Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Human Resources in 2024 release wave 1

Overview

Work and the workplace have fundamentally changed. Yet, many businesses still use outdated HR processes. Today, people connect through mobile devices and plug into their networks. They have higher expectations for their career paths and want to work for organizations that share their values.

Legacy human capital management (HCM) systems create disconnects and silo data across HR architectures. These architectures often include solutions from multiple vendors. Many processes remain manual, and the employee experience lacks connection. When employees face disruption, the organization suffers from a lack of product innovation, costly operational errors, less satisfied customers, and weaker financial results.

Our goal is to reduce manual processes and connect employee experiences. We bring systems together so data is available and not siloed. We want to help employees focus on their work, inspire managers to help employees grow, and support HR business partners as they focus on strategic areas of the organization.

For 2024 release wave 1, we focus on:

• Improving recruiting experiences with rich and intuitive experiences for recruiters, candidates, and hiring managers.
• Expanding the HCM ecosystem by integrating learning management systems through public APIs that use Dataverse and by expanding our payroll partner network.
• Building better together experiences that connect across the Dynamics 365 space.

Updates to Dynamics 365 Human Resources 2024 release wave 1

Investment areas

Copilot in Dynamics 365 Human Resources
Each release wave brings new AI and automation investments that empower employees, HR managers, administrators, and recruiting agents with intelligent, natural-language interactions. These enhancements go beyond business applications to include productivity tools like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Excel, so employees can use them where they're most productive. Copilot features in Human Resources streamline and speed up workflows, optimizing operational efficiencies from the frontline of employee experiences to the human resources back office.

Optimize human resource operations
Each new release wave of the Dynamics 365 Human Resources application brings enhancements that help corporations and organizations optimize their human resource operations. These enhancements cover personnel management, compensation, benefits, and performance management. Improvements in recruiting operations, skills and competency management, and succession management bring efficiencies to the hire-to-retire lifecycle. Investments in core employee experiences around leave and absence, learning, and training management bring core HR data and processes to meet employees where they are.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Dynamics 365 Human Resources below:

For application administrators

User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.

Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.

Get the most out of Human Resources