The employee profile now has a search bar. Type a field name or group name and results filter in real time. No scrolling, no remembering which section a field lives in.

What you get:

• No need to remember which tab a field is in
• Search by field name or the section it belongs to - works either way
• Works in view mode - no need to switch to edit first

👉 Open any employee profile and start typing in the search box

Benefit applications, data changes, equipment, training, remote work requests – in most companies, they bounce between email, Slack, paper forms, and spreadsheets. HR wastes time answering the same questions, and requests get lost or stuck without a status.

We're building a new feature to bring order to this – Employee Requests – available in the People module, at no extra cost. Here's what's coming in the first release:

Request catalog with policy descriptions: employees open Calamari and see what they can request, what the rules are, and what they need to attach.

Flexible form builder: create any request type with text fields, dates, dropdowns, and attachments. Target each request to the right group of employees using filters.

Automatic numbering: sequential, with a customizable format (e.g., 01-2026-MULTISPORT).

Type-based approval and fulfillment: a benefit request goes to HR, an office key request goes to the Office Manager. After approval, the executor gets notified that there's work to do.

But before we ship it – we need your input.

How does your company handle employee requests today? What tools do you use, what frustrates you, what matters most to you? The survey takes about 3 minutes and will directly shape what goes into the first release.

👉 Take a quick survey

Read more about Employee Requests here

You have full control over who sees the responses and whether they are signed. When configuring a review session, you can set visibility separately for those managing the process (manager, administrator) and for the person being reviewed.

You have three modes to choose from: response with the reviewer's name and surname, anonymous response or no access to responses.

What's more, you can enable an option where the reviewer themselves decides whether they want to respond openly or anonymously.

This is a solution for companies that want open feedback but don't want to force it on people who don't yet feel comfortable with it.

You can also override visibility at the level of an individual question – for example, most questions can be open, but a question about cooperation with the manager can be anonymous.

👉 Set up answer visibility in your review session settings

Read more about Anonymous Reviews

We're working on a Calamari integration built on MCP (Model Context Protocol). Once live, you'll be able to manage time off and log attendance directly from your AI assistant - no need to open the app.

The first version of the integration will let you:

• submit leave requests in plain language, e.g. "Book annual leave for March 10–14, delegate to Anna Kowalska"
• clock in and out with a single command
• check who on your team will be away on a given date

The integration will work with popular AI assistants, including Claude, Cursor, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Admins will be in full control of who gets access.

This is just the start. Future versions will bring more for managers -faster reporting and direct access to employee and attendance data, without the extra steps in between.

Want to be among the first to try it? Join the waitlist →

The "Overlapping shifts" irregularity now works across all time entries - the system monitors them continuously and surfaces any conflicts directly in the attendance records and the irregularities report. It means you can catch discrepancies in registered working time before they reach payroll.

You can switch it on in the Configuration -> Time & Attendance -> Abnormalities.

Turn on the new abnormality now.

Admins and managers can now update employee records directly in a table - same experience as Google Sheets or Excel, but inside Calamari.

Turn on edit mode in the People view, click any cell, make your change, and confirm. You can update multiple records at once, and the table catches errors as you type - no bad dates or invalid values slipping through.

Unlike emailing a spreadsheet around, everyone works within their own access level. No risk of accidentally sharing too much. And managers can update their own team's records directly, without waiting on HR to run an export.

A few things this makes easier:

• Updating medical exam dates or health and safety certificates for an entire department
• Changing roles and team assignments after a reorganization
• Filling in training dates for a group of employees
• Correcting additional fields without opening each profile individually
• Quick edits after filtering the view - for selected people only

Check out table edit mode in the People view →

Each employee in Calamari has a holiday calendar tied to where they work. The new filter lets you use that directly - pick a calendar from the list and you're filtering by country.

Available in three places:

• People view: quick overview and editing of a selected group
• Configuration: managing settings per branch
• People Reports: exporting data for a selected country or branch

Try the holiday calendar filter →

Two additions to give you more control over how feedback looks and who can access it.

• Reviewers can now format their responses - bold text, lists, headings - making feedback easier to read. You can also use variables in question templates (first name, full name, position), so instead of "How do you rate your collaboration with this person?" you write "How do you rate your collaboration with {first name}?" and the system fills it in automatically.

• The new Performance Reviews Administrator role lets an HR specialist or process coordinator read all collected feedback without needing full system admin access. System administrators won't see feedback unless they're also assigned this role.

More access control improvements are on the way.

Configure new role in Configuration/Roles ->

Running company-wide reviews but want your marketing team evaluated on analytics and developers on code review? You can now do that within a single session.

In the Performance Reviews module, you can now differentiate questions based on who is being reviewed and who is giving the review. Questions can vary depending on:

• the reviewed person's position,
• their team,
• the specific individual being reviewed,
• the relationship between reviewer and reviewee.

In practice: Ana from marketing gets a question about how she performs at industry conferences when her manager reviews her. A developer doing a peer review won't see that question - only questions relevant to their shared work.

One process, multiple perspectives, more relevant questions. No need to create separate sessions per department.

Learn how to configure questions in Performance Reviews →

If your organisation doesn't require daily time logging, the system was still marking every day without a timesheet entry in red — including for freelancers and employees on flexible contracts.

You can now turn off the "Absence" abnormality in system settings. Once disabled, the timesheet stays empty without red markings for days with no entries. Calamari stops treating it as an issue when it isn't one.

Coming next: assigning abnormalities to specific employee groups for even more granular control.

Configure abnormalities and adapt the system to your team's work model.