Workforce Absence Management

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Absence management programs are critical to employers and employees alike.

Employees need to be away from work for a variety of reasons including their own health, care of their family, personal time and vacation. For employers, this means that providing the right leave programs are essential to staying competitive in the marketplace as well as ensuring compliance with local, state and federal regulations.

Workforce absence programs are often multi-faceted and include:

Short and Long Term Disability
FMLA / State Leave of Absence
State / Local Paid Leave Requirements
Workers’ Compensation
Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick, & Flexible Time Off)
Other Company Leaves

Programs like these are offered not only to meet regulatory requirements but also to recruit and retain talent. And this is just the start. It’s not enough to just provide leave policies but also to include how you bring those employees back from leave. Return to work approaches usually differ, and employers are equally challenged with ADA, accommodations, and consistent return to work practices.

Whether you have 10 or 10,000 employees, the complex world of absence management impacts every business. We can help you navigate through these intricate issues.

Three key questions you should be asking yourself:

Are my current workforce absence programs encouraging employees to be away from work and are they competitive?

Make sure your absence programs are efficient and compliant. We can help you define the cost of absence to your organization, provide competitive or industry-specific analysis, fix gaps in your absence programs, and audit your vendor partners.

Do my managers /supervisors know what to do if one of their employees need to be away from work?

Help your managers and supervisors do the right thing at the right time. We can work with you to you develop and deliver training, as well as refine existing resources (or create new ones) for your management team.

Are my employees returning to work?

Improve compliance and enable your employees to be most productive. We can help identify gaps in your current return to work process, align your return to work process with ADA, and measure the positive impact of employees return from leave.

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A Manager's Guide to Workforce Absence Management

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Workforce Absence Management FAQs

Why is Absence Management important?

Because of the demand for lower prices and streamlined operations, absence management has become a mandatory process in today’s highly competitive business world. With employees absent an average of 6.9 days per year at $725 per employee, absences have a clear financial cost. Absences also cause workplace disruption (such as workload rearrangement or shift rescheduling), negative attitudes from co-workers handling extra work, and even increased payroll errors.

How do absence management programs protect against losses in productivity?

Absence management programs automate scheduling for easier handling of sick leave, vacations, and other absences. These systems also provide data on production levels that facilitates adjustment of workers and hours based on changing output requirements. These programs also help to increase HR efficiencies by identifying absence trends before problems occur and by generating metrics that assist in creation of strategies, policies, processes, and procedures to reduce and manage absences.

How do absence management programs save money?

Absence management programs drive savings in various ways. The biggest savings derives from a program’s automated payroll capabilities, which eliminate errors that cause employee frustration, additional HR work, and accounting correction costs. Program compliance features that help companies avoid the financial and reputational costs associated with failure to follow laws on maximum overtime hours, mandatory rest breaks, and reporting obligations.

What role does workforce absence management software play in a well-rounded workforce absence management program?

Companies that include time and attendance software in their workforce absence management program benefit from a wide range of valuable functionality. These solutions generate HR metrics that provide insight relating to trends about nonstandard or unauthorized absences. This software also permits companies streamline operations and reduce costs.

How do you create a workforce management policy?

To create a policy, a company should establish concrete current and long-term business objectives, using metrics on employee demographics, work contracts, seniority profiles, and performance and quality of existing staff. The company must also identify skills gaps and engage in workforce scenario planning, often with an outside consultant. Also recommended is real-time monitoring of results and adjustment of plans as circumstances may require.

Workforce Absence Management

Workforce Absence Management

Absence management programs are critical to employers and employees alike.

Three key questions you should be asking yourself:

Workforce Absence Management Updates

Stay on top of new developments in federal legislation.

A Manager's Guide to Workforce Absence Management

Managing Employee Absences in an Uncertain World

As Work Changes, Here’s How Absence Management Is Changing as Well

How to Craft Back-to-Work Policies in Today’s Workplace

Workforce Absence Management FAQs

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