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November 2005 - InsideDomino

Manage Absence -- Don’t Let Absence Manage You!

According to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) the estimated cost of sickness absence for UK businesses alone in 2004 was at least £12.2 billion and in America employee absence may cost an employer $300 to $375 per day. Many companies face daily unplanned absence rates of 20%. That translates to more than $200 billion annually in lost productivity because of absenteeism.

There are many reasons why people take time off work. These include short-term sickness absence (uncertificated, self-certificated or covered by a doctor's certificate), long-term sickness absence, unauthorised absence or persistent lateness, annual leave; maternity, paternity, adoption, or parental leave; time off for public or trade union duties, or to care for dependents; compassionate leave and educational leave.

Here at SLR Software we believe the first step to managing absence effectively is to ensure that you have a clear policy in place that supports your organisation's business objectives and culture. To this end it is our aim to support and execute this policy with Absence Manager – the most advanced and easy to use absence management solution for the Lotus Domino platform available on the market today.

One customer who bought and implemented Absence Manager said;

"We have about 40 staff, and keeping track of vacations and sick leave was becoming a major chore. Having just implemented a Lotus Domino solution for document control, the addition of Absence Manager proved simple and efficient. We can now track leave in real time, with complete transparency to all team members. It has saved a lot of management time, and we thoroughly recommend the system." -- Anthony Walker, PhD, Chief Executive, Onyvax Limited

It is essential that companies identify, control and prevent absences before their effects on productivity and employee morale are felt.
Here are some of the ways in which your company could also benefit from Absence Manager:

• Optimise time management
• Improved planning & scheduling.
• Absenteeism Analysis & Trends.
• Maintenance of accurate records.
• Increased Control.
• Provides a central calendar to all employees showing who is absent throughout the year.
• Fully integrates with your personal calendar (no design changes required to mail template).
• Greatly simplifies the process of managing employee absence, one click approval/denial of requests (multiple approvers) with or without comments.
• Provides an extensive audit trail of employee holidays/absence.
• Employees have instant access to the number of holidays they have left for the year.
• Lotus Notes AND web interface
• Compatible with Notes/Domino R5 / R6 / R7

Whatever you do and however large or small your organization, if you are looking for an Absence Management solution we guarantee that Absence Manager can help you.

To learn more about Absence Manager click here

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