Deprecation of the Team Manager role

The Team Manager role has been deprecated from the Oyster platform. It had the following permissions:

• View and approve time-off data for selected Team Members assigned to the Team Manager
• View and approve expense-related data for selected Team Members assigned to the Team Manager

In order to manage your workforce, you can now create teams and assign managers to teams. This new structure has the following benefits:

• Quickly create teams and configure managers and members who belong to the team.
• More flexibility to assign roles to managers of a team, such that managers can have customized permissions—approve time off, expenses, or both.
• Enhanced access controls and security to ensure managers can only access the data and actions of the team members assigned to their teams. For example, you can create a team for EOR Team Members and a team for Contractors and assign them different managers.
• Reduced administrative friction. You can now manage your teams effortlessly through our dedicated team management view. Our intuitive interface reduces confusion and support dependency, making it easy to set up, modify, and govern permissions as your organization grows.

For more information, see Team Management. 

What happens to users who had the Team Manager role?

All users who previously had the Team Manager role now have a team. The team has been named after the user. As an example, if John Doe had the Team Manager role, a team named "John Doe's team" has been created.  

Team Members who were assigned to the Team Manager have been assigned to the team. Following the example above, Team Members assigned to John Doe have been assigned to John Doe's team. 

Users who previously had the Team Manager role have the following roles with respect to their team: 

• Time management
• Expenses

This guarantees that the manager can approve time off and expenses to the selected Team Members assigned to them, guaranteeing that existing users who previously had the Team Manager role are not impacted. 

How do I change permissions for users who had the Team Manager role?

Prerequisites

• You have Admin access to your company's account.
• You are logged in to the Oyster Platform with your admin credentials.

Steps

To modify the permissions associated to an user, follow the steps below:

On the Oyster Platform, click Company > Settings Click on the tab User access permissions Search for the person whom permissions should be changed. Click on the three dots next to the person's name.
Select Manage team permissions.   💡 Note: A permission on the company level will give the user access to all relevant data on the company level. A permission on the team level will restrict the user's access to selected Team Members assigned to the team.
Click on the pencil icon next to the team name. This will only change the manager's permissions with respect to this team.
(De)select the permissions you want to remove or add and click Save.
The permissions have been updated and your changes will be reflected under the team's name!