Another busy month working on new features for MyWebWorkplace.net, many of which have been suggested by our clients.

1. Specific Absence Types can be switched on and off to allow your employees to book to them
2. New absence types (with associated rules) are available and include appointments and offsite working
3. New rules available: minimum duration of absence request for a particular absence type (e.g. 0.5 days)
4. New rules available: Maximum duration of absence request in the leave year (e.g 8 off site working days, 1 birthday)
5. Bulk approval of leave requests that have not conflicted with any leave rules
6. All employees who leave your employment will continue to be available in People > Leavers
7. Better control of entitlement adjustments in People > employee name > Leave years, including summary of change in hours
8. If a request becomes unable to be approved (due to a rule conflict) after it has been submitted for approval, the manager can now reject it but not approve it
9. People > employee name > Holiday/leave now shows both current leave (i.e. in the future or outstanding) and completed leave (i.e. in the past or canceled/rejected/withdrawn)
10. To use the 'Remember me for a day' feature on the login page, add https://mwwp.me/AbsenceManagement as a shortcut or bookmark, and use this to navigate back to the site.  Do not logout or go to http://mwwp.me/login as this will fry the security cookie that keeps you logged in.  If you need to login, MyWebWorkplace will take you to the login page automatically
11. Mandatory Leave can now be added after the leave year has been created (NOTE: any new Mandatory days added must not be immediately next to an existing one)
12. New Reports section on the left hand menu: initial reports are included in people and Holiday/leave.  More reports to come.
13. New Directory section on the left hand menu: Company locations can be added in Admin > Locations/Contacts and then assigned to each employee in People > employee name > Edit > Work location.  Employee Company Phone and Mobile contact information can also be added here.  The directory is fully searchable by name, group and location
14. Minor bug fixes

We will continue to strive to make MyWebWorkplace.net even better.  If you know any businesses that would benefit from MyWebWorkplace please tell them about us.

Thank you for your support and suggestions.

Once again it is time for a long list of improvements that we have been busy making to MyWebWorkplace to ensure it's the best online absence management system on the market.

1. Better email controls.  All emails can be turned on and off as required or just the leave or sickness one independently of each other.  This is a useful feature to use while adding leave and sickness that has occurred prior to setting up your MWWP site.
2. Your managers can choose to not receive their email notifications of leave awaiting approval or sickness information and can choose a colleague to receive them instead.  If no alternative has been selected the system will hunt down the best alternative based on either the top admin user in their group, any admin in their group, any admin most closely related in the company or a specified email address.  The emails can also be CC'd to any of the above.
3. Work patterns show the employees who are associated to them and those employees (individually or in groups) can be reassigned to another work pattern in just a few clicks.
4. The reseller/partner portal has been improved with more controls and personalised sign up and login URLs.
5. Groups and Areas are now hierarchical giving better permission controls and reporting facilities.
6. More control when adding an entitlement adjustment.
7. Links from the leave approval screen to employee and group information including quick access to the employees group calendar.
8. More absence rules available to help manage leave requests.
9. Annual increments (or annual service day awards) are calculated based on days or minutes to be added and any service year and now also percentages of base entitlement to calculate the number of days to be added.
10. Draft leave requests are available to view in the Admin area.
11. Minor bug fixes and usability improvements

The future of MyWebWorkplace is exciting, moving to manage more HR and operational areas of your business with the same care and attention as you have come to expect from us.