Update and announcements from our product team
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:
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.
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.
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.
"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!
The plans for being absent may suddenly change for an employee, and they may delete an absence. In this case, it is good to keep a manager aware of the deletion. And we now send an email notification to a manager as soon as an employee deletes a request.
Our absence calendar will enable more overview than ever!
You can now add your colleagues' absences from flair’s calendar to Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and iCal.
To use this feature, go to the absences dashboard and proceed to move from overview to colleagues.
There you will see a calendar overview of your colleagues' absences and will be able to connect all data within few clicks.
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There is a new configuration for absence categories. You no longer have to see absence details for every colleague. This configuration allows you to hide the name of the absence category in the Employee HUB and iCal sync. You can find this configuration "Public" on the absence categories page.
Your absences dashboard has a new feature!
Filter your colleagues' absences based on one or multiple locations, teams, absence types, and time frames.
To explore this feature, go to the absences dashboard and proceed to move from overview to colleagues.
There you will see a calendar overview of your colleagues' absences and will be able to adjust the filters accordingly to your request.
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