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Improvement
a week ago

Employee Calendar in Salesforce


We're thrilled to introduce our new Employee Calendar in the Salesforce HR app! This handy feature provides an at-a-glance overview of the coming day, week, or month for each of your team members. This way, you can stay organized and prepared by easily viewing upcoming shifts, vacations, and public holidays.

Viewing Employee Calendars

To view an employee's calendar, simply select their name and click on the Calendar tab. Then, you'll be able to switch between daily, weekly, or monthly views. If you'd like to see more details about any event listed in the calendar, just click on it – you'll be taken to the corresponding record with any related notes and documents.

Know What’s Coming

With the Employee Calendar, you can easily keep track of each employee's upcoming events. This provides you with an overview of what's coming up and allows you to quickly schedule any necessary changes or updates.

We're always looking for ways to enhance your experience here at flair and we’ll keep on adding functions to the Employee Calendar, so stay tuned! If you have any ideas or suggestions for us, please don't hesitate to let us know – we value your insight and feedback.

Avatar of authorRosie Macmillan
Improvementnew
2 weeks ago

Paperless Power-Up: Employee Documents Revamp

We’ve made some slick new changes to the way employees upload and manage company or personal documents in the Employee Hub. Check them out!

Modern Document Storage

Whether they work remotely or in-office, we know that employees crave easy-to-navigate, streamlined, and secure ways to manage important work documents. Presenting an enhanced document management experience on flair.

With our new features, you can now effortlessly organize and access important documents within the Employee Hub portal. Securely upload files, create document categories, comment, and set approval statuses.

By centralizing document management on flair, employees can experience the benefits of streamlined workflows, improved collaboration, and easy retrieval of information.

New Features

  • Personal vs Corporate View: Delineate between personal files and company-centric documents using this split view. Store your work contract in the Personal folder, and keep the employee handbook or company policies Corporate.
  • Detailed Information: Single source of truth uploading that includes document preview view, file size, document location, uploader info, and workflow or completion status.
  • Commenting: Work together on specific documents using the commenting feature. Keep colleagues in the loop and enhance communication channels.
  • Manager Mode: Coming Soon. Switch to Manager mode on the Employee Hub and organize team files or paperwork associated with your direct reports.

For more information about flair’s document management capabilities, visit our Learning Hub.

Avatar of authorLuke Holohan
Improvementemployee hubabsencesengagement
2 weeks ago

3 New Updates for Team Collaboration


We are thrilled to announce that we have made some fantastic updates to flair, including a new Loom integration that makes managing absences easier.


Mass Employee Hub Invites

We understand that onboarding new hires can be time-consuming, which is why we have made it easier than ever to invite multiple employees to the flair Employee Hub with one click. This means that your new team members can hit the ground running and start using the Employee Hub’s comprehensive suite of tools.


Loom for Absences

Employees can now use Loom to quickly share a video when requesting time off. This is a great way to interact with colleagues and can be much faster than written messages! Adding a personal touch helps everyone stay connected and can improve team collaboration.


Commenting for Time Tracking

We have also introduced commenting for time tracking in the Employee Hub. Employees can now leave messages when submitting their working hours to explain any longer, shorter, or missed breaks. This feature makes it easier to keep track of hours worked and avoids the need to switch to another app or means of communication to explain irregular working hours.


We hope that these updates will help you and your team be more productive and foster collaboration. Stay tuned for more updates soon, and let us know what you're looking for from flair. We always appreciate your feedback and are committed to improving our product to meet your needs.

Avatar of authorRosie Macmillan
Improvementnewemployee hub
3 months ago

Collaborate Better With Comments

Have your say: You can now share comments and emojis with your colleagues in the Employee Hub.

Whether you’re asking a question or sharing feedback, communication is essential to workplace collaboration. That’s why we’ve added a commenting feature to the Employee Hub to make it easier for you to interact with your colleagues and managers within the Hub. No need to switch apps.


In-App Commenting

Our new comments feature allows you to collaborate in context. Get straight to the point by adding a comment directly where it is relevant, increasing clarity and reducing the risk of misunderstanding. Now you no longer need to leave the Employee Hub to ask a question or send screenshots to help your colleagues understand what you are referring to.

Commenting is currently available on the following pages of the Employee Hub:

  • Workflows
  • Absences
  • Expenses
  • Cheers
  • Certificates

Share Emojis, Images, & More

In addition, we’ve also expanded our emoji picker so you can add a bit of fun and emotion to your comments. These new emojis are also available as reactions on the Announcements page.

Besides emojis, you can also include images, files, and links in your comments. This improves the flow of information between managers, team members, and HR.

Why not try it out and share a comment to brighten a colleague’s day?

Avatar of authorTom Jendriks
Improvementemployee hub
3 months ago

Timely Workflow Reminders and More 🔔

Three new improvements that improve your workflow processes and absence requests are now live.

