Changing the staff holiday planner is a New Year’s ritual at many small and medium companies. Last year’s jumbo-sized calendar comes of the wall, this year’s goes up, and the work of updating the whole staff’s holiday to the planner begins. The simplest method? Especially in a small business it can seem like the simplest […]
We love Microsoft Excel. From bookkeeping to sales reports it has transformed business, but is it really a good way to manage your company’s annual leave? Ever since the rise of the MS Office Suite in the 1990s, spreadsheets have become a go-to tool of business life. So when you realise that you need to […]
Pro-rata holiday entitlement is a topic that seems to crop up all over the internet, at least in business forums and HR websites. Posts that you will find about pro-rata holiday calculations often become very complicated very quickly. Take for example this post on a business forum from a few years ago. In that thread […]
As another year draws to a close, managers and HR professionals are casting an eye to the year ahead. So what changes will 2019 hold for those of us managing annual leave and workplace absence? There aren’t many specific rule changes in the pipeline for 2019 yet, but here’s a few things we think are […]
In most companies there is one aspect of annual leave that causes headaches for HR and management, every company has one, and if you don’t handle it right it can leave you with short-staffed, dealing with disgruntled staff, or even breaking the law. We’re talking about the end of your company’s holiday year. So here’s […]
Throughout the western world, Christmas creates a demand for annual leave like no other. With multiple public holidays and social expectations for visiting family and enjoying holiday activities, most staff will want some time off during the festive period. Balancing competing demands for leave and the needs of the business becomes a daily struggle. As […]
For many HR professionals, annual leave management is a frustratingly big part of their job. In an already hectic workload the need to track employees’ time off, respond to leave requests, manage minimum staffing levels, set and enforce annual leave policies, and work out pro-rata entitlements for new starters can develop into a real time […]
We talk about absence management a lot on this blog, unsurprisingly perhaps given what we do, but what is absence management for, and how do you go about it? In this post we’ll explain what we mean by absence management, and some of the key ways to do it. At the risk of stating the […]
When you’re running a business, sometimes seemingly little things can have a severe impact. One of these is last minute leave requests. To the employee it might seem like no big deal but, especially when your operation depends on staff being present, granting a request at short notice has costs both in financial terms and […]
Do You Know How to Calculate Annual Leave? A common complaint among managers and business owners is that they spend too much time administering and managing annual leave. It can be a complicated task to work out exactly how much time off each employee is entitled to, particularly for new starters. The complexity of the […]