What's New
Event series
2022
May
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 MoreExporting Timesheets
It is now possible to export your timesheets!
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
You can now enter the start and end time for each job when you create bulk time logs.
Learn MoreRevamped reminder settings
Use applicability and exceptions to choose the specific set of employees you want to send reminders to.
Learn More2021
Dec
Deleting Vaccination Status data
Both Admins and employees now have an option to delete entries made in the Vaccination Status form.
Learn MoreCompensatory off expiry
You can now define if credited comp off days will expire within set business days or calendar days.
Learn MoreImporting members into courses
Save time by directly importing members into self based and blended learning courses.
Learn MoreNov
Introducing Vaccination Status!
Collect vital information about your employee's Covid-19 vaccination status using the Vaccination Status form.
Learn MoreYou can now unpublish reviews in Performance
This option lets you make changes to an already published review.
Learn MoreIntroducing Report Access Settings
These settings let Admins define the access to the entire reports sections and individual reports.
Learn MoreOct
Custom feedback templates
Create 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
View 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
Now 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
Sending 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!
Frequently 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
You can now create reports in Analytics and Advanced Analytics using leave applications data.
Learn MoreColorful & stylish courses
Now choose a color and pattern and add a touch of flair to your courses.
Learn MoreZoho People Kiosk Mobile Application
Zoho People Kiosk now comes as a mobile application available on the App store and Playstore.
Learn MoreAug
Zoho People Kiosk
Facial recognition enabled check-in, simplified for remote offices and front-desks.
Learn MoreApprovals for cancellations
Setup an approval process for cancelling any requests raised in Zoho People.
Learn MoreMore Course Reports
Course reports gains six new insightful course reports in Zoho People's LMS.
Learn MoreOn Duty in Attendance
Use 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
Use the Normalization feature to adjust employee ratings based on defined ideal rating distribution.
Learn MoreDefine Salary Hikes based on criteria
You can now define different salary hikes based on employee's designation, date of joining and total work experience.
Learn MoreePHI fields
Mark 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
Administrators can now multi-select users to enable or disable login access with ease.
Learn MoreJun
Permissions in Attendance
You can now design rules to track employees' short periods of time away from work.
Learn MoreIntroducing Leave Grant!
Use leave grant to manage special leave requests on a case-to-case basis.
Learn MoreQualitative insights for appraisals
Use Review Questions to gather important information to supplement your appraisal process.
Learn MoreNew report in Office Readiness!
Use the Daily premises capacity report to know the current seats available at your office premises.
Learn MoreRaise shift change requests with ease!
The flow of raising and approving shift change requests is now more streamlined for employees and managers alike.
Learn MoreMay
Introducing Consolidated Reports!
Reports of all services come together under one common space on the bottom left corner of your screen.
Learn MoreEmployee Information
A 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!
Settings (gear icon) can now be accessed from the top right corner of your screen.
Gather more details about your employee's health
Use 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
Access insightful reports on various aspects of a course such as grades, attendance and much more.
Learn MoreApr
Import your job schedules
You can now use the import option when you have a large number of job schedules to add.
Learn MoreE- approve documents
You can now authorize the recipient to e-sign as the approver of a document.
Learn MoreMar
Give appraisals a closure
To prevent changes from being made to an appraisal, use the Complete Appraisal option.
Learn MoreSemi monthly logs
You can now submit your time logs once a fortnight!
Learn MoreImproved LMS Assignment system
LMS assignments gain additional assignment types along with a space to monitor submissions.
Learn MoreManage Permissions in LMS
One place to manage permissions for creating, sharing and publishing courses and Learning Plans.
Learn MoreFeb
Additional tools to evaluate learner proficiency
With 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
If you want to create a course similar to an existing one, simply clone it!
Learn moreFacial recognition becomes versatile
In 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!
Continuous review can now be configured to happen once in six months.
Learn MoreWeightage limits for performance modules
Choose 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!
Create a well-deserved certificate for your learners to reward them for their successful completion of a course.
Learn MoreSet a weightage limit for goals
You 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
Improve your organization's security with secure AI-enabled face recognition technology.
Learn MoreIntegrating with Zoho Directory
A 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
Ensure your employees have read and acknowledged official documents.
Learn MoreOct
Assign a Project Head to lead your project
You 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!
Schedulers 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
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:
Sep
Is your Office Ready?
Zoho 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!
Zoho 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?
The 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!
Now 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
How 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
You 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
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.
Learn moreDelete your comments in Cases
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.
Learn moreMinimum and Maximum hours criteria for timesheet
You can now track and alert employees who are logging less or more than the required hours you have set.
Learn moreJul
Bradford Score
A 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
Now 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
You 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!
Does 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
You 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!
Create 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!
You can now schedule multiple batches for your courses, in the frequency you want.
Learn moreNew Integration - Zoho Vault
Avoid 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
Use the onboarding settings to further customize the onboarding process for your candidates and employees.
Learn moreApr
Continuous Review
Evaluate employee performance throughout the year and improve employee focus and engagement.
Learn moreZoho Recruit add-on
Add Zoho Recruit as an add-on to purchase recruiters and sync users from your Zoho People account.
Learn moreAdmin for Cases
Add Cases Admins who will exclusively have access to settings and data of Cases.
Learn moreMar
Adding users through mobile number verification
No 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
You 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!
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.
Learn moreJan
Activity Log to the rescue!
Manually 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 More