What's New?

• Access it via: Schedule Tab → Insights dropdown → Show Hours in Areas
• A breakdown of daily total hours by area, comparing:
  • Scheduled hours (including both filled shifts and all shifts)
  • Daily budgeted hours per area
  • Actual hours (from timesheets, available only when viewing past dates)
  • Compatible with sub shifts from Micro-scheduling

Why the Change?

By comparing budgeted, scheduled, and actual hours in one view, managers can make more informed, data-driven scheduling decisions—without the need to toggle Areas on and off in the Stats Panel to check daily hours data.This feature also serves as a valuable add-on, offering a more tailored experience for managers to monitor Micro-scheduling hours by area.

Please check details from the help doc here.

What's New?

• Improved error handling by enhancing the import logic to better detect and manage errors, with improved editing capabilities to make corrections easier.
• Support for Micro-scheduling sub shifts by introducing a new optional field, "Group Reference", to support importing Micro-scheduling rosters's sub shifts.
  • For standard (single-area) rosters, this field can be ignored.
  • For Micro-scheduling rosters, only the sub shifts need to be included in the file, each with the same Group Reference to indicate they belong to the same parent Micro-scheduling shift.
  • These enhancements make it easier to manage complex scheduling needs at scale.

Why the Change?

Bulk Import Schedules from File is a powerful tool that streamlines the bulk setup of rosters—especially valuable during the implementation or easily migrating from excel/google sheet into Deputy digital solutions. 

The new changes also support for Micro-scheduling schedules to be seamlessly imported into your Deputy account that will help you setup many rosters in a shorter period by significantly reducing the onboarding time and efforts.

How to use?

Please check details from the help doc here.

• Effortlessly trace the entire lifecycle of a shift from beginning to end.
• Swap history details are now presented in natural language—no more cryptic status codes.
• Enhanced support for Micro-scheduling with complete visibility into sub-shift updates.
• The entire UX is pretty similar vs. its legacy version to ensure an easier adoption for managers.
  
  
  

• A clearer, more readable history enables managers to quickly grasp the full context of any shift.
• With the upcoming Micro-scheduling launch, we've ensured the feature is optimized for performance and scalability, providing full visibility for both standard and multi-area Micro-scheduled shifts.

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• Team Member Documents 
• Onboarding
• Diversity & Turnover Report

• Access easily via the Reports tab
• Trial Deputy HR today 🚀

What's New ✨

This game-changing feature will help you streamline how your organisation stores, shares, and tracks company documents.

✅ Effortless storage & bulk sharing of company documents
✅ Automatic tracking of employee acknowledgements
✅ Seamless onboarding with auto-sharing documents to new hires
✅ Easy document access for employees in the app

How to get started 👇🏻

• Set up your company's document library now.
• Trial Deputy HR today!

What's new ✨

We're excited to introduce a new location setting that enables team members to claim and request open shifts, swaps and offers - even when they are marked as unavailable!

Why 🤔

Life is unpredictable - sometimes, team members may want to pick up shifts even when they are typically unavailable otherwise. 

For managers, this setting opens up an extra pool of team members to fill shifts, reducing time and effort spent managing shift coverage. It's a win-win!

Rollout ✅

This location setting is now available to all accounts. 

You can enable it by going to:

Locations > Edit Settings > Scheduling > Creating and publishing shifts

Feedback 💬

Got feedback to share?

Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback

What's new ✨

• Modifying pay rates - changing how much is paid, or thresholds for rules like overtime
• Adding Shift Differentials, for items like night shift payments
• Automating allowances based on areas, custom fields, and more

This new tool for system administrators continues to allow users to simplify and streamline their compliance needs, giving greater cost accuracy for all of your team members. Users can start with our pre configured library labor laws and modify them to meet their needs, or start from scratch and build their own pay rates.

How to use it 🤓 

System Administrators will be able to find the Pay Rate Builder in business settings under the pay tab once it is enabled in their account.

Further help documents are available here, outlining how to edit contracts and pay rules for greater simplicity!

Rollout 

The improvements will roll out to all accounts in the US and UK over the coming weeks. Australian and other countries will come later this year.

What's new ✨

We’re excited to announce updates that make managing and picking up Open Shifts with Approval and Find Replacement shifts smoother than ever! 

