Improved Self-Service Leave Workflow

You may have noticed that the leave hierarchy has had a facelift. The interface is now cleaner, more intuitive and easier to use. But the improvements go far beyond aesthetics; the entire approval workflow has been updated to provide you with a simpler and more reliable experience.

Multiple approvers. You asked, we listened – employees and approval groups can now submit leave requests to more than one approver. You can also decide whether only one or all of the assigned approvers must respond to requests.

Approval groups have replaced the old leave hierarchy and can be comprised of individual employees, specific pay points or even the entire company. Where employees are part of a higher level group i.e. pay point or company, and are subsequently assigned to a more specific group, this latest assignment will take precedence. New staff will automatically be assigned to the relevant approval group. This allows you to manage complex situations with ease.

For example, let’s say you initially create one approval group for the entire company but later decide that certain departments should have requests approved by their HOD, you can simply create new groups for each department without having to individually move each employee out of the old group and into the new one. And, when staff join or change departments, they will automatically be added to the correct approval group.

Administrators can now be leave approvers even if they are not employees.

Mappings, requests and comments preserved. We’ve brought it all across to ensure that you still have all of your info without any of the issues.

Constantly improving. We will soon be introducing the ability to add users as approvers only, whether they are employees or not. And, to ensure that you always have the best and simplest experience possible, the rest of the leave management is also being updated to be more customisable and user-friendly.

For more information on setting up approval groups, please see our help site.

And of course, as usual, we welcome any feedback or suggestions that you may have.