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Is It to Use Online Staff Holiday Planner?

It is simple! We could probably sum this article up in that many words. However, we are positive that you are looking for a little bit more than this, so we are going to go into depth on why it is so simple.

What is an online staff holiday planner?

The purpose of an online staff holiday planner is, as the name suggests, to record holidays for your staff online. When you go down this route, you will be ditching the old methods that you were using. When you go down this route, anybody that has access to a computer will be able to access the online staff holiday planner. It is going to make your life easier. The holidays will be stored in ‘the cloud’, which is really just a fancy name for the holiday information being stored online.

Ditch Traditional Methods

There are so many companies out there who are currently using a paper based system to record their staff leave. We are not just talking about the smaller companies here either. We are talking about some very large companies. If you are using a paper based system, you will be ‘enjoying’ the following negatives:

Paper based systems are tough to keep track of. Remember; they can only exist in one location at a time. If you do not know where it is, or you only have one person who looks out for the paper based system and you can’t get hold of them, you are going to find that planning staff leave becomes a lot more difficult.

It can be harder to log changes in the paper based system. Mistakes do get made, and they can be tough to spot until the last minute. This means that people may lose out on their holiday or, worse yet, you may end up not being able to plan staff cover properly.

You will not be able to see ‘at a glance’ important information such as when a person has had time away from work, or when you are going to need to call in additional cover.

With an Online Staff Holiday Planner, Planning Becomes Simple

This is one of the major benefits of an online staff holiday planner. If you go down this route, then planning staff leave becomes as easy as pie. Of course, in most cases, you are going to need to call in somebody to cover staff absence. When you have an online staff holiday planner, you will be able to see exactly when people are going to be away from work. This means that you will be able to know when people will not be able to take leave, or when you need a bit of extra cover.

Things can be checked easily

People will always have access to the online staff leave planner. This means that they will easily be able to check whether they have been ‘booked in’ for their staff leave properly.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Anna Johnson .