Managing Employee Holiday Bookings – Heaven or Hell?

Managing Employee Holiday bookings – Heaven or Hell?

When we work with a business, we always start off by asking them what their biggest HR headaches are and what they are looking for a workforce management system to alleviate.

It is interesting to us that 9 times out of 10, holiday bookings and staff requesting time off is a big issue for business owners and the amount of effort and time it takes to manage holiday allocations can be laborious.

Even with only a small number of employees it’s important to have the right number of people on hand so the business continues to run smoothly and dealing with a high volume of holiday requests can be overwhelming, especially when you are working with different departments and shift patterns.
Holiday Booking Hell includes:

• Taking too much time to process holiday requests
  
• Answering employee questions on how much entitlement they have available
• Staff taking too much holiday
• No visibility on medical requests, holiday and other leave
• No data to pro-actively drive business decisions
• No company-wide overview of approved holidays and remaining availability

On the other side, employees can find it frustrating if they are submitting holiday requests which keep being rejected because they don’t have an overview of what dates are available or how much entitlement they have left.
So how can we turn holiday bookings into heaven and not hell?

Data Time Systems can help your business get holiday requests sorted with the minimum amount of time and stress?

Our online workforce management solutions and integrated employee self-service App can really help you and your team to streamline the process.
We work closely with you to understand:

• Your staffing needs – daily, weekly, monthly
•  Work patterns and staffing levels required
• Individual employee holiday allowances
• Statutory holidays and business closures
• Seasonal shift patterns
  

Our Workforce Management solutions will then allow us to programme in all your requirements and provide a visual and interactive platform for you and your staff that offers:

Holiday Booking Heaven:

• All-round visibility – everyone can see clearly when holiday dates are available
• Overview of statutory company shut down and non-approved peak periods
• Easy to use interface to book holidays from any web ready device
• Easy access for supervisors to approve / reject holidays
• Employees can effortlessly see how many holidays they’ve taken, booked and their available balance
• Data Analytics to manage busy periods and ensure staff are taking the right holiday

If holiday bookings are causing you a headache, then let’s have a chat as we offer several solutions that can help your business - contact us to arrange a chat