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.

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.

Great news! We've made it easier to manage Absence Categories  🙌

The archive button allows you to hide absence categories by simply going to Absence Settings and clicking “Archive”, there’s also an option to “Unarchive”, if you change your mind later. 

Whether your absence categories are active or archived, all historical data is safely stored in Salesforce.

This feature allows you to experiment with different absence formats without losing important insights. Enjoy and let us know how it is working for you!

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 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.

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!

It is now possible to set absences carryover and avoid expiration completely. A whole range of different company's absences rules can be set and counted automatically.

We now offer four different ways to manage expiration in the accrual policies:

Never expire the accrued days

The absence days or hours gained in different accrual intervals are summed up and do not expire at all. 

Expire at the end of an accrual interval

This means all the accrued absence time will burn out as the last day of the accrual interval is over.

Expire with unlimited carryover

This option means that all the unused days of the period will be available to use until the day you set. For example — until the last day of March or the next year.

Expire with regulated carryover

This option allows you to use only the exact amount of unused days after the interval expires. In the example, only five days can be used by employees by the end of March, no matter how many they did not use during the year.

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.