absence management news

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!

Sept 2010 (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)