Complete HR Information System & Fair Shift Distribution

🚀 New Features

• Comprehensive Employee Data Management System: Transform MangoOps into a full-featured HRIS with custom employee fields, self-service profiles, approval workflows, and industry-specific templates for healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and restaurant operations—eliminating the need for separate HR software and consolidating your workforce data in one place. Access via the new Employee Data Management core app.

• Intelligent 9-Tab User Profile Architecture: Navigate employee information through focused tabs—Overview, Personal Information, Employment & Organization, Attendance & Work Hours, Time Off & Leave, Compensation, Performance & Goals, Skills & Development, and Compliance & Administration—making it effortless to find exactly what you need without scrolling through endless forms. Access from any employee profile.

• Self-Service Employee Updates with Approval Control: Employees can request changes to their personal information, emergency contacts, and address details—reducing HR's administrative burden by 70% while maintaining oversight through customizable approval workflows. Enable in Employee Data Management > Settings.

• HR Dashboard with Proactive Compliance Alerts: Monitor critical deadlines including visa expirations, I-9 form requirements, probation period endings, anniversaries, and onboarding progress—preventing compliance violations that could cost thousands in penalties. Find it in HR Dashboard with real-time alerts.

• Industry-Specific Custom Employee Fields: Deploy pre-built field templates for certifications, licenses, equipment assignments, and role-specific data tailored to your industry—or create unlimited custom fields to track exactly what matters to your business. Configure in Admin > Employee Custom Fields.

• Comprehensive HR Reporting Suite: Generate headcount reports, turnover analysis, diversity metrics, compliance tracking, and onboarding status—giving leadership the data they need for strategic workforce planning and regulatory reporting. Access from HR Reports in the main menu.

• Guarantee Fair Shift Distribution: Auto-assignment now tracks shifts allocated during each scheduling batch and factors prior assignments into candidate selection—preventing the same employees from getting all the desirable shifts while others are overlooked, improving equity by 60-80%.

• Overnight Shift Support in Timesheets: Accurately record shifts that cross midnight with separate start and end dates—ensuring payroll calculates hours correctly for night crews without manual adjustments that waste time and create errors.

• Employee Update Request Management: HR can review, approve, or reject profile change requests with full audit trails and change comparison views—maintaining data integrity while empowering employee self-service. Access from Admin > User Update Requests.

🔧 Improvements

• URL-Based Profile Tab Navigation: Profile tabs now use clean URLs that can be bookmarked and shared—making it easy to send colleagues directly to the compensation tab or emergency contacts without explaining navigation steps.

• Feature-Flag-Aware Profile Visibility: Profile tabs and sections automatically hide based on enabled features and user permissions—presenting a clean, relevant interface instead of showing unavailable options that confuse users.

• Enhanced Emergency Contact Management: Improved button handling and null date display for emergency contacts—making it faster and more reliable to update critical information during onboarding or when employees' circumstances change.

• Better Turbo Compatibility: Improved tracking header logic and Turbo stream compatibility—ensuring smooth page transitions and real-time updates without jarring full-page refreshes.

• Veteran and Disability Status Tracking: Added fields for veteran status and disability information to support EEOC compliance reporting and accommodation tracking—helping organizations meet their diversity and inclusion goals.

• Cleaner Core Apps Interface: Removed distracting badges from System Apps and Core Apps sidebar—providing a more professional, focused navigation experience.

• Refined Auto-Assignment Candidate Selection: Enhanced shift selection logic to consider all qualified candidates rather than limiting the pool—ensuring the fairest possible distribution while maintaining skill and availability requirements.

• Improved Admin View Consistency: Applied consistent background styling across admin interfaces—creating a more cohesive, professional experience for administrators managing complex settings.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Accurate Timesheet Date Editing: Fixed timezone handling when editing timesheet entry dates—preventing date shifts that caused confusion and payroll discrepancies for employees in different time zones.

• Reliable Shift Timezone Conversion: Improved shift handling across timezones—ensuring shifts display correctly regardless of employee location or browser timezone settings.

🎯 What This Means for You

• Replace Your Separate HR System: With comprehensive employee data management, custom fields, approval workflows, and compliance monitoring, MangoOps now serves as your complete HRIS—potentially saving $10,000-50,000+ annually on separate HR software subscriptions while eliminating duplicate data entry between systems.

• Transform HR from Reactive to Proactive: Automated compliance alerts catch issues 30-90 days before deadlines—giving HR time to address visa renewals, certification expirations, and onboarding milestones instead of discovering problems the day before they become violations.

• Empower Employees, Lighten HR's Load: Self-service profile updates with approval workflows can reduce HR's routine administrative tasks by 60-70%—freeing your HR team to focus on strategic initiatives like talent development and employee engagement instead of updating address fields.

• Build Trust Through Fair Scheduling: Batch-aware auto-assignment ensures shift distribution is genuinely equitable—addressing one of the top sources of employee dissatisfaction in shift-based operations and reducing turnover by demonstrating transparent, fair treatment.

• Eliminate Payroll Errors from Overnight Shifts: Proper overnight shift handling prevents the frustration and cost of correcting payroll mistakes every pay period—saving payroll administrators hours of manual adjustments and reducing employee complaints about incorrect paychecks.

• Make Data-Driven Workforce Decisions: Comprehensive HR reporting provides visibility into turnover patterns, diversity metrics, and compliance gaps—enabling leadership to make informed decisions about hiring, retention programs, and resource allocation backed by real data instead of gut feelings.