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Block leave dates

It would be really helpful to be able to block dates that you don't allow employees to take off. So for instance, we are a very busy vacation rental management company at a ski resort. We do not allow employees to take time off during busy holidays and spring break times. If I could block them from being able to request those dates, then I wouldn't have to continually say no, or remind their manages not to approve those times. 

Thanks!!

Start/end date field for staff members

It would be helpful to implement a start date/end date field for staff members. For example, when an employee puts in notice, I could go to his page and add the last day he is available. When we hire another team member, I could add the first day she is available to work. 
We often keep people on the active roster a week or more beyond their time with us, for payroll purposes. We also like to schedule weeks in advance. In these circumstances, it would be helpful if illegible employees did not show up as options for shifts.

When shift is deleted all employees get notified

At the moment if you delete a shift the staff members assigned don't get a notification email.

Restrict Users' Ability to Clock in Remotely

We would like to require that some departments can only clock-in/out from specified locations, while others can clock in/out from anywhere and GPS logged.

For example, our admin staff and inside sales reps work in our office.  They should not have the ability to clock in or out from their cell phones, when they may be on their way to work or not in the office.

However, we have outside reps who travel to networking events and client locations that we DO we want them to be able to clock in/out from.. but they can be anywhere, not pre-defined locations.

Hoping this is do-able, as I assume there are many other businesses with similar structure.

Thanks in advance!

Availability

Would it be possible to set the hours of operations for the business?  It would make it easier for employees setting their availability.  And it would make the scheduling process easier for the scheduler.

Thank you!!!

Hourly Leave

It would be helpful if we could request/approve leave in hours instead of days as our employees are able to take less than full days off and they accumulate them on an hourly basis.

select additions

quick suggestion:

Let the shift manager delete sections of time of day ie: 1am to 7am since we are not open those hours...
Also, in the time line portion of the schedule. maybe allow a small red mark along the time line to show what time it is during any given shift. It could just move along the time line for any time zone selected.... I would like to see how much time is left on one staff members shift during the shift.  this would save me $ in the long run since i can send home staff early if i see they are not productive.  rather than waiting for the remaining 45 min of the shift to complete, i would just send him home due to lack of production. 
Quick thoughts - thanks for listening.
Jason - C2 Tactical / Tempe, AZ

Salary Payroll option

I have two salary employees and would like the option to set them up as such without troublesome and time consuming work around.  Thank you so much!
 

Intuit Online Payroll for Accountants (IOP)

Integrate with Intuit Online Payroll for Accountants (IOP)

Allow break time to be edited to the 1 min, not 5

When an agent doesn't properly update their break status, we manually update to the actual time they were on break so we can track adherence. Currently, we can only update in 5 minute increments. To have actual statistics on break adherence, we should be able to update to the minute (for example 1 hours, 2 minutes) and not be forced to log in 5 minute increments.

Change to timesheets

I have a sample image, but what I am looking for is when breaking out the timesheet into weeks, I would like to have a weekly subtotal of the hours worked in addition to the total for the pay period.

Filter for Activated Staff

We can sort out non activated staff why cant we view just the activated ones?
I would like to suggest that you make it so that we can filter out and view just the activated staff as well so we are only dealing with the staff that have activated their account. You can already filter non-active staff so you should be able to filter out active people as well.

Allow shift trades regardless of availability

Allow employees to trade shifts with another person even if that person's availability calendar says they can't work.
A lot of the time an employee can take another shift even though their availability calendar says they aren't free to work.

Payroll Integration with Xero

Be able to easily export employee hours into Xero

Payroll Feature request

My question is two part - but is dealing with pay: first part is - is there a spot to "add" pay rate - meaning, if someone just got a raise, right now all I do is adjust their pay. It would be nice to be able to add a new pay rate - with the time that it goes into effect.
This leads to the second part of my question - I am running payroll reports for a previous time period and it is now reflecting their new pay rate for previous days worked.

Creating Shifts with the 5 Minutes increment

I need to be able to set staff shifts in 5 minute increments. In the long term this will save my company a great deal of money.

Adding 10 minutes to each staff member's shift each day for 30 shifts at $1 every 5 minutes starts to add up. I would like to be able to set a shift, for example, to start at 8:35 a.m. or end at 9:20 p.m

Extended Scheduler Permissions

Hi there,

When I give to some of our managers Scheduler permissions, they do not have access to the feature where you can go to an employee's profile straight from the scheduling by clicking on the name of the employee.

Considering the managers with Scheduler permissions are the one creating shifts, approving timesheets, and can edit the profiles of selected locations, I think the feature of accessing employee's profile from the schedule should be available to a scheduler.

Could you please tell me if this can happen?

Thank you,
Kym

Public Holidays Calculation Feature

In Humanity can you set certain public holidays and make it automatic calculate as double time or time and half?

Bi-Weekly over time

Due to the nature of the business and operational needs we calculate overtime as any hours worked more than 88 hours in a pay period (2 weeks). These hours are in accordance with applicable workplace legislation. The main reason for this change to be made is to help us manage overtime. Our employment agreement outlines this and our staff agree with this policy.
https://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/tools/hours/overtime_averaging_tutorial.php

Please advise how we can rectify this.

