Leave, Time and Team Health Guides
Practical guides to leave, time tracking and team health, from the team building the HR tool your AI can talk to.
Sick Leave Is a Process, Not a Request
Approving an illness that already happened is theatre. What sick leave needs instead: a manager who gets told, a note nobody browses, room for late reports.
Probation, Renewals, Expiries: The Deadlines Nobody Owns
Probation ends, permits expire, training lapses. These dates are set months ahead and owned by no one, which is why calendar reminders keep losing them.
Working-Time Records: What EU Law Wants From a 40-Person Company
A 2019 CJEU ruling made daily working-time records an employer duty across the EU. What a record must contain, who is exempt, and why a spreadsheet fails.
Coverage Risk: Why Shared Calendars Fail (and How to Prevent Team Blindspots)
A shared calendar shows who’s away. It can’t tell you if the deployment pipeline is unmanned or your approvers are locked. Here’s how coverage risk actually works.
Prorating PTO for Part-Time and Four-Day Weeks
Prorate the grant by working days and charge leave against each person's own schedule. Full worked numbers for a mid-year move to a four-day week.
Handling Employee GDPR Requests: Data Export & Erasure Rules
A GDPR data request lands in HR: what the export must cover, what erasure really deletes, the retention carve-outs, and a calm six-step checklist.
Accrued PTO Is a Debt: How to Calculate Your Leave Liability
Every unused vacation day is money you owe at current salary. How to size your leave liability, which policy levers shrink it, and the report finance wants.
Exporting Absence Data to Payroll: Why Mapped CSVs Win
Why mapped CSV exports beat payroll integrations for small teams, plus how to handle month-boundary calculation traps without error.
Slack Leave Approvals: Why Approving in Slack Beats Email
Why leave approvals stall in email, and how Slack DMs with Approve and Reject buttons cut the wait to seconds while the HR system stays the record.