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Add a person, enter their work details, and review before creating the employee record. Long forms scroll correctly on phones, optional details can be completed later, and a saved confirmation offers a link to the new employee profile.
Account access removal, recommendation rejection and relieving-letter actions show what will change before you confirm. Cancel leaves the record untouched, and sending a relieving letter no longer opts into termination by default.
Known partial department updates retain completed changes and retry only the remaining selection. Offer and relieving-letter flows keep a confirmed saved record if the next step fails, so recovery uses the same record. Timesheet drafts also reconcile changes from other devices.
Performance reviews keep their submitted and approved results visible. Payroll generation retains all returned exceptions, and publication is distinguished from delivery and payment. Hiring links, exports, contact messages and invitation links describe the result Birch can confirm.
Choose days within the displayed week, set a pay type and hours per day, and add them to your draft together. Weekends are optional. Existing entries stay unchanged; review the draft before saving or submitting.
Timesheet submissions and leave requests keep a confirmation beside your work. Routine notifications use a shared, dismissible style, and sample previews show Reset after you change them.
Birch now supplies an explicit iPhone Home Screen icon and keeps the installed app’s status-bar metadata in sync with its theme. Existing installations may need to be removed and added again from Safari.
On phones, timesheets show compact daily entries. Tap an entry for details or editing, or add one in a focused sheet. Changes apply to your weekly draft before you save or submit. Desktop inline editing stays available.
Time entries keep pay type and hours readable, with notes on their own line. The weekly summary and actions follow the entries on phones so they do not compete with floating navigation. Long employee names, salary comparisons and signing details also reflow on small screens.
Try leave decisions, adjust sample hours and shifts, explore documents, filter the team and review an offer directly on Birch's public pages. Each example uses fictional data, can be reset and never changes workspace records.
Offer letters use region-appropriate terms and compensation. Signing uses the reviewed version, and conflicting edits or expired signing links are rejected. A delivery failure no longer appears as a successfully sent offer.
Enter your email and, optionally, your name before choosing a role in the fictional Northwind Labs workspace. The demo stays read-only, requires no sign-up or one-time code, and links to the guided demo booking calendar.
Approved-hours exports now check employee identifiers, paid-hour mappings and totals before a CSV is downloaded. Missing or ambiguous employee details and unsupported mappings show a clear error instead of silently dropping hours. Review the file and confirm your payroll tool's employee IDs and pay codes before importing; Birch does not run US payroll.
Document lists now support search, filters and loading more results. Preview controls are easier to use on phones and with a keyboard: focus stays inside the preview, Escape closes it, and focus returns to the document you opened.
If the email service cannot accept a sign-in code or link, Birch shows an error instead of confirming it was sent. Protected requests use your current account status and permissions, and each device keeps its own selected organization.
Teams we have invited from the waitlist can now sign up and create their Birch workspace themselves: confirm your email, name your company, pick India, the US or both, and Birch sets your time zone, working week, overtime rule and pay cycle to match. A short setup checklist then walks you through company details, a leave policy, holidays and inviting people. You can paste a list of emails or upload a CSV to invite your team in one go.
Holidays you add or change now belong to your organization only; the national calendars stay as read-only templates you build on. Every page checks your role before it loads, including links opened directly, so people only reach the pages their role allows. India payroll and compliance menus show only for organizations with employees in India.
The dashboard only loads the tiles your role can use, so employees no longer see empty manager or HR widgets.
Settings are grouped into Company, People and Workspace, with a side menu on larger screens and a section picker on phones. Links to a specific settings section now open that section.
On a phone, the roster and calendar now show a week strip and a list for the selected day instead of a wide grid. Managers can tap a person to add or change their shift; everyone sees who is out, on shift or celebrating that day.
Buttons, fields and menus are rounder and sized for touch on phones and tablets, decorative shadows are gone, and timesheets, the roster toolbar and the notification bell are cleaner. We also fixed accent colours that were not showing in several places.
Pending timesheets now flag overtime, missed clock-outs, unscheduled days and differences from the roster, so approvers can see the problem before they approve. You can send a week back with Request changes, copy last week's hours, and see a full history of who changed what. The clock also shows today's shift and whether you are early or late.
The roster has Week, 2 weeks and Month views, with weeks starting on Monday. Click a cell to edit a shift in place, copy last week into the weeks on screen, and see holidays and approved leave in each person's row. Employees get a My schedule calendar of their own shifts.
Set contracted hours for each employee and compare them with the hours rostered for the month. Copy last week can now overwrite shifts that are already there.
HR admins can switch optional emails and in-app notifications on or off for the whole organization. Notices that are legally required, or that tell someone a decision was made, stay on.
We stopped the weekly 'use it or lose it' leave email, the low and maximum leave balance nudges, and the daily digest email.
Leave requests now ask for a reason (vacation, family event, festival, health and so on) where it matters, following India and US leave types. Sick leave stays optional. Approvers see the reason on the request, and you can click any request to see its full details. India employees can now request Earned Leave, Casual Leave and LOP directly.
Birch has a new design and logo: black and white, one accent colour, IBM Plex Sans throughout, and the Bark tile mark.
Timesheet and roster records are checked against your organization on every request. Employees see only their own schedule, nobody can approve their own timesheet, and timesheet details no longer include salary or other personal fields.
Weeks now start on Monday everywhere, roster totals only count the people you can see, and shifts that clash with approved leave or holidays are flagged. We also fixed several timesheet and clock calculations.
Fixed dates that could show one day off, and birthdays now show for the whole year.