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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 …

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 t…

Calculating employees’ hours is one of the most important tasks for an HR or payroll team. We look at how it can be improved. 

Physical security is a significant concern for many UK businesses across all industrial sectors. It really doesn't matter how large or small your company is; it is up to you as the owner to take all the necessary security precautions you need to ensure the safety of you and your staff onsite, especi…

Effective Time and Attendance (T&A) management is now an essential part of any HR management strategy. The right T&A solution can transform the way your organisation operates, improving productivity and team wellbeing.To realise these benefits, you must choose the right solution. However, how do you…

Are you considering whether your company needs an access control solution? There are many ways to provide and manage access control, from fobs to mobile phones. Have you considered a biometric system?

As Christmas approaches, it’s likely that holiday requests will be coming in to your HR team. It’s important for the whole business to track them correctly. However, there are many other reasons for staff absence: parental leave, illness, sabbatical, training courses, medical appointments to name a …

Most of us enjoy a Bank Holiday and wish a four-day working week was the standard. Under the government plans to boost flexible working, employees will be able to request a four-day working week. Here we examine the practicalities of this new working week.

Today, most companies recognise the need for a well-established onboarding process, but few spend the time to establish the offboarding process. Neglecting this crucial stage of the employee's life could be a mistake