We’re excited to introduce a new feature to help you stay organized and informed: Weekly Absence Reports.

With this feature, you’ll receive:

- Weekly email summaries: A detailed overview of upcoming absences in your department delivered straight to your inbox every week, helping you plan your workweek effectively.

- Microsoft Teams notifications: If team notifications are enabled, you’ll also receive an adaptive card in Teams with the same summary or a notification if there are no absences.

- Always in the loop: Even if no absences are planned, you’ll receive a notification to keep you up to date.

Who can use this feature?

This feature is available to all Business and Enterprise plan users and is enabled by default. You can adjust your notification settings at any time.

Stay on top of your team’s schedule and never miss a planned absence again!

💬 We’d love to hear your feedback on this feature! You can share your thoughts and suggestions here.

We’ve listened to your feedback and are happy to announce a new feature that helps you stay on top of upcoming birthdays and anniversaries in your team! 🥳

With this new update, you can now receive a weekly summary of all important dates so you never miss a chance to celebrate.

How does it work?

- Employees can enable birthday and anniversary reminders in their profile settings under "Notifications."

- You’ll receive the reminders by email or via Teams message, depending on your settings.

- You can configure the start of the week for these notifications—every Monday morning at 8 AM, you’ll get the list of the week’s upcoming celebrations.

Please note:

This feature is available in the Business and Enterprise Plans. In other plans, only admins can view the configuration and will be prompted to upgrade if they wish to enable this feature for their team.

We'd love to hear your thoughts! You can give feedback or suggest improvements here: https://feedback.absentify.com/roadmap/a-list-of-birthdays-and-reminders-to-management-1-week-before. 

We hope this feature brings even more fun and connection to your workplace! 😊

We are thrilled to introduce a brand-new feature that many of you have requested—Company Holidays!

What’s New?

Admins and department managers can now easily create group absence requests for entire teams or the whole company. This is perfect for company-wide holidays like Christmas vacation. With this feature, absences will be automatically scheduled for all relevant employees.

Key Benefits:

- Streamlined Absence Management: Quickly set company-wide holidays without needing to handle individual requests.

- Automated Application: Absences are applied automatically, making it easier to manage large teams.

- Approval Workflow: If an approval process is set up for the absence type, it will still be followed as usual, ensuring that everything remains in line with your company’s policies.

Availability:

This feature is available starting from the Business Plan.

Important Note:

When creating group absences, if an employee doesn’t have enough leave balance or already has another absence scheduled, they will be skipped. You’ll receive a detailed report showing which absences were successfully created. Additionally, please be aware that the maximum number of absences per department will be taken into account.

We hope this new feature enhances your experience with absentify and helps streamline your HR processes. We value your feedback, so please share your thoughts with us here: Company Holidays Feedback. 

Thank you for choosing absentify!

We are pleased to announce that absentify has successfully achieved ISO 27001 certification. This prestigious certification confirms that our information security management systems meet the highest international standards.

The ISO 27001 standard is a globally recognized benchmark for information security management and underscores our commitment to protecting your data. Achieving this certification demonstrates that we have implemented all necessary measures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your information.

We would like to extend our gratitude to our entire team for their hard work and dedication, which made this achievement possible. We also thank our customers and partners for their trust in our ability to manage their sensitive data securely.

Stay connected with absentify to continue benefiting from our ongoing commitment to the highest security standards.

Thank you for your trust and support.

Best regards,

The absentify Team

We are pleased to announce that we have successfully completed the migration of our database and application hosting to Microsoft Azure North Europe. Since absentify integrates completely with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, it makes sense to host our services and data with the same provider.

As part of this migration, we've made changes to our subprocessors. Here's an outline of the modifications:

Increased Use of Microsoft Azure Services

We have expanded our use of Microsoft Azure to host both the application and the database. This shift ensures that all data and services are now exclusively hosted in Azure's North Europe region (Ireland and Denmark), providing enhanced reliability and scalability.

Subprocessors no longer in use:

- Amazon Web Services (AWS)

- Former Location: USA, worldwide

- Former Description: Hosting of parts of the application and infrastructure

- PlanetScale Inc.

- Former Location: Mountain View, CA, USA

- Former Description: Hosting of the database

- Vercel Inc.

- Former Location: Walnut, CA, USA

- Former Description: Hosting of the application

With these changes, AWS, PlanetScale, and Vercel are no longer hosting any of our data or services. The consolidation to Microsoft Azure North Europe aligns our infrastructure with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, offering a more integrated and secure environment.

Thank you for your continued support as we evolve and improve our platform. We're excited about the opportunities this migration brings and look forward to providing you with even better service.

