Full feature list
Flexible design
- Track holidays, sickness and miscellaneous leave such as maternity leave and jury service
- Track time off in lieu in days or hours with opening balance, lieu earned, lieu taken, and closing balance
- Track overtime in days or hours
- Add customised types and categories with full control over who can view, update and approve each type of activity
- Define alternate approvers and ‘notifiers’ for each category of absence
- Specify users as ’staff’ or ‘contractors’ and lock the planner so contractors can’t book holiday, and staff can’t book ‘contractor off’
User and team features
- Staff can securely log-on to TeamSeer via PC or Mac anywhere there is access to the Internet.
- A simple calendar shows absence for all relevant and appropriate staff, including holidays, training and all other planned and unplanned absence.
- All information required to book leave is available from the TeamSeer calendar view – no searching for information elsewhere.
- Employees and managers have instant access to their holiday allowances, days remaining and sickness records.
- Leave requests are dealt with automatically via email to a designated line manager or HR.
- Manager or designated individuals can record sickness or unplanned absence for team members.
- Integration with Microsoft Outlook calendars and public folders, and Blackberry smartphones.
- Out-of-office monitor alerts managers to absence.
- Email alerts report if too many staff in a given group are absent.
- Return-to-work processes automated to ensure correct procedures are always adopted and carried out.
Management and reporting features
- Automatically calculate holiday allowances for all staff including: part-timers, mid-year joiners and leavers, changes from full- to part-time and holiday roll-over.
- TeamSeer supports all employee work patterns including: overtime, part-time and shift workers, hourly workers, variable working patterns, flex days, and bank holidays in any country.
- Add new employees, leavers and make changes to existing work patterns using automated ‘wizards’. Excel-style editing facility makes organisational change easy to incorporate.
- Control who can view, edit and approve each type of activity (eg. sickness is viewable by employee and line managers, but not by colleagues).
- Define groups that overlap (eg. sales director belongs to sales group and senior managers group) .
- Easily generate reports and charts to understand absence levels and costs across the organisation, compare groups, and gauge the historical and likely future business impact of absence.
- Use the Bradford Factor calculator to identify individual employees whose sickness absenteeism needs reviewing.
- Holiday accrual report for finance department monthly accounting
- Holiday compliance report for financial institutions to ensure staff take a block of (e.g.) 2 weeks holiday every year
- Easily export of data into Microsoft Excel or PDF format.
- Audit log of requests and approvals for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance
HR features
- Daily update report on all activities by company or by location
- Allow staff to buy and sell holidays, or bulk upload holidays bought or sold from your flexible benefits or HR system
- Customise with your own logo
- Store basic HR data such as phone numbers, home addresses and emergency contact details (and control who can see this information)
Optional Modules
- Unplanned Absence – online return to work form
- Sickness review – decide on full pay, half pay, SSP, no pay with all information at hand
- Lieu Module – track lieu earned and taken in days and hours
- Overtime – track time, time and a half and double time
- CPD (continuing professional development) – track in days, hours, or points earned
- Training – manage and track attendance of specific training days / modules
- Care Home module – plan rotas, and convert to timesheets for approval by managers
- Project / Job Assignments – simple planning of project work assigned to staff
Software Features
- Easy to set up – works via the web or company intranet.
- Zero footprint deployment – no software to install or hardware to purchase.
- Scalable software for organisations with thousands of users, or just a handful.
- Works with PCs and Macs.
- Single sign-on for end users. Self-initiated password reset.
- Customisable with a company’s own logo.
- Own server installation option for corporate users (1,000 users plus).
- Always the latest version – no upgrade costs.
Data and Security Features
- Total security via SSL and IP checking.
- Automatic backup of data to offsite data centre.
- Load balanced to guarantee performance and provide resiliance.
- You own your data (TeamSeer is registered as a data controller).
- Your privacy assured – no adverts or intrusions of any kind.
Integration Features
- TeamSeer integrates with Microsoft Excel for reporting.
- Integration with Microsoft Outlook for calendar synchronisation, email approval and out-of-the-office monitoring.
- Integration with Blackberry, iPhone and equivalents for manager approval.
- Intranet and Sharepoint integration – single sign-on, instant approvals, and team view Web Part.
- Integration with ERP and HR systems, Payroll and Flexible Benefits services.
Seamless integration...
TeamSeer can be easily and seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Outlook calendars and public folders, and Blackberry smartphones.
“TeamSeer has provided a simple but highly effective solution to our need for a centralised system of control over holiday and sickness absence. Integration with Microsoft Outlook was an essential requirement and, being web-based, TeamSeer has delivered the added bonus of remote access for all our users.”
Rod Goddard, Director, Barker Poland Financial Management
