Introducing new manager notification options in Shift Bidding, improved Timesheets filtering and auto-population of fields, and improvements to rostering and workforce analytics!

Now available in staging environments, all Humanforce Cloud accounts will be automatically updated to bring you the items below, overnight on Wednesday 25th October 2023.

Shift Bidding

Management > Shift > Bid Manager

Manager notifications

For more flexibility, we’ve introduced new options to customise which managers receive notifications when an employee accepts or declines an offer made via Bid Manager. 

The options for who should receive notifications are: 

1. The manager who published the shift and the manager who offered the shift. One notification will be sent if these two personas are the same user. This is the default setting.
2. All users with access to the Location/Department of the shift and who have access to Bid Manager or Rostering screens 
3. All reporting managers for the employee's management group. 

To configure your preferred option:

• Go to Admin > Admin Config > System Settings
• Click the Roster/Roster Templates tab
• Select your preferred option and click Save Changes.

Employee notifications

The employee notification advising an offer has been made via Bid Manager and needs to be confirmed has been made more clear. The new notification states: 

Confirm Shift: Your bid was selected and you have been offered a shift for [ROLE] on [DATE]. Please confirm the offer to have the shift assigned to you.

Timesheets

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets

• All Shift Types are now visible in the All Shift Type filter. Previously, the results of the All Shift Types filter were limited to the logged in user's shift types as defined by their Award Profile.
• Paid breaks are now included when creating timesheets from rosters. Previously only unpaid breaks were included.
• Split timesheets no longer inherit the original timesheet's Event/Function by default after the Event and/or Function is removed.
• The Net Hours label has been updated to Timesheet Net Hours to provide additional clarity on what data that column contains.
• When editing timesheets, the values in the Area field now update immediately when the Location/Department/Role is changed.

Department Rostering

Management > Rostering > Employee Rostering

We’ve fixed an issue where unassigned shift costs and associated pay type values were not being saved correctly when saving rosters, which was resulting in under calculation of total roster costs. Total roster costs and values of pay types now reflect unassigned shifts, as expected.

Template Manager for Rostering

Management > Rostering > Template Manager

• To prevent errors, we are now validating total break times to ensure the break length can't be greater than the total shift time and that it falls within the shift start and end times.
• Shifts within your template now show new icons on the shift tile to indicate if a comment has been added and/or it has been marked as Non-attended.

Workforce Analytics

Management > Advanced > Workforce Analytics

The KPI Workforce analytics report now has the option to include Unassigned Shifts, for more flexible reporting.