As well as recording holidays, The Holiday Tracker can be used to track other types of absence, most notably sickness. Sickness absence can be added to an employee’s calendar by their manager, or an admin.
Let’s face it; people get ill. Sick leave is a factor we have to deal with in business, but we can also try to minimise its negative impact. According to a 2016 CIPD absence report, the median cost of sick leave can be as high as £835 per employee. We’ve pulled together five areas you can look at to help minimise the impact of sick leave.
Earlier this year BrewDog, the Scottish champions of craft beer, announced they are now offering one week’s paid leave to employees that adopt a puppy or rescue dog. So for this week’s blog post, we decided to delve unusual staff benefits.
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Before we dig into what Duvet Days are, let’s start with a fact:
19% of workers admitted to “pulling a sickie” in one year alone. (Source)
That’s one in five of your employees faking sickness to take a day off. So if it’s happening anyway, why not take control, give it a name, legitimise it, and allow you to define the rules.
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In the frantic run up to summer, the discussions at THT HQ have naturally drifted towards holiday entitlement, and the big question: how many people actually take their whole entitlement each year? Given that we have the data, we couldn’t resist running the numbers:
Surprisingly, 47% of our customers’ employees finished last year with holiday entitlement remaining!
Around 38% of our customers allow their employees to carry-over some portion of their holiday entitlement, but we still think there’s room for improvement.
The Myth: Employees not taking their full holiday entitlement is good for the company.
It’s easy to get lost in the basic logic that employees not taking holidays equates to higher productivity, but as with most things, it’s more complicated than it seems.
I’d like to take the opportunity to welcome Damon Morley to his new role as Business Development Manager here at The Holiday Tracker.
Welcome to the first update of 2017. We have some big updates planned for this year, but to get you started this update contains a few small but incredibly useful features:
The Holiday Tracker app has been an absolute
lifesaver for our company
- Magdalena, Kaktus Vans
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