{"id":24,"date":"2009-02-26T09:15:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hrdirect\/2009\/02\/26\/more_self-service_is_coming\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T09:15:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T14:15:46","slug":"more_self-service_is_coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hrdirect\/2009\/02\/26\/more_self-service_is_coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Service IS Coming!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the majorgoals of this HR Direct implementation is to equip UMass employees and managers with self-service tools to manage much of their Human Resource activities. While these tools won&#8217;t be available to all right away, we do intend to rollout additional features in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Employee Self Service:<br \/><\/u><\/strong>ByJune 2009, all non-student employees will have the ability to login to HR Direct using their campus email username &amp; password.Some personal and job datainformation will be available during this first phase of the rollout as will the ability to view the bi-weeklypay advice.See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uml.edu\/hr\/hrdirect\/communications\/Employee%20Self%20Service%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf\">Employee Self-Service<\/a> fact sheet for more details.<\/p>\n<p>As additional testing is completed andappropriate business practices developed, there will be new self-service features introduced. These willallow employees more direct access to maintain personal and jobdata such as home address, phone numbers; and tax withholding.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in May, Lowellwill be pilotingemployeeself-service for time reporting. During this pilot approximately 40employees will be reporting their weekly time viaself-servicewith NO PAPER timesheets. Theseonline timesheets will electronically route to their manager for their electronicapproval&#8211; no need for a timekeeper to reenter this data. Upon successful completion of this pilot, the campus will seek to expand thisto moreand more users with a goal of eliminating the paper timesheet!<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Manager Self-Service<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Also in the spring, we will pilot some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uml.edu\/hr\/hrdirect\/communications\/Manager%20Self%20Service%20Pilot%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf\">Manager Self-Service<\/a> functionality which allows for managers to <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>view the employees reporting to them and <\/li>\n<li>initiate some human resource transactions without need for a paper trail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will expand the number of manager self-service users once this pilot has been successfully tested and stabilized.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please share any questions, comments, or suggestions you have.<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the majorgoals of this HR Direct implementation is to equip UMass employees and managers with self-service tools to manage much of their Human Resource activities. While these tools won&#8217;t be available to all right away, we do intend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hrdirect\/2009\/02\/26\/more_self-service_is_coming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hrdirect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hrdirect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hrdirect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hrdirect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hrdirect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hrdirect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hrdirect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hrdirect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hrdirect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}