We released a couple of great new updates to Kin last night: tracking compensation, and a new type of user we’re calling “The Manager”. Both updates were frequently asked for by customers, so this should make quite a few people smile or even giggle a little bit.
The Manager Role
The new role in Kin, called “Manager”, can be given to all users who approve time off at your company but who do not need access to employee data such as address and bank information (note: in some states and countries this is actually a law).
To use the new role, visit the Manage Account Roles page and add an employee to the Managers section.
The new manager role allows managers to manage time off requests but restricts access to sensitive employee data.
Next, visit each employee’s page where you’d like that Manager to approve/decline the employee’s time off and make the selection inline under “Manager”.
Assign a manager to an employee, and view a Manager’s direct reports.
Now, anytime a direct report (an employee of a Manager) requests time off, the manager will be notified and will need to sign into Kin and take care of business. Just like with HR Managers, Managers will also be assigned a task with each request, which they can track on their Overview page in Kin.
NOTE: All users in Kin who were assigned as Managers prior to this update will inherit the responsibility of managing the time-off requests of their direct reports. If you don’t want this madness to happen, then you’ll need to remove the user from the managers listing on the Manage Account Roles page.
Now. Managers aren’t perfect, and often times they’re overloaded with other stuff to do. So, Kin cc’s an employee’s HR Manager anytime a time-off request is made, and they’re able to approve/decline too, just in case.
Lot’s of customers asked about this role, and while time-off approval was the #1 reason for the request, we’ve also heard that giving access to certain employee fields would also be useful. This may be something we look into in the future as part of a custom-roles feature we’ve discussed.
Track Compensation Over Time
On every employee’s general information page, there is now an optional section called “Compensation” where salaries, hourly rates, bonuses and all other forms of compensation can be tracked. We made it historical too, so you can store multiple entries along with an effective date to track changes over time.
Store and track employee compensation over time.
This section is only editable by HR Managers in Kin, so employees viewing their own profile will only be able to view their compensation history.
Da-d-d-d-dat’s all folks
We’re continuing to bust our behinds here at Kin. Next up we’ve got a great data export feature which will help hr managers report all personnel and time-off changes to their payroll services.