Human Resources

Managing staff holidays can feel like solving a complex puzzle. Between calculating entitlements, handling clashing requests, and ensuring you’re following the law, annual leave management can be challenging for HR teams. 

In this article, we’ll cut through the complexity of annual leave entitlement in the UK. We’ll explain the legal framework, show you how to calculate holidays for different types of workers and share practical ways to make the whole process smoother.

Are you struggling to calculate holiday entitlement for your varied workforce? From full-time staff to part-time employees, irregular hours to zero-hour contracts, ensuring everyone receives their correct statutory holiday allowance can be challenging.

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore how to calculate holiday entitlement accurately for different types of employees. We’ll explain common calculation mistakes to avoid. And we’ll introduce you to time-saving tools that can handle these complex calculations automatically.

Let’s learn how a holiday entitlement calculator can transform your leave management processes while ensuring full compliance with UK employment law.

Activity monitoring within organisations, which consists of monitoring and analysing the number of hours worked by employees as well as the type of work, is a key issue related to keeping track of productivity or cost pricing. How can activity monitoring be carried out? What tools are available to companies to support it?

The recruitment process is becoming increasingly complex and therefore harder to attract and retain talented staff. Successful HR onboarding is a key issue for a lot of companies and many feel that the process of integrating their new employees is not as ideal as they would like. To help with this, we've outlined essential steps for effectively onboarding your new recruit.

Workforce management is one of the responsibilities that falls not only to the HR department but also to every team manager in each department. Between the difficulties of scheduling, legal obligations and working constraints, how can we help managers organise their employees shifts patterns and daily activities?

In a professional world where agility is recognised as a strategic challenge, managing time and activities is now about more than simply collecting information on the presence of employees in the company. In fact, time and attendance management – T&A – impacts several priority topics for any HRD, including resource planning, the quality of the employee experience and, more broadly, the quality of life at work; areas that have a direct impact on the company’s performance.

Employee Self-Service is a great tool, which when used in the right way improves the working lives of both employees and employers. Before we look at some of these benefits, what exactly is Employee Self-Service?

It’s a fact of life that to remain competitive, companies have to employ Time and Attendance Systems to reduce HR administration and increase productivity. However, since it’s your staff who will be clocking in via these systems, it’s important that they understand they will receive additional benefits by engaging with them. This article provides advice to highlight what employees gain from a Time & Attendance Solution, to ensure you use it to its full potential.

SaaS (Software as a Service), otherwise known as the cloud, is attracting more and more companies. Why? It allows an organisation to take advantage of bespoke software via an internet connection rather than having to install it on its own servers.