Get to grips with Online Leave Management The end of another year means that 2018 stretches before us, full of possibility and opportunity, challenges and administrative headaches. The way you handle the challenges will play a big part in your company’s success. One task, however, need not be a hassle and that is employee leave […]
How to manage Christmas when you’re self-employed Christmas is coming and when you are self-employed it can be hard to unwind and enjoy the festivities. We’ve even heard of one self-employed delivery sled driver who works a night shift every Christmas Eve, making millions of deliveries. What’s different? Without the security of paid holidays, or […]
Getting the best out of your team is a basic requirement for any business. Too many business leaders though overlook a basic productivity tool – annual leave. Many bosses look at staff holiday as a negative, taking employees away from their jobs. They are wrong. Paradoxical though it may seem, having your team take holiday […]
What makes a new business become a success? Twenty years ago Bill Gross started Idealab. He helped launch over 150 start-ups, and had over 45 of them either go public or be acquired. He got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. The startup organisation is one of the greatest forms to make the […]
In any business context, regardless of the products or services you offer, one rule applies across the board: people matter. When it comes to business success, your employees are your single most important resource – and one of the costliest, as well. Sometimes HR experts forget that they should not only find the most talented […]
We recently moved our service to a new architecture which allows us to deploy changes several times per day with zero downtime as well as improving our service availability, scalability and performance. In two words – No brainer. As part of the move however we did encounter an incident which presented us with a huge challenge as […]
How exciting! LeaveWizard is looking for a partner. What does it mean to be a partner at LeaveWizard? LeaveWizard is a modern global organisation built on many of the ideas presented by Peter Block in his book “Stewardship” – a nice summary can be found here http://keithdwalker.ca/wp-content/summaries/q-z/Stewardship.Block.pdf We also like being pragmatic, having structure as […]
We have some exciting news! We have been working with an expert user experience designer over the last couple of months to help us improve the look and feel of our application. While the work continues, we are now ready to release our fist “new look” version. The majority of changes in this first release […]
Many companies have a seasonal business model where they get extremely busy during specific periods throughout the year but are generally quiet at other periods. It is sometimes necessary for those companies to restrict the number of employees that can be off at any one time during those periods and thankfully LeaveWizard can support this […]
Excel is a great application, it is really powerful and can be used to solve a large number of problems for any business. When it comes to managing holidays within a company a typical scenario is that you say to yourself (or someone else in your company says) “I just need to create a small […]