It is well known that absenteeism is expensive to employers in terms of lost productivity. However, while many workplaces purchase services aimed at reducing absenteeism and supporting employee well-being, many fail to connect those services to employees. It is important for businesses to be able to assess absenteeism, as well as successfully direct existing resources to help mitigate it. Workplace Options offers scaled solutions to help employers manage absenteeism effectively and sensitively.
Workforce Advantage Online
This web-enabled reporting tool can be accessed around-the-clock, and has portals dedicated to employees, managers, and human resources departments. Employers may customize the tool to their organization in terms of divisions and departments, absence and approval categories, working hours, and more.
- Human resources staff view reports for individual employees or at an organization-wide level, and create reports that will provide information crucial to analyzing the organization's absenteeism.
- Managers may receive email notifications of employees' absences as they are reported. At any time, they can view absenteeism reporting within their department by individual employee or department.
- Employees can report their absence online and view a summary of past absences.
This tool is available at no additional cost to organizations that have purchased Advantage Complete telephone and web service. Workplace Options provides the tool; you customize and utilize the tool as it best suits your organization.
Workforce Advantage Connect
Workforce Advantage Online can help you track and analyze your organization's absenteeism. Workforce Advantage Connect helps you reduce absenteeism by connecting your employees to benefits that you are already purchasing—from Workplace Options or other organizations—to support their overall well-being.
Our online tool requires employees to list a reason for their absence. Employers can identify absence reasons that will prompt an outbound phone call to employees from Workplace Options educating them about and connecting them to helpful benefits.
Workforce Advantage Live
Let Workplace Options track, report, and reduce your organization's
absenteeism by efficiently connecting employees to supportive services
provided as employee benefits. This service combines the best Workplace
Options has to offer:
- Tracking: Your employees telephone Workplace Options toll-free, 24/7, 365 to report their absences. Workplace Options tracks then enters the report into Absence Manager Online.
- Connecting: Workplace Options informs your employees about other employee benefits that might assist with the reason for their absence. For example, Workplace Options would offer an employee reporting an absence due to an unplanned lack of child care a warm-transfer to your back-up child care program.
- Assisting: Of course, Workplace Options will offer immediate assistance to employees when work-life or EAP issues are related to their absence. As depression can often be a cause of absenteeism, providing clinical support and counseling can help your employee and reduce absenteeism.
Companies create a healthier, more productive work environment by understanding and addressing employee absenteeism. Workplace Options can help companies maximize companies' existing benefits investments to reducing the cost of employee absenteeism and create greater wellness and loyalty among employees.
This product overview is intended for descriptive purposes only.
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