Stand out from the crowd with Ceequel®
According to the CIPD Annual survey report done in 2015 these are the top reasons manual and none manual employees gave for being off work for a short period of time. Minor illnesses such as sickness, flu were the most common reasons given, followed by muscular injuries and back pain.
Not all employee absence reasons are seen to be acceptable by employers.A recent study has revealed that employees are most likely to let you have the day off if you are sick but are less likely to appreciate you taking time off because you are stressed. The study also revealed that employers n employees view flu as being an acceptable reason not to go to work.
There are a number of reasons why an employee may need to take a day off work sick. However not all excuses used are considered acceptable to an employer. A survey carried out on 2,500 employees and employers in the UK has revealed the most accepted reasons for people taking the day off. It won’t come as a surprise to anyone that vomiting and diarrhoea are the top two acceptable reasons, with 73 percent of employees choosing not to spread the sickness bug around the office and a further 71% not risking the journey into work with a bad stomach.
The survey also showed that flu was the next valid reason to take a day off with 58% of employers and employees admitting they wouldn’t expect attendance with flu like symptoms. Surprisingly despite the all growing rise of the mighty ‘man flu’ the study also showed that woman were more likely to call in sick than men.
Being able to effectively manage your workforce is a crucial part of any business. Implementing Ceequel® Time and Attendance suite lets you easily monitor your employees and note which are out of the office and log the reason for absence.
This information is easily accessible to all mangers within your organisation and reports can be generated on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis. Reports can also be ran using a number of terms to show a more detailed outlook on individual absence’s and reasons for absence allowing you to monitor and spot when certain employees are taking advantage.
For more information on how you can manage your employees, contact us today!
The reasons employees give employers for being off sick can range from believable to down right bizarre but not all employees are actually ill. A recent survey carried out on human resource personal showed that a high percentage of people have taken a day off work when they weren’t actually sick.
When it comes to taking time off work, employees have been known to come up with many creative and sometimes justifiable excuses as to why they are unable to make it into the workplace. These excuses can range from the bizarre to downright unbelievable. This is often because an employee at some point in their career will reach a point where they feel they need to take a day off.
Surprisingly, a survey carried out by CareerBuilder of 5,647 full-time employees, hiring managers and human resources personnel, found that 38 percent of employees had taken a sick day in the past year when they weren’t actually ill ! We’ve all been there, after all there’s nothing worse than waking up on a weekday morning, barely able to open your eyes, then realising you have to get up and go to work.
Although ringing in sick at the time may seem like a good idea, most employers actually know when you’re faking it. CareerBuilder’s survey showed that 33 percent of businesses will check if an employee is actually ill.
67 percent of employers admitted to asking for a Fit note (sick note) with a further 49 percent making a personal phone call. The survey found that 32 percent of companies had checked an employee’s social media channels to see if that person had been out the night before.
As a business, making sure you stay on top of the days and reasons your employees have off is key. Implementing Elf Productivity’s Ceequel Time and Attendance system can help you monitor your employees absences. Reports can be configured within the system to run based on a number of factors, thus monitoring the days your employees take off on a monthly or yearly basis. This functionality allows you to spot any absence patterns.
For more information on how you can manage your employee absences using Ceequel Time and Attendance, contact us today !
Almost all organisations struggle with the cost of employee absences this is often because they don’t have an effective absence management solution in place. Having access to a system that provides you with the ability to track and view every absence your employee has ever taken would save your business time and money.
Employee absences cost businesses a significant amount of money each year. Having a system in place that is able to effectively manage these absences could not only save your organisation time and resources but also streamline the absence management process.
There are four main types of absences that every business experiences and these include short term absence, long term absence, authorised and unauthorised absences. Keeping track of the different kind of absences each of your employees take is essential, as it allows you identify absence patterns creeping in at the earliest stage. Tracking your employees also allows you to identify any genuine long term ailment, ensuring your company provides the necessary support and care.
Absence management goes beyond just tracking your employees. As it will also ensure your organisation has procedures in place to deal with employees who take advantage of your company’s occupational sick pay or are frequently off when holiday requests have been denied.
With ELF Productivity’s Time and Attendance system, absence management can be provided at the touch of a button. Breakdowns including long term absence, high number of occasions, reasons for absence, and cost to the business due to absence are all viable. Other advantages include immediate notification of return to work requirements as ELF time and attendance operates in true real time.
Graphical reporting and dash board overviews are also standard within the Ceequel portfolio suite.
In addition and where required the Bradford factor calculation can be automated and reports automatically distributed at pre-defined dates and times.
Tracking your employee absences could not only save your organisation money but can reduce the number of time your HR department spends chasing people up, for more information contact us today!
Finding ways in which to save money is crucial for any business. Yet many organisations are unaware of just how much employee absences are costing them. A recent study completed by XpertHR looked at absence rates and costs within UK businesses and uncovered which regions had the highest and lowest rates.
