Using LeaveMaster, you can book and approve time off and keep track of who’s in and who’s out of the office, quickly, easily and efficiently. It gives everyone in your company access to a fast and fuss-free online system.
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As discussed in previous blogs this week, the Bradford Factor is a powerful tool for tackling absenteeism as it enables you to identify employees whose “little and often” absences are damaging your business and deters staff from taking unwarranted sick days.
But why should you get a leave management solution such as LeaveMaster to automatically-calculate the formula for you? Why not calculate it manually?
Calculating the ongoing Bradford Factor score for every employee in your organisation, either manually or using a spreadsheet, would be time-consuming, complicated and highly labour-intensive, with each employee’s score having to be re-calculated every time they called in sick.
To be effective as a deterrent and for the Bradford Factor statistics to be used in disciplinary hearings, the process for calculating the formula would also have to be fool-proof and the data indisputable. But if you were to mistakenly put the wrong number of episodes of absence into the equation, the exponential nature of the formula would mean that an employee’s Bradford Factor score could be doubled or even tripled, resulting in unwarranted disciplinary action against the employee and a loss in confidence in the system.
To find out more about how LeaveMaster frees you from this potential for error, 
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As employees plan the leave they wish to take this year and begin to put in holiday requests, making sure that personnel who perform the same, or similar, business-critical functions spread out their leave and do not book holidays at the same time will be imperative.
An invaluable feature of LeaveMaster is that it allows you to see at a glance who in your company has booked leave, or will be otherwise absent, and when, so you can make informed decisions before authorising staff leave and avoid leaving business-critical functions under-staffed.
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With the freezing weather finally abating, employees’ thoughts are no doubt turning to planning and booking their summer holidays, and line managers and HR departments could soon find themselves hit by a deluge of holiday applications.
Implement an automated, web-based system for recording and monitoring leave, such as LeaveMaster, in your organisation, and you can substantially reduce the amount of time that staff, managers and HR professionals in your company spend on holiday administration in 2010 and prevent a pile of unprocessed holiday applications from building up.
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According to an 
article in HR Magazine, over two million British employees took a sick day following their office Christmas party in December 2008, at a cost to the UK economy of £216 million.
A third of the employees who called in sick were honest about the reason for their absence, while almost a quarter claimed they couldn’t come in because they were suffering from flu, with food poisoning and migraines amongst other popular excuses.
By creating a permanent, online record of sick leave for all members of staff, including their ongoing Bradford Factor score, LeaveMaster acts as a powerful deterrent against unwarranted absenteeism.
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