M365 Changelog: Microsoft Teams: New settings available for your frontline manager in Shifts app

MC688627 – Microsoft is thrilled to announce exciting product enhancements on our Shifts settings page design to empower your organization through frontline managers to decide what capabilities their team can leverage from Shifts.  

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 179786

When this will happen:

Microsoft will begin rolling out in late November and expect to complete by early December 2023.

How this will affect your organization:

Our key capabilities in Shifts are open shifts, swap shifts requests, offer shifts requests, time off requests and timeclock. Until now, frontline managers were only ability to configure open shifts and timeclock through our in-app settings. However, Microsoft is expanding the capabilities to allow frontline managers to configure (enable or disable) the remaining:

• Swap shifts requests – If turned on, employees can swap their shifts with another one from a co-workers within the team. As a manager, you are able to approve or reject their requests. 

• Offer shifts requests – If turned on, employees can offer their shifts to another co-workers within the team. As a manager, you are able to approve or reject their requests. 
• Time off requests – If turned on, employees can request for time off within the team. As a manager, you are able to approve or reject their requests. 

Please refer to our end-user documentation to learn more about the settings in Shifts. 

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What you need to do to prepare:

There is nothing you need to do to prepare for these changes, besides you may want to notify your frontline manager about these updates.