The following improvements will be available in your account soon: 

• Team members can decline Open Shifts with Approval or Find Replacement invites. This will help narrow down your pool of potential team members for unfilled shifts, saving you time and effort.
• Managers can decline Open Shifts with Approval requests from team members. This will help enhance communication and ensure team members won't be left in the dark if they haven’t been selected for a shift.
• General improvements to viewing and editing Open Shifts features. You can now view Shift Details and make certain edits to shifts, such as adding Shift Notes, even if there are already requests.

How to use it 🤓

Click here to read more about Open Shifts with Approval. 

Click here to read more about Find Replacement.

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

Rollout 

These feature improvements will roll out to all accounts over the coming weeks.

What's new ✨

We’ve added a helpful alert for scheduling managers! Now, if you try to schedule a team member who hasn’t finished their onboarding process, you’ll receive a warning. Don’t worry, you can still choose to ‘schedule anyway’ if needed.

Why 🤔

Making sure everyone is fully onboarded before they start working is essential for a smooth operation. In the past, managers might have accidentally scheduled new hires who weren’t fully prepared, leading to disruptions and compliance issues. With this new feature, you can avoid those pitfalls and ensure your team is always ready and compliant from day one.

How to use it 🤓

Click here to read more about how to use it.

Available for Deputy HR subscribers only.

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

How to get it 🧪

This feature will roll out to all accounts over the coming weeks.

Deputy HR is thrilled to introduce Shift Pulse+, an enhanced version of our popular Shift Pulse feature, designed to elevate your workplace engagement. With powerful new customization options, Shift Pulse+ empowers you to tailor the experience to perfectly match the unique needs of your business.

What’s new ✨

Shift Pulse+ puts you in control of your team's engagement with these exciting new customization features:

• Craft your own questions: Tailor Shift Pulse questions to gather the specific insights that matter most to your business.
• Choose the frequency: Decide how often you want to check in with your team to ensure you're getting timely feedback.
• Customize responses: Create response options and emojis that resonate with your team's unique communication style.
• Target specific roles: Determine which roles within your organization should participate in Shift Pulse surveys.
• Focus on specific locations: Narrow down the locations or areas from which you want to gather feedback.

Shift Pulse+ empowers you to create a personalized and effective feedback system that truly works for your business.

But that's not all! We've also revamped the Shift Pulse report in your Deputy mobile app. Now you have even more Shift Pulse insights at your fingertips, allowing you to effortlessly monitor your team's engagement wherever you are.

Why 🤔

This update was driven by your valuable feedback, giving managers the increased control and customization they requested. But that's not all! Shift Pulse+ marks the beginning of Deputy's expansion into offering even more employee engagement solutions in the future. Stay tuned!

What if I don’t have a Deputy HR subscription?

Shift Pulse is available for all Deputy users, but a Deputy HR subscription unlocks its full potential and enhances your experience.

Without a Deputy HR subscription, you'll still be able to:

• Use the default Shift Pulse question to gauge your team's feelings.
• View a snapshot of your team's recent sentiment with the last 7 days of data.
• See a limited selection of comments for an overview of feedback.

A Deputy HR subscription will give you access to:

• Customization: Craft your own questions, set check-in frequency, and tailor responses.
• Deeper Insights: View all historical data and read every comment for a complete picture.
• Mobile Convenience: View detailed reports and all comments directly in the Deputy mobile app.

While Shift Pulse offers value to all Deputy users, the enhanced features and customization options available with a Deputy HR subscription truly elevate your team's engagement and your ability to act on feedback.

Refer to the table below for the full comparison:

How to use it 🤓

To view the extra Shift Pulse configurations, navigate to Business Settings > Timesheets > Customise. You can then view the Shift Pulse report by navigating to the Reports tab and click View full report in Shift Pulse.

If you want to use the new Shift Pulse configurations, please note that your team have to be on the latest Android and iOS versions of the Deputy mobile apps.

If you are subscribed to HR, you can also get an overview of the report by navigating to the People tab and clicking Team engagement on the left hand side navigation.

Learn more on how to use Shift Pulse+ here.

Rollout

Shift Pulse+ will be available to all Premium, Flexi, Timesheet and Scheduling plan customers by the end of this week.