Giving more working flexibility to employees' schedules is a trend, but how should HRs administer it? At flair.hr, we have developed a solution for cases when employees' workload differs week by week or even when there are no repeatable patterns at all.

We called this the "Flexible workload model". To start working with it click "Add new workload" on the employee's page and select Flexible in a workload model field. Now you may set the schedule for one week or set a repeatable pattern of several weeks with varying working day lengths. If an employee's workload has no repeatable pattern - you may save the workload without any template and set the schedule manually later.

After you save the workload, a calendar view will appear with the patterns automatically applied. This calendar is open for editing and lets you consider the occasional updates that may happen to an employee's schedule.

We've also provided some tips that'll help to reduce your manual work even more.

Week templates. You can save any weekly schedule as a template and apply it to either the workload itself or to any week in the calendar.

Workload templates. If the schedule repeats for multiple employees, save the workload as a template and apply it within a click.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact us. Thanks for using flair!

We are excited to announce that we have added new languages! The Employee HUB is now available in both French and Italian. Your employees will be able to use the HUB in these languages as soon as their browser's language setting is set to either French or Italian, no additional action is required!

New opportunities arrive for Managers with the addition of our Skills Matrix. Now, managers can start designing a career path for their direct reports or identify new employees for their team or a project execution based on skills analysis.

Managers can create new skills, view all employees and their skills, assign or unassign them a skill and easily rate a particular skill for their direct reports.

Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback. We're always happy to help!

We're happy to introduce our skills feature in the Employee HUB.

Until now, skills were only available in Salesforce for shifts and managed by the HR staff, now we've revamped skills so now you can use them as a crucial piece for employees' performance and engagement, as well. 

We've added a new dimension to skills by making it possible for employees to assign skills to themselves, define their level of proficiency and rate them on a skills chart right in the Employee HUB.

Try it out and send us your feedback! 🙂

Too many absence categories in a list? No longer a problem. We have added a possibility to group any absence categories to make a list shorter and more organized.

HRs can do this on their Salesforce app in the Absence Settings:

Employees will see the grouped categories as follows:

As always, let us know if you have any questions or feedback. We're always happy to help!

We've improved the way we update time tracking among your devices, apps, or tab copies. Earlier when you executed an action, like clocking in or starting a break, it was not immediately reflected in any other place you opened for time tracking. Beforehand you had to press a specific button to get time synced.

Now it's all being updated in real-time. Try it out!

We're constantly working to improve your recruiting experience, so we made some improvements to our recruiting job page! Here's a summary of what's been improved.

Candidate Count: We added a column on the job list, now you can see the total number of candidates who applied for a particular job on the list

New job layout in Salesforce: View your job page in a neater and simpler layout. All charts have been moved to the right to give you better visibility and we've added a tab for advertising so you can view and get insights on your job advertisements posted on other platforms

Filter by Stage and Source in the Employee hub: We've made available the option to filter candidates by multiple stages and by source right in the employee hub.

Job name on candidate evaluation form: We've included the name of the job candidates applied for on the evaluation form to ensure evaluators get all relevant information they need about the candidate.

We hope you like these improvements. Feel free to share your feedback, Let us know what you think!

Oftentimes it's important to make workflow tasks invisible to the employees. For such cases, we've added a "Hide from Assignee" option. This is a great way to be sure that everyone will see only the tasks that are relevant to them.

To access this new option, simply click on the "Hide from Assignee" checkbox in the item modal of a workflow template. Now, the task will be visible to the responsible person and hidden from the assignee. Feel free to check it out!

Have you already discovered that now you can switch on and off pushes along with the email and Slack notifications? If not yet, please find the Push notifications control panel on the Notification Settings page in the HUB.

We've added new auto items to expand your possibilities with the workflows and let you cover new cases. 

Now, you can also add to your templates the following auto items:

• Cycles: ideal for addressing conversations, follow-up, training, test, etc.
• Evaluation: ideal for decision-making processes such as the end of the probation period.

Additionally, we've also improved our process so now you can edit, delete and add new items not existing in the template. 

We are in the process of keep on improving our workflows to make them more intuitive, flexible and suitable to cover different business needs and processes. Feel free to try them and let us know your thoughts!