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Counting The Cost Of Relocation: With the rise of offshore outsourcing and an increasing number of American companies looking to relocate staff members to new offices and facilities across the globe, getting a handle on the cost of living in overseas locations is imperative. Delivering benefits such as paid time off that help strengthen employee...; Tags: Workforce management, absence, Human Resources, offshore outsourcing, workforce, analysis, benefit; White papers 2007-12-01
Flextime is Good for Employees' Health, Too: The Find: Flextime has been shown to improve productivity and aid retention; now researchers have found it improves health and reduces absenteeism as well. The Source: Recent research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine published in the Psychologist-Manager Journal. ...; Tags: Vertical industries, Workforce management, Jessica Stillman, flex-time, health care, absence; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Absence Request Form: This template is for absence request form of an employee.; Tags: Workforce management, Microsoft Corp., absence; Tools & templates
Short Request For Leave Of Absence: This is a template of application of leave. User can modify it as per need.; Tags: Workforce management, absence; Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Paid Absences Progressive Policy: This Paid Absences Progressive policy explains the details of the Company's policy on employee illness as well as illness in the immediate family. It covers sick pay schedule, notification of illness, and unused sick leave.; Tags: Absence, Policy, Business & Legal Reports, Workforce Management, Human Resources; Tools & templates 2007-11-16

How to Combat Absenteeism Without Much Actual Effort: A while back, we cited research that suggests companies shouldÂ adopt a lessÂ rigid approach to handlingÂ absenteeismÂ since juggling work and life responsibilities can be challenging. General Motors agrees work/life balance programs are important -- for salaried employees, that is -- but thinks harsh measures are necessary to combat the industry-wide absenteeism issue...; Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Lori Deschene, General Motors Corp., absence; Blog posts 2007-11-12
How to Reduce Absenteeism: If you've been managing a team for a while you may start to be able to predict when you're employees will call in sick. So and so always gets the flu on Mondays, a number of folks always come down with something around the holidays, and that one guy down...; Tags: Workforce management, Jessica Stillman, CCH, absence, sick day; Blog posts 2007-10-12
Reducing and Managing Workplace Absenteeism: Reducing and Managing Workplace AbsenteeismA Simple but Effective Eye Opener for any HR Policy MakerIts a great eye opener for an individual who has got the responsibility of taking care of employee attendances and work flow management. In such a situation it becomes imperative for one to discuss and...; Tags: Regulations, Workforce management, Managing Workplace Absenteeism, Managing Workplace, absence; Discussion threads 2007-04-02
Understanding the Benefits of Job Sharing Programs: Working parents all over the world are benefiting from the increasingly popular option of job sharing, or “shared work” programs. It’s a straightforward arrangement: Two employees share the responsibility of one full-time position, with the salary, vacation and leave, pension rights, and fringe benefits divided between them, in proportion to...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, BNET Editorial, job, worker, absence, recruiting, benefit, career, agreement, advertisement; Articles 2007-07-16
Employers Should Work With Government to Reduce Impact of Sickness: Better access to rehabilitation and quicker treatment are the key to beating the massive sickness, illness and incapacity problems that are still holding back the British economy and adding to skills shortages, experts suggest. However, despite the negative impact of related-problems such as sickness absence employers are still failing to...; Tags: Absence, Reed Elsevier Inc., Workforce Management, Government, Human Resources; White papers 2006-04-18
Absence-Minded: The High Cost of Sick Days: It's no secret that employees call in sick when they feel fine, but just how often they fib might surprise you. A 2005 survey by CCH Inc., a Riverwoods, Ill.-based provider of information services, found that personal illness accounts for just 35 percent of unscheduled absences. That doesn't mean workers...; Tags: Workforce management, CFO Publishing Corp., absence, information service, worker, survey; White papers 2006-02-15
Banking Time: Paid-Time-Off Banks Make Managing Absences Easier: PTO banks - which combine vacation days, sick leave, personal days, and, in some cases, holidays, into one lump of time that employees can use for any reason - are gaining popularity with employers. Many CFOs favor PTO banks because they help trim the liability their companies are required to...; Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., bank, banking; White papers 2005-10-13
Absenteeism: The Bottom-line Killer: Absenteeism has a material effect on the bottom line of most companies, yet few managers really understand the magnitude of the problem and the considerable direct and indirect costs. The first step in reducing costs is to use an automated absence management solution to identify the absence rate and the...; Tags: Workforce management, absence, customer satisfaction, payroll, benefit; White papers 2005-08-10
The Impact of Employee Voice and Compliance Mechanisms on Absenteeism, Discipline, and Turnover: This paper examines the impact of employee voice and compliance mechanisms on voluntary turnover and other workplace behaviors. Results from analysis of a unique, nationally representative sample of establishments in the telecommunications industry show that voice mechanisms in the form of unions and problem-solving groups are associated with significantly reduced...; Tags: Workforce management, Cornell University, compliance, absence, turnover, workplace, monitoring, analysis, telecommunications; White papers 2005-08-01
Distributed Knowledge Management in the Absence of Shared Vocabularies: Distributed Knowledge Management Systems (DKMS) are often faced to heterogeneous environments associated with the absence of shared vocabularies. DKMSs realise Knowledge Flows between autonomous Knowledge Nodes as parts of social networks. Schwotzer models the KNs' individual policies for input relevance and output strategy as Knowledge Ports. Topic Map Technologies are...; Tags: Absence, Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Schwotzer, Maicher, Strategy, Workforce Management, Management, Human Resources; White papers 2005-06-29
Excuse My Absence â€“ But I have a Favor to Ask: Firstly, I want to apologize for the long delay in my postings. Things have been pretty busy over the last few weeks. We are working on a complete re-launch of the site and will be unveiling some very cool new features.One of the hardest things for me as a young...; Tags: business cycle, absence; Blog posts 2006-11-30
Absence Management: Over the last 10 years, sickness absence has worked its way up the Human Resource agenda. Changes to sick pay policy or methods of managing absence adopted by major employers are national news nowadays. This paper examines why this trend has developed and examines the response by business leaders in...; Tags: Workforce management, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, absence, best practice, Human Resources; White papers 2005-03-01
Adventures in Babysitting: It's every working parent's scheduling nightmare: a child-care arrangement evaporates during a busy workweek. On average, working mothers lose eight-and-a-half days per year, and fathers lose five days annually. The result is lower productivity, stalled projects, and higher turnover. The Child Care Action Campaign estimates that U.S. companies lose $3...; Tags: Workforce management, CFO Publishing Corp., absence, backup; White papers 2005-02-22
Healthy Approach to Absenteeism: Sweden is not in as good shape as its clean and shiny image might suggest. DeeDee Doke finds out what employers and the government are doing to cut the high cost of staff on sick leave. For the government, improving workers' health has become a national priority as well as...; Tags: Absence, Reed Elsevier Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; White papers 2004-09-28
A Guide to Managing Absence Costs: The rapidly rising cost of employee benefits is familiar and troubling news to employers. With most of the discussion focused on healthcare trends as the primary culprit, however, many employers fail to recognize how much of their total benefits cost pertains to absence-related programs - and how much ability they...; Tags: Workforce management, Benefits, Crain Communications Inc., absence, employee benefit, compensation, health care, worker, benefit; White papers 2004-08-17