Nov 2, 2026: v1.786

This release covers Absence Management, Documents, Employee Profile, Expenses, General, Goals, Payroll, Performance Reviews, Position Management, Recruiting, Scheduling, Settings, Time Tracking, Workflows.

🆕 New Features

Documents: You can now create document folders for multiple employees at once directly from the Employees list.

Settings, Employee Profile: Admins can now customize employee profile layouts directly from Hub settings to show tailored fields, sections, and reports for specific roles or teams.

Absence Management, Settings: You can now include upcoming absences in HR digests to view approved time off for the coming day, week, or month.

Goals: You can now receive goal comment notifications if you are the goal's assigned employee, creator, or manager.

Recruiting: You can now add custom pages and links to your career portal’s header and footer to share additional information or external websites.

Settings: You can now check approval policies, identify employees without approvers, review Hub form fields, and view country per diem rates in Expense Settings.

Settings: You can now manage all your expense rules and limits, assign employees to templates in bulk, and adjust category tax rates in one place.

Expenses: Admins can now configure allowed expense currencies for employees by entity, department, location, or company-wide.

Settings: You can now review expense setup health checks to quickly find and resolve configuration issues, such as missing approvers or rule templates.

Expenses: You can now submit expenses in the receipt's currency; flair converts them for reimbursement and shows the original amount and exchange rate to approvers.

Documents, Workflows: Managers can now create reference letters in the Employee Hub using pre-written text blocks, which HR can review, approve, and automatically file to employee records.

🔧 Improvements

Position Management: On Company Structure, the position panel has more space between sections, status shows as text in the details, and Compact layout on the Org Chart is now a switch.

Time Tracking: Employees can now receive shift change notifications showing previous and new times whenever a published shift is moved, reassigned, or cancelled.

General: You will now reliably receive new comment email notifications regardless of the comment author’s sharing permissions.

Time Tracking: You can now see scheduling conflict warnings for double bookings, excessive hours, and missing breaks before publishing shifts.

Payroll: You can now view previous salaries and pay changes for each employee directly in your payroll salary export.

Performance Reviews: You can now set a performance period for multi-country reviews and lock goal results to prevent further edits.

Time Tracking: You can now start, stop, and log breaks without waiting, as Hub time tracking entries now save in about a second.

Goals: HR administrators can now track missing goals, invalid weights, and pending approvals across each objective period in a centralized goals overview.

Settings: You can now review compliance audit findings through email, Slack, or browser alerts without receiving mobile push notifications on your phone.

Time Tracking: You can now see predefined shift short names in the shift planner's compact view, making it easier to read schedules across longer periods.

Time Tracking: In Shift Planner, you can now see instant error messages if an open shift has invalid times, breaks, or employee numbers before saving.

Documents: You can now review reference letter options more easily, with text blocks, grades, and customizations displayed on separate rows.

Scheduling: You can now view and edit long-term shift schedules faster, as the six-month view loads about 40% quicker.

Recruiting: When emailing multiple candidates at once, you can now preview each recipient's email with their personal details filled in before sending.

Time Tracking: You can now enforce rest period rules on manually added time entries and change requests to prevent or flag break violations.

Expenses: You can now approve, decline, or reimburse multiple expenses at once using bulk actions, and save custom filter views on the Expenses page.

Expenses: You can now review receipts and approve or decline claims in an expense details side panel without losing your place in the list.

Expenses: You can now track and review claims through organized expense queues, search across all records, and safely approve or decline requests following your team's policies.

Recruiting: Admins can now hide the overall recommendation on evaluation templates, removing both the recommendation and overall comment from those evaluations.

Position Management: Position Management now has a sortable, filterable list like the Employees list, and opening a position shows a panel where you can view and edit its details and skills.

Documents, Workflows: You can now review and edit formatted reference letters directly in the document editor before approving and sending them to employees.

🐞 Bug Fixes

Absence Management: Employees can now replace an absence with a sick note without receiving an absence rejection notification.

Recruiting: When composing candidate emails, you can now insert links at your cursor or apply them directly to highlighted text.

Goals, Documents: HR admins can now close individual review steps for a participant without running into an error.

Settings: You can now reconnect the Hub only if you have the Flair Hub permission, ensuring connections are made from the correct organization.

Recruiting: You can now send mass emails with personalized subject lines that correctly show each recipient's individual details instead of repeating the first recipient's information.

Time Tracking: You can now view accurate staffing coverage for multi-skilled employees, ensuring their shifts are counted only once across the roles they can fill.

Payroll: You can now reassign a cost center to an employee for a new time period after their previous assignment has ended.

Payroll, Documents, Settings: You can now view DATEV payroll download results, including any unmatched personnel numbers, and choose which employee profile field maps to DATEV personnel numbers.

Time Tracking: You can now switch to Location view for long timeframes in the shift planner without the page freezing.

Time Tracking: You can now pay off a negative time balance with overtime hours before they start counting toward your overtime threshold.

Settings: You can now update a position's manager without altering the manager history of former employees who previously held that position.