Plant Employee Hub
Rethinking a legacy application for managing plant employee vacation, training, and more
Context
Plant Employee Hub is used by plant workers all over the world use to schedule vacation, access job training, view plant announcements, and more. Plant employees don't have desks to sit at and do almost all of their scheduling and admin from their personal phones in the break room.
Problem
The application is outdated, not mobile friendly, and failing to meet accessibility standards. The entire legacy application needed to be overhauled.
Calendar view with relevant filters
An enhanced and responsive calendar view allows users to easily view vacation and holidays on their phones. Filters make it easy to see their own schedules and those of their team, department, or group to gauge which days may be best to request off.
Vacation snapshot view
Prior to the redesign, plant workers had to look at a long list of vacation codes and add up their hours to figure out the total time off they had left. In the new design, they can see how many hours they have at a glance and drill down to view details about the specific codes.
Training with roll-up view
Each plant handles vacation requests differently, approving on a team, group, or department basis. The legacy application forced users to sift through irrelevant information - there was no way to adjust their view for how their plant approves vacation. Enhanced filters allow the user to quickly understand their chances for getting the day off.
Impact
Clear training flow for employees ensures they are ready to jump in
Easy scheduling reduces frustration
Improved responsiveness across form factors
Brought in line with accessibility standards
Feedback
“A few hourly and union leaders this week stopped by...at one point they stopped and said how much they loved the screen changes and visual improvements. They just kept going on about how much better the scrolling and selections were in the vacation screens. They were happy beyond belief.” — Product owner