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 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!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Salesforce Employee Centre — a new, fully customizable employee experience only in Salesforce! 

Some of the feature components available in our new salesforce employee centre include:

Documents: Send and receive documents from your employees quickly and easily within the employee centre salesforce app. 

Time Tracking: Let your employees track time either automatically or manually on Salesforce. They can clock in, clock out, take breaks... everything is just one click away! They will always see relevant information such as the total hours of time tracked and time that is left to fulfil their work journey. 

They will also have access to details for past entries in a new and clean visual design, and their timesheets with all the information they need to know

My Data: Let your employees check and fulfil all the information your organization needs from them easily and autonomously. They will see a message requesting information in case something is still missed.

Absences: Your employees can check their upcoming absences, see available vacations days and request time-off right in the employee centre on salesforce. A list of all previously approved or declined absences  can be viewed on the 'history' tab

We are looking forward to hearing your feedback and If you have any questions about this new service, don't hesitate to contact us. And don't forget to subscribe to keep yourself updated about our new additions! 🙂

Of course, we couldn't forget about one of the most requested features by companies: time tracking. Now, it's also available on the new Salesforce Self-service! 🎉

Let your employees track time either automatically or manually on Salesforce. They can clock in, clock out, take breaks... everything just one click away! They will always see relevant information such as expected time, time tracked and time that is left to fulfill their work journey. 

They will also have access to details for past entries in a new and clean visual design, and their timesheets with all the information they need to know.

We are looking forward to hearing your thoughts about this new feature!

We're happy to announce the release of our most requested feature: Avatars!

At flair, we always support the strengthening of company cultures. This has become a critical topic for distributed teams. One of the steps to create stronger interpersonal relationships is to humanize the technology to identify the people behind it. That's why we've added the option to let you change your avatar and be much more than initials for your organization! 

Now, you can easily add a picture to your profile on the employee hub and employee self-service accounts in Salesforce. You can upload, change or chose to remove your avatar if you want to. Your chosen picture will show up across the hub and self-service platforms. 

Try it out and let us know what you think!

One of HR's missions is protecting its employees' well-being. When people skip their break time or have just a tiny break during a hard-working day, this can affect badly on how they act and feel, and both a person and a company lose from this. Moreover, this can also go against the law requirements for breaks.

The good news is that flair now offers HRs an instrument to set up the employees' break time rules. HRs can set break rules in the Breaks section of a Time Framework. After the rules are set, the next step is to apply the Time Framework to an employee's workload. As soon as it's done, break rules become active for the employee.

Here is a video guide to getting you into the details:

We'd be happy to hear your impressions and feedback on how it works for you.