When you Overwrite your Rem data ready for the next Review, your Matrix Set up and Midpoint data will now be retained.  This means you no longer have to re-enter this information but rather can just review and tweak if needed.

This leads us towards retaining all Rem info in the system to support year-round reviews eventually including out-of cycle increases as well as building history for the employe and retention of letters.  Want to talk to us about these plans?  Let your account manager know - Were happy to chat!

• If you access Remuneration via the ELMO menu - this will be automatic - you are good to go! ☺ 
• If you log in manually, you will need to advise all your users to switch to the new URL by 30 September. You can do this via the Rem system - send email to all in role
• If you log in via Single Sign on, you will need to get your IT team to switch out the URL in your Active Directory between 22 August and 30 September and advise your users of the new URL. 

We have heard your feedback that the history on Data and Team check steps shows more than what was changed in the current step.

What has changed:

1. Team check history will only show changes requested via Team check step.

2. Data check history will only show changes requested via Data check step.

3. Changes made via Recommend Rem,  Allocate Bonus or Data Amend (admin step) will not show in Team or Data check steps.

As part of our ongoing program of work to provide you with a modern look and feel in Remuneration, we have made some updates to the Top banner.

What has changed?

1. In the left hand menu is a new section, with your username, user settings and log out options.
2. Help is now located beside the step name.
3. The Zendesk Support widget is now located on the right of the screen
4. We have reduced the space the banner takes to give you more real estate in the main body of the screen.
5. Visibility of who you are impersonating is a banner across the top of the screen to be more obvious.
6. Enable Support access has move to the security configuration step.

As part of our ongoing program of work to provide you with a modern look and feel in Remuneration, we have made some updates to the Step Navigation Menu.

What has changed?

1. The menu can now be expanded or collapsed with the little arrow on the bottom right hand side of your menu.
2. Your company logo now displays within the menu structure rather than in the top banner.
3. The workflow icons next to your steps now display to the left.
4. The banner colour is now the background colour for your logo.

Next Steps:

1. Moving your Remuneration settings into the new menu structure
2. Tidy up of the top banner to provide a cleaner and simpler design

We have recently updated the Performance Rating Distribution Report for those clients using Appraisal as part of their Remuneration Process. 

The report has been standardised to bring together all of the best features from similar bespoke reports. Your existing report will still have the same great data, but you might notice the following improvements:

• Sorting in ascending or descending order
• Inclusion of all valid available ratings even when these ratings have not been selected, providing a more complete view of data
• Select grouping for report data

As usual, this report can be accessed via the Standard Reports step.

You have the option to mask Personally Identifiable Information (PII) copied to your test site. We have now extended the PII masking to include employee image fields and child image fields because these fields have the potential to hold PII such as signatures or photos.

When you choose to mask data when completing a Copy Live to Test, any image associated with an employee or with a parent field will be replaced with a generic masked image in all locations in your test site.

See How to copy Live to Test in our Support Centre for more information.

This change will reduce the options and differentiate the steps to help you select the correct step when creating or editing a step commencement notification.

See How to set up automatic notifications/emails for further information.

This change will differentiate the steps when the same step name is available to multiple user roles. This will help you to select the correct step when editing help text.

Please see How do I add or edit help text for further information.

You have the option to mask Personally Identifiable Information (PII) copied to your test site. This gives you the flexibility of having anonymous data in your test environment when you are using this for training or support purposes.

We have now extended the PII masking to include Position Title and Business Case text. 

When you choose to mask data when completing a Copy Live to Test, the following data will be masked in all locations in your test site:

• Username
• First Name
• Preferred Name
• Last Name
• Email Address
• Date of Birth
• Address lines 1-4
• Start Date
• Title (Mr, Mrs, Miss etc)
• Position Title
• Business Case text

In addition, personally identifiable information has been removed from import error messages.

Please note: Masking of Position Title will only apply to those clients using the standard Position Title field. Please contact your Project Lead if you would like to discuss migration from a custom field.

See How to copy Live to Test in our Support Centre for more information.