We have made some improvements to our HR homepage in salesforce. This is to ensure that you have a seamless walkthrough experience to help you set up your flair environment easily to achieve some quick wins as well as view information about your organisation at a glance.

To get you started with flair, you can easily set up your account in short simple steps using your setup assistant right from your homepage. Once your account has been populated with your employees and their data, you can view at a glance your to-dos, employee information that needs to be completed, employee absences, birthdays, approval requests and workflows.

You can also see a list of employees leaving and newly hired employees that will be starting soon, this can serve as your reminder to set their onboarding or offboarding tasks. The dashboard overview of your organization allows you to see in real-time the number of employees currently tracking time and get insights into your employees across different locations, their demographics and compensations.

Let us know what you think about the new HR homepage! We'd love to hear from you and don't forget to subscribe for more updates!

We are happy to announce the new way to organize and manage all the absence categories, policies you have, and employees assigned.

This is the Absence Settings page with a three-panel layout. The left one shows all the categories your company has. The middle one — the policies of the selected category if any. The right panel shows the employees assigned to the selected policy or to the unlimited category as it does not contain any policies.

You can create, edit and delete categories and policies, as well as make employee assignments right from this page. 

And one more tip for you: make assignments to multiple employees at once. Use the "Assign" button, click "Select employees", and feel free to use any filters and conditions you need.

Please let us know what you think of this update and how we can make it better for you.

During the onboarding process, it’s quite frequent that your HR department needs some documents from new employees. In order to make this process easier, we enabled a new component, which allows to specifically ask for a document from the employee. We’ve also enabled the option to choose a specific document category during the request process so that the document will be automatically uploaded to the right destination.

And, as a bonus, we've also added another component to let you request data fulfillment.

We've improved the visualization of the Onboarding and other workflows the employees have assigned to bring more transparency and efficiency to the process. On the Salesforce side, you will find a table containing the most relevant information about each task. In this way, you will easily identify problems and check the progress at any time. 

As already mentioned we currently optimize our "Workflow Templates" (former "Onboarding Templates") to make you more flexible and extend the usage beyond onboariding to further proccesses.

Part of this plan is the possibility to assign absolute or relative values. You can now assign managers, performance managers, entire teams or a specific employee to a task. We hope you will try our new feature and give us feedback.

We have improved our Shift Planner! There will never again be differences between the hours in the Shift Planner and the timesheets.

To ensure that the workload in the Shift Planner always corresponds to reality and thus to the timesheets, you can now easily enter them into the Shift Planner. This way, you always have the actual working hours in your Shift Planner and you can be sure that nothing falls under the table.

Let us know what you think about this change! We'd be more than happy to hear what you think. Don't forget to subscribe to the updates!

As we add more customization, cycles become more flexible and can be used for different purposes. You might need to create a cycle that doesn't require a meeting to discuss the outcomes—offboarding, direct feedback from a manager over an employee... For these and many other cases, we've added a component that lets you determine whether you want to require a meeting or not to finish with the process.

Stay tuned as we are working to add more features on cycles at any time... we highly recommend you to subscribe!

"Limited" absence categories are those where the time off is calculated by special rules — policies. For example, they let to accrue the same amount of vacation days for employees every year.

To make setting them up and managing better, we updated the page where you find the details of absence categories applied to an employee.

Start with the Overview tab to have an overall picture. The charts will show you how many available days an employee has, how many are planned, or already taken, also — how the accrued days are spent through the year. Below the charts, you can find the table with the actual information on how these days were accrued and spent.

If you want to get into details or make some changes in policies, go to the "Assigned policies" tab. You may now filter policies by their status: active, upcoming, expired, see the allowances the exact policy creates, and open related absences.

The last tab, Absences, shows the exact requests for the time off. Here you may try new filters by period and also see the allowances used for each absence.

Feel free to test and share your impressions!

Unlimited absence categories allow employees to take days off for unexpected or occasional issues, like sickness or family leave. For HRs, the absence rate in these categories helps to understand how people feel and to timely react when needed.

To help keeping eye on how people in a company are doing, we offer an updated view for the employee's unlimited absence category page. The Overview tab shows an overall picture of how much an employee was absent and when it happened throughout the year. The Absences tab shows the details of all the time off periods used.

We will be happy for you to try this updated view and give us feedback!

In order to bring more flexibility over the Cycles, we've added the option to skip signature and finish with the process. Therefore, now you can use the cycles not only for performance reviews but also for surveys, offboarding forms, etc. Stay tuned as we are working to add more features on cycles at any time... we highly recommend you to subscribe!