TimeBot vs OfficeSimplify

Trusted by more than 10,000 companies using Slack around the globe, TimeBot helps teams to manage time off requests, vacations, work from home and absences. For managers and administrators: • Setup multiple teams and approve their time off requests • Approve or reject new time off requests directly from Slack • View history of time off requests for all team members • Sync with Google or Outlook Calendar to see team schedule on a calendar view • Set the limit on annual PTO days and always know how many days remaining • Flexible announcements and notifications about upcoming holidays and time off • Setup multiple approvers for a team or allow automatic approval of absences For office and remote team members : • Request a time off in seconds without leaving Slack! • Always know how many days off you have remaining • Know who from the team is off or working remotely • TimeBot can update your Slack status when you are OOO • Disable approval of requests (if no approval from manager required) NEW! Schedule Slack messages with TimeBot: • Schedule Slack messages for later delivery • Use a fast and handy shortcut to schedule a message to be sent in the future • A quick text command that's easy to use "/later Hey team - please review this document in the morning" • You can choose a date and time when the message would be delivered • Schedule messages for delivery in channels or direct messages • Respect business hours of your colleagues if you are in different timezones and deliver messages when they come online • Working late hours? Share updates with your teammates through scheduled messages We'll help your company in many HR tasks, and it's all without leaving Slack. Get started for FREE. For teams on the Premium plan, we also offer the best attendance tracking and time tracking experience.

Request, approve, and manage your team’s time-off and vacations with a click. Simple. Office Simplify is a simple yet powerful app to track employee absences (holidays, sick leave, work from home, etc) whilst keeping your team up-to-date. No more surprises or wrestling with gnarly email threads or spreadsheets! As a team member, OfficeSimplify enables you to: • Create time-off or leave requests directly from Slack. • Get notifications when requests have been approved or rejected. • See how many days' off you have remaining. • Automatically set your status to 'away' when you're on leave. As a team manager OfficeSimplify enables you to: • Customise leave types for your organisation. • Approve time-off requests in Slack or through the OfficeSimplify dashboard. • Set & track allowances with helpful notifications. • On-board your team in a matter of clicks. • Create and review time-off requests with a click directly from Slack. • Set the number of vacations and days off globally or for each team member. • Get visibility of potential clashes when reviewing leave requests. • Keep your team up-to-date with who’s off when with daily/weekly notifications. • Full-time, part-time, and contract employees settings are fully customisable. • Support for companies with multiple locations and international settings (including time-zone sensitivities, public holidays and more) • Maintain a complete overview via your Office Simplify dashboard. • Set-up your requests to sync seamlessly with Google Calendar, iCloud, Outlook, and more. Office Simplify also offers a range of other new powerful HR features – please visit https://www.officesimplify.com for further details. Office Simplify is a paid application but we offer a 30-day free trial (no credit card required) and teams with less than 5 users are free. -- Already an Office Simplify customer? Great news! We can get you set-up with a few clicks, just visit https://www.officesimplify.com/setup-slack