We’re back with another edition of the Employment Hero product update, where we share all of the latest and greatest updates from the previous month. With the first month of 2024 done and dusted, we’re sharing all the product updates we’ve been hard at work on this year.

Over the last month we’ve introduced integrations with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, created expense and leave workflows, given a makeover to our HR reports, created a centralised view for feedback, enhanced our Custom Surveys and lots more. It’s all here and ready for you to use in-platform – let’s get to it!

Set up workflows to automate Google Workspace & Microsoft 365 accounts when an employee starts or leaves your organisation

We’re excited to share that onboarding and offboarding employees just got a whole lot easier! Now, you can effortlessly set up workflows to create a company email address for your new starters or suspend a terminated employee’s access to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.

Put simply, software provisioning allows you to streamline the account creation process for employees and administrators – and it’s going to make your onboarding and offboarding process even easier.

Please note: This feature is available now as a pre-release beta and may change in the future.

Microsoft 365

You can use software provisioning with Microsoft 365 to easily manage your employees’ accounts within the Employment Hero HR Platform.

Important: You will need a Microsoft 365 Business Plan or above to use software provisioning with the Employment Hero HR Platform. The user will also need an admin account to perform the connection.

Learn more about software provision with Microsoft 365.

Google Workspace

You can use software provisioning with Google Workspace to easily manage your employees’ accounts and email address within the Employment Hero HR Platform.

Important: You will also need a Google Workspace Business Plan to use software provisioning with the Employment Hero HR Platform. The user will also need an admin account to perform the connection.

Learn more about software provisioning with Google Workspace.

Introducing Expense Workflows, a multi-level expense approval feature

Is employee expense management a time-consuming and confusing process in your business? To address this universal challenge, we’ve developed a brand new feature for Platinum customers, designed to automate your expense approvals. Now you can customise your expenses workflow to send expense claims to the right people, saving you precious time.

Workflows allows you to build multi-level workflows for expense approvals customised to fit your business’ expense needs. Lean into our suite of powerful filters, triggers, conditions and automations to make processing expenses a breeze for you, your employees and your finance team.

With Workflows, you can add multiple levels of approvals to an expense claim before it becomes fully approved by automating logic definition. For example, users who submit an expense claim under $100, are submitted by a specific employee, or require multiple approvers can be sent straight to the right people or even be automatically approved.

Sign up for open beta now and be one of the first to streamline your business expense management with Workflows.

Please note: This feature is available now on a pre-release beta basis.

Learn more about Expense Workflows.

Say hello to Leave Workflows, a multi-level leave approval feature

Similar to Expense Workflows, we’re excited to share that we’ve just released Leave Workflows – a flexible workflow option where you can automate the leave request approve/decline flow.

This means you can customise the employee leave request workflow to send leave requests wherever they need, as well as enable multiple levels of approvers to finalise a leave request.

So, what could this automation look like for businesses? Let’s take a look at some examples and how you could automate leave requests.

• WHEN a leave request is submitted by an employee, IF hours of leave is greater than 24, THEN the leave request will be sent to the leadership team for approval.
• WHEN a leave request is submitted by an employee, IF hours of leave is greater than 80, THEN the leave request will be automatically declined.
• WHEN a leave request is submitted by an employee, IF the leave request comment contains “christmas”, THEN the leave request will be automatically approved.
• WHEN a leave request is submitted by an employee, IF the date from is after 20th December AND date to is before 10th January, THEN the leave request will be automatically approved.

Please note: This feature is available now on a pre-release beta basis.

Learn more about Leave Workflows.

HR reports just got a makeover

Explore your HR data in a whole new way with our updated reporting interface. Check out revamped reports like Headcount, Turnover, Compensation, Certifications, Work Eligibility and more for a modern and intuitive experience.

Learn more about HR reports.

Custom Survey Enhancements

We have some good news for Premium and Platinum subscribers! Our custom surveys now offer email confirmations upon completion, visibility of outstanding surveys from the dashboard, and UI enhancements for an even smoother user experience.

Learn more about Custom Surveys.

SmartMatch gets smarter

Struggling to find top talent for your business? Our SmartMatch feature can help you find the perfect candidates for your open roles. And now, SmartMatch has just levelled up with two features to help you find your perfect match faster.

See who’s interested in your jobs

You can now see interested candidates who have expressed interest in your company and roles.

Say hello to the new SmartMatch dashboard

Stay on top of hiring with the new SmartMatch dashboard. Track top roles, saved searches, and preview interested candidates, all in one place.

This is accessible via Recruitment > SmartMatch and allows you to view the top 5 roles in your organisation, the 5 most recently saved search results, and preview interested candidates on the dashboard.

We’ve also given users the ability to create new saved searches from the dashboard, if there are no existing saved searches. Additionally, by clicking ‘See all’ on the Interested Candidates dashboard preview, you can visit the dedicated Interested Candidates tab.

Learn more about SmartMatch.

There’s now an easier way to view employee feedback

It’s now even easier to check out the latest employee feedback.

In the new update, Admins can view all employee feedback in the ‘All Employees’ tab. This centralised view not only simplifies your oversight, but also allows you to curate feedback, ensuring it remains constructive and aligned with your company values.

Learn more about Feedback.

Certifications just got upgraded – say hello to editing and version history

You asked, we listened. We’ve revamped Certifications to give you the flexibility you need. Easily edit certification names, descriptions and more without starting from scratch. Plus, you can now track all changes with version history.

Learn more about Certifications.

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