We released a few improvements to Kin’s sense of time, and your sense of efficiency. They’re small, but significant changes which correct calendar problems for some folks, improve time-off requests for others, and expand the utility of the company calendar in Kin.
Timezones
Prior to this release, Kin was automatically assigning a timezone to users. For the most part, it worked well. For a few folks, however, it didn’t work well at all.
Now, Kin is automatically assigning a timezone, but users can manually set the value as well under their own profile. So, if you notice anything funky about where Kin thinks you are, or you’re traveling and wish to view your calendar and time-off requests in your local timezone, update your timezone under your profile page.
Set timezones on a per-user basis.
Oh, and just in case you didn’t know: Programmers hate working with timezones. Here’s proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY.
Create Your Own Calendar Events
Kin now offers the ability to create custom calendar events. Prior to this release, all calendar events were created automatically, for birthdays, start days, anniversaries and of course employee time-off.
You can now create calendar events for company outings, performance reviews, or any other work-related event which one or more coworkers need to have on their calendar. Just like all calendar events, these ones will also sync up with your Google or Outlook calendars.
Add your own events to the company calendar.
View time off in days or hours
At last, employees can now view their time off in day-increments, rather than hour-increments. This is a setting HR Managers need to set on a per-policy basis under Company > Time-off Policies. Once set to days, employees will see their balances and time-off requests displayed in days.
View time off in days or hours.