Leave Management: A Guide To Plan Your Leave Effectively
Christmas holiday is almost upon us and just like every other common holiday, it is an exciting and joy-filled time to celebrate with loved ones. The International Labour Organisation states that every worker has a right to take time off from work. Sometimes this fun holiday seems to be overwhelming and dreadful, especially in cases […]
Annual Leave Management: Move Past ‘Good Enough’
For many HR professionals, annual leave management is a frustratingly big part of their job. In an already hectic workload, the need to track employees’ time off, respond to leave requests, manage minimum staffing levels, set and enforce annual leave policies, and work out pro-rata entitlements for new starters can develop into a real-time sink. […]
When are your busy periods?
Many companies have a seasonal business model where they get extremely busy during specific periods throughout the year but are generally quiet at other periods. It is sometimes necessary for those companies to restrict the number of employees that can be off at any one time during those periods and thankfully LeaveWizard can support this […]
A new look for your leave management tool
We have some exciting news! We have been working with an expert user experience designer over the last couple of months to help us improve the look and feel of our application. While the work continues, we are now ready to release our fist “new look” version. The majority of changes in this first release […]
How to deal with an “oh crap!” situation with you SaaS product
We recently moved our service to a new architecture which allows us to deploy changes several times per day with zero downtime as well as improving our service availability, scalability and performance. In two words – No brainer. As part of the move however we did encounter an incident that presented us with a huge […]
5 TED talks every HR must watch
In any business context, regardless of the products or services you offer, one rule applies across the board: people matter. When it comes to business success, your employees are your single most important resource – and one of the costliest, as well. Sometimes HR experts forget that they should not only find the most talented […]