Alejandro Walloschke

New Feature: Automated Documentation Requirement for Sick Days

The image shows the settings for the "Sickness" absence type, where the documentation requirement is activated.

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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Digital Travel Expense Reimbursement: How It Streamlines Processes, Overcomes Obstacles, and Boosts Employee Satisfaction

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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

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Time Tracking for Small Businesses: The Challenges and How to Overcome Them

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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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Travel Expense Reporting via App: Why Digital Submission and Accounting are Essential

Die Reisenkostenabrechnungs-App von absence.io auf einem MacBook und einem iPhone.

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 (Part 1): Potentials in Attendance and Absence Management?

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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

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Hurray! The EU passes time tracking legislation!

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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

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Can We Be Friends?

workplace friends

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

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Team Time Tracking or Team Not Time Tracking: The Modern Workforce Debate

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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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According to Harvard Business, Here are Best-Performing CEO Traits

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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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Rules of Engagement: How Managers Should(n’t) Work with Freelancers

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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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