If you subscribe to Honeydew’s Day-1 absence reporting service, Engage can send SMS reminders to absentees whose expected return date was today. These reminders are sent if the absence record has accidentally been left open. Now we’ve also added a further feature to the SMS reminders that will remind tomorrow’s returning employees to confirm their return. The message goes out the day before the planned return. If you are coming back to work as planned, you can simply reply with the word CLOSE to confirm their return. If you are still absent, you’re asked to call the absence line to update their record. Continue reading
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Automate your absence policy
Many HR teams spend a lot of time putting together a comprehensive absence policy. Sadly, their efforts are watered-down if managers don’t know or understand the policy, or if they forget to check what absences meet the trigger criteria. However, some absence triggers are so complex that you definitely need a computer to check who trips them. Working with spreadsheets is the worst enemy of a sophisticated absence management process. Never fear, Engage is here to help and automate your absence policy.
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Honeydew Engage moves to a load-balanced dual server setup
We take Data Security seriously and we use the latest technology to ensure availability of our services. A penetration test was conducted in March 2018 to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to keep our customers’ data safe. Continue reading
Will Pokémon Go pave way to new health apps?
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. Continue reading
Finding relevance at Web Summit 2016
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. Continue reading
New interactive absence dashboard
Engage absence management portal has a new interactive dashboard. The absence dashboard continues to give you a snapshot of absence over the last 30 days, as before, but now you’ll have access to a whole lot more information at a glance. Here we introduce the new charts and interactions. Continue reading
HR Software Show 2015 – Where will tech take us?
HR Software Show 2015 is taking place soon on 17-18 June in London. The exhibition showcases newcomers as well as household names in HR tech. If you are on the market for upgrading your systems, the event gives you a great chance to browse your options. It’s also a great place to see what is new in the HR Software sphere and what new features have been brought out. Continue reading
The Future of Health Technology – Health Tech & You Awards
What does the future of health technology look like? AXA PPP’s Health Tech & You competition by the Design Museum has invited innovators to submit their products or early stage prototypes in six categories. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the entries were smartphone apps or devices. Your smartphone is on the road to becoming the hub not only for communication but also for monitoring your bodily functions and helping you stay healthy. Here is a list of the category highlights: Continue reading
Watch a demo video of Engage
Are you thinking: “This all sounds great, but what does the software actually look like?” This short demo video of Engage gives you a flavour of what our absence and holiday management software can do. Continue reading
HR Software Show 2014
Today, 19 June 2014, the HR Software Show opens at Kensington Olympia in London. At the show, running today and tomorrow, Absencehub.com will be showcasing Engage, our class leading absence and holiday management Software as a Service (SaaS). Continue reading