absence management news

e-days - Taking off in the travel sector

With more than 65,000 users around the world, it’s little wonder e-days has proved popular in the travel industry.

Apr 2013 (News Story)

User Dashboard Release

It was top secret – now it’s being released to the tens of thousands of users of e-days. The User Dashboard is finally here!

Mar 2013 (News Story)

New Milestone: 60,000 Users

This month saw e-days reaching an exciting new milestone.

Feb 2013 (News Story)

Multi-language release: German

e-days has been available in French for a number of years. Now, e-days is available in another language - German.

Dec 2012 (News Story)

e-days: Now in Every Continent

We’re proud to say that e-days has become a truly global product. With a recent system expansion into the Brazilian office of one of our existing clients, e-days is now used in every continent around the world.

Nov 2012 (News Story)

Reports Dashboard release

Say hello to another cool development in the e-days system - the Reports Dashboard. This useful overview is designed to generate quick facts and statistics from the data in your e-days system. Pie charts, bar graphs and line graphs allow vital data to be viewed at a glance.

Sept 2012 (News Story)

New Look, Feel & Functionality: The Overtime and TOIL System

Say hello to yet another development within e-days: the redeveloped overtime & TOIL system.

At e-days, we’re always looking to improve the experience for our tens of thousands of users. That’s why we’re constantly developing new and redeveloping features, like the Administrator Dashboard and the Manager Dashboard.

Jul 2012 (News Story)

e-days is recruiting...Again!

It really is an exciting time at e-days & with new systems being set up daily, the business is growing rapidly. The role of Sales Executive is a challenging but rewarding role, playing a key part in the success of e-days.

May 2012 (News Story)

Release of new Administrator Dashboard

Soon after the recent launch of the 'Manager Dashboard', e-days is pleased to announce yet another launch – the 'Administrator Dashboard'.

May 2012 (News Story)

e-days Manager Dashboard released

e-days is proud to announce the launch of its Manager Dashboard to all clients. This dashboard is available to all managers using the system & offers an all new calendar view and action list.

Mar 2012 (News Story)

e-days server gets an upgrade

e-days constantly strives to improve in order to maintain our reputation as a recognised market leader in absence management software. That’s why we have recently set up a new dedicated server for e-days with the latest version of database software.

Feb 2012 (News Story)

e-days integrates with Outlook... Even better!

e-days aims to offer a completely seamless user experience for our clients. Improving the e-days - Outlook integration was thus next on the agenda.

Feb 2012 (News Story)

e-days becomes bullet-proof

e-days is committed to keeping its client data 110% safe. e-days system programmers already write code adhering to OWASP guidelines.

As part of our ever-improving ‘Information Security Policy’, we have introduced regular ethical hacking cycles to e-days systems.

Jan 2012 (News Story)

Congrats to Matt on the arrival of his baby

Our latest addition to the e-days team, Matt Scrimshire, has recently had an exciting arrival: a baby boy!

It’s been a tense wait… But on the evening of 28th October – only a few days after due date – little Caleb arrived.

Nov 2011 (News Story)

e-days is recruiting!

e-days is experiencing rapid growth due to popular demand for the staff absence management system.

The secure, online system is now being used in over 65 countries worldwide with more than 35,000 individual system users.

Oct 2011 (News Story)

e-days goes down under

e-days has just attracted its first customer from the other side of the world… Australia!

After developing the Australian version of the e-days site, we appointed an agent from BPRS – an Australian agency - to encourage the Ozzy’s to use e-days as their premium holiday and absence management system.

Oct 2011 (News Story)

e-days v4 set to be released

Testing is complete. e-days v4 is ready to be rolled out to the masses!

e-days v4 has been used by a few of our larger clients for the past 6 months. It is soon to be available to all e-days v3 clients.

Improved rotas, management reporting, bulk booking tools and improved hours users functionality… Just to name a few of the numerous improvements!

The process of moving clients from v3 to v4 will begin in October. We hope to have our clients benefiting from e-days v4 by the end of November!

Sep 2011 (News Story)

e-days is now multi-language!

e-days is being used all over the world satisfying the needs of hundreds of companies with varying staff absence policies and different staff absence legislation. It is the flexibility of the e-days system that has made global expansion possible.

Sep 2011 (News Story)

The e-days team welcomes a new recruit!

e-days has been steadily growing since it was first founded by Senior Internet some years ago. The popularity of the product has now prompted a need for a new member of the team.

Sep 2011 (News Story)

e-days at the University of Lincoln

Through the introduction of a new Managing Sickness Absence Policy the University of Lincoln identified the need to support the organisation with the technology that could record accurately, in a timely manner, as well as providing accurate and detailed management information to inform the University Wellbeing programme.

The project represented a significant undertaking for the University and required coherent project management by their HR team, led by Sharron Croft.

Jan 2011 (News Story)

e-days to exhibit at CIPD Annual Conference & Exhibition

For the first time, e-days will be exhibiting at the CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition (ACE) from 9-11th November 2010.

The CIPD annual event is the leading HR exhibition in the UK, with 65 conferences being run over a 3 day period and more than 150 exhibitors attending. Each year, the conference brings together a huge audience of ambitious HR professionals and decision makers who are eager to learn about new concepts, new processes and new products which may help improve their internal operations.

Sept 2010 (News Story)

e-days appoints new Business Development Manager

e-days is pleased to announce the appointment of Adam Warren as Business Development Manager.

“The client base for our staff holiday planning and sickness management software e-days has grown at a phenomenal pace” comments Pete Senior, Managing Director of e-days parent company Senior Internet, “and it became necessary to recruit a focussed individual to cope with the high level corporate solutions we are now delivering”

Aug 2010 (News Story)

Interim HR professionals turn to web-based holiday planner and absence management solutions to deliver projects

Currently organisations are increasingly turning to interim staff to implement projects and programmes. Interim staff do not necessarily require the ‘bedding-in’ period that permanent staff require, and as such they can hit the ground running, producing the required results more quickly.

Within the world of HR transformation, interim HR consultants are required, now more than ever, to provide a solid return on investment on the projects they are delivering. When the project falls into the area of absence management, web-based, self-service portals provide great value for money.

Mar 2009 (Press Release)

Staff absence management – is it all under control?

There is no doubt about it – if we thought 2008 was rocky, hold on for 2009. Sit tight, batten down the hatches, weather the storm. Increasingly this is the mentality being demonstrated by a wide-range of business, regardless of size or sector. However, some of the more progressive, dare I say it, courageous firms are using the current situation as a means of gaining a competitive advantage over competitors for the future. In the long- term, we will be able to see those firms who have taken those bold decisions at this stage, investing in the future.

Jan 2009 (Press Release)

The recurrent problem of staff holiday planning at Christmas

We all experience the lead up to Christmas in the office with Secret Santa, Christmas parties and formidable hangovers. However there are associated problems effecting business operations - most notably high levels of staff absences due to ineffective holiday planning, as staff clamber to take holiday time owed to them by the end of the year.

December 2008 (Press Release)