At the height of the Pokémon Go craze last summer, Dave Schilling wrote in the Guardian that “there are some haters out there who claim Pokémon Go is poised to ruin our already tenuous society… Pokémon Go is the first mass entertainment in years to require a person to leave the house to play it.

  Honeydew Health Ltd is the company behind Engage software and we are on the lookout for a new star employee to join our team. If you think you fit the bill or know someone who does, please get in touch! Job title: Customer Success Manager

Ealing and Hammersmith West London College is a busy further education college. In a bold move in their sector the college decided to proactively  tackle a culture of high absence in September 2015. They’ve achieved more than £150,000 in annual savings through absence reduction.

Vertas is the fastest growing multi-service facilities management company in UK’s eastern region. They have been using Honeydew’s system since November 2014. By tackling absence proactively, they achieved more than £217,000 quarterly savings.

Absence is one of many factors eating away at our productivity at work. Honeydew’s mission is ultimately to help organisations improve productivity – through better attendance, healthier workforce and more engaged employees. That’s why the Stoddard Review’s paper on physical workplaces as a factor in the productivity equation was such an interesting read.

Our favourite Christmas present this year was The Ladybird Book of the Sickie. Here are some stories about sickies to inspire you in 2017:   Laurence and Ben are enjoying a bout of imaginary food poisoning. Food poisoning is always good because it is over quickly and nobody likes to hear stories about toilets.

We have interviewed two client contacts for their experience with Honeydew Health Day-1 absence reporting service and Engage absence management software. We’re really pleased that both customers rate our service 10 out of 10! Here’s a short intro to our interviewees and what else they had to say.

This one is a biggie for user experience. It has been in the plans for a little while and we are really excited to announce that our new fantastic data upload tool is finally ready and live!

Greetings from Lisbon! I’m writing this blog from Web Summit 2016 among 50,000 other delegates. The mammoth conference is enough to overwhelm most and you’ll certainly learn the art of queueing.