Cloud services are “quicker, cheaper and more competitive”, according to Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude, with some tech companies estimating that they can be 25% to 60% cheaper than traditional long-term IT contracts.

This morning’s news announced that tech start-up Just Eat achieved 58% rise in revenues in the last 6 months.

A phased return to work is a plan laid out for individual staff members who are returning to work after a period of long term absence (over 20 days or 4 calendar weeks).

Staying in regular contact with absentees can be tricky at best of times but it’s risky to overlook long term absence.

The return to work interview has been proven to be the single most effective tool for managing short-term absence. 

We’ve made Engage a little bit more amazing again by enabling advanced settings editing for end users.

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.

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).

When building Engage, we took a leaf out of consumer product developers’ book and focused heavily on user experience. User experience is a term you can’t miss in the tech world these days. TechCrunch defines it as ‘how “sticky” an app is: how easy it is to use, how engaging it is, how relevant it is […]

At this time of year when it is cold and wet outside staying home becomes more and more attractive and employees are more likely to rack up the duvet days. Dealing with short term absences in the winter months