Tag: Ceequel

Keeping track of your employee’s shift patterns can be a difficult task for any organisation.  With manual processes, it’s almost impossible as a business to know exactly who’s working what shift on any given day.    Implementing Ceequel Time and Attendance into your business provides you with an easy to use solution that allows you to monitor your entire workforces working schedules and shifts.  The system also allows you to set up planned or ad-hoc employee rostering/rotations.

Using rosters within your organisation makes sure that your facility always remains productive.  Rosters should always be set up with workforce activity in mind. Choosing the right employees with the relevant skills for each roster is essential to keeping your organisation running smoothly.  It is important to always ensure that you have enough staff rostered to work at any one time in case of employee holidays, absences or rest days.  When assigning rosters to your staff it is important to check that all contracts are adhered to and the working time directive is followed.

Reports can be set up within the Ceequel system and automatically produced on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.  These reports show a detailed view of what shifts an employee has been working and any absences that may have occurred.  This makes it easier for employers to spot absences that may be down to fatigue, through employees working long or difficult rosters/rotations.  The system then allows you to easily switch employees to alternative working patterns, in order to create a more productive and focused workforce.  The Ceequel system also allows mangers to view the most requested shifts, thus identifying the popular and unpopular shifts.  This information can then be used to amend current rosters in order to make sure that the correct number of people will always be working at their optimum level.

For more information on how rostering can work for your organisation contact us!

As the Christmas blues began to creep in and the weather become all that colder, more and more people decide to take time off work.

The first Monday of February has officially been named ‘national sickie day’ with expected sick claims coming from 500,000 employees.  A recent survey carried out by OnePoll for Daybreak, showed that a third of working adults took the day off and 53 percent of them said they didn’t feel guilty for “pulling a sickie”.  The poll also showed that over half of the people surveyed put on a ‘fake’ sick voice and 46% of them said their reason for “pulling a sickie” was because they were tired.

The North West and London were top in the list of places that recorded the highest number of sick days, with Wales and the west Midlands experiencing the lowest number of days.  The poll also found that the most popular excuses people used when calling in sick, was that they had a cold, flu or food poisoning.  Employee absences on this day were also thought to cost industries up to £50 million.

The vast majority of businesses cannot afford to be dealing with unnecessary costs associated with employee absences.

Having a fully functioning Time and Attendance system in place can help your business monitor every absence your employees take.  Elf Productivity’s Ceequel software suite provides you with a system to track your employee’s absences; not only on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis but also by a number of pre-defined terms.  Absence codes can be customised within the software and details about every absence can also be stored.  Reports can be generated at the touch of a button – providing mangers with the ability to spot when an employee has taken excessive time off where absence patterns are beginning to manifest.