Sense HR Workflows Library

Automated HR workflows available in Sense HR, from approvals and notifications to onboarding and reminders.

360 Feedback Workflow

Sense can collect anonymous 360 feedback from a selected reviewer and return the completed feedback to the manager for use in a performance conversation.

Compliance

Absence Scheme Notification

Sense can notify managers and administrators when a new sickness record moves an employee into a configured absence threshold. The notification can show...

Absence

Activate Access Roles Management

Access Roles Management lets administrators control which users or groups can see and do specific things in Sense HR. Running the documented library...

Compliance

Admin Event Alerts

Sense can email administrators when an event is requested and when it is approved or declined.

Leave

Admin Expense Alerts

Sense can email administrators when an expense is requested and when it is approved or declined.

Pay and benefits

ATS Vacancy Request and Approval

Sense can require selected approvers to review a vacancy before it is approved in the ATS. The approvers receive notifications and can approve or decline...

Joiners

ATS Workflow: Applicant Hired

Sense can start the new-starter process when an applicant is marked as hired in the ATS, connecting recruitment to onboarding instead of requiring the HR...

Joiners

ATS Workflow: New Applicant

Sense can acknowledge a new job application automatically and notify the hiring team as soon as an applicant submits for a vacancy.

Joiners

Attendance Updated Notification

The Attendance Updated workflow emails the employee's manager when the employee changes their own attendance record in the Planner. It gives the manager a...

Time

Birthday Milestone Reminder

Sense can remind the right people about selected milestone birthdays and optionally send the employee a message on the day. Administrators choose which...

Pay and benefits

Buy and Sell Holidays Workflow

A holiday buy/sell scheme can let employees request changes to contractual holiday within the rules set by the employer. Sense can collect those requests...

Pay and benefits

Company Document Notification

Sense can notify employees when a new company document is added for them.

Compliance

Custom Expense Request: Admin Approval

Sense can provide a customisable web-based expense request screen and route submissions to administrators for approval. It is an alternative to the main...

Pay and benefits

Custom Expense Request: Manager Approval

Sense can provide a customisable web-based expense request screen and send each submission to the employee's manager for approval. It is separate from the...

Pay and benefits

Custom Expiry Reminder

Custom Expiry Reminder detects date fields whose field name contains the configured expiry text, then monitors those dates and sends reminders according to...

Compliance

Custom Offboarding Checklist

Sense can run a tailored offboarding checklist for the leaver, their manager and HR. Each person sees the tasks relevant to them while the process remains...

Leavers

Custom Onboarding Checklist

Sense can send different onboarding tasks to the new starter, their manager and HR from one configurable checklist. The checklist starts automatically when...

Joiners

Custom Screen Approval: Admin Authorisation

Sense can require HR administrator approval when an employee adds a new record to a custom profile screen.

Compliance

Custom Screen Approval: Manager Authorisation

Sense can require the employee's manager to approve a new record submitted through a custom profile screen.

Compliance

Cycle Carryover Limit Workflow

Sense can cap how much of a selected leave balance carries into the next cycle. On the configured date, it checks each employee's balance, keeps the amount...

Leave

Daily Attendance Email

Sense can send administrators a daily attendance summary showing who is away and who was expected to work but has not clocked in. The documented workflow...

Time

Data Collection Task Workflow

Sense can ask selected employees to complete or review one or more HR screens by a set deadline. Each selected screen becomes a task and the employee...

Compliance

Document Signed Notification

Sense can notify the person who uploaded a document when the employee has signed it.

Compliance

Employee Attendance Overview

Sense can email employees a summary of their recent attendance so they can review scheduled time, actual time, hours worked, variance, time off and...

Time

Employment Check Expiry Reminder

Notifies administrators when the valid-to date on an employment check is approaching.

Compliance

Entitlement Carryover Expiry Workflow

Sense can expire unused carryover leave on a date set by the employer. It checks the carried-over amount, subtracts leave already taken, and expires the...

Leave

Event Added or Updated Notification

Sense can notify the relevant employee or manager when an event is added or changed for an employee.

