Employee Management

Project Time Tracking: How to Track Project Hours Easily

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“What are the 35 hours on the invoice actually based on?” A question every service provider knows. If all you have is a rough estimate, you’ll spend a long time searching and explaining. If you’ve tracked the hours properly and assigned them to the project, you can back up the effort immediately. That’s exactly what

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HR Software for Agencies and Consultancies: Time, Leave and Expenses

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It’s the end of the month, the client invoice has to go out, and the hours are scattered all over the place again: some were entered in Excel, others jotted down on slips of paper, and the rest are in your team’s heads. Before the invoice can be created and sent, someone has to ask

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absence.io vs. Personio: features and pricing compared

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In short: absence.io is particularly well suited for companies with 1–100 employees that want to cover leave management, time tracking, personnel files and expense management simply and at transparent prices (€2.99–€7.99 per user/month). Personio is designed for companies with 50–2,000+ employees and additionally offers recruiting and payroll, but has no public price list, instead giving

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absence.io vs. Personizer: features and pricing compared

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In short: absence.io is particularly well suited for companies with 1–100 employees that want to manage leave, time tracking, personnel files and expenses in one software. Personizer is suited to companies with 10–100 employees and offers time tracking, leave planning and a digital personnel file. absence.io and Personizer compared side by side Criterion absence.io Personizer

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Outlook Vacation Management: What Works and What Doesn’t

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Search Google for “Outlook out of office” and the sheer number of guides and rules already hints at how complicated it must be to use Outlook for vacation management. That’s exactly what this article is about: what Outlook vacation management is useful for, where it reaches its limits, and why a handful of individual features

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HR Software for Law Firms: Leave, Time & Expenses

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absence.io is a perfect fit for law firms that want to manage leave, time tracking, personnel files and expenses in one intuitive piece of software, without resorting to a complex enterprise solution. Transparent pricing from €2.99 per user per month, no minimum contract term and ready to go within a few hours. Typical challenges in

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Why Enterprise HR Software is often the Wrong Choice

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The belief that “more features = better solution” is still widespread. At first glance, it sounds great, after all, these tools promise to do everything: recruiting, payroll, performance management, time tracking, and much more. But this is exactly where the problem lies: more isn’t always better. Customer reviews of enterprise solutions often paint a very

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Pro or Complete Package from absence.io?

Pro or Complete package from absence.io

Personnel management is becoming increasingly complex: today, it’s not just about absences, but also about staying legally up to date and managing data in compliance with GDPR, especially for companies across the EU. The question is no longer whether you need a HR software, but how comprehensive it should be for your needs. In this

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Hurray! The EU passes time tracking legislation!

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Wait…what? That’s right. In a recent European Court of Justice ruling, all companies in the European Union must track their employee’s working hours. This may seem archaic to some of you given flextime, home office days and more generally the culture of freelance work. But don’t forget that although punching in and out may no

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Team Time Tracking or Team Not Time Tracking: The Modern Workforce Debate

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Time tracking has been a recent-esque development in the past 5 years. If you’re unfamiliar with this particular work tool, time trackers theoretically aim to support company productivity by having employees use an daily timer whilst working on various projects. Think of the old-fashioned punch cards that employees would use every morning and evening to

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According to Harvard Business, Here are Best-Performing CEO Traits

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Judging leaders by their long-term results, rather than short-term hype is the most-common sense solution when analyzing how effective CEOs are in their positions. Harvard Business Review’s 2016 ranking of the 100 Top Performing CEOs has incorporated new metrics and tools to measure executives’ performance, adding 33 new CEOs to the list, having 30 CEOs

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Rules of Engagement: How Managers Should(n’t) Work with Freelancers

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If you’re leading a company with employees, it can’t be that different when working freelancers, right? A common misconception is that freelancers are just like employees and thus, can be treated the same. But while employees can duck into the employee kitchen to avoid a bad boss, freelancers can simply stop working with clients. A

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This Habit Could Ruin Your Career and Cost Your Company

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We tend to think of perfectionism in a more positive light than not. Mistakenly, both employees and employers fall into this train of thought: “My perfectionism produces better results”. But the science shows otherwise. Dr. Brené Brown, famed TED speaker and a professor specializing in the research of shame and vulnerability says that perfectionism is

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Conflict Transformation: How to Stay Authentic Whilst Disagreeing in the Workplace

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Politics. Conflict. Workplace. Oh my. You share a desk with the work colleague who makes fun of Asian features. Your boss has hung a poster of a “Black Lives Matter” on his office door and rolls his eyes when newbies ask about the movement. Sometimes you lean towards visa quotes for certain countries, but your

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