Our community members have contributed language packs for Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia, Bulgarian, Oromo, Spanish, Danish and Thai.

OrangeHRM wish to thank Mesfin Hunde for helping us create the Oromo language pack, Titus Permadi our partner in Indonesia for his support in creating the Bahasa Indonesia language pack,  Svetoslav Stefanov for their warm assistance in creating the Bulgarian language pack, Qi Feng for their guidance in creating the Chinese language pack, Fabian Perez for making the Spanish language pack(Argentina)  possible, Omar Rodriguez and Daniel Varela for their cooperation and teamwork in creating the Spanish pack(Spain) and last but not the least we wish to thank  VHC Advance our partner in Thailand in creating the Thai language pack.

We invite members from other countries to join our community and create language packs to help us localise OrangeHRM.

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The session was conducted at the Sin Sathorn Tower in Bangkok.

The aim of these sponsored sessions are extend the use of our Open Source version for SME’s in Thailand.

VHC Advance plans to conduct quarterly trainings in Thailand, for more information please contact VHC Advance.

Learn more about OrangeHRM On-site Training

Therefore, upgrades have been a vital requirement for our global user base.

Now you can upgrade to 2.7 from versions 2.6.5 or higher versions.

Download 2.7 and you click on the upgrade option shown blow to start your upgrade.

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Orange AM is a complete solution to efficiently handle country-based holiday management.

This tool lets you produce individual leave systems for each operational country.

The features include:

• Leave configuration based on employee’s operational country/location
• Employees can view holidays specific to their country
• View leave summary of employees within a particular location

This comprehensive leave management system facilitates your company’s leave process effectively.

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This release features:

The option to turn on/off modules

This feature was implemented to hide modules which are not being used, avoiding any confusion for users.

Complete localization

Our community members have helped us to create the language packs. Language packs are now available for Chinese, Indonesian and Oromo.

Language packs for other languages will be available soon, upon completion of the translations.

Register to translate OrangeHRM to you local language

Set up preferred/local date format

Create a localized environment in your HR system with local date formats.

The benefits module has been deprecated as it comprises US specific features. The benefits module will be re-launched in a future release, with features that cater to the global user base.

Security Fixes

High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab from Switzerland tested the 2.7 RC and reported some issues, that have been fixed on this release. We appreciate their efforts to make 2.7 a secure release.

Think, first, what you company needs to do just to keep its head above water:

Management everywhere needs to be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with its workforces, so that a dialogue which helps sustain company culture is created, maintained and exchanged;

Remuneration needs to be paid on time and accurately;

Time and labor needs to be managed correctly, so that maximum advantage can be obtained from the resources available;

Company benefits need to be administered productively, so that workforces not only see an added value in sticking by their current employer but are also prepared to actively advocate to others the potential advantages of working for the company in question;

Finally, employee skills matrices need to be set up and tracked in order to better predict and understand future training and employment requirements;

A lot of balls to be juggling simultaneously?

Yes, if you do it the hard way. In fact, some companies seem addicted to old ways of doing things. Helping an addict isn’t always easy – especially when they don’t want to be helped.

However, whilst a good company with good people used to be able to get by with many a manual procedure, these days it’s hardly going to be enough. The competitive edge modern business demands means every procedure and process needs to get it right first time – and for far less than it cost in the past. This competitive edge can only be achieved through software systems whose intelligent implementation leads not only to greater automation and the benefits this brings but also to a digitalization of the intellectual property which constitutes a traditional HR department.

“Start as you mean to go on”

This is why a properly and wisely implemented HRMS is just as important for a company in its infancy as it is for a transnational corporation with tens of thousands of people. An HRMS implemented early on in the business cycle means the company is primed and ready for the challenges of growth from the very beginning.

Let’s imagine, however, for a second, the alternative to the above approach. Just contemplate the trauma you might encounter when, after several years of early and head-turning growth, you suddenly discover that profits seem to be taking a tumble. No one seems able to work out the reason, so – as an idea which comes out of one of a series of exploratory board meetings – you decide to carry out a company-wide opinion survey to see if some common thoughts can’t be extracted.

The survey has to be outsourced, of course – you simply don’t have the resources to carry out the task yourselves in what has clearly become (at least as per their initial reaction) an overstretched HR department.

The survey takes place over a four-week period. Personnel are all informed the results will be entirely anonymous, and that the results will be promptly communicated to all interested parties.

Unfortunately, the message that seems to get through is that anonymity will be anything but guaranteed. The survey is a disaster – everyone responds how happy they are with everything, and no one is prepared to suggest that anything at all is amiss in any way.

