HR Reports have landed in HR ✨
- 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 👇🏻
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!
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!
This location setting is now available to all accounts.
You can enable it by going to:
Locations > Edit Settings > Scheduling > Creating and publishing shifts
Got feedback to share?
Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback
What's new ✨
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!
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:
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
These feature improvements will roll out to all accounts over the coming weeks.
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.
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.
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
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.
Shift Pulse+ puts you in control of your team's engagement with these exciting new customization features:
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.
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!
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:
A Deputy HR subscription will give you access to:
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:
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.
Shift Pulse+ will be available to all Premium, Flexi, Timesheet and Scheduling plan customers by the end of this week.
A new business setting that allows you to define a custom term to replace the word “shift” in the Deputy product (similar to setting a custom term for team member & breaks).
Using the right terminology for work in your business means you can accurately reflect the work to be performed and can also help you meet local labour laws.
Check out how to set a custom term for "shift".
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We know that staying compliant with Fair Workweek law is no simple feat - it’s fundamentally changing the way that large retail and hospitality businesses schedule and pay their employees. Today, falling short of Fair Workweek law can mean millions of dollars in potential fines and lawsuits. As your partner in compliance, Deputy’s new features simplify these complex requirements and make it easy to create compliant, cost-effective schedules and manage last-minute adjustments seamlessly.
With Deputy’s new Fair Workweek features, you can now:
How do I use these new features?
Deputy Premium customers now have self-service access to the new Fair Workweek features by navigating to Location Settings > Scheduling > Consent and selecting their local jurisdiction, and then applying FWW pay rates to the applicable employees in the employee profile. Enterprise customers can reach out to Deputy Support to have these features enabled.
You can learn more about Fair Workweek law and how it may impact your business at "Fair Workweek made simple with Deputy". For detailed set-up and usage instructions, please visit "Introduction to setting up Fair Workweek".
We've made some changes to the integrations marketplace inside Deputy to make it easier for you to know whether an integration was built by Deputy or not. This helps you know whether you can expect to setup the integration directly in Deputy, or whether you will need to do it inside the third party application.
Integrations which have been built by Deputy now have a tag of Deputy inside their application tile.
Integrations which have been built by a third party developer now have a tag of 3rd Party inside their application tile.
Along with this we have also made a change on the search functionality. When you search for an application inside the Deputy marketplace, we now connect to Zapier to see if the application is in the Zapier marketplace. For those unaware, Zapier is a middleware application that connections thousands of different applications with each other and Deputy has had an integration with Zapier for a number of years now.
When you perform a search results from Zapier will also now be included with the tag Zapier.
Clicking on this tile will take you to Zapier to help guide you through the process of getting Deputy connected to this application. With this change, we've added thousands of applications to our marketplace overnight and will bring more visibility than ever to our Zapier integration and the wide array of options it offers you when trying to solve business and integration problems.
We've found sometimes users are confused with where an integration with Deputy needs to be setup, either in Deputy itself, or from a third party application. By directly labelling whether Deputy built the integration or not, it gives a clear indication as to where you will need to set the integration up. Along with this, including Zapier apps when searches are performed, gives visibility that there may be an alternate way to achieve what integration you are looking to setup.
This change is live in the Deputy marketplace now so the next time you visit the integrations marketplace in your Deputy install, you will see these changes present.