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

Important

The 2024 release wave 1 plan covers new functionalities that Microsoft plans to deliver from April 2024 to September 2024. In this article, you see the product overview and what's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Human Resources.

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 Yet, many businesses still use outdated HR processes.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
With each release wave, AI and automation investments give employees, HR managers, administrators, and recruiting agents more power through intelligent, natural-language interactions. These enhancements go beyond business applications to productivity tools like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Excel. They meet employees where they're most productive. Copilot features in Human Resources streamline workflows and speed up processes. They optimize operational efficiencies by handling tasks from the employee experience 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.

For more information about the capabilities in this release wave, see the following release plan for Dynamics 365 Human Resources:

Check out the release plan

For application administrators

User-impacting features that the release automatically enables
Application administrators review user-impacting features. This review process helps you manage release changes and onboard new capabilities. For the complete list, see all features tagged Users, automatically in the release plan.

Features that application administrators enable
Application administrators, makers, or business analysts enable or configure features in this release wave. To see the complete list, see 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	Learn 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.