GoProfiles shipped two updates in Q2 2026 that address a problem every distributed team runs into: it’s hard to know what’s happening with the people around you, and it’s hard to know when they’re actually available. A refreshed homepage with a dedicated Celebrations card solves the first problem. A new Working Hours feature solves the second. Neither is a small cosmetic change. Both are aimed at making a hybrid or remote company feel less like a directory of names and more like a place people actually know each other.
This post covers what shipped, why it matters, and how different teams can put it to use.
Quick answer: GoProfiles’ Q2 2026 release includes two updates. The homepage now has a redesigned look built around a Celebrations card, surfacing today’s birthdays and work anniversaries, upcoming milestones, and recent celebrations, all with one-click access to the relevant profile. Working Hours lets employees set and update their availability schedule directly from their profile, so coworkers can see the best time to connect before they send a meeting invite or a message. Together, these updates give distributed teams two things that are easy to lose at scale: a shared sense of who’s being celebrated, and a shared sense of when people are actually around.
What is the new Celebrations card on the GoProfiles homepage?
The GoProfiles homepage has a fresh look, and the centerpiece of that redesign is a dedicated Celebrations card. It surfaces today’s birthdays and work anniversaries, upcoming milestones, and recent celebrations in one place, with one-click access to the profile behind each one.
Recognition tied to specific, visible moments, like a work anniversary or a birthday, is one of the more reliable ways companies build a culture of appreciation without adding process overhead. Gallup and Workhuman tracked nearly 3,500 employees from 2022 to 2024 and found that employees who received high-quality recognition were 45% less likely to have left their organization after two years. A visible, low-friction moment to recognize a colleague, the kind a homepage card makes almost automatic, is a meaningful piece of that equation.
Benefits by team:
- People and HR teams get a built-in, always-on recognition surface without having to run a separate campaign to remind managers when a work anniversary is coming up.
- Managers get a natural, no-effort prompt to acknowledge a direct report’s milestone the day it happens, instead of finding out a month later.
- New hires get an early, low-stakes way to learn who’s who across the company, since every celebration links straight to a full profile.
- Distributed and remote teams get a shared moment of visibility that doesn’t depend on being in the same office to notice a cake in the break room.
What is Working Hours in GoProfiles?
Working Hours lets employees set their availability schedule directly from their GoProfiles profile, so coworkers can see when the best time to connect actually is before they try. It’s a small addition with an outsized effect on distributed teams, where “are they around right now” is a question that used to require guessing, or a Slack message that sits unanswered for six hours because it landed outside someone’s day.
The need for this kind of built-in transparency shows up clearly in workplace research. A national survey by Owl Labs found that 82% of workers said they would prefer having defined core working hours rather than an undefined, always-on expectation. And a Stanford study published in Nature, tracking hybrid work arrangements over time, found that flexible hybrid schedules had no negative effect on performance, while voluntary turnover dropped by 33%. Making availability visible doesn’t just reduce friction for the person trying to schedule a meeting. It’s part of what makes flexible schedules work at scale in the first place.
Benefits by team:
- Global and distributed teams can see at a glance who’s in a working window before scheduling a call, cutting down on back-and-forth across time zones.
- Managers get an easy way to respect a direct report’s actual schedule instead of defaulting to their own calendar assumptions.
- New hires get a clear, visible signal of team norms around availability, without having to ask around or guess.
- Individual contributors get a straightforward way to protect focus time or non-standard hours, since their schedule is visible instead of implied.
Getting started
Both updates are available now with no setup required beyond the individual level. The Celebrations card appears automatically on the GoProfiles homepage. Working Hours can be added or updated from your own profile in a couple of clicks, and it’s worth doing early since the value compounds as more of the team fills theirs in.
Together, these two updates push in the same direction: less guessing about the people you work with, and more of the context that used to live in office hallways now living directly in GoProfiles.
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FAQ
The Celebrations card is a new homepage feature that surfaces today’s birthdays and work anniversaries, upcoming milestones, and recent celebrations in one place. Each celebration links directly to the relevant profile with one click. It replaces the need for calendar reminders, giving every employee, not just managers, a natural prompt to acknowledge a colleague’s moment.
Working Hours lets employees set their availability schedule on their GoProfiles profile, so coworkers can see the best time to connect before reaching out. For teams spread across time zones, this removes the guesswork around who is actually online and cuts down on messages that sit unanswered because they landed outside someone’s working day.
Employees need to add their schedule to their profile for it to show up, since GoProfiles doesn’t have visibility into someone’s actual working pattern without it. It takes a couple of seconds to set up and can be updated any time your schedule changes, so it stays accurate as circumstances shift.
Yes. A Gallup and Workhuman study tracking nearly 3,500 employees over two years found that those who received high-quality recognition were 45% less likely to leave their organization within that period. Visible, low-effort recognition moments, like the kind GoProfiles makes automatic, are one practical way to build that kind of consistent recognition without adding process for managers.
The Celebrations card and Working Hours both shipped as part of GoProfiles’ Q2 2026 product releases. They’re available now to all GoProfiles customers with no migration required, though Working Hours only becomes useful once employees take the couple of seconds needed to add their schedule.