Handy Deadline Reminders

Now you can automate deadline reminders. Projects come with deadlines and you can set the parameters using flair in Salesforce. When a deadline is approaching, an employee will receive a reminder on a date that works for the project. As an HR manager, this feature allows you to complete workflows in time and with ease.

Receive Absence Requests in Time

It’s important to outline your absence request policy and make it easy for employees to give notice of leave. Your absence request policy can be customized through the Absence Settings on the flair HR app. By adding a minimum time notice for absences you avoid short notice absence requests while making the request process smoother.

Requests for More Days Off

Employees sometimes need to seek special dispensation and request to take off more days than is outlined in your company’s absence policies, like in the event of a family emergency, accident, or special occasion. In these exceptional cases, employers will want to work with the employee to find an appropriate solution.

If this situation occurs, employees are now asked to add a document in addition to the request. The notification appears when an employee wants to request time off in the Employee Hub. A document could be a medical letter or any other relevant information.

Want to learn more about flair features? Check out the flair Learning Hub. 📙😃

Avatar of authorKatharina Herman
Improvementnewmobile
4 months ago

What's New in flair: Have You Seen the New Learning Hub?

We’ve been busy working on a fresh flair resource just for you. The new Learning Hub is live and accessible through the Resources tab on our website!  📚

The Learning Hub is a specially curated online space designed to answer any questions you might have about our cutting-edge HR products and smart tools.

Explore how these tools can transform your HR processes and get the most out of flair with expert guides created by the developers that brought you flair.

How It Works

The Learning Hub is a free educational resource for anyone interested in boosting their knowledge of flair and HR management. Want an in-depth explanation of a specific flair tool? Looking for an answer to a product question?

Then head over to the Learning Hub on the Resources section of our website.

Dive into helpful product guidelines, step by step-by-step explainers, and other tips to enhance your flair experience!

Here’s a quick summary of what’s inside the Learning Hub so far:

Getting Started 

  • The Employee Hub
  • flair HR on Salesforce 
  • flair Recruiting on Salesforce

Product Features

  • Absences
  • Recruiting
  • Onboarding
  • Time Tracking
  • Performance & Goals
  • Payroll
  • Cheers Certificates
  • Engagement Surveys
  • Expenses
  • Shift Planner

flair Support 

  • How To Grant Support Access

Through the Learning Hub, we'll continue to bring you new and exciting educational experiences. Visit the Learning Hub today or for more information read our latest blog post and What's New article.


Avatar of authorLuke Holohan
Improvementmobileemployee hubengagement
5 months ago

What's New in flair: More Cheers and New flair Artwork

We’ve made some snazzy, new updates to Cheers! 🥳 

An Employee Hub favorite, Cheers allows you to send coworkers funky flair artwork and messages to say thanks for a job well done.

It’s all about showing colleagues you care. Celebrating hard work and dedication can be a powerful motivator and an important part of employee recognition.

That’s why we have now upgraded the Cheers function in the Employee Hub to make it possible to send a thank you to multiple people at once.

Our design team has also created some amazing new pieces of artwork for flair users to send to team members. These add a bit of variety to the messages of gratitude that you can send to your colleagues.

Check it out now and let us know what you think!


Avatar of authorLuke Holohan
Improvementrecruiting
5 months ago

One click - multiple evaluations 🆒

Are you looking for the right person to fill a particular position, and fast? Then you will enjoy this new feature!

You can now choose multiple candidates per job and request evaluations from your team members. Simply select all the candidates you need evaluations for.

Assign evaluators, a suitable template and a due date. Lean back and wait for the responses. 😉

We hope you find this improvement useful. Let us know what you think 👇

Avatar of authorKatharina Herman
Improvementmobileemployee hubabsencesslack
5 months ago

What's New in flair: Track Your Work Hours in Slack

Manage your time better! ⌛

flair users can now track their time in Slack.

More and more workplace conversations are happening through Slack. That’s why we are making it even easier to engage with colleagues and complete HR tasks via the popular instant messenger.

The time-tracking feature on Slack gives managers a better overview of productivity. It also reminds employees to take important rest periods and breaks.

To use this time tracking function, select the flair app in your Slack channel.

Here you can connect your Employee Hub to the Slack workspace. Once you have connected with the Employee Hub, time-tracking tools will appear on the Slack page.

To start recording your work times, click the Clock In button.

From there users can choose to log their break times and also clock out when their day has ended. Try it out today and let us know what you think.

Avatar of authorPierre Colson
Improvementrecruiting
5 months ago

Overall Recommendation of Candidates

You’ve assigned people to evaluate each candidate, they completed the forms, and now it’s time to see the outcome. 🎉On the candidate’s page, you will see a list of all evaluations and the calculated scores of each evaluator. The Overall recommendation shows the average of the evaluators’ scores.

By clicking the View button, you will see how the candidate performed in each category.

We hope that you like this overview. Let us know what you think! 👍

Avatar of authorKatharina Herman