When we talk to clients or prospects about their expense management, we often hear: “No, we do it with Excel. It works great.” Although managing expenses with Excel is a significant step forward compared to templates, paper, and pencil, it’s still a bad idea because there are much better alternatives. The following drawbacks have led […]
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Last week, we released another new feature for our absence management system. You can now automatically request documentation (e.g., a medical certificate) from your employees after a certain number of consecutive sick days. This can be set up globally for all employees in just 30 seconds. Activating Documentation Requirement To activate the documentation requirement, simply
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Last week, we released a “small” but exciting feature. You can now assign quotas or capacities to specific leave types. This allows you to set how often a certain type can be booked. What’s the purpose of this? Let me explain with a few use cases. Limited Resources Can Be Booked but Not Overbooked Company
Travel expense reimbursement not only frustrates employees but also burdens the HR and accounting departments. From lost receipts to endless waits for reimbursement, the entire process can be a painful ordeal. As experts in absence and time tracking, the topic of travel expense reimbursement is crucial for us. In our quest to add new features
In small businesses, there’s often a tendency to stick to traditional timesheets. Sometimes, working hours aren’t documented at all, either because it’s deemed unnecessary or because employees resist it. In the EU, the situation is serious. Since a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in May 2019, tracking of working hours has been
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Submitting travel expense reports often feels like a hurdle race: finding the receipt, typing in all the information manually and in compliance with regulations, keeping to all deadlines, etc. From “Where did I put that receipt?” to “OK” from the HR department, a lot of time and even more nerves are spent.This not only annoys
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AI in HR. A topic that has been occupying us intensively at absence.io for some time. How can AI be used in our core areas, attendance and absence management? Especially in the area of process optimization, we see great potential, but also in service. We would like to give you a brief insight into our
AI in HR (Part 1): Potentials in Attendance and Absence Management? Read More »
Wait…what? That’s right. In a recent European Court of Justice ruling, all companies in the European Union must track their employee’s working hours. This may seem archaic to some of you given flextime, home office days and more generally the culture of freelance work. But don’t forget that although punching in and out may no
Hurray! The EU passes time tracking legislation! Read More »
In a recent study, it was found that the average worker spent more time procrastinating than actually working. Here’s a breakdown of a typical day: Checking social media – 44 minutes (spent doing this during working day) Reading news websites – 1 hour 5 minutes Discussing out of work activities with colleagues – 40 minutes
Some of you may go to your jobs and mind your own business, plugging away until the clock strikes six and it’s time to go home. If you’re that person, there’s no shame in that, after all you’ve got lots of work to do! So many deadlines and phone calls to field. Those emails are
So you want to motivate your employees to be engaged and highly innovative? Here are some tips on how you can create a workplace environment that encourages engagement and fun, while maintaining a clear eye on the goal at hand. 1. Don’t micromanage People don’t like to be constantly told what to do. If you’re
Everywhere you look, #hustleculture seems to have won the battle. Like some great marketing ploy, it seems to have convinced young and old workers alike to work harder, work longer – just work, work, work. But where does working harder and longer actually lead us to? Burnout. That’s where. Burnout can be blamed for the
Time tracking has been a recent-esque development in the past 5 years. If you’re unfamiliar with this particular work tool, time trackers theoretically aim to support company productivity by having employees use an daily timer whilst working on various projects. Think of the old-fashioned punch cards that employees would use every morning and evening to
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Judging leaders by their long-term results, rather than short-term hype is the most-common sense solution when analyzing how effective CEOs are in their positions. Harvard Business Review’s 2016 ranking of the 100 Top Performing CEOs has incorporated new metrics and tools to measure executives’ performance, adding 33 new CEOs to the list, having 30 CEOs
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If you’re leading a company with employees, it can’t be that different when working freelancers, right? A common misconception is that freelancers are just like employees and thus, can be treated the same. But while employees can duck into the employee kitchen to avoid a bad boss, freelancers can simply stop working with clients. A
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