Time and Attendance Systems – the Perfect Tools for Staff Holiday Management

An advanced time and attendance system from Time and Attendance UK can easily become the ideal tool for holiday management within any company, helping employees on all levels attain a better balance between work and personal life.

This seems to be a very serious problem nowadays, as 3.3 million UK employees work more than 48 hours a week, a rise of a quarter of a million since 2001, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Plus, a separate survey conducted for Glassdoor in April among over 2,000 full or part-time employed adults in the UK found that, of employees who received paid holiday, 43 percent took between 91-100 percent of their allowance in the last full holiday year, while 13 percent reported taking just 20 percent or less of their eligible time off. A combined total of 40 percent took up to half their annual leave allowance across the year.

When broken down by age groups, young workers were the least likely to take their full allowance, with only 35 percent of 18-24 year olds and 40 percent of 25-34 year olds taking between 91-100 percent of their allowance in their last full holiday year.

Furthermore, just half of the employees polled (50 percent) said they could completely ‘check out’ and that there was ‘no expectation to be reachable’. However, 20 percent of the UK workforce was expected to be reachable and aware of work issues if needed.

More women (52 percent) than men (46 percent) said they could completely ‘check out’, however 16 percent of women opposed to 14 percent of men worked on holiday as they feared falling behind. Nearly a quarter (23 percent) of the youngest age demographic (18-24) claimed their bosses regularly contacted them while on holiday, the highest of all age groups.

Time & Attendance UK – expert suppliers of time and attendance systems with solid, advanced holiday planning functionality

If you are considering the implementation of an advanced integrated workforce management system that will enable your company to deliver enhanced holiday management options for your staff, Time & Attendance UK has the expertise and know-how to help.

Our specific position within this market segment, as well as proven experience in the field enables us to thoroughly customize our systems in order to meet all of your requirements.

The Smart Card Time & Attendance recording workstation incorporates such features as job booking, job costing, labour hours analysis and security management. A self-service module (SSM) will enable staff to easily book their holidays, while managers will be able to view all booked holidays for their respective departments and approve (or deny) new requests, as necessary.

If you want to find out more about the range of affordable, reliable solutions provided by Time & Attendance UK, just contact our dedicated product team, they’ll be more than happy to answer any question you might have.