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Absence management software from Sage

Leave management systems can help you keep accurate records and empower employees to self-manage their time off requests and attendance.

Why use absence management software?

Leave management software helps to streamline the tracking and management of employee absences, reducing the potential for errors and disputes. It helps ensure compliance with legal and company-specific leave policies, and cuts down admin time, allowing a more focused and efficient approach to workforce management.

Track and report attendance and leave online

Access our cloud-based leave and absence management system from any location and on any device. With attendance and vacation tracking features, your team can update records on the go. 

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Identify and troubleshoot absences

Identify and troubleshoot absences with the right absence management software in place, you can spot challenges with attendance to help identify colleagues or teams that need more support or resources.

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Pay accurately and on time

Attendance tracker and leave management systems ensure that everyone gets paid accurately for hours worked. Boost morale, increase productivity, and make payments run smoothly.

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Manage absences anytime, anywhere

Our mobile apps allow employees to request and approve absences and leave on the go. This ensures faster processing, reduces delays, and makes it ideal for remote workers, field employees, and on-site staff. For HR managers and payroll professionals, it streamlines absence tracking, improves accuracy, and enhances workforce management without being tied to a desk.

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Absence management software features

Our absence, leave, and attendance tracking software tools include a range of features that can help you manage your team more effectively.

Real-time reporting

Get real-time leave insights with tracking software for accurate attendance data.

Shared leave calendar

Leave software with shared calendars ensures transparency and fairness in vacation requests.

Employee self-service

Intuitive, easy-to-use self-serve solutions make for a better employee experience. Give your staff more flexibility and autonomy.

Vacation and time off approval from anywhere

Easily manage absence requests and approvals with leave software - at your desk or on the go.

Our absence management software solutions

Discover the best attendance tracking and leave management tool for your business.

Sage HR

Solve your HR challenges. Onboard your employees, automate your HR processes and get meaningful insights.

  • Achieve full visibility of your remote workforce, with an online employee database that’s your single source of truth.
  • Give your employees instant and remote self-service access to everything they need, like company policies, updates, absence to time-off requests, schedules, and more.
  • Enable your people to request time off, check vacation balance and see who’s away, any time, anywhere.
  • Share goals and priorities to unite team efforts while you can’t be in the office. Align with your company vision, and keep track of progress.
  • Easily handle receipts without unnecessary trips to the office. Employees submit expenses simply by photographing the receipt directly from the mobile app.
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Sage People

Great people make a great business. Unlock the potential of human resources to bring out the best in your talent.

  • All your people information in a single, secure system of record, with access on any browser or device
  • Get accurate and reliable analytics for smarter people decisions
  • Hire the best people, faster, with paperless onboarding
  • Empower your people to manage their own HR tasks
  • Engage your workforce via a tailored and branded self-service portal
  • Benefit from unparalleled reliability and security, while meeting global and local compliance requirements

Real customers, real reviews

"For our multi-year trials, we watch absence trends closely. “Sage People helps us factor in inevitable life events that happen, so we can budget realistic time-off percentages and ensure we have enough capacity to manage everything.”

Christine Pangilinan
Director of HR, TRIO

"They can now update all this information directly themselves, and they can also see if their colleague is on vacation or not using the shared calendar. It is so easy to request time off or to request to work from home using Sage HR"

Laura Di Prisco
Global Culture & People Lead

Absence and leave management system FAQs

Cloud-based attendance tracking and leave management software are online solutions that help businesses monitor staff absence and working patterns. A good attendance and absence management software tool can also offer managers an easy and effective way to review and approve vacation requests online, giving the whole team an instant overview of who's off at any given time.

When it comes to cutting down on sick leave, it’s important to understand the reasons behind above-average absenteeism. While most people take time off for legitimate health reasons, it’s also important to rule out the possibility of sick leave abuse or time theft. Attendance and absence management software can eliminate the guesswork from this process, as it helps managers track sickness absence and find any worrying patterns. 

For employees suffering with different medical ailments, some ways a business can help to reduce sick leave include:

  • Creating a culture that encourages a healthy work-life balance.
  • Having a clear policy for absences.
  • Implementing wellness programs: these support employees’ well-being with things like voluntary health assessments, occupational health facilities and opportunities for flexible work.

As for annual leave, it’s important to encourage employees to spread out their holidays across the year rather than saving them up. Taking regular breaks from work will keep their well-being and motivation levels high throughout the year. You should also be mindful of how many people are taking annual leave at the same time to support business continuity.
 
Turning down vacation requests can be badly received, so it’s helpful to have a clear practice in place for accepting requests, such as "first come, first served." Effective leave management software can help keep with transparency in relation to vacation requests and approvals.

With Sage, what you pay will depend on which attendance tracking and leave management software solution you opt for, as well as your number of employees and specific business needs.

Sage HR is a comprehensive option for small and medium businesses, for work on site or on the go, with pricing starting at $6 per active employee. It comes with smart absence and attendance tracking features, as well as expense management, time management, scheduling, onboarding and more.

Sage People is ideal for mid-sized, global or multi-locational organizations. It enables organizations to transform the way that they attract, manage, engage, and retain people, wherever they are. Sage People is highly flexible and pricing is dependent on the number of employees, functionality, configuration and other factors. To discuss pricing options, please fill in our demo form and we'll be in touch by phone within 24 hours.

You can use our solution finder to figure out which product will be the best fit for you, or explore our support hub for answers to questions around our software and services. 

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