What's new ✨

You can now create and ask your own Employee onboarding questions to suit your business needs.

The current onboarding form collects basic personal, banking and tax information, but what if you need to collect other important business-specific questions from your new hire? 

For example “have you had a workers' compensation claim?”, “what’s your uniform size?”, “do you have a preferred location?”.. the options are endless.

Why 🤔

Keep it all within Deputy - you won’t need to use a separate system to collect and store additional information about your team members. 

Unique & flexible - the flexibility to ask any question that might be specific to the business, whether it’s a short answer, Yes/No or multiple choice

Reusable - create it once and the questions will be included in all new onboards

How to use it 🤓

Click here to read more about how to use it

Got feedback to share? Submit it here.

How to get it 🧪

This feature will be progressively rolled out to all customers in the next week.

What's new ✨

What’s new ✨

You will have the ability to multi-select any combination of areas in the new schedule location selector (web).

Why 🤔

• Flexibility with Multi-Select Locations - Making the schedule view more relevant by only showing exactly what you want. You can select any combination of locations & areas when scheduling
• Efficiency - If you need to view and work across multiple areas and locations, you can now select them all in one go without having to frequently change location
• System Performance - By showing only what you want, the Deputy platform doesn’t have to find all the shifts and staff you don’t currently need to look at. This helps the schedule perform faster and is one of a long list of upcoming performance enhancements we have planned — stay tuned!

How to use it

1. Navigate to the schedule and you’ll find the new location selector where it’s always been
2. Choose "Select Multiple"
3. Select which areas and/or locations you’d like to view
4. Hit "Done" to view your selection on your schedule

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback or simply book a 30 minute meeting with us here. 

What's new ✨

Deputy businesses will soon be able to disable the ability for team members to submit unavailability.

Why 🤔

We know that many businesses do not use the concept of unavailability when managing their teams and schedules. This can lead to team members incorrectly using the unavailability feature, disrupting a business's ability to roster. With this new level of control, businesses that don't operate with the concept of employee unavailability can turn this feature off and continue to schedule employees in the way that they prefer.

How to use it 🤓

As a system administrator, you can prevent team members in your business from submitting new unavailabilities:

1.  Navigate to Business settings > Leave

2. Unselect the option for "Allow Team members to submit unavailability".

After turning this setting off, unavailabilities can still be created and used for Scheduling. This setting will not impact users with the ability to schedule employees, including Supervisors, Location Managers. They can continue to add unavailabilities for a team member in their profile under the People tab.

Furthermore, existing unavailabilities will not be impacted, and team members will still be able to delete their existing unavailabilities.  

To learn more about the specifics of this setting, please visit this handy Help article.

How to get it 🧪

This feature will be progressively rolling out to all customers starting from Thursday 16 June.

What's new ✨

•  Actual hours/wages/sales/labor%/SPH for past period
•  Schedule vs. Forecast hours/wages/sales/labor%/SPH for current/future period
•  You can always check budget vs. forecast vs. actual data in the hover-over popup as before

Why 🤔

With Sales per hour in the stats panel,  managers will not need to go back to Business Insight summary to check on those data.  It is easier for managers to leverage with this new north star metric while making scheduling decisions.

How to get it 🧪

This feature will be progressively rolling out to all customers in the next 2 weeks.

What's new ✨

From tomorrow, you may notice a refreshed Once page when logging in to access their business on Deputy. 

This visual update comes with several performance improvements that will load your businesses faster and more reliably than before.

Deputy's Once page is where users can access all businesses associated with them, edit their personal profile or security settings, or manage the settings of a business, such as the URL, business name, and billing details.

This update will be available for all customers from tomorrow. We hope you love the change!

What's new ✨ Enterprise accounts - coming next month!

Need more documents from new starters? You can request important documents like training certifications / licences and send out employment forms like company handbooks and contracts to capture digital signatures from your new hires, which they can provide in Deputy, using any device.

Why 🤔

Give your new hires a great first impression by simplifying and digitising the onboarding experience so they can easily complete employment forms on the go.

You'll be able to collect the necessary information and documents within a day which gets your new hires rostered faster, and allows you to pay them as soon as their first shift ends.

How to use it 🤓

Click here to read more about how to use it. During BETA, we're offering unlimited FREE onboards, normally £8 (excl. VAT) one-off fee per employee onboarding.

This feature is also available in Australia.

Got feedback to share? Tell us about it here.

How to get it 🧪

For customers in the UK, this feature is available in BETA over the next week. To start using employee onboarding, go to the Add People button on the People page and select Onboard team member.

What's new ✨

We’ve been hearing great feedback from our customers who use Shift Pulse™ to create a thriving and engaged workplace for their employees. Now, we are introducing this feature to our iPad Kiosk app too - so your team can rate how they felt on their shifts, no matter where they clock out from!

Using Shift Pulse™, employees can rate how they felt and leave feedback at the end of every shift. Armed with actionable insights into your team’s morale, you can help boost employee satisfaction and engagement - and make the next shift better. 

How to get it 🧪

If your business already uses this feature, there is nothing you have to do and the feature will roll out to you over the coming weeks. 

If your business is new to Shift Pulse™: 

1. As a System Administrator, you should be able to access Business Settings on web. Click your name in the upper right corner → ‘Business Settings’ Timesheets → Turn ON Capture Shift Engagement → Apply Changes
2. As soon as your employees clock out from their shift, they should be able to see the Shift Pulse™ survey and leave anonymous feedback. As a System Administrator or Location Manager, you can find results of these surveys on the Engagement dashboard under Reports on web or under the Home tab on mobile.

What's new ✨

Worry no more about buddy punching and timecard fraud with Deputy's new Geofence experience.

Geofence now offers more than just viewing the locations of team members who clock in via the Deputy mobile apps, including giving managers the choice to:

• Block team members from clocking in on mobile when they are too far away from their scheduled work location
• Set up notifications when team members clock in on mobile from too far away from their scheduled work location

Note: Deputy does not track any user's location outside the clocking on and clocking off action on their mobile devices.

Why 🤔

"Hey, can you clock in for me? I'll be there in 10 minutes." Timecard fraud is costly to your business, so we wanted to give your managers more options when it comes to worker transparency.

How to use it 🤓

Click here to read more about how to use it

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback

What's new ✨

Who doesn’t love a fresh new look? The People tab and employee profiles have a new look and feel. We have redesigned it for better navigation and so you can find & edit the information you need quicker. We’ve also reorganised and decluttered a few existing sections:

• Profile includes personal details, employment details (where they work, training, pay, working hours), journals
• Scheduling will have everything related to shifts, unavailability and leave
• Activity includes news feed

Why 🤔

We've revamped the experience to give a faster, more intuitive experience to users, with improved workflow and a 'what you see is what you edit' philosophy, reducing the clicks you need to see your data.

How to use it 🤓

The Help Articles below are easy to follow and guide you through the new experience:

Welcome to the New Employee Experience (Enterprise!)

Enterprise People tab

How to set up pay details for your employees in the people tab [Enterprise] 

How to get it 🧪

This feature is  in BETA, however you can opt in now via our new self-serve option!`

This is accessible to system administrators through Business Settings -> Upcoming Features, and will activate for your entire account.