No to punching the clock, yes to measuring: how to register productivity? Output-driven work: that is the upcoming trend on the market. Employees are getting scrutinized more and more concerning their work rate. However, if your employees are allowed to plan their own time and place of work, how will you keep track of issues [...]
HR and business at odds? “We need to relocate; what is the best place to establish ourselves at?” This question may just come your way if you work in HR. As HR manager, it is then up to you to look for places where you can find well-educated personnel, which differs per line of business. [...]
Rising flexibility in leave: eating up HR’s time The developments in the field of leave are rapidly succeeding one another. Due to these changes, leave becomes increasingly flexible and as a result, much more time consuming for HR. How will you still get your primary HR work done? Leave in all shapes and sizes Different [...]
Effectively taking a vacation: how? Working hard without leave to show that you are indispensable? Taking no leave days, so that your superiors see how much you care about the business? Don’t! It has a negative effect on your productivity. The chance of getting a promotion or a raise, as it turns out, is higher when [...]
Taking a vacation: a difficult decision? A well-deserved vacation is a wonderful prospect. Yet, taking leave days isn’t as self-evident as it used to be. Among employees, more than half finds it difficult to take leave. A sense of responsibility and guilt rears its head when they consider taking time off. Should they just forget [...]
How about we just get rid of vacation days? The summer months present a challenge for most companies. How can you possibly keep productivity levels high when your employees all just want to enjoy their vacations? If you want to keep your organisation running, you will have to disappoint some people, which is obviously [...]
Welcome innovation: discard your ancient methods! Changing up the current way of working: it’s easier said than done. If you’re currently working with leave notes, Excel sheets, and verbal arrangements, it may seem like a challenge to implement a new leave registration system. People tend to stick to old habits, and introducing innovations could lead to [...]
Are senior days still relevant? People over fifty have a hard time finding work. The unemployment rate among this group is therefore relatively high. Employers often opt for younger employees, because they are cheaper in terms of wages, but also because some contracts contain senior days – extra leave days based on the age of [...]
Donating leave days: offering colleagues a helping hand Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Lodewijk Asscher, has announced that the government is going to do a trial run of a new concept: sharing leave days. For those who have been interested in giving away leave days will now get the chance to experiment with this idea. Of [...]
Excel files and leave requests on paper are so out of date! Are you still registering your leave in Excel? It’s like you’re still living in the previous century! If you’re still working with paper leave requests, you better book a one-way ticket to 1990. Your Excel files can’t be anything but confusing and equally [...]
