Simple In/Out Adds 5 New Core Statuses
July 22, 2024
Since our beginning in 2011, Simple In/Out has had two core statuses: IN and OUT. Beyond this, every status update has an optional comment that provides valuable additional context to your board. Statuses and comments have served Simple In/Out well over the years. If a user was working from home, updating their status to IN with a “Working from home” comment relayed their state well.
Over the years, we received many requests for more core statuses beyond IN and OUT. We resisted for the sake of simplicity. After all, what could be easier than only two options? When the global pandemic struck, more and more customers were working from home. Soon after, we began to change our thinking.
We’re proud to announce the addition of 5 core statuses to Simple In/Out: REMOTE, BUSY, BREAK, SICK, and VACATION.
Delivering these new statuses required us to ship updates to every application and integration we offer because this fundamental change permeates every Simple In/Out feature. Only a few examples:
- All our reports needed further options to correctly calculate total time, as some customers include break time and some do not.
- Our Desktop Presence feature in Simple In/Out Desktop can trigger a dedicated REMOTE status when working from home.
- Microsoft Teams Presence integration) can now properly indicate a user is BUSY in Simple In/Out to match Teams.
The list goes on and on.
We also considered our existing customers, some of which have been using Simple In/Out for over a decade and may not be interested in changing their workflows. We’ve made these new core statuses optional so every customer can choose to enable them (or try them and disable them later). Administrators can manage their available statuses via Company Settings.
We are confident our worldwide customers will welcome these improvements to all Simple In/Out’s capabilities. New statuses were among the most popular and oldest feature requests we have ever received. Thank you amazing customers for their continued passion about Simple In/Out!
