You can now choose , rather than offering it to the whole team.

When publishing a vacant shift, you’ll see an option, which is ticked by default. to choose exactly who can see and claim the shift. Employees are grouped into and to help you decide.

Once published, you can see who the shift is available to on the shift card, and on the shift claiming page on desktop.

To change who can claim a shift, re-publish the schedule with a different list of employees.

You can now approve or decline availability from the > page.

Tick the checkbox on the requests you want to action, then open the dropdown and choose either or .

You'll also see a summary of any blackout periods the requests violate:

We’ve refreshed the roster publish menu with a cleaner layout, which now . Publishing works the same as before, we've just updated the look of the menu.

We're aiming to send the new look live by the end of this week.

After you publish, your , , and choices are saved for two weeks, so they’re already ticked the next time you click Publish. This part is already live in your account.

You can now include , so skills are added to an employee’s profile as part of the review process.

When creating a performance review template, select the skills to be assessed under , or add them in the tab of an existing template.

The selected skills are added to their own section on the tab of the template, where you can add further questions if you need to.

Reviews with skill assessments must be rated by the assigned , the same as standalone skill assessments. If Employee visibility is disabled, skill ratings are redacted along with any questions not assigned to the employee.

Skills are when the review is completed. Learn more about skills here.

Journals for salaried employees on autopay now split by when both is on and the team on their autopaid salary template . Previously, every split line used the same journal account set in the , rather than the journal account that matches its team.

If you use this setting and leave the department blank on autopaid earnings templates, your journals now split by team account. Check that each team has a journal account set up.

Learn more about splitting autopaid salary earnings by department here.

We've improved the tab for managers in the mobile app, with a larger variety of tasks now shown here. We have also added this as a to see what they need to action:

Managers can filter by , , or . They can also filter tasks by specific staff:

You can now , rather than relying on email alone, and view each text sent to the candidate within their application. This expands on the text message notifications previously introduced for stage progressions.

You can send texts for:

The text option sits next to where the email notification is configured for each. Stages, forms, availability requests and parental consent templates each have their own, while interviews, qualifications and offers are under > > .

The Phone calls tab on each application is also now named . Every text a candidate receives shows here alongside your logged phone calls, in a thread like a chat.

You can now choose when the forms, surveys and trainings attached to a are sent to an employee.

When a position is added to someone’s profile, each item can be set to send at , on , or , instead of .

You can set this from the position template. For each form, survey or training attached, you can choose:

This is useful when something should only be sent at specific times, such as a uniform sizing form that is only relevant during onboarding, rather than every time an employee changes position.

You can alternatively set this from the HR template itself. Open a form, survey or training, go to the tab and scroll to the section.

Following up on our pay run checklist, you can now mark wages and pension as paid. This is great for anyone who executes steps outside of Workforce, like paying wages through bank transfer or paying a pension provider other than NEST.

Learn more about the next steps after posting a pay run here.

You can now control whether managers can view their team’s leave balances .

A user’s own leave balance is covered by the Employee role, while the balances of the staff they manage are now covered by > on their role. If you’d like managers to see their team’s balances, make sure this permission is enabled on the Manager role.

Employees can still see their own balances, and nothing changes for managers whose role already has this permission enabled.

If you have managers who were relying on the Employee role to see their team’s balances, you’ll need to enable > on the Manager permission level.