July 2025

Sparrow’s high-tech, high-touch approach means we’re always working to improve both the software experience and the support we provide.

Multiple Organization Addresses

Organizations with more than one address can now add and manage them in the Sparrow Dashboard. Go to Profile > Company to get started. You can set a primary address for the U.S. and a different one for Canada if needed.

Here are a few highlights from our product roadmap we are excited to share with you:

Employee Self-Initiated Leaves

We are finalizing a new feature which allows employees to initiate their own leaves in Sparrow, without HR teams needing to start the process. HR teams will be automatically notified of new leaves added by employees.

This update will also introduce new workflows for HR teams, including:

• A Tasks section
• A Leaves Requiring Attention dashboard section
• More automated notifications, including a digest of all outstanding tasks 

We are excited to continue developing these new workflow enhancements for wider use, including for customers who do not choose to enable self-initiated leaves.

We expect to release this feature by the end of this summer. 

Please contact your concierge team ([email protected]) if you are interested in enabling this feature when it is available - it will not be enabled by default.

Sparrow Help Center

We’re building a centralized Help Center where employees, HR teams, managers, and HRBPs can access resources tailored to their roles.

Additional Configuration Settings

You will soon see more configuration settings on your Sparrow Dashboard, including your leave policies and key members of your team who receive leave updates.

This new section spotlights helpful features - both new and long-standing - that you might have missed.

Pro Tip: Archive and Unarchive Documents

Need to clean up your document list? You can archive and unarchive documents in Sparrow.

• On the Organization Documents page or an individual leave, click the three dots next to a document to archive it.
• To view archived items, select Show Archived, then unarchive as needed.

Compliance Updates

The Sparrow team regularly reviews and summarizes federal, state, and local compliance updates. Recent updates from Delaware, Colorado, and Washington are now available:

• Delaware clarifies how Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) benefits will coordinate with employer-provided paid leave and disability plans ahead of the January 1, 2026 rollout.

• Colorado expands its FAMLI program to include job-protected leave for parents of newborns requiring NICU care.

• Washington enacted changes under HB 1213, including updated job protection rules, continued health benefit requirements during PFML leave, new employer notice obligations, and a shorter minimum leave duration.

State Benefit Program Updates

Colorado Family and Medical Leave Insurance 
In June 2025, the Colorado Division of Workers' Compensation updated the 2025-26 state average weekly wage (SAWW) to $1,534.94. As a result, effective July 1, 2025, the maximum weekly FAMLI benefits increased from $1,324.21 to $1,381.45.

Paid Leave Oregon
On June 6, 2025, Oregon released the 2025 state average weekly wage, $1,363.80, up 4.3 percent from $1,307.17 in 2024. For Paid Leave Oregon claims with a benefit year starting on or after July 6, 2025, the minimum weekly benefit will be $68.19 (up from $65.36) and the maximum weekly benefit will be $1,636.56 (up from $1,568.60).

Rhode Island Temporary Disability / Caregiver Insurance (TDI/TCI)
The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training announced that the Rhode Island state average weekly wage would increase from $1,257.97 to $1,297.06 on July 1, 2025. Therefore, for Rhode Island TDI/TCI claims on or after July 1, 2025, the maximum weekly benefit will increase to $1,103.00 ($1,489.00 with the maximum dependency allowance).

Customer Spotlight

How CircleCI Saves Hundreds of Hours a Year on Leave Management

CircleCI is a leading continuous integration and delivery platform supporting engineering teams across the US and Canada. As CircleCI grew, so did the complexity of managing employee leaves, from compliance to payroll coordination. By partnering with Sparrow for full-service leave management, CircleCI saved hundreds of hours each year on administrative tasks and recouped over $164,000 in wage costs in 2024. Their benefits team can now focus on strategic initiatives, knowing every leave is handled securely and efficiently for both HR and employees. Read more here.

How Highspot revamped their employee leave process

Highspot, the sales enablement platform trusted by global teams, needed a better way to manage leave as their workforce expanded across multiple states. With Sparrow, Highspot’s benefits team gained a single point of contact for all leave needs, automated payroll calculations, and custom reporting, transforming a previously overwhelming process into a streamlined, compliant experience. The result: measurable cost savings, reduced admin burden, and peace of mind for both HR and employees navigating leave. Explore more of Highspot’s story here.

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