Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Human Resources in 2024 release wave 2

Overview

As human resources roles shift from administrative to strategic, use next-generation AI to transform common HR activities and responsibilities. This transformation empowers HR users, reduces costs, and provides valuable insights for faster decision making. The vision is to deliver an HR application that gives HR professionals full visibility, evidence, and autonomy as they navigate a complex and competitive world. In this world, regulations constantly change, and companies explore new ways to grow globally while retaining talent and increasing engagement.

One of the key challenges for human resources professionals is staying ahead of the curve and adapting to the changing needs of their organizations and employees. To help them meet this challenge, this release introduces new AI-powered features that enable professionals to automate and optimize common HR tasks, such as benefits, talent management, and employee engagement. By using the in-app copilot capabilities, professionals can access personalized and contextual guidance, insights, and recommendations based on their role and preferences. We also invest in business performance planning and analytic capabilities that provide a holistic view of workforce data and trends. These capabilities help professionals make informed decisions that align with strategic goals.

Updates to Dynamics 365 Human Resources 2024 release wave 2

Investment areas

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.

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