Maybe you’ve had a demo of The Holiday Tracker, or have taken our Free Trial<\/a> for a spin, and you get the value it can bring to your business.\u00a0 If the next step is to convince your MD, FD or the board, then this article is for you.\u00a0 We’ve tried to pull together some of the common questions we get asked into a comprehensive document.\u00a0 Hopefully you can pull snippets from this article to bolster your own argument as to why The Holiday Tracker is worth the investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Holiday Tracker is a modern, cloud-based system for managing annual leave. It\u2019s a much needed alternative to using paper forms, email, and Excel. It\u2019s simple, robust and transparent, and saves time at every level of the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Holidays<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will enable staff to quickly request holidays in an efficient, auditable and transparent manner. Staff can login and view their own holiday calendar and see how much entitlement they have remaining. Holidays can also be requested from a mobile device, so most employees start requesting holiday in their own time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sickness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sickness and other types of absence can also be tracked and reported on. The Bradford Factor<\/a> is automatically calculated along with Sick Day Heat Maps, so you can easily identify any potential problems with employee sickness and spot any trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Administration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flexible<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
As it\u2019s cloud-based and accessed over the web, your employees can access it at ANY time, from ANY-where: remote workers, multiple offices, field-use, or even on their smartphone from their sofa at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adding and removing employees is incredibly simple to do, and cost per-employee-per-month pricing model means the price scales accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our 30 days\u2019 notice flexible contract means you\u2019re not tied into anything long-term. Simply email us with 30 days\u2019 notice to end your contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Incredibly Easy to Use<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our #1 priority in developing The Holiday Tracker is to keep it super-simple to use. We know that our customers have employees with a range of IT literacy, and having a product that doesn\u2019t confuse employees is of paramount importance. We get a lot of feedback from our customers that confirms we\u2019re on the right-track with this approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Return on Investment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Based upon our research, the average employee makes 10 holiday requests per year. In an average company, around 10 minutes is wasted processing and double-handling each request. In a company with 150 employees that amounts to more than 35 days\u2019 worth of wasted work each year. That’s equal to \u00a34,104 \u2013 less than the cost of The Holiday Tracker for 150 employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That doesn\u2019t even take into account the time saved at an admin level, managing the whole process and producing reports at the click of a button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Holiday Tracker shows your employees how many sick days they\u2019ve taken, often discouraging them from taking unnecessary time off work. 83% of our customers have also experienced a reduction in sick leave in their first year of using The Holiday Tracker<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We take the security of your data very seriously. We host The Holiday Tracker and your data with Microsoft, using their Azure platform. We chose Microsoft specifically because of their security pedigree and the protections built into their Azure platform. You can read more about the security of the Azure platform at the link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n