Stop chasing sick notes and supporting documents over email or shared drives, they now live directly on the leave request, with rules to request them automatically.

What's New ✨

• Attach documents to any request: Add supporting evidence to a leave request, or an existing one, on mobile or desktop, including your own leave
• Control access: Two new permissions, View leave documents and Manage leave documents, decide who can see, download, or delete what's attached
• Request documents automatically: Set a rule per leave type, e.g. require a document for sick leave over 7 days. Optional, always required, or required after a threshold
• Prompted, not blocked: Employees and managers are nudged when a document is expected but missing - never blocked from submitting or approving

Why you'll love it? 💖

• No more chasing evidence over email or shared drives
• Everyone with the right permission can see and manage documents in one place
• Request the right documents automatically

How does it work? 🛠️

1. Create or edit a leave request and attach a file (up to 5).
2. Managers with Manage leave documents can view, download, or remove documents any time.
3. To automate requests, open a leave policy → Supporting document → choose your rule.

Read the full guide: How to set up leave policies

Who is it available to?  

• Attach & manage documents: available now in the UK/US as part of Leave Management+ (HR & Pro), AU on HR and Pro plans.
• Automatic document rules: available now for UK/US (Leave Management+, HR & Pro). Not yet available in AU - coming with the new leave engine.

Peak season and a thin roster don't mix. With the new Maximum People on Leave setting, you can cap how many team members can be on leave at once per location so you're never caught short-staffed by overlapping leave requests.

What's New ✨

You can now set a maximum number of people who can be on leave at the same time, with a different limit for each location if you need one. Once the limit is reached for a set of dates, team members can't submit a new leave request for those dates and they see a clear message explaining why, on both web and the Deputy mobile app. Managers, however, keep the final say: when approving a request that would reach or exceed the limit, they see a warning rather than a block, so genuine exceptions can still be approved at their discretion. The limit applies across all leave types by default, but you can exclude specific types so they never count towards the cap.

How does it work?

1. Go to Business Settings → Leave → Global leave settings.
2. In the Leave Limits section, toggle the setting on and enter your maximum number of people.
3. Add any excluded leave types, and set location-specific limits if needed. Save, and the limit applies immediately.

Read the full guide: How do I set a limit to the maximum number of people on leave at one time?

Why you will love it?

Protect your busiest periods: Minimum staffing stays intact because overlapping leave is caught before it's even submitted.

Fewer awkward declines: Team members see upfront when dates aren't available, instead of submitting a request only to have a manager decline it later.

Guardrails, not handcuffs: Employees get a clear boundary; managers keep discretion for the exceptions that matter.

When will it be available?

Maximum People on Leave is available now with a subscription to the Pro plan (or HR, where available in your country).

When a part-timer moves from 3 to 4 days a week, their leave entitlement should move with them. For leave policies that accrue Based on regular working hours, Deputy now recalculates leave balances automatically whenever a team member's regular working hours change, no manual adjustments required.

What's New ✨

Update a team member's regular working hours individually, or in bulk from the People page and Deputy now recalculates their leave entitlement to match their new working pattern. Before applying the change, Deputy shows you exactly which leave policies will be recalculated, so there are no surprises. The maths is fair and proportional: each working pattern is applied to the period it was in effect, so a 20-day full-time entitlement at 3 days per week is 12 days, and moving to 4 days per week takes it to 16. You control how recalculated balances round, and to what increment then every recalculation is logged in the leave audit log with who made the change, when, and the complete calculation breakdown available on hover.

How does it work?

1. Open a team member's profile, go to the Employment tab, and edit their regular working hours (or select multiple team members on the People page to update in bulk).
2. Review the confirmation showing which leave policies will be recalculated, then save.
3. The updated balance appears on the team member's Leave tab, with the recalculation recorded in the leave audit log.

Read the full guide: Automatically recalculate leave when a team member's regular working hours change

Why you will love it?

No more manual balance adjustments: Working pattern changes used to mean recalculating entitlements by hand — now it happens the moment you save.

Entitlements that are always right: Team members whose hours change mid-year get the leave they're actually entitled to, calculated proportionally across each pattern.

Every change is accountable: The audit log shows the who, when, and how of every recalculation, so questions about a balance take seconds to answer.

When will it be available?

Automatic leave recalculation is available now for leave policies using the Based on regular working hours accrual option, with a subscription to the Pro plan (or HR, where available in your country).

What's new ✨

Great feedback shouldn't have to wait for review season. Performance Notes lets managers capture what happened — a standout shift, a coaching moment, an incident — the moment it happens. So instead of relying on memory weeks later, you build a fair, consistent picture of your team over time and walk into every conversation with the full story.

Capture the moment 

• Write and save notes on desktop or mobile, whenever something's worth recording
• Attach up to 5 files for extra context; photos, documents, screenshots
• Organise notes with tags so patterns are easy to spot
• Link a note to a specific shift for complete context

Make sense of it with AI

• Summarise an employee's notes into a clear, at-a-glance view
• See a team-level summary to spot trends across your people
• Use AI writing assist to refine a note before you publish it

Stay in control

• Choose whether each note is shared with the employee or kept for managers only
• Everything lives in one place, on the employee's Performance tab

Why 🤔

To help you save time, stay organised, and give your team the feedback they need to grow—all without extra tools or paperwork.

