We are thrilled to announce that as of today, absentify will be sending all notifications not only via email, but also via Microsoft Teams push notifications. This new feature is available in all absentify plans, including the free version!

One of the major advantages of this feature is that it enables employees to manage their absences and allowances without having to leave Microsoft Teams. Once push notifications are enabled, team members can easily view, approve or reject absence requests and update their holiday allowances directly from the Microsoft Teams interface.

To activate push notifications, an absentify admin needs to give permission to the Microsoft API. You can find this option under "Settings/Microsoft" in your absentify dashboard. Once activated, push notifications will be enabled for the whole company, making it easier for everyone to keep track of employee absences and allowances in real time.

We understand the importance of timely communication and are committed to providing you with the best tools to manage employee absences effectively. This new feature enables you to receive notifications instantly, helping you stay on top of your team's absences and manage them more efficiently.

We hope you find this new feature useful, as we strive to always improve absentify to meet your needs!

If you have any feedback, please feel free to post it here:

https://feedback.absentify.com/roadmap/microsoft-teams-bot-notification

Thank you for choosing absentify!

We are excited to announce that we have released two new videos showcasing absentify's features and benefits:

"Benefits of Using absentify with Microsoft (Animation)": This animated video highlights the benefits of using absentify in conjunction with Microsoft Teams, by demonstrating how the integration can streamline your absence management process and improve your team's productivity. Check out the video below:

"absentify Product Presentation by Success Manager Brendan": This video provides an overview of absentify's features and capabilities, presented by our success manager Brendan. It's a great way to learn more about how absentify can help you manage employee absences more efficiently. Check out the video below:

We hope you find these videos informative and helpful to manage employee absences more effectively in absentify.

As always, if you have any questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to reach out to our support team.

We are excited to announce that absentify now supports multiple approvers for employee absences. This new feature is available in the business plan, in combination with the add-on for multiple managers.

With this new feature, you can set whether one or more approvers must approve an employee's absence, and whether all of them must approve or if it suffices that only one person approves. Additionally, you can set whether all approvers are asked at the same time, or whether it's done consecutively.

For example, if you determine that three managers must approve an absence request and all are asked after each other, then each manager will receive a request for approval in turn. If one manager declines the request, then it will be rejected. If all three managers approve the request, then it will be approved.

We understand the importance of flexibility and customization when it comes to managing employee absences. This new feature will give you more control over the approval process, enabling you to tailor it to your specific needs.

Please note that this feature is only available in the business plan with the add-on for multiple managers.

If you have any feedback, please feel free to post it here:

https://feedback.absentify.com/roadmap/more-than-one-approver

Thank you for choosing absentify!

We are excited to announce that absentify recently hosted a webinar with Bill Spencer from Microsoft! The webinar covered best practices for managing employee absences and how absentify can integrate with Microsoft Teams to streamline the process.

We are pleased to inform you that the webinar recording is now available on our YouTube channel. Check out the video below:

The webinar covered a range of topics, including how to use absentify to manage employee absences and allowances, how to set up and customize approval workflows and how to integrate absentify with Microsoft Teams for a seamless user experience.

We hope you find the webinar informative and helpful in managing employee absences more effectively. We are committed to providing you with the best tools and resources to help you streamline your HR processes and improve your team's productivity.

Thank you for choosing absentify!

We are excited to announce that absentify has released a new update that will enhance the way you manage employee absences. Starting today, each department can have multiple managers who will have access to the absences and allowances of their staff.

Please note that to access this new feature, you will need to have the absentify Business-Plan and the Add-on for Multiple Managers and Approvers. If you don't have these yet, you can upgrade your plan and link the add-on from your absentify dashboard.

With this new feature, managers will be able to see all absences from their employees, whether they were approved, pending, or rejected. They will also have access to the vacation allowances of their employees, which will permit them to better manage their team's absences.

This update will help you improve your workflow, making it easier to manage and track absences across all departments. As always, we are committed to providing you with the best tools to help you manage your team's absences in Microsoft 365.

We hope you find this new feature useful, as we strive to always improve absentify to meet your needs!

If you have any feedback, please feel free to post it here:

https://feedback.absentify.com/roadmap/more-than-one-manager-per-department

Thank you for choosing absentify!

You can now synchronize additional calendars in the business plan. This includes synchronizing one or more Outlook shared calendar or keep any calendar in sync via an iCal invitation (e.g., a Google calendar).

You can select an Outlook calendar for which you have write permissions. From there, you can choose the department from which the absences will be synchronized to your chosen calendar. Likewise, you can also set a filter for only certain types of leave. Furthermore, you can individually configure the display name of the absence.

If you do not have the ability to give absentify the rights allowing us to write directly in the Outlook calendar, then not to worry; you can easily specify an email address where we can send a calendar invitation with the same functions. (There is an option in many calendars to automatically accept invitations from specific people).

If you have any further ideas or suggestions for improvement, feel free to send us a message here:

https://feedback.absentify.com/roadmap/push-holiday-leave-for-all-employees-into-a-shared-outlook-calendar

In the business-plan, you have one configuration synchronization included. If you want to fill multiple calendars, you can buy an add-on.

We are proud to announce that absentify is currently being promoted by Microsoft in the Microsoft Teams Store in Germany. 🎈🍾

Thanks to the great feedback and the many users that are currently using absentify, Microsoft has hand-picked absentify out of many apps for a promotion.

We have you to thank for that! ♥️🙌

absentify makes privacy and security a priority, and we fully comply with EU-wide privacy and data protection law and always aim to keep your data safe.

We have developed and designed absentify with data privacy in mind and therefore, have always been GDPR-compliant. We’ve recently detailed our privacy policy and how we process your data.

See: https://absentify.com/privacy-policy

Consequently, data security is a core focus for us, which is why we’ve developed and established various technical and organizational measures for this purpose as well as for your protection:

• Secure Data Transfer

All your data between all technical components is cryptically transferred via HTTPS and 256Bit SSL certificate. This ensures that no third party can access your data when it’s transferred.

• Monitoring

Our services are 99% available, see here: https://status.absentify.com

We do everything we can to ensure that absentify is always available and even when we apply updates, you will be notified.

• Backup

We backup your data every 12 hours and store it for 30 days. Furthermore, we create an additional backup before each major update. The backups are encrypted, and we test the rollback regularly to avoid any difficulties in the case of emergency.

• Reliable Data Center

All services run on high-performance and 24/7 managed services, provided by AWS. In doing so, AWS ensures state-of-the-art compliance with all necessary security measures in their data centers, which are comparable with high-end-security facilities.

• Payment

We use Paddle.com as our payment provider and therefore do not have access to your payment method or payment details. Thus, your data is processed at the leading banking standard.

• Best practices of SaaS security

All your HR data role-based security stored. Data can only be viewed by those who have access. We always keep an eye on SQL injections and other technical possibilities and prevent this.

• And many other measures

In addition, we have taken a variety of other measures to ensure the protection of your personal data. To list them all here would go beyond the scope of this article, but you can relax knowing that we have taken all the necessary steps to secure your data.

If you have any further questions or feedback about this, feel free to send us a message here: https://feedback.absentify.com/roadmap/gdprdsgvo-ready

We’ve enabled a new feature where employees can be included in multiple departments. You can now customize any company structure in absentify.

We have published the Insights! 🚀

As an absentify department administrator or manager, you can now view the updates in your departments.

See how much remaining leave your employees have.

See who has a birthday or a company anniversary coming up.

On the burn-out board, you can see exactly which employees are due for a vacation!

We are looking forward to your feedback.