Lunch breaks scheduled by scheduler

Hi,
I have groups of employees which I need to schedule. But I also need to schedule them for a lunch. I need to make sure they will not go for lunch all at the same time. 
For example I have 10 employees schedule to work from 9AM to 6PM including 1 hour for lunch. But they can not go for lunch all at 12PM. I need at least 6 of them to stay in the office and work. In order to prevent arguing, who will go when, I would like to plan they lunch. But I do not have this option now. 
Would you consider to implement this option?
Lunch is unpaid break and I need to be able to plan it for ceratin employee for certain time and than see it in the shiftplanning - employee view.

Thanks!

Presets for break rules

Silk Road Tea would like to see an option to save break rules so that they can apply the same break rule to multiple positions rather than creating them again and again. Perhaps a drop down function from which they can choose which break rule out of the preset that they want to apply for a position.

Creating break rules 30 times for 30 different positions can be a very time consuming task for them. 

Requesting Change to Software Functionality

Please can I request the following changes.

The ability to be able to specify the maximum weekly hours (overtime) in fraction of hours... i.e 0.25, 0.5 and 0.75.

Its worth noting that in the UK the average weekly hours is 37.5...

Currently we can only specify in full hours, this is not flexible and has resulted in preventing us using the Payroll functionality as our overtime is at a different rate.

Secondly we are unable to filter on the Primary location in the Payroll element, however we can filter on Additional location, this seems rather strange. Providing this would give greater flexibility.

Finally please can we have the ability to specify holiday requests in hours and also view holiday entitlement in hours, this is again a law requirement in the UK.

Role based features enable/disable

In most businesses, there are a variety of jobs done by different people. We would like shifplanning to associate roles/groups and when enabling a feature to choose which group it applies to and which group to not. 

For example:

Under the tab 'Time Clock' the 'Pre-clock In' feature enables staff to clock-in with the 'Pre-clock' giving you the heads up that they are 'On Their Way' and have left for work. This is extremely popular for critical services such nurses and emergency related industries.

This is an all or nothing. What about non-critical services within the same organization.

Thank you, and feel free to comment and vote 

Lunch Button

If the employee is not scheduled to work, they are not allowed to punch in. 
Is there any way to override this?

Please add a lunch button in addition to the break button.

Restrict Time Clock action with Geo-Fence

If employees are scheduled at a location with an address of 123 XYZ st. Then when they try to sign in on the app it will only allow them to if they are within a specific radius of this address coordinates.

Smartsheets Export Option - Payroll

Hello Team,

Option for Exporting and Importing shift,reports and Payroll data into Smartsheets. It would be a great addition.

Thanks!

Answers submitted by staff visible in Training

Is it possible to see what everyone has been answering to the questions I have written for each subject? 

Automated/scheduled reports

Hi

It would be great if we could set up reports to run automatically (daily or weekly for example) and to be emailed to staff/managers.

A useful example would be the 'open shifts' report.  It would be really helpful if we could set this up to run and be emailed out on a daily/weekly basis to managers, so that any open or partially covered shifts don't get forgotten about or overlooked.

Another useful application would be the availability report.  We could benefit from sending this out automatically to each member of staff, so they can see what availability they have set for the coming week/month.  This would also act as a reminder to set availability.

For companies who don't use payroll integration, we could schedule payroll reports to be sent to Finance dept on a weekly/monthly basis automatically.

Training Reports

Is there any way to generate an overall report to see which employees have completed which parts of training?

Improvement suggestion to vacation calendar module

It would be great to create "Black Out" days that automatically prohibit staff from requesting days off. For example, an Irish pub may want to block out St. Patricks day from allowing requests. 
Additionally if possible it would be great to set the maximum number of staff off at the same for separate areas or jobs. For our cooks, it is difficult to have more than one off at a time but for our catering servers we could allow 10 at a time and it would have little impact.

Sick and vacation leave reporting to payroll

When generating a payroll report, employee sick and vacation time should be included (with the regular, OT and special hours). These are the common, expected fields that any payroll service needs to see in order to fully process payroll.

In addition, your application should have a separate counter for vacation time vs. sick time.

Time Sheet Summary

For me to be able to use the Time Sheets for Human Resources, they need to contain the days that the employee took off for PTO. I cannot find a toggle that allows me to add that into the Time Sheet or even a Custom Report.

Add Black Out dates to the Leave functions

It would be great to create "Black Out" days that automatically prohibit staff from requesting days off. For example an Irish pub may want to block out St. Patricks day from allowing requests. 
Additionally if possible it would be great to set the maximum number of staff off at the same for separate areas or jobs. For our cooks it is difficult to have more than one off at a time but for our catering servers we could allow 10 at a time and it would have little impact.

Training open ended question

I am drafting a training with quiz, is there a way to make the answers to questions open ended not multiple choice?

Include holiday pay in the payroll reports

Hi,
Could you develop a report that shows the number of holiday days taken in any given period.  It must just show holidays and not the days off.  It would save me a lot of time if this could be part of the payroll suite of reports as I could then run one report and send it.

Training Reports (in general)

Is there any reports that I can run for training completed?