Leave

Event Authorisation: Backup Approver

Adds a second approver alongside the line manager so either authorised person can action the request.

Leave

Event Authorisation: Manager and Admin Dual Approval

Routes an employee event request to the manager first and then to administrators for a second approval.

Leave

Event Authorisation: Manager and Secondary Approver

Routes an event request to the employee's manager and then to another specified approver.

Leave

Event Authorisation: Primary Approver and Manager

Routes an event request through a specified primary approver and the employee's manager.

Leave

Event Authorisation: Reroute Approver

Sends event approval requests to a designated event approver instead of the line manager.

Leave

Event Cancelled Notification

Sense can notify the approver when an event request is cancelled by the employee or an administrator.

Leave

Event Document Collection Workflow

Sense can request supporting documents automatically when selected Planner events are booked. It creates the document record, assigns the employee a task...

Compliance

Expense Authorisation: Admins Only

Routes expense requests directly to administrators.

Pay and benefits

Expense Authorisation: Backup Approver

Adds a backup approver alongside the employee's manager so either authorised person can action the expense request.

Pay and benefits

Expense Authorisation: Manager and Admin Dual Approval

Routes expense requests to the manager first and then to administrators for final approval.

Pay and benefits

Expense Authorisation: Manager and Secondary Approver

Routes expense requests through the manager and then a specified secondary approver.

Pay and benefits

Expense Authorisation: Managers Only

Routes expense requests to managers without adding an administrator approval stage.

Pay and benefits

Fit Note After 7 Days Workflow

In the UK, an employee can self-certify sickness for 7 calendar days or less. If the absence lasts more than 7 calendar days, they should provide a fit...

Absence

Fit Note Required Notification

Sense can send the employee a task and email when a sickness configured to require a fit note is recorded.

Absence

Flexi Time Workflow

Sense can compare hours submitted on a timesheet with the employee's scheduled hours and automatically add or deduct the difference from a chosen...

Time

Forms - Buy/Sell Holidays

The Forms Buy/Sell Holidays workflow lets eligible employees choose to buy annual leave, sell part of their entitlement or make no change for a selected...

Pay and benefits

Forms - Live Poll

Forms - Live Poll lets administrators create a single-choice or multiple-choice employee poll, send each recipient a private Forms session and see results...

Compliance

Forms - Weekly Timesheet Approval

The Forms Weekly Timesheet workflow gives employees a weekly session to record working time, save a draft and submit it. Submissions can be auto-approved...

Time

Goal Due Reminder

Notifies the employee and manager when a recorded goal due date is approaching.

Compliance

Google SSO Invitation Workflow

Sense can invite employees to sign in with their existing Google work account. An administrator deploys the relevant SSO workflow and then sends the...

Compliance

Late Clock-In and Missed Clock-Out Workflow

Sense can check expected clock activity against employee schedules and notify people when a clock-in or clock-out is missing. It only treats the missing...

Time

Microsoft SSO Invitation Workflow

Sense can invite employees to sign in with their existing Microsoft work account. An administrator deploys the relevant SSO workflow and then sends the...

Compliance

Mid-Year Review Workflow: 2 Steps

Sense can run a two-step mid-year review in which the employee completes their review first and the manager then reviews and comments on it.

Compliance

Mid-Year Review Workflow: 4 Steps

Sense can run a four-step mid-year review: employee review, manager review, employee sign-off, then manager final sign-off.

Compliance

Mobile Onboarding

Mobile Onboarding lets a new employee access the Sense mobile app without first completing the normal web password setup. Sense sends a login code so...

Joiners

Offboarding Workflow

Sense starts an offboarding process when an employee is marked as a leaver. Administrators are notified, receive an offboarding checklist, and can review...

Leavers

Onboarding Workflow

Sense starts a standard onboarding process when a new employee record is created. Administrators are notified and the person who added the starter receives...

Joiners

Onboarding Workflow: Employee Profile Tasks

This onboarding workflow gives new starters profile-completion tasks when they first use Sense. It can prompt them to add personal details, bank...

