Product Update - July 01, 2026

Skills & Certifications — Approval-gated skill verification for workforce compliance

Submitted skills and certifications are now hidden from employee profiles until a manager explicitly approves them. Before this change, self-reported skills appeared on profiles immediately, making it difficult for staffing teams and compliance officers to distinguish verified competencies from unconfirmed claims. With approval-first verification, only approved skills surface in search results, staffing views, and profile pages — while employees can still track the status of their own pending submissions and withdraw them if needed.

Admins can enable or disable this behavior in Skills & Certifications → Settings → Features via the "Require verification before visible" toggle. It is on by default to align with compliance-sensitive environments.

Use case: A healthcare operator running a credentialing program can now be confident that only verified CPR, BLS, or specialized certifications appear on staff profiles and in scheduling tools — unverified submissions queue for manager review rather than going live immediately.

Available in: Skills & Certifications → Admin → Pending Verifications

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Offboarding — Default assignees on template tasks and live plan editing

Two related improvements to offboarding workflow management: template tasks now support a default assignee field, and HR coordinators can add or remove tasks on an already-running offboarding plan without editing the underlying template.

Setting a default assignee on a template task eliminates the manual step of assigning routine tasks (IT access revocation, equipment return, badge collection) each time a new offboarding plan is created from the template. The live plan editing capability is equally practical: when a last-minute requirement surfaces mid-offboarding — a compliance step, a handover meeting, or a form that wasn't in the original template — coordinators can add it directly to the active plan. Tasks can also be removed from a plan when they no longer apply to a specific employee's situation.

Use case: An HR coordinator handling a mid-month offboarding discovers that the departing employee had a company vehicle. They add a "Vehicle return and deregistration" task directly to the active plan without touching the master template — it gets assigned and appears in the employee's checklist immediately.

Available in: Offboarding → Templates → Task Settings / Active Plan → Add Task

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Inspections — Coverage sweep sign-offs routed through approval workflows

When an inspection cycle template has an approval workflow configured, the "Sign off" action on coverage sweeps now routes through that workflow rather than immediately marking the sweep complete. Sweeps move into a pending-approval state, notify designated reviewers, and reach signed-off status only after explicit reviewer approval. Reviewers see incoming sweep approval requests alongside inspection approvals in their existing inbox. If a reviewer rejects a sweep, it returns to in-progress for rework. Cycles with no approval workflow attached continue to work exactly as before.

This brings coverage sweep sign-offs into alignment with the approval gates already applied to individual inspections, closing a gap that allowed location-level coverage summaries to be finalized without the same oversight that applied to the underlying inspection records.

Use case: A district safety manager overseeing multiple warehouse locations requires a second sign-off before a weekly safety sweep is counted as complete. The sweep coordinator clicks "Complete and send for approval," the district manager receives a review request, and the cycle's roll-up stays open until approval is granted.

Available in: Inspections → Coverage Dashboard → Sign Off / Reviewer Inbox