With 3 more bank holidays to enjoy this month, we hope our holiday and absence planners are making life that bit easier and helping keep your teams in the loop.

While time tracking is an essential part of daily admin, it’s just one of many HR tasks to keep on top of. We could all do with a little extra time each day, so having your HR data across one single platform like WorkSmarter makes managing your workflows far easier.

Don’t forget you can sync your WS calendars with Apple, Google Calendar, Windows and more, so you can access them on any device for the ultimate speed and convenience.

Staff absence can be one of the most challenging aspects of running a business. According to the Office for National Statistics, an estimated 149.3 million working days were lost because of sickness or injury in the UK in 2021, equivalent to 4.6 days per worker.

It can be inconvenient and costly when too many people are away at any one time, impacting your business and placing more pressure on remaining staff. Having accurate absence data to hand provides clarity on any issues, giving you the tools to identify trends and support your employees better.

We appreciate that understanding employee absence is crucial to maintaining a healthy workplace culture. When it comes to data, no company should be behind the curve.

WorkSmarter’s absence management software provides insight into your unique data:

👉 Our enhanced reporting feature creates custom reports and graphs that allow you to report and identify absence trends, so you can spot patterns and offer support where needed.

👉 And our new HR Insights provides pre-built, easy-to-use graphs, saving time and helping you scrutinise and understand your data quicker.

We’ve got the experience and expertise to help you leverage and take advantage of your invaluable absence data. Take a look at our blog to find out more or talk to one of our friendly team in person.

We’ve had a fantastic response to the launch of our new electronic signing service, and we really appreciate all your positive feedback.

Now rolled out for use across your whole organisation, digital signing offers multiple benefits for your business and endless possibilities to fit with your way of working.

WorkSmarter’s system is designed to streamline and intuitively connect all your HR services. Let’s take your Return to Work interviews, for example, which are one of the ways organisations manage absence and promote attendance.

A well-planned interview allows you to fully assess the absence and help reduce further days off. The aim of the meeting is to help ease the employee back into work, understand the absence in more detail, help them feel confident and supported and see if any adjustments are needed.

WorkSmarter can take the pressure off and help with this by providing the resources you need. Our online Return to Work interview form helps you plan your chat, with a comprehensive list of suggested questions and discussion areas. Once the interview is at an end, you can quickly download and edit the file as needed then send it for digital signing. Simple and seamless!

Sustainable, secure and compliant, WorkSmarter’s digital HR files let you store your employees’ valuable data in one central place, so nothing is missed.

A ‘must-have’ feature, files are easy to locate and only accessible to those authorised. Each employee has their own folder for effortless organisation and can view and update their own information when they need to.

With unlimited cloud storage, creating a safe environment for your files doesn’t just protect you against critical loss but allows you to efficiently manage the storage, oversight and protection of many thousands of documents and all the files you could ever need

🗓️ Bank Holiday Planning - With May now upon us, why not sync your WorkSmarter holiday calendar, so you can view it from any device for ease and convenience.

👩‍💼 New Employees - Taking on a new member of staff? We can prepare and send their paperwork for you, then send digitally signed copies to their HR files.

📂 Return To Work Interviews - If you’re conducting a RTW interview after an absence, you can upload any relevant documents to accompany the absence. We’ll automatically save them to the Absences folder in the employee’s HR Files.

📊 HR Insights - HR Insights have just arrived to WorkSmarter and we’ll be launching new dashboards, charts and graphs over the coming weeks. If you have any suggestions, as always we’d love to hear from you.