New affordable Absence management solution from PlanMill smoothens HR workflow

As an expansion to its growing web-based business application suite, PlanMill delivers PlanMill Absence – now available as a robust standalone product, which can also be deployed as an optional module to existing PlanMill users. This innovative software solves issues of absence management, improves workflow, and reduces operational costs of organisations.

Request, accept, schedule, calculate, and get statistics for absences -- all in one place! When complex corporate HR systems get clogged with payroll issues related to employee absences, PlanMill offers a unique and easy-to-use product for small to mid-sized companies and as a low-cost, easily-deployed solution for a large group of corporate users. PlanMill Absence enables efficient management of vacations and leaves, eliminates expensive needless paperwork, and dramatically reduces the extra costs of human resources management from the company's perspective. “The potential to change a company’s entire HR culture is great,” Thomas Hood, PlanMill's CEO reveals, “it's possibilities in workplace management have been hailed already prior to its release.” PlanMill Absence's basic function is to manage the workflow for requesting and accepting absences. Additionally, it will perform the annual holiday calculation based on the absence entries in the system and offers possibilities to import and export data within demanding HR database. Keep track of staff vacations and save corporate costs PlanMill Absence does away with tedious but common workplace hassles by: • Projecting and planning for future absences (generate work schedules and time reports automatically) • Automating the request and acceptance of absences • Calculating the amount of time lost to absence in organisations • Importing and exporting data with HR systems • Enabling annual holiday calculation (Finnish annual holiday law implemented by default) • Reducing absence and absenteeism. PlanMill Absence can be readily deployed for new users or as part of PlanMill release 12.0, complementing other new modules with enhanced features and major usability improvements, such as E-Invoice, Import, Timer & Open API. All modules are integrated into PlanMill's ‘software as a service' (SaaS) CRM Project, PSA, and ERP products and deployed either as cloud-based or on-premise, according to customer requirements. For more information: Thomas Hood, CEO, PlanMill Ltd., Tel. +358 (0)40 558 5138, E-mail: thomas.hood@planmill.com