To cut a long story short, it would appear that in HR the message you want to get out to your employees is changing as it goes down the line.

Crunch time

One weekend, you decide to have a face-to-face with all the HR department. You invite them to a neutral conference facility and make it plain no one will be leaving until the truth is revealed and uncovered. Little by little, as people see there is no alternative, everything that has gone wrong in the past year becomes patent:

Communication is unclear – no one knows how much the workforce need to know or when;

Too many wage slips have had to be recalculated recently as new legislation on pension contributions has turned the system upside down – this has led to innumerable calls from colleagues wanting confirmation of when and how the situation will be resolved;

People in different departments are doing the same task but for different pay; they even take different periods of time to carry out the activity. This is causing friction as staff begin to believe that favoritism has begun to play a big part in how the company is managed;

As share prices have become volatile, trust in the company benefits scheme has shrunk. Many people wonder whether it is sensible to participate in such schemes, especially as they see that bonus arrangements appear to reward one’s place in the hierarchy and not one’s results;

Employees have bombarded the HR helpline asking why promised training paths have not been put in place, or why courses which did exist have now been pulled indefinitely from the matrix;

In short, an overstretched HR department is in the process of undermining all the goodwill which less than five years of astonishing growth had helped to generate.

The solution

So what’s the solution? What can you do to dig yourself out of the hole you’ve ended up in?

Anticipate the next five years of predicted growth by digitalizing, now, the whole HR department and its procedures and processes;

Give them the HRMS tool they require to get on top of the day-to-day chores – implement it intelligently by taking your time, in order to get it right first time;

By doing the above, you will release overstretched staff from the drudge of mainly manual procedures, so that they can do all the other value-adding activities which involve face-to-face and telephone support for people who will surely be in need of real people;

For good change is as challenging as bad change.

Just make sure the change you put up in front of your people is the good kind and not the bad.

Imogen Reed

England

The benefits module remained unchanged from the date of its 1st release. The module is also more specific to USA. We are glad to inform you that the module has been taken into consideration for improvements in order to globalize it. The module will be deprecated from the stable release of version 2.7 and introduced in the future.

We are open for any suggestions on new features that could be plugged into the new benefits module…..

• Option to turn modules on and off

This feature enables you to hide modules that are not being used, eliminating any confusion caused among the employees with modules that are not being used.

• Supports complete localization

The complete application can be translated into different languages. This feature is enabled via a new tool where users can create a language pack. Register here today.

• Select your preferred or local date format

You can now set the dates to appear in your preferred or local date format, which creates a localized environment within the system.

• Tweaks to the leave module

A set of minor adjustments were made to the leave module including a way to check your leave balance for a particular leave type from the apply screen.

The release has been thoroughly tested by our QA team and a few minor tweaks are being made before the release is marked stable, however feedback from the community has been vital for us to perfect our releases. Throughout the past few years users have provided feedback via various ways, but we have now implemented a systematic way for community members to register as Beta Testers. We have a few value additions for the contributions made by community members. Please register as an OrangeHRM Beta Tester and help us deliver a better HRIS.

The Localizit application could be used to create language packs for OrangeHRM 2.7 & above.

All you need to do is provide the translation for each corresponding label in the application. Once your translation is complete, language packs will be created through Localizit.

To make OrangeHRM available in your local language and let users broaden their OrangeHRM experience, we would like our community to assist us with language pack translations.

“The OrangeHRM Localizit application is to be released by the end of February. Stay tuned for further updates.”

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The ability to access OrangeHRM expense tracker on mobile phones makes it a real-time application that ensures accuracy and saves time.The challenging task is to keep close track of how your employees make use of the allocated budget for every project.

OrangeHRM’s web-based expense tracker is an elegantly & precisely designed application that takes off the administrator’s burden of tracking employee expenses. Simply view all the project expenses through your mobile phone anytime, anywhere. This system facilitates different user roles, thus allowing administrators, supervisors & ESS Users to perform the tasks which are applicable to each user.

The web-based expense tracker lets administrators monitor all project expenses, while expense managers may keep track of the employee’s expenses on projects that they have been assigned to. Employees in turn may submit their expenses on projects. The employee & expense managers will be notified instantly via e-mail notifications when an expense has been submitted, approved or rejected.

The module can also be accessed via any browser through the OrangeHRM application as shown below.

The expense tracker cannot be used as standalone application; the expense module populates the users from the OrangeHRM system.

Visit OrangeHRM Market Place for the Expense Tracker Application