We're excited to unveil absentify's latest update: Hourly Leave! This addition offers flexibility and accuracy in managing leave, allowing employees and managers to track absences in minutes, hours, or days. Here’s what you can look forward to with this feature:

Customized Leave Types

Gain control by customizing leave types to be deducted in the precise amount of time needed, ensuring efficient management and tracking of leave within your organization.

Detailed Leave Management

Hourly leave requests enable employees to book time off for brief periods, like a doctor's appointment, without needing to take a full day. This supports a more flexible and understanding work environment.

Seamless Integration

Linking a leave type to an hour-based allowance automatically updates the specific allowance, maintaining accuracy and consistency in leave tracking.

Easy Administration

Administrators can make individual allowance adjustments to accommodate unique situations or changes in employee status.

Visual Calendar Indicators

Entries booked outside regular hours are highlighted with orange corner alerts in the calendar, ensuring all absences are easily visible without overwhelming the view.

This feature aims to streamline your leave management process, providing clarity and simplicity for both your team and management. It supports your organization's needs, whether adapting to unexpected events or planning for scheduled absences.

Plan Availability:

This feature is available in our Business and Enterprise plans, ensuring organizations of all sizes can benefit from this flexibility.

For more information on setting up and using the Hourly Leave feature, please consult our support documentation or contact our dedicated support team. We're here to help make your transition to this new feature smooth and beneficial for your whole organization.

Step into the future of leave management with absentify's Hourly Leave feature – because we know every minute matters. Happy scheduling!

Exciting news! In addition to our existing integration in Teams, Outlook, and our web application, absentify is now also available for SharePoint. This expansion is part of our continuous effort to enhance your experience with absentify and to make the management of absences even more seamless.

What does the Microsoft SharePoint integration offer?

- Easy Integration: Add the absentify team overview directly into your SharePoint pages. This integration allows for smooth handling and facilitates absence management directly from your familiar SharePoint environment.

- Customizability: As with our other applications, you can tailor the display to your specific needs. Simply select the appropriate department when embedding the Webpart in SharePoint.

- Access Rights Management: Absentify respects the access rights defined in your company. Users will see department overviews according to their permissions.

We are proud to offer you this new functionality and look forward to how it will further simplify your workflows. For more information and support, please visit our website or contact our helpdesk.

Thank you for being a part of our absentify family!

Warm regards,

Your absentify Team

For installation, please visit absentify for SharePoint.

Exciting news for all absentify users! We recently had the honor of being featured at the prestigious Microsoft Ignite conference. Our logo was proudly displayed among leading technology innovators, signaling a significant milestone for absentify in the tech world.

This spotlight at Ignite is not just a proud moment for us but also a promise of the innovative future we are heading towards. As part of the Microsoft Copilot Ecosystem, we're gearing up to bring groundbreaking changes to the way you manage absences and plan vacations.

What can you expect? While we're still brewing some exciting features, think of a more intuitive, AI-enhanced experience that simplifies your absence management process. The future of work is about smarter solutions, and absentify is at the forefront, embracing these changes.

Stay tuned for updates as we continue to evolve and bring these advancements directly to your workflow. We are committed to enhancing your experience with absentify and can't wait to unveil what we have in store.

Stay ahead with absentify – where the future of absence management is already happening!

We are excited to introduce a brand-new feature exclusive to our Enterprise Plan: a central dashboard for managing all employee out-of-office notes.

🔹 What's new?

In the standard plan, individual users can set their own out-of-office notes. The new dashboard in the Enterprise Plan allows administrators to:

- Create uniform out-of-office notes for the entire team

- Automatically populate these notes in each employee's Outlook profile when they are away

- Use placeholders for personalized details such as expected return date or current supervisor

🔹 How do I activate this feature?

After purchasing the Enterprise Plan, you can find this setting under `Settings / Integration / Out-of-Office Note`.

🔹 Why is this important?

- Increases operational efficiency

- Enables clearer and more consistent communication

🔒 This advanced feature is only available in the Enterprise Plan.

We are confident that this new feature will add significant value to your organization. Should you have any questions or require further information, our customer service team is always available.

 https://feedback.absentify.com/roadmap/centralized-management-of-ooo-templates 

We are thrilled to announce a significant expansion to our absentify platform! Thanks to Microsoft's recent developments, we are now able to integrate our trusted absence management tool directly within Outlook and Outlook Mobile.

What Does This Mean for You?

- Even More Convenience: Manage absences directly within your Outlook application, whether on desktop or mobile.

- Unified Experience: All the features you've come to know and love in absentify on Microsoft Teams are now available within Outlook.

Please note that these new capabilities are only compatible with the latest versions of Outlook. We strongly recommend updating your applications to take full advantage of these features.

We are proud to continue pioneering the integration of absence management tools into the Microsoft 365 environment. Your feedback is valuable to us, so please don't hesitate to share your thoughts and suggestions.

Thank you for your ongoing trust and support. We look forward to continuing to serve you with absentify!