Operations and HR folks have a passion for organization. Everything has its place and clutter can make us go nuts! The Kin team understands that, and we’ve made some great updates to streamline your operations even more: Custom calendar filters and some big improvements to new hire task management.
Custom Calendar Filters
You can now filter your Kin calendar based on an event category (time off, company holidays, etc.), locations, and work groups created in your account. For all of you managers out there, you can also filter the calendar to view only those events for the people you manage along with pending time off requests.
If you subscribe to your Kin calendar with Google or your other calendar apps, your Kin calendar subscription URL will automatically regenerate based on how you filter your calendar in Kin. Pretty sweet, huh?
Onboarding Tasks: Categories and Due Dates
The onboarding feature in Kin helps streamline and organize the tasks, files, and communications you share with a new hire. We’ve made some updates to make the onboarding tasks even more effective with task categories and due dates.
Task categories are a great way to group new hire onboarding tasks. For example, you may wish to differentiate different tasks based on roles, teams or even location. Task categories make it easy to include only those tasks that apply to a specific hire.
We also added due dates for onboarding tasks. Due dates can be set to be X number of days, weeks, or months before or after a new hire’s start date. This is a great way to stagger out and prioritize tasks before the new hire’s start date, and throughout their first few weeks or months.
Once you’ve updated your current onboarding task template with categories and due dates, you can see how they come into play via an employee’s onboarding setup page. Under the tasks section of the page, you’ll be able to quickly select a category and its tasks and see the actual due date for the task based on the new hire’s start date.
That’s it for Now
If you have any questions or feedback on these updates, please reach out to us at theteam@10.20.21.87. Also, keep your eyes peeled for another new feature we’ll be releasing in the next few weeks, in-app reporting for time off! Who’s pumped?