Absence Management
Also known as: leave management, attendance management
Absence management is the process and tooling used to track, approve, and analyse all employee time away from work — planned and unplanned.
Absence management is the end-to-end process of recording and handling every kind of employee absence — annual leave, sick leave, parental leave, and unplanned time off. It covers requesting and approving leave, maintaining accurate balances, applying policy, and reporting on patterns.
Good absence management keeps teams adequately staffed, ensures fair and compliant treatment, and surfaces issues like rising sickness early. It's typically delivered through dedicated leave-management software rather than spreadsheets once a team grows.
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