Sickness and Absence

Sick leave can place a huge cost burden on organisations with a large workforce. It leads to lower productivity levels, increased overtime costs and reduced morale. With Peoplesmart’s Sickness and Absence Module, your organisation can better manage your records to improve visibility and get better diagnosis with powerful MI generation. You will be able to improve the productivity of your organisation not just report on it, whilst also reducing the cost of administration.

The tool automates all your routine HR tasks and allows you to manage your daily workload electronically, such as authorising and editing sickness and absence reporting forms, creating standard letters and distributing forms across the company. It also creates prompts when the next required action is due. For example; the completion of an accident report or return to work interviews.

Using Peoplesmart’s Sickness and Absence module enables organisations to:

• Replicate existing sickness/absence reporting forms electronically
• Deploy these forms at a local level, ie supervisor or manager, for completion when an employee is sick or absent
• Make the forms easier to complete, with the automatic pre-population of data and intuitive ‘drop downs’.
• Ensure that the forms are completed to the correct standard with the correct employee, manager and HR authorisations
• Prompt staff to carry out the next actions, for example completion of ‘return to work’ interviews
• Attach key documents to each record. This enables doctor’s notes, etc to be stored in their original formats for future review
• Have a ‘real time’ view throughout the company, eg senior managers can view sickness and absence levels in their own reporting line
• Provide high quality ‘real time’ management information, eg absence levels by function/department, absence costs, reasons for absence, etc

As this issue continues to move up the HR agenda, Peoplesmart’s sickness and absence module enables organisations to ‘get to grips’ with this problem by actually managing, not just reporting on it.


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