Annual Leave Management Software

You might be expecting a professional scripted presentation at this point. Enterprise-grade software does demand such a thing usually, but I prefer to replace the polish with some passion when giving a real-world example. I believe it demands a real movie.

So on screen, we will go through the data from a real Alpaka client, how it relates to absence in the way that they measure and record and present absence information. And at all times, the names that you see here will be anonymized. These are fake names, as you can probably tell already if you take a close look at some of the nonsense in there.

So Alpaka is a utility for measuring time, and it's non-prescriptive, which means you can configure the types of time, and therefore types of absence, that you wish to record and report on and make use of in your views and charts. Now, being non-prescriptive, it means you can build something that better reflects your company policies or the way your HR department runs, or the expectations that your team already have of how this already works in your workplace. So when you move to a product like Alpaka, the road is less bumpy, and everything still seems familiar to them as we move along.

On screen, we can see we have the wider team ordered by seniority down and a date range of December 20 to September 21. Now, I want to filter down to only look at the kinds of time that we understand to be absence. So we've got sickness absence, lateness - I want to take a look at that. I'm also keen to see how self-isolation has been used by this team.

So we're ordered by seniority here, and as you can see, amongst my managers, we don't have what looks like a lot of white space, means we don't have an absence problem amongst our senior managers. I can see one there that I'm interested in - Bonnie had an example of lateness, 10:15. We'll see more about Bonnie later. And here we've got Robin has only one day of isolation at the weekend as well. And Manuel has got a four-day period of isolation there. So it's clear my managers or my upper management structure don't have a problem with absence.

So let's take a look at Site C and see if that's any different. Yeah, more to see here. So my team at Site C, we've got someone here, Avery, with a long-term sickness absence. There's Bonnie with her lateness - she works at Site C. And we've got a little bit of self-isolation, but actually, because of the color scheme, I can see self-isolation isn't prolific amongst this site, and therefore, they must have been following the guidance about staying distanced from each other because it hasn't gone through this site like you might expect.