Probation reviews

When someone in your team is on probation, Cadre opens their probation review before it ends, and asks you to write it. Your recommendation goes to HR, who decides.

Who can see probations ending in their team: Owner, HR admin, Manager.

Open People → Probations to see your team’s probations ending in the next 30 days and any overdue. Your reports’ profiles show their probation too.

Write the review

You are told by email and in Cadre when a probation review opens, usually two weeks before the probation ends. It is due on the end date.

1. Select Write review beside the person in Probations, or open Work → Reviews.
2. Read Attendance during probation above the questions: their share of rostered days on time beside the team’s, their counted and excused lateness, absences, early departures and missed clocks, month by month, with their own explanations. Full record opens the Time tab of their profile, and All flags lists every flag of their probation in Attendance and flags.
3. Answer each question. How reliable have this person’s attendance and punctuality been? is yours to rate: add what the figures don’t say. The last question asks What do you recommend?: Confirm the appointment, Extend the probation or Do not confirm.
4. Rate the person’s potential, then select Submit.

Excused lateness counts as on time, so only lateness that was counted shows as late. When the share on time is below your organisation’s warning level, a warning says so. The person can see the same summary, and HR sees it again when deciding.

Once submitted, your review cannot be changed. HR approves your recommendation or changes it, with a reason. If your organisation does not ask HR to approve, it applies at once.

If your organisation’s policy includes the manager’s manager, they write a review too, but only the line manager’s recommendation is proposed.