Staff holidays sortedtoday
Startup founder, ops manager, head of people? Our HR software for small businesses has got you covered: save time on repetitive admin tasks, streamline your processes and do it right the first time.
Use our staff holiday booking system to track and record all of your team’s holidays in one simple motion
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When talking to various businesses, we've often heard about the “messiness” of holiday management with its spreadsheets, calendars, emails, and forms.
This issue is so common that we created a staff holiday planner to make everything simpler:
Quick and easy setup
User-friendly interface, no training needed
Holiday requests sorted in no time
Automatic calculations
Requests easily sent by team members
Automatic calculations for allowances
Bank holidays and custom days off
Company-wide calendar
James Gill, CEO of GoSquared
As someone taking care of HR, responsibilities can easily pile up. So although booking your team’s holidays is an essential part of your duty, it could also be spare time for more impactful work.
That’s why our staff holiday software turns the process into a matter of minutes:
Your team books their holidays on the system
You receive an email or Slack notification
You review their request (with automatic overlap notification) and respond
They’re notified via email
Their allowance resets automatically and the dates appear in your company calendar
That’s a lot of time to get back for a busy HR person, so make the most of it by getting a staff holiday planner now.
Having a staff holiday booking system is just the first part of the process. Getting completely rid of spreadsheets means they’ll have to get replaced by automatic reports in your staff holiday booking system:
Interactive dashboard: visualise your data through helpful dashboards
Annual leave reports: stay up to date with holiday use
Filters: filter reports by teams or by dates
James Gill, CEO of GoSquared
It really depends on where you’re at as a business and how much you’re willing to invest in HR. Holidays are just a small part of it, but if you want HR processes you can rely on, it’s probably best not to rely on spreadsheets and dropbox for most of it. However, and if you’re still thinking it through, here are two alternatives ways:
Use a spreadsheet and communicate via Slack or email + keep track of holidays on a calendar
Do it on paper – that may be not as common anymore but some people swear by it
Spreadsheets like an Excel holiday tracker can be super helpful, especially if you’ve not got the means to pay for a staff holiday booking system.
The problem is they are very prone to human error and will eventually break, take too much time to fix, and become a burden more than a handy solution. They also might look a bit scrappy to team members, so to give your business a professional look and impress new hires as well as employees, it might be a good idea to look at a staff holiday booking system.
You’ll also get less questions from team members as they’ll be able to see what time off they’ve taken, cancel or amend requests and keep an eye on their allowances.
A staff holiday planner is not directly linked to employment law nor it is a requirement, but having it can contribute to:
Store secured and confidential data away from hackers
Protect your team and your company’s data
Respect minimum allowances and statutory leave
Ensure you are in line with the law when it comes to any type of leave