Joiners

Overtime Adjustments Workflow

Sense can compare actual clock times with scheduled shift times, identify qualifying overtime and send it to the relevant manager for approval. When...

Time

Performance Review Workflow

Sense can run a structured performance review with sequential employee, manager and administrator steps. The default process has two steps, but it can be...

Compliance

Performance Time Workflow

Sense can identify qualifying early finishes by comparing scheduled shift end times with clock-out times. It sends the exception to the relevant manager...

Time

Personal Document Notification

Sense can notify an employee when a personal document is added and requires reading or signature.

Compliance

Probation End Date Reminder

The current configurable Probation Reminder can monitor the employee's Probation end date field and notify selected recipients as the date approaches...

Compliance

Probation Review Date Reminder

The current configurable Probation Reminder can monitor the employee's Probation review date field and notify selected recipients as the date approaches...

Compliance

Probation Review Workflow

Sense can start a structured probation review before the employee's probation end date, giving the employee and manager defined review steps instead of...

Compliance

Profile Update Notification: All Changes

Sense can notify administrators when any part of an employee profile is updated, excluding the person who made the change.

Compliance

Profile Update Notification: Specific Fields

Sense can notify administrators when personal details, bank details or contact details are updated.

Compliance

Return to Work with Custom Screens

Sense can run a configurable return-to-work process using custom screens with between one and six sequential steps. Each step can be assigned to an...

Absence

Return to Work Workflow

A return-to-work workflow gives the employee and manager a structured process after sickness. Sense can trigger a form, collect the employee's information...

Absence

Secondary Manager Sickness Notification

Sense can notify both the manager and a configured secondary manager when an employee reports sickness.

Absence

Sickness Ends Today Reminder

Notifies the relevant admin or manager when recorded sickness is due to end today and the employee is expected to return.

Absence

Standard Event Authorisation Workflow

Sense sends employee event requests, such as leave requests, to the appropriate manager for approval. If no manager is assigned, admins can handle the...

Leave

Standard Expense Authorisation Workflow

Sense routes expense claims for approval automatically. Lower-value requests can go to the employee's manager, while higher-value requests can add an...

Pay and benefits

Timesheet Holiday Accrual at 12.07%

Sense can convert approved timesheet hours into holiday entitlement at 12.07%. In UK law, 12.07% is the statutory accrual method for irregular-hours and...

Time

Timesheet Request Workflow

Sense can let employees submit hours worked and route the timesheet to the relevant manager for review. The approval decision is recorded and the employee...

Time

TOIL Request with Pay Option

Employees can record overtime and choose whether they want approved time to become TOIL or be paid, using the workflow variant documented by Sense.

Time

TOIL Request: Days

Employees request TOIL measured in days. After manager approval, Sense updates the employee's TOIL entitlement in days.

Time

TOIL Request: Days or Hours

Employees can use a TOIL workflow where entitlement may be measured in days or hours according to the employee's setup.

Time

TOIL Request: Hours

Employees request TOIL measured in hours. After manager approval, Sense updates the employee's TOIL entitlement in hours.

Time

Training Expiry Reminder

Notifies administrators before an employee training record is due to expire.

Compliance

Upcoming Birthday Reminder

Notifies administrators about upcoming employee birthdays.

Pay and benefits

Vehicle Expiry Reminder

Notifies the administrator and employee about an upcoming vehicle insurance expiry recorded in Sense.

Compliance

Verify Attendance Workflow

Sense lets managers verify attendance that employees enter manually. The employee records their hours, the manager receives a task, and the attendance...

Time

Weekly Manager Recap

Every Monday, Sense can send managers a recap of team tasks, outstanding entitlement and events booked for the week.

Compliance

Weekly To Do Recap

Every Monday, Sense can send each system user a summary of current and overdue tasks.

Compliance

Work Anniversary Milestone Reminder

Sense can recognise selected length-of-service milestones by creating advance reminders and, if configured, sending a personalised anniversary message to...

Pay and benefits

Work Anniversary Reminder (LOS)

Notifies administrators about upcoming work anniversaries and length-of-service dates.

Pay and benefits