As employees, we need to learn more about our colleagues and the people we work with either directly or indirectly, find out how our organization is structured and of course receive company-wide updates. 

As such, we're happy to share that we have added the new 'Company' feature for the employee HUB to help you find important details about fellow employees, a section to access a simple, and easy-to-navigate view of your organizational chart and receive all company-wide announcements right in the employee HUB.

Employee Directory: The employee directory allows you to view all employees within your organization. Employees can quickly access the directory and find the appropriate contact information for their coworkers. Get insights right from the list or click an employee to view all their details to learn more.

Do you need to find an employee's email? or see who works in certain departments? The search bar and filtering options allow you to search for employees by their names, departments or location.

Organizational Chart: It is important to demonstrate clear reporting structures for all the employees in the organization. Our new organizational chart clearly outlines the hierarchy within your organization and indicates the relationships shared among each individual employee in a simple and easy-to-navigate layout. 

These insights will help employees understand who to report to and ensure that managers are properly delegating tasks and responsibilities among their team.

Announcements: Now, employees can receive all types of important company-wide announcements right in the employee hub. This feature will help to keep all employees informed about changes and developments within the organization, which is important for productivity and engagement. 

We hope you enjoy using this feature, as always feel free to share your feedback!

Have you noticed the "traffic lights" on the Candidates' page?

The green, yellow or red squares in each candidate record show how long the candidate has spent at a specific funnel stage. When it's less than three days, you will see a green light, three to five days — yellow, and after five days, the light turns red, reminding you to get in touch with the applicant.

When a candidate is hired or rejected, the traffic light is no longer shown in the record as a final decision has been made for them.

We are happy to share that we have added the requested option — the ability to change the first day of the week. It's now possible to choose whether to start counting weekdays from Monday, Saturday, or Sunday in any New Workload or in a New Workload Template. A small but important setting for companies that have employees who work on different calendars.

We've received lots of feedback about our menu and manager dashboard navigation. We're happy to share some of the improvements we've worked on and introduce a new look for the Employee HUB navigation menu for both employees and managers.

All Employees can navigate through the employee hub app from the side menu that shows a white background with all features of the app listed with identifiable icons for easy access in an organized layout.

For managers, now you can easily switch sections between your employee view and your Manager dashboard. 

The Manager section shows a dark blue background with all features that helps you focus directly on all your managerial functions without the added distractions of other parts of your employee account.

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

We have introduced a new way to help you navigate and explore the Salesforce HR app with an improved, clear and easy to understand menu structure.

Categorized menu: The salesforce menu has been arranged into groups with submenus to help you easily access different areas of the HR app. New categorized menus include:

• 'Staff & Docs' which comprises all employees, company documents, data changes and teams.'
• 'Compensations' which shows all information about your organization's cost centres, and all employees' payroll and salaries
• 'Attendance' shows all information about the attendance of all employees; their timesheets, shifts, projects, workloads and absences.
• 'Engagement' shows the information on all performance cycles, goals, skills and employee 1:1s
• 'Workplace' gives access to all company locations, departments and Inventory items
• 'Compliance' shows all company policies and absence categories
• 'Workflows' shows all your workflow and evaluation templates and allows you to easily manage all your regular processes and tasks
• 'HR Admin' shows you a quick view of all menus and related submenus 

These new menus will appear by default on the HR app but you still have the option to access other menus in the 'More' section.

Homepage Shortcuts: We added a new section on the homepage to include some of your frequently used features for easy proximity, so you can easily jump right into what you need to get done without having to navigate through all of the different menus. With the new homepage shortcuts, you can easily access your frequently visited features from the shortcut menu on the homepage. 

If you have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact us. We appreciate your feedback!

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!