Y25.1 release highlights

Welcome to the Sage People Y25.1 release!

This release delivers new features and Voice of the Customer improvements to help you automate and streamline your admin, and enhance the employee experience so that you can focus on important people priorities.

Workforce eXperience (WX) user interface enhancements

As part of our commitment to continuous delivery and feedback on the new user interface (UI) to enhance the employee and manager experience while using Sage People, we have made the following UI improvements in this release to:

• Manager Notes

• Payslips

Our transformation of WX in Sage People aims to bring best-in-class, accessible UI to employees, increasing engagement, as well as mobile-first designs for an intuitive user experience.

Time-off API

We’ve enhanced the connectivity of Sage People and widened the ecosystem for customers and now provide support for native Salesforce Time-off APIs. Customers can set up inbound time-off integrations with Sage People using plug-and-play integration capabilities. Inbound absence data and documents from third-party systems, such as Time and Attendance and ATS systems, can now be received within Sage People.

Voice of the Customer enhancements

With our Voice of the Customer initiative, we dedicate 40% of our resources to delivering the enhancements you’ve requested via the Customer Ideas Portal . View and vote on existing ideas already raised, check the status of an idea already submitted, or raise a new idea.

 

In this release, we’ve addressed the following requests for you:

Idea number	Description
IDEA-I-690	WX: Personalised homepage greeting Display relevant and personalized information to employees on their WX homepage when they log in to Sage People.
IDEA-I-556	WX: Internal comms displayed on a single page View multiple internal communications on one page, reducing the need to scroll through the carousel, ensuring that important information isn’t missed. A dedicated internal comms page can be accessed from the home page, allowing you to host over 40 communications.
IDEA-I-905	WX: Improved mobile login to WX We’ve removed the need to log in again when accessing WX via the mobile app. This removes friction from processes on the go, making access to the information you need, easier.
IDEA-I-680	WX: Configure summary processes We’ve introduced the ability to configure summary processes. Employees can now see homepage content related to their policy, rather than the whole organisation. This makes their homepage content more relevant and engaging to them.
	Admin Experience: Automatic update of currency rates We’ve introduced automatic updates to currency rate changes in salary and benefits records. This removes the need for manual updates to currency rates and ensures data consistency and accuracy.
IDEA-I-181	Admin Experience: Start/end dates for role delegation You can now define start and end dates for role delegation. This eliminates the previous workaround of manually creating a rule on the start date of delegation and deleting the rule on the day it ends.
	Admin Experience: Sage People Data Loader messages We’ve introduced additional warning and confirmation messages while using the Sage People Data Loader. This helps to guide the user to take the correct action and presents data errors occurring.
	Performance: UX enhancements to compensation planning We’ve made some UX enhancements to improve compensation planning processes. Improvements include the auto-sizing of columns in the compensation planning tables to fit titles, and improving the clarity between numerical and percentage fields to remove any uncertainty when entering values into them.
	Performance: UX enhancements to Performance Reviews We’ve listened to your feedback you shared on your experiences using the new UI for Performance Overviews that we introduced in the Y24.2 release. Based on your feedback, we’ve improved the format of the sidebar, removed “Next performance cycle” information from the landing page, displayed performance period start and end dates for completed reviews, and removed the “discard” button that was causing confusion.
	Performance: Print PDFs of Performance Overviews We’ve introduced the ability to print a performance overview as a PDF when the new UI toggle is on.