Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Human Resources in 2025 release wave 1
Important
The 2025 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2025 to September 2025. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Human Resources.
Overview
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Human Resources is a comprehensive HR solution designed to support organizations in managing the entire hire-to-retire lifecycle of an employee. With 2025 release wave 1, Dynamics 365 Human Resources is enhancing capabilities to optimize core HR operations, covering personnel management, compensation, benefits, and performance management. These improvements are aimed at helping HR teams streamline administrative tasks, improve employee experience, and foster greater alignment with organizational goals.
This release also introduces new innovations in Copilot and AI. With these advancements, HR professionals can leverage the power of AI to gain actionable insights, automate repetitive tasks, and support more strategic decision-making. From automating administrative workflows to providing employees with self-service options for common HR requests, Copilot and AI innovation are positioned to redefine productivity and engagement across HR functions.
Key investment areas for 2025 release wave 1:
Optimize human resource operations: Enhancements across personnel, compensation, benefits, and performance management bring a seamless, connected approach to the hire-to-retire lifecycle. This ensures that organizations can efficiently manage and support employees throughout their tenure.
Copilot and AI innovation: By embedding AI-driven capabilities, Dynamics 365 Human Resources provides a proactive approach to HR, enabling data-driven insights and automating routine tasks. These innovations empower HR teams to focus on strategic priorities while enhancing the employee experience with intuitive, intelligent tools.
With Dynamics 365 Human Resources, organizations can build a modern, resilient workforce by enabling HR to be more efficient, responsive, and aligned with the evolving needs of their people and business.
Investment areas
Copilot in Dynamics 365 Human Resources
With every new release wave, AI and automation investments empower employees, HR managers, administrators, and recruiting agents, providing them with intelligent, natural-language interactions. These enhancements extend beyond business applications to productivity tools like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Excel, meeting employees where they are most productive. Copilot features in Human Resources streamline and expedite workflows from the frontline of employee experiences to the human resources back office, optimizing operational efficiencies.
Optimize human resource operations
Every new release wave of the Dynamics 365 Human Resource application brings new enhancements for corporations and organizations 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:
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. |