HR Features Improve Compensation and Benefits Management
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Managing employee compensation and benefits effectively is critical for attracting and retaining talent. HR teams often face challenges related to system performance, data management, and giving employees better visibility into their plans. Based on customer feedback and a focus on optimizing HR processes, we’re excited to introduce four enhancements in Dynamics 365 Human Resources. We designed these updates to streamline compensation management, improve benefits processing performance, and empower employees with more self-service capabilities.
Feature Details
1. Link Variable Plan Awards and Enrollments to Positions
Until now, variable compensation plans in Dynamics 365 Human Resources could only be linked to employees directly. With the update, you can now associate variable plan awards and enrollments to an employee’s position.
This makes it easier for HR teams to manage compensation aligned to job roles, improving accuracy and scalability—especially for organizations with position-based structures.
Tip: Enable the feature “Ability to link variable pay to position” in Feature Management to use it.
2. Clean Up Benefits Eligibility Process Results
Over time, Benefits eligibility processing results can accumulate, causing system slowdowns and timeout errors. To address this, we have introduced a cleanup batch job that allows customers to periodically delete older process results.
Now, with the Clean up benefits eligibility process results job, quickly define how old records must be before removal, helping maintain system performance and avoiding issues like “Cannot select a record in Benefit eligibility process result.”
Tip: Set up a recurring batch job to automatically clean up old records based on your organization’s data retention needs.
3. Employee Start Date Filtering for Benefits Eligibility Processing
Managing eligibility for a large workforce often means needing more control over who gets processed. To help with this, we have added an Employee Start Date field group to the Benefits Eligibility Processing batch job.
HR teams can now specify a From and To date to include only employees whose start dates fall within a certain range. This improves performance by reducing the number of records processed and allows for more targeted eligibility runs.
- From date: Record processing starts from the employee’s start date.
- To date: Record processing goes up to the employee’s start date.
Tip: Use this filter when processing eligibility during specific hiring periods or when onboarding seasonal employees.
4. My benefit plans
Employees want transparency and easy access to their benefits information. To support this, we have introduced the new My Benefit Plans tile in Employee Self-Service (ESS).
Employees now view their elected benefits, along with associated dependents and beneficiaries—both for the current and previous benefit periods—all in one place. This empowers employees to better understand their coverage and reduces the need for HR teams to manually answer basic benefits questions.
Tip: Make sure to enable the Benefits Management feature to use the My Benefit Plans tile.
Call to Action
These enhancements in Dynamics 365 Human Resources are designed to help HR teams work more efficiently, keep systems running smoothly, and empower employees with greater self-service access.
Start taking advantage of these new compensation and benefits features today!
Enable the relevant features through Feature Management, explore the capabilities in your environment, and check out our latest release notes for additional details and docs:
Process enrollment eligibility – Human Resources | Dynamics 365 | Microsoft Learn
We’d love your feedback to help shape future updates—please share your thoughts!
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