Comprehensive Headcount Planner & Advanced Workforce Intelligence Platform

🚀 New Features

• Complete Headcount Planner with AI-Powered Workforce Intelligence: Launched comprehensive workforce planning platform with AI-driven forecasting, budget optimization, and market intelligence—enabling organizations to predict hiring needs, optimize resource allocation, analyze talent market conditions, and create data-driven workforce strategies with scenario modeling, executive reporting, and integration with EPMS and OKR systems for strategic alignment.

• Advanced Calendar Integration App with Multi-Provider Support: Introduced comprehensive calendar integration supporting Google Calendar, Outlook, and iCal with bi-directional sync capabilities—allowing employees to view shifts, leave, holidays, training sessions, and business events in their personal calendars while enabling automatic synchronization of external calendar events back to the workforce management system for complete schedule visibility.

• Intelligent Onboarding Template System with Automation: Implemented sophisticated onboarding management with customizable templates, checkpoint workflows, and automated task generation—providing HR teams with standardized onboarding processes, new hire portal access, document management integration, and progress tracking that adapts to different roles and departments while ensuring consistent employee experiences.

• Job Template Management with ActionCue Integration: Added comprehensive job template system with AI-powered video processing through ActionCue integration—enabling recruiters to create standardized job descriptions, automate posting workflows, extract structured data from training videos, and maintain consistency across all recruiting activities with department-focused filtering and template reuse capabilities.

• Enhanced OKR Hub with Key Results Management: Expanded OKR functionality with dedicated key results tracking, progress updates, team collaboration features, and individual performance monitoring—providing organizations with comprehensive goal management capabilities including objective alignment, progress visualization, and performance analytics that integrate with EPMS for holistic performance evaluation.

🔧 Improvements

• Streamlined Recruiting Suite Navigation with Unified Experience: Redesigned recruiting application interface with consolidated navigation, shared components, and consistent user experience across job board, interview scheduler, offer manager, and onboarding hub—reducing complexity and improving workflow efficiency for HR teams managing multiple recruiting processes simultaneously.

• Enhanced Location-Specific Holiday Management: Improved holiday system with location-based configurations, bulk creation capabilities, and hierarchical location support—enabling organizations with multiple locations to manage region-specific holidays, automate holiday templates, and provide employees with accurate holiday calendars based on their work location.

• Advanced Forms Integration with Native Model Support: Upgraded forms system to use native Rails models instead of external API dependencies—improving performance, reliability, and data consistency while maintaining full functionality for form creation, submission processing, and integration with onboarding and other business processes.

• Improved HR File Manager with Document Consolidation: Enhanced document management with automated consolidation of recruiting candidate files, improved access controls, audit logging, and integration with onboarding processes—providing comprehensive document lifecycle management from candidate application through employee onboarding with secure access and compliance tracking.

• Enhanced Session Management and Security: Implemented improved session handling with automatic cleanup, SAML validation enhancements, and better user-business association management—ensuring secure authentication flows, preventing session conflicts, and improving overall system security and user experience.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved Headcount Planner Data Integrity Issues: Fixed forecast calculations, scenario modeling accuracy, and market intelligence data processing—ensuring reliable workforce planning analytics, accurate budget projections, and consistent reporting across all headcount planning modules.

• Corrected Calendar Integration Synchronization Problems: Fixed OAuth flow handling, event mapping accuracy, and bi-directional sync reliability across Google Calendar, Outlook, and iCal providers—ensuring consistent calendar data, proper event categorization, and reliable synchronization without data loss or duplication.

• Enhanced Onboarding Template and Checkpoint Management: Resolved template creation issues, checkpoint progression logic, and document association problems—ensuring smooth onboarding workflows, accurate progress tracking, and proper integration between templates, tasks, and document management systems.

• Fixed Job Template and Recruiting Workflow Issues: Corrected template permissions, department filtering, and ActionCue integration processing—ensuring proper access controls, accurate job posting workflows, and reliable video processing integration with consistent data extraction and validation.

• Improved Forms and File Storage Reliability: Fixed ActiveStorage migration issues, file URL generation problems, and submission processing errors—ensuring reliable document uploads, consistent file access, and proper integration between forms, onboarding, and HR file management systems.

🎯 What This Means for You

• Strategic Workforce Planning Capabilities: The comprehensive Headcount Planner provides AI-powered workforce intelligence that transforms how organizations approach hiring and resource allocation—enabling data-driven decisions about future staffing needs, budget optimization, and talent acquisition strategies with market intelligence and predictive analytics that reduce hiring risks and improve organizational planning.

• Unified Calendar and Schedule Management: The advanced calendar integration creates a seamless experience between workforce management and personal productivity tools—allowing employees to maintain complete schedule visibility across all platforms while enabling managers to coordinate resources more effectively with real-time synchronization and comprehensive event management.

• Automated Onboarding Excellence: The intelligent onboarding system standardizes and automates new hire experiences while maintaining personalization—helping organizations improve retention rates, reduce time-to-productivity, and ensure consistent onboarding quality across all departments with template-driven processes and integrated document management that scales with organizational growth.