July 2026
July's release brings a series of enhancements that make everyday work and HR management more flexible, accurate, and efficient — across both mobile and web.
A key highlight of this release is the introduction of Mobile Home Screen Widgets, bringing key information and quick actions directly to employees' smartphone home screens.
On the web, this release introduces significant improvements to Time Off management, recruitment, performance management, and administrative workflows. Together, these enhancements help organizations optimize operations, strengthen process control, and reduce manual effort.
Explore the updates below.👇
New Features and Enhancements
Stay updated without even opening the app!
Use our new Home Screen widgets to track your key updates at a glance — or tap any widget to jump straight to the relevant section in Spark:
• Time Off Widget: Instantly check your remaining leave days.
• Requests Widget: Track the live status of your requests (e.g., Work from Home) and see manager approvals in real time.
Stay tuned - Time Tracking widgets are coming soon as we expand mobile functionality!

What’s New
- Introduced the new On Leave employee status, which automatically updates when employees are on active long-term leave and returns to Active status once the leave ends.
- Added the Reset Balance accrual option, allowing organizations to automatically clear unused time-off balances at the end of the configured period without carrying them forward.
- Improved time-off accrual calculations by replacing monthly accruals with daily accruals for more accurate balance tracking.
- Added year-based time-off balance tracking, allowing organizations to view balances by accrual year and choose which year's balance to use when reporting time off.
- Added the ability to mark paid time-off requests as Paid, helping organizations track completed leave payments.
Impact
- Higher Calculation Accuracy: Daily accruals eliminate rounding errors and manual adjustments when employees join, leave, or take time off mid-month.
- More Efficient Leave Administration: Automated leave status updates and balance resets simplify processes, reduce manual tracking, and help keep balances up to date.
- Enhanced Time-Off Balance Visibility: Organizations gain better visibility and control over time-off balances across different accrual years, with clearer tracking of paid time off for HR and Finance teams.

Requisitions: Priority Levels
What’s New- Administrators can now assign priority levels when creating or editing requisitions, helping indicate the urgency of hiring requests.
- A new Settings section has been added to the Requisitions, where administrators can create, manage, and reorder custom priority levels.
Impact
- Improved prioritization: Hiring teams can quickly identify the urgency of requisitions and focus on the most important hiring needs.
- Centralized configuration: Administrators can configure and maintain custom priority levels from a single location, ensuring a consistent prioritization process across all requisitions.

Field Visibility Enhancements
What’s New
- Now you can manage which employee fields are visible across the system and define the preferred order of key fields (such as First Name, Last Name, Middle Name, Position, and Level) to match organizational naming preferences.
Impact
- Employee information can be displayed more flexibly and consistently, improving readability and ensuring alignment with organizational standards.

Appraisal Approval Flows and Notification Templates
What’s New- Approval Flow and Notification Template settings have been introduced in Appraisal Settings, enabling administrators to configure approval workflows for appraisal decisions and manage related notifications.
- Appraisal groups can now be linked to approval flows, allowing organizations to manage decision approvals according to their internal processes.
Impact
- Organizations can align appraisal approvals with their internal processes, while configurable notifications help keep participants informed throughout the appraisal process.

What’s New
- Added the ability to edit published reviews, giving administrators more flexibility in managing review processes after publication.
Impact
- Organizations can ensure more complete and accurate review results by updating published reviews when needed.
What’s New
- Manager Performance Reviews can now be conducted anonymously, with review data kept fully private and secure.
Impact
- Employees can share honest feedback about their managers with full privacy, creating a safer environment for open communication.
On/Offboarding Enhancements
What’s New
- Introduced manual activation for On/Offboarding tasks, excluding Email tasks, allowing authorized users to start tasks earlier when needed without disrupting the existing process flow.
Impact
- HR teams gain more flexibility in managing On/Offboarding processes while maintaining accurate task history and workflow structure.

BUG FIXES
PERFORM
- Performance Notifications Not Received
- Review Cycle Assignment Notification Not Received
- Requests with File Attachments Cannot Be Submitted
Leave Management → Time Off Balances
- “Total Left” Sorting Does Not Change Correctly
