As we wrap up 2025, we’re taking a moment to look back on a year filled with progress and transformation at Zoho People. Our team has been constantly pushing boundaries to help our customers simplify complex HR processes, amplify their employees' experiences, and empower their HR teams to lead employees with empathy and agility. Every milestone we’ve reached this year, from product innovations to events, customer interactions, and community initiatives, has been shaped by valuable feedback, trust, and collaboration from the wonderful community of our customers, Partners, and HR thought leaders.
Looking back on the highlights, we’re very grateful for the amazing journey we’ve shared with you. Here’s a look at the key moments that made 2025 one of Zoho People’s best years:
Major features
Offboarding
This year, we introduced offboarding as a separate module to help HR teams create a positive exit experience for their employees. With offboarding in Zoho People, HR teams can create customized offboarding workflows that help them approve resignations, complete clearance forms, conduct exit interviews, and generate and collect offboarding documents, all from a single centralized system. Employees can raise resignation requests, check the progress of their offboarding process, get information on their last working day, and even stay on top of their clearances. Learn more about offboarding in Zoho People!
Localization
To better support global workforces, we introduced localization in Zoho People. Now, admins can translate key system terms into multiple languages so that employees can access HR services effortlessly. Form names, form fields, service names, view names, and section names can now be tailored to cultural and linguistic preferences, creating an inclusive HR experience for everyone. Learn more about localization in Zoho People!
Pulse surveys
At Zoho People, we truly understand that listening to employees is at the heart of every meaningful people management strategy. That's why we introduced pulse surveys, a key feature that helps HR teams run short and focused surveys of up to 10 questions at scheduled intervals. This can help HR teams capture real-time employee sentiments. Learn more about pulse surveys in Zoho People!
SCORM compliance
SCORM compliance in our learning management system enables admins to provide standardized e-learning materials in the form of documents, videos, and quizzes while tracking progress and performance with precision. Learn more!
Remote work policy
Since remote work is becoming incredibly prominent in almost every organization, we at Zoho People have introduced a remote work policy, a new feature that lets HR admins manage every employee's remote work. With this, they can define the number of days employees can work remotely in a month, set approval rules for remote requests, raise automatic requests when employees log in remotely, and more. Learn more about remote work policies in Zoho People!
Auto shift mapping
At Zoho People, we understand the shift management tasks that HR professionals have to deal with. In order to make them less complex, our team has introduced auto shift assignment, a key feature that assigns employees to different shifts based on their check-in time. This can be particularly useful for organizations that operate on rotating or flexible shift schedules. Learn more about auto shift assignment!
Holidays Gallery
Holidays Gallery lets HR teams add holidays tailored by employee location, supporting local celebrations and making workplaces more inclusive. Learn more!
Generate employee ID as part of onboarding
Zoho People now enables HR teams to generate employee ID numbers automatically during onboarding or when employees are added as users to the system. You can even include department, location, year, custom prefixes, suffixes, and more in an employee ID number. Learn more about employee ID generation in Zoho People!
Salary revision letters in compensation
With this enhancement, HR teams can generate salary revision letters effortlessly with Zoho Writer’s mail-merge templates. It enables them to automatically pull Zoho People field data for a smooth, personalized experience. They can even create multiple templates and customize them based on your organization's requirements. Learn more about this enhancement!
Workflow logs
HR admins can get a detailed view of all the workflows they've initiated in the past. This way, admins can keep track of all the workflows they've created while identifying any issues that may arise seamlessly. Learn more about this enhancement!
Login page customization
HR admins can customize their login page effortlessly to make sure it reflects their organizational culture. Admins can customize their logo, title, brand tagline, font size, background, and colors. Learn more about this enhancement!
Timesheet overtime policy
We understand that tracking every employee's overtime hours is essential to ensure compliance and pay employees accurately. That's why our team introduced a timesheet overtime policy that lets HR teams track daily, weekly, monthly, weekend, and holiday overtime hours based on time log hours. Whether you’re looking for ready-made templates, customizable options, or the power to create policies from scratch, this feature gives you the tools to manage and reward employee efforts in the right way. Learn more about the timesheet overtime policy in Zoho People!
Continuous review based appraisal cycle
At Zoho People, we understand that performance reviews have to be objective and accurate to make them meaningful to employees. That's why, with our latest enhancement, managers and HR teams can evaluate employee performance by analyzing the scores and ratings they receive as part of their continuous performance reviews. This way, managers can make decisions about promotions and salary hikes without any biases. Learn more about this feature!
Major initiatives
HRizon: Zoho People's flagship HR conference
2025 was a very special year for us as we launched HRizon, our first flagship HR conference, bringing together 270+ HR leaders to rethink people, culture, and purpose. It was so good to see HR professionals share insights on the future of work and the evolving role of HR.
People perspectives: HR roundtable
This year, we hosted an exclusive HR roundtable, where C-level HR leaders came together to discuss real challenges and practical solutions that shape the future of HR. As an HR software vendor, these conversations help us build better, more thoughtful products.
People unlocked: The Zoho People masterclass
Our hands-on masterclass series in Hyderabad and Dubai helped HR teams explore Zoho People capabilities in depth, experience live training, and connect 1:1 with product experts.
Zoho User Group Meetup
We also hosted our User Group Meetup in London to connect with our users and help them meet, network, and share ideas with fellow Zoho users and our product experts. Our users were incredibly happy to learn some powerful ways to make the best out of their Zoho People system.
Major events
Every year, we make it a point to participate in HR tradeshows across the world to engage with HR professionals from different streams and understand their pain points. This year, we had the opportunity to participate in the following events:
NHRD National Conference, Bengaluru
ET Future Forward
ET Nextech 2025
HR Technologies
Small Business Expo
SHRM TECH 2.0
CIPD Festival of Work
Surge HR
SHRM Annual Conference & Expo 2025
Tech HR 2025
AHRI 2025
Zukunft Personal Europe
SHRM MENA 2025
HR Technology Conference
Manning Modern Retail
HR Indaba 2025
HRSE Dubai
Austin Small Business Conference
3rd Annual Philippines HR Workplace Summit
SHRM 2025 - New Delhi
POWERGRID HR Tech Conference 2025
Major integrations
Zoho People × WhatsApp
Receive instant notifications and approve requests directly from WhatsApp, anytime, anywhere.
Zoho People × Slack
Let employees mark attendance, apply for leave, submit regularization, check holidays, manage approvals, and more, all without switching systems.
Zoho People × Skills Caravan LSP
Get seamless integration for SSO, competency alignment, and performance data sync between Zoho People and Skills Caravan.
Major awards
Thanks to the incredible support from our customers, Partners, and employees, we earned multiple recognitions this year, including:
What our customers say about us
"Zoho People empowered me to access, analyze, and deliver data within the defined timeframe, driving awareness and enablement."
— Shashikanth Jayaraman, CHRO and Chief of Staff, MulticoreWare Inc.
"We had a lot of issues in attendance, leave, onboarding, and exit. After Zoho People, there are three ways of attendance inputs. We can manage this through a mobile app, web platform, and even biometrics. We’ve kept this data centralized. From this, it then automatically pushes the data into Zoho People API.”
— Aparajitha Corporate Services Private Limited
Looking ahead to 2026
As we step into 2026, we’re more committed than ever to building solutions that help HR teams adapt to the future of work and build a workplace where their employees feel happy, engaged, and valued. Here’s to another year of collaboration, innovation, and success together!
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