directly import members into a group, making group management faster and easier.
You can now retry custom functions from the workflow logs page. You can also update execution scripts, view detailed failure reasons, - all from the same place.
You can now export a detailed report of the Continuous Review summary, including module-wise ratings, in a structured format for easy analysis.
Control who can publish continuous review final ratings. By default, only Admins have permission.
Integrate multiple payroll applications within a single Zoho People account, with setup preferences based on location or employee type.
Contact support@zohopeople.com to enable multiple payroll integration options for your organization.
Enable the option to send salary revision letters via email with password protection upon publishing the revision letter.
Users can now be restricted to check out only from the same source they used for check-in (Web, Mobile App, or Kiosk), ensuring accurate attendance tracking.
You can now restrict employees from recording manual or automatic breaks in the system during their shift's core working hours.
Control employee access to cover image updates. Admins can allow employees to use the system cover image or upload a personalized custom cover image, based on the permissions provided.
You can now export a detailed report of the Continuous Review summary, including module-wise ratings, in a structured format for easy analysis.
Control who can publish continuous review final ratings. By default, only Admins have permission.
Integrate multiple payroll applications within a single Zoho People account, with setup preferences based on location or employee type.
Contact support@zohopeople.com to enable multiple payroll integration options for your organization.
Enable the option to send salary revision letters via email with password protection upon publishing the revision letter.
Users can now be restricted to check out only from the same source they used for check-in (Web, Mobile App, or Kiosk), ensuring accurate attendance tracking.
You can now restrict employees from recording manual or automatic breaks in the system during their shift's core working hours.
Control employee access to cover image updates. Admins can allow employees to use the system cover image or upload a personalized custom cover image, based on the permissions provided.
Track your employees’ daily, weekly, weekend, holiday, and consecutive workday overtime hours based on their time log hours. Set overtime pay using regular RPH (Rate Per Hour) multiples or employee wage rates.
Effortlessly stay compliant with regional overtime regulations by applying preconfigured overtime policies designed for all 50 U.S. states + 2 territories (District of Columbia and Puerto Rico)—available in just a few clicks.
Automatically turn recorded absences into approved leave using available leave balances—no manual effort or approvals needed.
Easily browse and add region-specific holidays list with the new Holidays Gallery.
Just select a country to view relevant holidays and import with ease.
Employees get up to 90 days of sick leave per year after a 3-month probation period, with full pay for the first 15 days, half pay for the next 30 days, and no pay for the rest.
This can be configured using the Leave Type Gallery.
Handle all employee case requests in one place—view, assign, and resolve them quickly. Add cases for others via the Categories tab.
View all learning plans assigned to an employee, including completion status and total time spent. Drill down into individual courses to see detailed progress for each item, such as time spent, file type, status, and total duration.
Launch surveys instantly upon publishing, and manage them effortlessly with the ability to pause or restart anytime using the Stop Survey / Start Survey buttons.
Set a weightage limit for KRAs, allowing users to assign values within the defined range during assignment. For example, a range of 60–80 lets users allocate a weightage between 60 and 80.
Track whether cases meet or miss SLA timelines, with options to filter by hours, days, or weeks. View detailed metrics like average residual time, average violation time, and escalation counts to monitor performance effectively.
Lock goal progress updates until goals are finalized to ensure accurate tracking from the start.
Get clear, detailed reasons for sync failures during manual or automatic data import and export in the Zoho People and Zoho Projects integration.
Control who can view and edit an employee’s Rate Per Hour (RPH) in Timesheet service jobs and projects.
Set daily or weekly caps on total billable and non-billable hours. Logging stops once the limit is reached.
Note: Use the timesheet overtime policy to track overtime hours based on time log hours.
Include non-billable hours in payroll reports and timesheet calculations—ideal for US compliance and businesses that pay for all hours worked.
Configure up to five unique custom headers in webhook settings to add extra data or securely transmit credentials (e.g., authentication tokens, API keys) in API requests. Header names must be unique (≤100 chars) and values ≤250 chars.