Coming soon: Automate HR announcements via Slack

Collaboration platform Slack now boasts over 10 million daily active users. Many companies use Slack to help teams communicate and collaborate, and we know that HR often uses Slack to make company announcements, or to gather employee feedback.

Smooth communication from HR can help you improve employee engagement throughout your organisation. So this year, our developers have been working on a unique new integration with Slack. 

This new integration will help you to automate key company announcements and updates, including birthdays, holidays, new starters, leavers, and work anniversaries. It will let you automatically feed HR data from your system, into your Slack channels, as friendly little updates.

We are very excited about this, as you'll be able to pull all of this data without ever having to search for it manually. 

Your employees will feel more in the loop. You’ll never miss another birthday or work anniversary again. New starters will always get the warm welcome they need. Your teams will all know who is away and when. And all of this, without you lifting a finger.

Watch this space!

Integration enhancements

We've been busy this month releasing a number of fixes and enhancements throughout our software - and today we're looking at some of our best integration tools, including:

• Sage
• Time Plugins
• Workable

With some extra fields added, in this release we've aimed to provide you more options to your daily tools to ensure they are more fitted for you. For a full list of what we've updated, please see: http://help.peoplehr.com/feature-releases-and-software-updates/may-2019-integration-enhancements

Did you know about our Time Plugins? Here at People® we understand that there are many different business cultures throughout our customer base. With this, we require a range of options that you can choose from to manage your employee's time and attendance. Click here to learn more.

Mobile fixes

As promised, we have now released the next bunch of mobile fixes, resolving issues presented with the mobile app - including those experienced within the expense feature and planner. We thank you again for your patience whilst we've been implementing enhancements and thoroughly testing each one before going live!

For a full list of bug fixes on the mobile app released today, please see: http://help.peoplehr.com/feature-releases-and-software-updates/may-2019-mobile-fixes

Mobile Fixes - We thank you for your patience!

We know you've experienced some issues on our mobile app, involving the expense feature and other areas. After taking in all of your feedback, our team have been working with much determination to bring you today's release that will resolve these problems you have been presented with.

Please note that there are a few more mobile fixes just around the corner! They are currently being developed and tested to be released very shortly.

For a full list of bug fixes on the mobile app released today, please see: http://help.peoplehr.com/feature-releases-and-software-updates/may-2019-mobile-release

Integration enhancements

This release, we have focused on making some changes and improvements to our existing integrations.

As well as creating a new tool for DPN payroll, we've enhanced some areas on many other tools such as the Timesheet Report plugin and our Moorepay integration.

Click here to view all developments launched today. 

From Payroll, Time Tracking, Applicant Tracking Systems...

We’ve teamed up with some of the most popular HR and business applications, to help you automate even more routine tasks, and make HR even faster and easier. Browse our integrations directory  to discover which systems connect with People®.

April 2019 Release

Today we have released a number of minor bug fixes and enhancements to resolve some problems you may have been facing with some areas in the system. These include:

• ATS emails (CC and BCC)
• Querying on negative entitlement figures
• Applicant codes

For a full list of the enhancements launched in this release, please see: http://help.peoplehr.com/feature-releases-and-software-updates/april-2019-release

March 2019 Release

In this release, we've made a number of enhancements and fixed a few bugs to improve usability. 

We've also updated our internal system to make it easier for us to access what we need when you have a question. So although these changes may not be visible to you directly, you should notice a smoother, more swift solution from our teams. 

Take a look at some of our news posts from today to learn more! Or for a quick explanation of each change we've made, please see: http://help.peoplehr.com/feature-releases-and-software-updates/march-2019-release

Auto refresh on Hotsheets (Excel and Google)

Both Excel Hotsheets and Google Hotsheets will now have an auto refresh option. If selected, every time a hotsheet file is opened it will display up to date, live data - without users having to manually refresh.

What is a Hotsheet and why would I use it?
Sometimes you may need to send data to someone who otherwise does not have admin access to view as a report within PeopleHR. Hotsheets allow you to link queries that contain live employee data into an external file, in a secure way e.g Salary data to the payroll team, or holiday information to managers.

Hotsheets are available on Google Sheets, and Microsoft Excel. 

Click here to learn more about Google Hotsheets.

Click here to learn more about Excel Hotsheets.

Add a third party consultant to your system

As a system admin, you will now be able to manage your consultants without sending a request to the support team first. This will give you full control over who can access your system and will save time when adding a new consultant!

What is a consultant in PeopleHR?

A consultant is a third party who will require full admin access to your system, but may not be employed by you - thus not having an employee login. An example of this may be an external Payroll Team or HR consultant.

Why did we make this change?

For your peace of mind, we will no longer have the ability to add third party access to your database. Your system admins will be able to add/remove a consultant from your system at any time!

Please note:  If you do not have the 'Consultant' tab, please contact customerservices@peoplehr.com to turn this license on for you free of charge.

Grant and revoke People® access to your system

If you are a System Admin, you can now grant or revoke access to your HR system. This is to provide transparency on who has access to your system and when. One example of this, is that the People® support team will not be able to access your system unless granted by you, such as to investigate an issue.

To learn more about how you can grant/revoke access, please see:
http://help.peoplehr.com/general-information/grant-and-revoke-peoplehr-access-to-your-system

To see which teams have access to your systems and why, please see: http://help.peoplehr.com/general-information/transparency-of-who-has-access-to-your-data