Employee Request Leave

A traditional system of requesting annual leave often involves a number of steps. Firstly the employee must print the request form, or collect it, find out how much entitlement they have available, complete the form and transfer it to their manager for approval.

The manager then reviews the request by checking staffing/knowledge levels and activities planned for that period (e.g. sales events, marketing campaigns etc) and authorizes as appropriate. Complications arise when the manager has little time to review the situation properly or the manager is absent themselves. This often leads to poorly applied absence policies and reduced business effectiveness at the time of absence.

The completed form must then be taken to the person/department who records the approved request (sometimes the manager), which is most often a large spreadsheet or wall planner with coloured stickers. Both of these tend to be generally unavailable by most employees and difficult to read.

Office Control allows the employee and manager the opportunity to continue to be more productive for more of the time. Office Control makes the whole process of booking annual leave a two step process – keeping it simple and efficient. Office Control also enables the company the ability to seamlessly apply company absence policies that continually keep the business productive.

Headline Features

• Employee Requested absence and manager review system
• Consideration of non-work days, days already requested and bank holidays
• Multiple absence types e.g. Annual leave, Compassionate, Maternity, Study, jury
• Automatic control of annual leave entitlement
• Consistent application of Company absence policies for every request
• Detailed configurable absence calendar
• Absence summary report