High absence rates cost money, don’t believe me? Check out this infographic we have created around a recent survey done by XpertHR on absence rates within the UK and the impact they have on business costs. If you would like to know more about how you can reduce your company’s absence rates, whilst saving yourself time and money, Contact us today!
Tracking time and attendance data is an important part of managing your workforce. Having accurate information on employees holidays, sick time and clockings makes it easier for you to manage everyone. There are many benefits to having a time and attendance system and tracking the data provided can help your business run smoothly.
When it comes to managing your workforce, tracking Time and Attendance is an important part. You have the options to track many statistics when it comes to time and attendance tracking. By using a computerised system you can easily track holidays, sick time, break and meal times, and staff members clock in, and clock out time. The question is, “How can tracking these statistics help your business?”.
Having a non computerised time and attendance solution provides your employees with the ability to take time off here and their as they know you are not able to fully track which employees are working at any one time. A computerised system requires your employees to clock in and out everyday and collects this data within a system all managers have access too.
Time and Attendance is one of the most important aspects of keeping your business productive. Employees can sometimes take advantage of the fact that you may or may not notice when they come to work. Many businesses do have “clocking in” procedures in place but even these can be thwarted by asking a friend to do it for them or other ways.
There are other problems, too, regarding incentives to get people motivated to attend more regularly. Working mothers often call in with sick children. Some workers have health problems or other issues that get in the way of their regular attendance. Those things do happen and people do have problems, lives, and responsibilities outside of the work place.
Having a reliable time an attendance system in place can be used as a way to make sure your management expectations are taken seriously and consistent. By providing you with information about the hours worked by each of your employees as well as overtime and lateness you have full visibility of what what your workforce is up to. This provides you with the ability to spot in the early stages any absence patterns that are beging to creep in.
By installing a reliable and scalable time and attendance system, not only can you ensure calculation of hours worked, absence monitoring, overtime hours and lateness, it can also be used as a tool to ensure management expectations are transparent and consistent across the workforce.
Continue reading “Streamlining of Business Processes”
Managing your employees time and attendance is crucial when it comes to the making or breaking of your businesses. Time and attendance systems allow you to monitor your employees total hours worked or number of hours worked on a single project. These hours can then be compared against standard hours and if employees have worked over their contracted hours bonuses can be calculated easily.
Time management is a key area of any business and can make or break a new or developing organization. Time and Attendance systems are there to assist the monitoring of employees time, this can be as simple as calculating the total amount of hours worked or actually calculating the number of hours worked on a particular project, job or activity. These hours could then be compared to a standard and potentially a performance and bonus could also be calculated.
Over time every day business process have changed this is due to the evolution of technology. Modern technology now makes it easier than ever for business to not only track their employees time and attendance but also record this data within a system. Having a time and attendance system in place is vital to companies who wish to evaluate their employees work activities.
Things have moved on since the days of clocking into work with a time card or using paper based time sheets. Modern technology now makes it easier for companies to keep track of employee’s time and attendance and to keep accurate records through web based time and attendance.
Why is monitoring time and attendance so important?
Keeping track of employee’s time and attendance is vital so companies can evaluate the work activities of their employees. Companies legally need to give staff holiday time and attendance systems allow companies to monitor how much holiday staff have taken. If a member of staff has multiple sickness days then these can be recorded and passed on to an occupational health specialist or the HR department if a serious problem arises. Making sure employees attend work on time is also important as companies can lose a great deal of money if people are repeatedly late. Monitoring the time people leave work means that companies can award overtime accurately and also see who has been going above and beyond for the company by working extra hours.
Making sure time and attendance records are accurate is important so that employees receive the correct salary payments and are awarded for overtime or reprimanded for persistent lateness. Electronic web based time and attendance ensures that there are minimum discrepancies in recording hours at work. If employees work flexitime than web based time and attendance software can keep accurate records of what hours they’ve worked and if they’re owed any lieu time.
Web based time and attendance can make records easily accessible on any computer with Internet access. The systems generally work through a real-time networked data capture device where employees can use a multitude of media options including proximity, barcode or magnetic stripe cards, alternatively biometric fingerprint and hand recognition devices are available. The data capture device then sends real time information to an Internet server which records the time an employee has been at work. A password is needed to log on to the system and check the information. Different parameters can be set up to incorporate flexitime, attendance requirements, national holidays and specifics which are relevant to individual companies. Employees can also view their attendance so they can quickly find out how many lieu hours they’re owed or how many holiday days they have remaining.
The main benefit of web based time and attendance is that it keeps an accurate record and can’t be tampered with or tweaked to benefit individual employees. It also saves on paperwork as all the information is electronic. The number of hours that human resources or line managers spend on working out attendance will also be reduced as web based time and attendance software automates the process. The software is generally easy to run and install, all that is needed is a computer with Internet access. Web based time and attendance can also assist with creating rotas and shift patterns.
Any business can use web based time and attendance as all you need is a computer with Internet connection. Small and larger businesses can both benefit as it helps to keep time consuming parts of the payroll process automatic.