• Easy reviews, anywhere: submit and view performance feedback on the go or at your desk.
• Clear feedback: give your team visibility into their progress and next steps.
• Better team growth: spot strengths and areas to improve, so everyone can advance.
• Less turnover: regular feedback helps keep your best people longer

How to use it 🤓

Open an employee's profile → Performance tab → Add note.

Click here to read more about how to use it

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback

What's new ✨

Newly onboarded team members can now be stapled to their existing super fund, helping employers meet ATO requirements while reducing manual admin.

You can now connect to the Australian Tax Office (ATO)

• activate Super Stapling for eligible new hires
• automatically submit employees’ Tax File Number (TFN) declarations

Why 🤔

Be ready for Payday Super – From 1 July 2026, employers must pay super guarantee at the same time as salary and wages.

How to use it 🤓

Go to your onboarding settings > add your ABN > connect to ATO

Click here to read more about how to use it

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback

Say hello to the new Bradford Factor report, available right within Deputy Analytics+. 

This report turns your team's raw leave data into actionable insights, helping you automate absence analysis to support your teams. Worry less about crunching numbers, and focus more on supporting your people to do their best work.

What’s New ✨

The Bradford Report allows managers to quickly come to a retrospective view of employee’s Bradford scores. Here's what you can do with the new Bradford Report:

• Smart consolidation: The report automatically groups consecutive leave days into single spells.
• Colour-coded concern ratings: Get an instant, at-a-glance understanding of absence patterns with clear ratings (Serious, Medium, Initial, Low).
• Interactive filters: Easily search for specific employees or drill down into the data by score and absence count.
• Location-specific insights: Quickly spot which locations are most affected by problematic absenteeism. 

How does it work?

These are the steps to access it:

1. Login to your Deputy account
2. Click on the Analytics tab on the top ribbon

1. Click on View all reports

1. Scroll down to the HR folder in the Reports side navigation 
2. Select the Bradford Score report

When will it be available?

This report is now available as part of the Deputy Analytics+ subscription (or HR add-on).

For further details on setup, principles, and other FAQs please read our Help Article.
To learn more about functionality common to every Analytics report, read our Using Analytics Help Article.

We’ve significantly enhanced the Australian onboarding experience to simplify the superannuation setup process, ensuring compliance and reducing the administrative burden for both managers and new team members. This overhaul addresses the complexity and manual effort historically involved in superannuation (Super) choice and tax file number declaration (TFND).

With a guided, staged experience, new employees can confidently select their Super fund and complete all necessary declarations, making them PayDay Compliant faster, leading to a faster employee Time-to-Start, and reduced admin effort.

What’s New ✨

• Guided, Staged Onboarding: New team members must complete one section before moving to the next, ensuring no critical information is missed.
• Multi-ABN Selection: Customers who have added multiple ABNs can now choose the relevant ABN during the onboarding process for the new team member.
• Instant TFND Creation: The necessary Tax File Number Declaration (TFND) is now created within the flow.
• Flexible Super Fund Choice: New team members have clear options to choose from an existing fund, instantly join a new fund, join their employer’s nominated fund, or utilise a Self-Managed Super Fund (SMSF).

How does it work?

1. When a new team member is added, they begin the enhanced onboarding process.
2. If the business operates under multiple ABNs, the manager or new team member is prompted to choose which ABN the onboarding relates to.
3. The team member is guided through staged onboarding, ensuring they complete essential sections like personal details before moving on to Superannuation.
4. In the Superannuation step, the team member is presented with clear choices: selecting an existing fund, joining a new fund instantly, joining the employer's default fund, or using a SMSF.
5. The process now includes the creation of the TFND (Tax File Number Declaration).

When will it be available?

This improvement is now available to all Deputy customers using the AU Onboarding flow who have added an ABN.
Enterprise businesses' rollout will commence in January. 

Deputy HR onboarding has been upgraded to include built-in VEVO checks and an enhanced Right to Work workflow. 

What’s New ✨

Managers can now conduct right-to-work (Visa status) checks when onboarding new hires, and for allexisting employees.

How does it work?

Once enabled, new team members will move through an improved onboarding flow that collects all the information required to run a VEVO check directly within Deputy HR. As soon as the onboarding form is submitted, managers can complete the VEVO check instantly.

When will it be available?

To activate it, go to your Business Settings → Right to Work and connect your account to VEVO.

Read more about running VEVO checks for new hires and existing employees

To make managing company documents easier, we’ve introduced folders in the Document Library. Managers can now organise and access documents more efficiently, ensuring important files are easily found and managed.

Set up your document library now

As part of our ongoing commitment to privacy, we’ve refined Hire permissions. Managers will now only see job listings and candidates for the locations they’re assigned to—ensuring access is limited to what’s relevant, protecting confidential details, and making Hire simpler and easier to use. 

Start using Hire today