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

Important

The 2024 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2024 to March 2025. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Human Resources.

Overview

As human resources roles shift more from administrative to strategic, we will leverage next-generation AI to transform common HR activities and responsibilities to empower HR users, reduce costs, and provide valuable insights for faster decision making. Our vision is to deliver an HR application that ensures full visibility, evidence, and autonomy as HR professionals navigate a complex and competitive world where regulations are constantly changing, and companies are looking at new ways to grow globally while retaining talent and increasing engagement.

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

Investment areas

Optimize human resource operations
Every new release wave of the Dynamics 365 Human Resource application brings new enhancements for corporations to optimize their human resource operations from personnel management, compensation, benefits, and performance management. Improvements in recruiting operations, skills and competency management, and succession management bring efficiencies in the hire-to-retire lifecycle. Core employee experiences around leave and absence, learning, and training management will benefit from investments bringing 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:

Check out the release plan

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

Helpful links	Description
Release plan	View all capabilities included in the release.
Licensing	Improve your understanding of how to license Human Resources.
Product documentation	Find documentation for Human Resources.
User community	Engage with Human Resources experts and peers in the community.
Upcoming events	Find and register for in-person and online events.
Product trials	Get started with Human Resources.