Another month has gone by which means a lot of new features are ready for you.

This month's release notes include:

For web:

For the Planday & Kiosk app:

1. In your Employee's list, from People > Employees, you can search through the list by Mobile number.
This expands the list of search options for your employee list to:
- First or Last name,
- Email address,
- Salary identifier,
- Tax ID,
- and now: Mobile number.

2. On the Employee groups page, from People > Employee groups, you can now view and sort the list by Salary code.

A Salary code column was added to the Employee groups page, to improve the visibility of Employee group details.

Similar to the other columns of the list, the Salary code column is sortable in ascending or descending order.

This also applies if your setup uses Salary code 2.
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This means that HR managers can add or remove the employees they manage from the Departments on your portal, in the Quick edit view.

This can be useful in situations that require quick changes to your organization's structure or increased flexibility in how your staff is managed.

For a user with an HR manager permission level, this addition grants edit rights only for Department membership and only for the employees directly managed by the user in question.

This addition does not allow access to view or edit any other Employee data field.

To edit Departments, through this permission level, you'll need to navigate to People > Employees > click on the Employee entry and edit Departments from the Quick edit menu on the right-hand side of the screen.

If you'd like to use this permission level addition, please reach out to our support team (from the messaging icon, in the bottom right corner), for assistance.

Admins and HR managers, that have access to edit Departments or Employee groups, can now also Restore deleted Departments (or Employee groups, respectively).

To restore a deleted Department, you'll need to navigate to People > Departments and find the Restore Department button, in the top right corner.

This will prompt a new window where you can select which Department you'd like to reinstate and whether or not employee memberships should be kept as they were prior to the deletion of that department.
​If left in its default state, restoring a department will reinstate the memberships.

Similarly, to restore an Employee group, you'll need to find the Restore Employee Group button, under People > Employee groups.

A similar prompt will appear, giving you the option to choose which group to restore and whether or not to bring back the employee memberships to that group.

If you'd like to use this new feature, but it's not already available on your portal, please reach out to our support team for assistance.

As part of the recent Vacation module updates, it is now possible to register backdated Vacation requests.

This could be useful if a Vacation request needs to be registered in the past or in an inactive Vacation account.

To backdate a Vacation request, simply select the (past) vacation account it should belong to, from Absence requests > Request vacation > selected Employee > Account type.

Currently, when an employee sets their contact information to be public (visible for their colleagues) it becomes visible to all other employees in the organization.

This might not be in line with their data privacy expectations and might make it difficult to browse the Employee list, for large numbers of employees.

The upcoming update will limit the visibility of their contact info to the members of the same Department(s). This means that only their colleagues will be able to see their contact info if it's set to public.

More details about employee data visibility, in this article.

Soon, when editing an Employee's security access (from People > Employees > Quick edit), you will need to define which Departments the access level applies to.

Adding This will give you the option to configure which Department the access rights apply to and how, for that employee.

This also allows you to set whether the access rights should be applicable to all employees or only employees with that department set as primary if you use that feature.

In an effort to make it easier for you to stay on top of your tasks and have all the information you need to keep your staff safe, in the current fluctuating times, we're working on a feature that allows you to set up a quick Health check through Punch Clock. This feature will give your employees a quick way to inform you if they're no longer fit for work and will help you keep your staff safe, which is particularly relevant in the current COVID-19 landscape.

The COVID-19 Health check will appear as a pop-up when an employee taps "Start Shift" in their Punch Clock app, asking whether they present any symptoms or have been in contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19.

If either situation is applicable, you'll be notified right away through a Planday message and your employee will be advised to self-isolate, contact you and their health care provider for the next steps.

To use this Health check, you'll need to already be using Punch Clock on your portal and enable it from Settings > Punch Clock > Survey.

Once enabled, the quick survey will appear across all the Punch Clock platforms you might use (web, mobile app, or the Kiosk app)

Make sure to use the latest versions available for Android (6.11.0) or iOS (6.11.0).
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The 2 recent updates for the Planday app brought to you:

Android - version 6.11.0

iOS - version 6.11.0

Make sure to use the latest version available for iPad Kiosk App (1.3.0)
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This update includes: