Absence Management as a business practice is being recognized more and more as both a valuable employee-facing program and a cost-reducing management initiative. Exciting advances in Absence Management software applications allow for the spotting of employee absence trends, management of compliance risk and leave administration. It’s a growing field that bears monitoring.
This site, The Absence Management Resource Center, is a growing collection of notes, observations and references for the field of absence management. It was a repository of information initially used in support of an Absence Management application being developed, but now has grown beyond that.
Browse the posts on this blog to read about topics such as:
- Absence Management Software
- Benefit and Leave Administration
- Human Capital Management
- Workday Scheduling
- FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) Administration
- Disability Claims
- Absence Tracking
- Claims Management
Update:
I’ve been doing research on how to use Microsoft Excel to create various forms needed by the Human Resources department for absence management related purposes. We are currently working on a holiday time off request form as illustrated in this video about an excel spreadsheet designed for this purpose:
Here is the actual excel form if you wish to download it and try it out for yourself.
Download Holiday Request Form:
Click here to download the excel workbook. The file is protected with a blank password. Unlock it to inspect the formulas and formatting rules.