Reducing emails outside of working hours

Many countries are now bringing in laws around the "Right to Disconnect", meaning that more companies are being regulated against sending their employees work related emails outside of their normal working hours.

We have thought about this long and hard here at HR Partner, as we realise that our system does generate a lot of notifications and reminders for employees. We recently made some changes to our email system to allow queueing and scheduling of emails to try and help manage when emails go out, but today we have taken it a step further by building in "email sending windows" in our system.

Now you can specify that emails will only go out of HR Partner during normal business hours, or during any time blocks that you would like to specify.

There is a new option under Setup > Tools > Email Hours where you can now either turn ON or turn OFF this feature, and set the days of the week, and the times during those days where email sending will be permitted.

When email sending hours are active, each time you visit your Message Queue, the system will let you know if email sending is currently active or not.

You can change your sending hours, or turn this feature on or off at any time.

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Please note that email sending hours will only apply to Employee and Admin user emails. Applicant and other external emails won't be restricted by these settings as they normally fall outside the jurisdiction of the "Right to Disconnect" laws.

Here at HR Partner, we strongly believe in everyone having a great work/life balance, so we enthusiastically support the idea of team members having time off without having to be bothered by work related emails outside of their normal working time.

Get all the details on how to set up email sending hours by visiting our knowledgebase page by clicking here.

We hope that these recent changes will also make life better for your employees, and as always, we welcome any feedback that you might have about these new features we add to our system.