Sometimes there are good reasons to reject your employee’s request for absence. Just make sure they understand the reason behind your decision. We want to allow for that communication to happen and therefore we’ve added the option to leave a comment when you have to turn down a request.. 

When rejecting a request simply add the reasoning in order for employees to better understand your decision. We hope this makes absence rejections just a little easier.

Giving your employees the time off they need and deserve is an essential part of your company culture. We’ve just launched a new feature that allows you to set rules around each absence request i.e create your own Absence Request Policies.

After you’ve set up your own absence categories, be it birthdays, PTO, sick days, charity days, sabbaticals or any other. Then you can set the rules for each request. Customize the limitations for employees, markets and categories.

There might be a policy making sure that new parents take at least two weeks off for parental leave, while for vacation you might want to receive a request a month ahead of time, in order to plan your resources. 

If there’s more than one, enabled and assigned Absence Request Policies are listed in the Employee HUB when an Absence Category is selected.

If the request falls outside of the policy, the employee immediately receives an error message informing them about why they are restricted. 

We're excited to announce a new feature: Certificates Management!

This new feature enables employees and managers to add and manage all certificates and certifications in one place and plan in advance for any that are coming up.

We hope this new feature will help you to stay organized and to optimize your skills and talent management.

Try it out and share with us your feedback!

Easily manage your subscription in your flair HR app, on Salesforce. The subscription page is now just two clicks away - on the HR admin page.

You can perform necessary actions like checking and downloading your invoices or changing payment methods. 

Let us know what you think! 

We've introduced a bunch of improvements to make it easier to browse and find employee documents in the flair HR app. 

Documents are now shown on one list with all necessary data available at once and you can filter them by categories. We've also added the ability to put notes when you upload the document. Handy, if you want an additional description or message. 

Another great option is that you can set the visibility of each document. If you select "HR", the document will only be visible in the HR Salesforce app. Good for sensitive information and to keep the Employee HUB clean. 

Did you know that developing a regular habit of praising your coworkers has a direct impact on your team performance and employee experience?

Discover Cheers, a fun & visual feature to easily recognise your colleagues for great work.

• Access Cheers from the engagement tab.
• Customize your message with a selection of illustrations.
• Spread to word within your company 📣 or keep it discreet and private 🤫
• See your coworkers' achievements in the company feed.

This is a great way to show your appreciation and boost morale and recognition. So go ahead and give it a try 😊 

We're happy to share our new Expenses feature in the Employee HUB. We've made it easy to submit claims and to review them. 

Employees can choose from pre-defined lists of merchants and categories. Or, create a new entry without ever leaving the hub. If the expense is associated with an ongoing project - just add it in.

Managers can review pending requests and track all claims up to a final decision. As simple as that. 

Try it out and let us know what you think! 🙂

We're happy to announce some new updates and improvements for our Shift planner feature. One of our main goals for these new updates was to give Admins/shift managers complete visibility and access for them to schedule shifts and view shifts across all locations in Salesforce.

Multi-Location and Single-Location Mode
Before now, the shift planner could only be accessed through a specific location and shifts could only be scheduled based on that location. Now, you can view your shift planner showing all employees from all locations or filter by multiple locations at a time. 

To access your multi-location shift planner, you start by navigating to the "Attendance" page and clicking on the 'manage shifts' button under the shifts sub-menu.

Users can still have the option to view shifts from a single location by selecting a specific location from the dropdown on the right side of the header bar. Open shifts can only be viewed and scheduled when in single locations mode.

Improved Filtering options
We have improved our filtering options across multi-location and single-location shift planner views. Users can filter by department, skills and locations in multi-location views. We introduced filter pills to help you easily remove a specific filter without having to reset them. These pills will appear at the top of the planner and all employee shifts relevant to the filtered options will appear which also include invited employees.

Departmental and Location View
We also created different access paths for shift managers to view and schedule shifts through specific segments. Similar to the location-based shift planner view, users can also view shifts based on departments through the shifts block on the departments' record pages as well as through the locations record page

Visible colours for predefined shifts in draft state.
Before now, we could not see the colour of our set predefined shifts in the draft state. So we made the outline of the drafted shift as well as the text of the time period in the predefined colour so you can ensure that you're getting the right colour-coded shifts before publishing.

Skills in Shift Planner
To avoid too many unnecessary skills being displayed in the shift planner, we have added an option to indicate when creating a skill if it should be used in shift planning. All employee skills that show in the shift planner are only those that were selected to be used in the shift planner when they were created

Shiftplanner Classic
For some of our users who are not keen on change and are comfortable and familiar with the current process and will like to continue using it, we have decided to preserve the original shift planner which we now call "shift planner classic". This can be found in the dropdown menu in the shifts block of the location page

Try them out and share with us your feedback!

We know that sometimes you have to manage a lot of absence requests at a time. That's why we've added some updates to the page:

• New filters by type, by employees, and others will allow you to select through the requests.
• Apart from pending requests, approved and rejected absences are now also visible. You may find them in an "All" tab.
• Employee's comments are now available at a glance — just hover over a "bubble" icon to read them.
• Reading an absence request's details is still possible. Click on the absence dates to go there.

We are now working on the next updates for the absence requests, stay tuned! 😉 

Discover the new My Absences tab within your Employee Hub. It has all the history of your absence requests, showing whether they were approved, pending, or rejected.

Now you will never miss what's happening to the absence requests after you send them, may easily find out how many times you took a vacation last year or just observe your absences, whatever you need.