UKG Release Notes – February 2026 – R103

UKG Release Notes – February 2026 – R103

UKG Release Notes – February 2026 – R103

Learn more about the most impactful enhancements available in this release by checking out the short Release Spotlight Video.

KEY FEATURES THIS UPDATE
  1. HR:  A new First Day Widget has been added as an available Dashboard Widget option. The First Day Widget provides a personalized, single-view summary of a new hire’s first-day essentials, including their schedule, manager contact information, work location, and more, to help reduce first-day friction
  2. HR: As part of bringing a modern experience to the UKG Ready solution, new structural changes are coming to the HR Actions screens. These changes will help improve the employee and manager experience. 
  3. TLM: Group Punch functionality was released last release. In this release, new enhancements will be added to display configured Cost Centers and apply filters based on Cost Center, EIN, and advanced filter criteria.
  4. Payroll: A new validation to the ACH Descr for Vendor Payments field when the vendor payment is going to an employee-owned bank account (those Vendors listed as ACH – Employee Level as the Payment Type) will be available.
  5. Cross-Prod:  Provide employees the ability to unlock their account when it has been locked due to an invalid password or two-factor authentication 
  6. Cross-Prod: UKG Document Managers - Store and manage all Employee Documents and Forms in a single location.
  7. Scheduler: A new Scheduler Home landing page will feature a redesigned page layout to help simplify the scheduling experience and provide a user-friendly navigation experience.
Scheduler
  1. A new Scheduler Home landing page will feature a redesigned page layout to help simplify the scheduling experience and provide a user-friendly navigation experience. Schedule administrators and managers can easily navigate between schedules, create schedules from scratch or templates, and access scheduler settings.
  2. Scheduled Cost Centers and Skills are no longer required when setting up schedules.
  3. Period-to-period schedule creation and navigation will be available.
  4. Employee-level cost visibility will be added to the schedule views, allowing managers to review the costs associated with each employee's scheduled day.
Cross Product
  1. Provide employees the ability to unlock their account when it has been locked due to an invalid password or two-factor authentication code.
  2. OAuth Permission consent is automatically removed from an employee profile upon termination.
  3. Share reports directly with OAuth accounts as opposed to the entire organization.
  4. Introducing UKG Beacon – our new rewards and recognition platform. UKG Beacon brings recognition, rewards, and insight together in one seamless experience integrated within your solution.
  5. UKG Document Managers - Store and manage all Employee Documents and Forms in a single location.
  6. A new setting within Company Setup will allow admins the option to set participation preferences for quarterly user feedback and reward-based surveys. Organizations are automatically opted in.
  7. A new filtering option within My Saved Reports will allow users to list all views found across the organization, including those not shared.
  8. As part of bringing a modern experience to the UKG Ready solution, new structural changes are coming to the HR Actions screens. These changes will help improve the employee and manager experience. 
  9. To continue bringing a modern experience to the UKG Ready solution, new visual changes are coming to the user interface - Modal Improvements, system theming, page loaders.
  10. Checklist Landing screen will now have the Mark as Complete and Reset icon buttons in the Manager Self-Service (MSS) view, option to add notes in the MSS view, user context will now be visible on the Checklist Item screen, and custom form image view is now repositioned above the Web Form.
HR
  1. A new First Day Widget has been added as an available Dashboard Widget option. The First Day Widget provides a personalized, single-view summary of a new hire’s first-day essentials, including their schedule, manager contact information, work location, and more, to help reduce first-day friction.
  2.  For those who use UKG Ready Timekeeping with PayCalc 2, a new PayCalc rule will be added to dynamically calculate and apply an employee’s hourly pay rate based on the total number of hours worked during a specific timeframe and automatically update the Pay Grade Step when the defined thresholds are met.
  3. Performance Review Labeling: Updated labeling of scheduled dates will be available so the Schedule Date field is consistent across reports and performance reviews to eliminate confusion around when a review is scheduled after the evaluation period ends versus the date it must be completed by.
  4.  Copy a Goal: Copy a goal from one review cycle to the next with our new goal copying functionality and use goals year over year.
  5. View Performance Review Button: The View Performance Review button has been removed from view except on the Create Goals and Collect Notes steps of the performance review to eliminate employee confusion.
  6.  Goals across multiple Review Periods: A new setting will be added to Company and Personal Goals that will allow users to carry over goals across review cycles. Additionally, a new setting will be added to Company Goals to finalize and re-create goals.
  7. A new option for Applicants to schedule their self-interviews via Microsoft Outlook will be available. The self-scheduling functionality will provide suggested availability, standardized notification templates, and auto-generate virtual meeting links, location, or phone details.
Timekeeping
  1. Group Punch functionality was released last release. In this release, new enhancements will be added to display configured Cost Centers and apply filters based on Cost Center, EIN, and advanced filter criteria.
  2. A new source counter that includes all relevant hour types in the calculations.
  3. The option to choose when overtime is calculated based on daily, weekly, or the end of the pay period to match requirements.
  4. A new PayCalc rule will be added to dynamically calculate and apply an employee’s hourly pay rate based on the total number of hours worked during a specific timeframe and automatically update the Pay Grade Step when the defined thresholds are met.
Payroll
  1. A new validation to the ACH Descr for Vendor Payments field when the vendor payment is going to an employee-owned bank account (those Vendors listed as ACH – Employee Level as the Payment Type) will be available. The Default Status ACH Descr field will be added to ensure the first 7 characters are "PAYROLL”. This field will be automatically updated for all companies. Additional characters are allowed, as long as the first 7 characters are “PAYROLL”.

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