All guides
Every SquadBear guide in one place, grouped by topic: leave and absence, time and attendance, team health, people operations and EU compliance.
31 guides across 6 topics
Leave and absence
Accrual, carryover, proration and liability, plus the approval and coverage habits that keep time off from turning into a scramble.
- Sick Leave Is a Process, Not a Request
- Coverage Risk: Why Shared Calendars Fail (and How to Prevent Team Blindspots)
- Prorating PTO for Part-Time and Four-Day Weeks
- Accrued PTO Is a Debt: How to Calculate Your Leave Liability
- Exporting Absence Data to Payroll: Why Mapped CSVs Win
- Slack Leave Approvals: Why Approving in Slack Beats Email
- Your Team Isn't Taking Vacation. That's a Management Problem
- Public Holidays & Leave Policy for Distributed Teams
- Designing a Fast Leave Approval Workflow Without Bottlenecks
- PTO Accrual Explained: Grants, Proration & Carryover
- The Bradford Factor: Formula, Calculation & When to Use It
Time and attendance
Logging hours without surveillance, splitting engineering time for R&D claims, and the working-time records EU law actually asks for.
Team health
eNPS, pulse surveys and health checks, and how to read the signal on burnout without turning it into monitoring.
- Your Team Isn't Taking Vacation. That's a Management Problem
- Surveillance-Free Timesheets: Track Hours Without Spyware
- Pulse Surveys vs eNPS vs Health Checks: Which Do You Need?
- How to Run an Effective Team Health Check (Template & Guide)
- What Is eNPS? The Employee Net Promoter Score, Explained
- Burnout Tracking Without the Big Brother
People operations
Onboarding and offboarding checklists, policy sign-off, renewals nobody owns, and running the whole function when the team is you.
- Sick Leave Is a Process, Not a Request
- Probation, Renewals, Expiries: The Deadlines Nobody Owns
- Exporting Absence Data to Payroll: Why Mapped CSVs Win
- Performance Reviews Are Broken: Here is a Simple Alternative
- EU Pay Transparency Directive: What Small Companies Must Do
- Your Team Isn't Taking Vacation. That's a Management Problem
- The HR Department of One: A Survival Guide
- Routing HR Questions Through an AI Assistant: What Broke
- Designing a Fast Leave Approval Workflow Without Bottlenecks
- The Complete Employee Offboarding Checklist & Legal Guide
- The Ultimate Employee Onboarding Checklist for Small Teams
- How to Roll Out Company Policies & Track Employee Sign-Off
- PTO Accrual Explained: Grants, Proration & Carryover
- The Bradford Factor: Formula, Calculation & When to Use It
AI and agents
What actually works when an AI assistant drives HR: the data it should never need, the approvals it can carry, and where it broke.
EU compliance
GDPR requests, pay transparency, the AI Act and working-time records, written for companies without a legal department.
- Working-Time Records: What EU Law Wants From a 40-Person Company
- Handling Employee GDPR Requests: Data Export & Erasure Rules
- EU Pay Transparency Directive: What Small Companies Must Do
- EU AI Act in HR: What You Can & Cannot Automate
- How to Roll Out Company Policies & Track Employee Sign-Off
- Burnout Tracking Without the Big Brother
- Your AI Summary Shouldn't Require a Copy of Everything