You blink your eyes and it’s the year 2000. You look around your local coffee shop and people are reading, but surprisingly they aren’t face-first in a screen. Nay, they’re reading newspapers, books(!), and okay yes some are glued to their 5lb laptops with unimaginably tiny screens…and at least one student is likely playing snake on a TI-85 graphing calculator.
You can barely notice the guy in the corner with a Hawaiian shirt balancing a Discman on one knee, careful not to exceed the 20-second anti-skip technology, because you overhear another conversation that strikes a chord.
A husband and wife are talking about their friend’s maternity leave gone horribly awry. Poor communication and guidance. Manager retaliation. Lack of clarity around payroll. They look at each other and wonder what their fate may be should they too need to take a leave of absence when they start a family.
You blink your eyes and it’s modern day. “Phew,” you think to yourself, recognizing it was a daydream, “I hope I never have to see someone wearing a Hawaiian shirt again.”
A glance to the right and you see another couple who look eerily similar to the couple in your daydream, and that’s when you hear it. So much has changed since the puka-shell era and yet leaves of absence are still being managed how they’ve always been managed. Employees are still feeling unsupported by overworked and understaffed HR and People Ops teams, managers are still causing employment law violations, and there is still nervousness around getting paid.
The Modern Age of Leave of Absence Management
If you’re reading this you’re likely an HR pro who’s been tasked with providing a modern, efficient, empathetic leave of absence experience to your employees and are stuck with tools from the early 2000s. Manually updating spreadsheets, a lack of system integration, and disjointed methods for communication created a head-aching experience for you as your organization’s administrator of leaves, and a head-spinning experience for your employees.
But there is good news to be had and it’s not on the horizon, it’s here today. Modern leave-of-absence management systems are taking the tedious work off of HR’s plate while administering an efficient and supportive leave-of-absence experience to employees.
The modern age of leave management leverages automated technology, system integration, and a 1-1 human touch to help ensure your organization stays compliant with federal, state, and local regulations while boosting employee support so that you won’t hear any nightmare conversations about a leave gone wrong from your employee population.
Leave Management System Integration
A modern leave of absence management system relies on system integration. A solution like Tilt, for (a very convenient) example, connects to your HRIS system and feeds data into Tilt’s leave management platform so that employee demographic data gets automatically (and auto-accurately) uploaded into the system where FMLA determination and policy eligibility gets determined in a blink of that eye of yours, but this is no daydream…
When the leave request comes in, Tilt provides your employees with a step-by-step “how to” on all things leave and it’s specific to their exact leave in their exact state and your organization’s specific policies.
Tilt also makes working with your payroll teams a cinch. Instead of trying to manually calculate payroll and factor in shifting start and stop dates, state benefits, STD pay, etc…Tilt calculates and adjusts all of that for you and your payroll team (who will have access to the Tilt platform), in real-time, and allows you to export reports and send them to your payroll team if you prefer to oversee the payroll process.
By integrating with your internal payroll team, Tilt provides a modern way to do leave of absence payroll for a modern era. With Tilt, you can even access and export historical pay records all within one platform. Translation: No. More. Pay calc. Nightmares!
Leave of Absence Calendars and Automated Reminders
A modern leave of absence solution should remove all pain points from the HR and People Ops process. That includes the communication to employees of important dates and reminders of upcoming deadlines. The early success of a leave often hinges on the employee’s ability to meet certain deadlines for paperwork and approvals.
Keeping track of all your employees on leave, when deadlines are approaching, and then emailing reminders is an operational cluster[naughty word] for most teams. Tracking spreadsheets, setting reminders on calendars, and keeping track of communication efforts all take time and are bursting with potential for human error and therefore pose major compliance risks.
Tilt’s personalized leave maps provide a detailed timeline for your employee’s entire leave journey. It explains the benefits and programs that apply to their leave, and the employee’s manager even gets access to keep them in the loop.
As deadlines approach, your employees will get reminded, and they also get 1-1 support from a Tilt Leave Success Manager (our Empathy Warriors!) should they have any questions about their leave.
A Better Way to Manage Leaves of Absence
You don’t have to rely on anti-skip technology to listen to Blink 182 anymore, and you don’t have to rely on spreadsheets, emails, clunky systems and confusing processes to manage leaves of absence.
All of your organization’s leave data is stored safely and securely in our easy-to-use platform, while our HR dashboard gives you a complete window into every leave you’re managing at once. In the blink of an eye and with the click of a mouse, everything you need to know about your leaves can be at your fingertips with Tilt.
Modern work environments require modern solutions to leave management. Tilt streamlines your leave management operations so you can spend less time managing leaves while your employees feel supported, their managers informed, and payroll calculations taken care of.
About Tilt
Tilt is leading the charge in all things leave of absence management through easy-to-use tech and human touch. Since 2017, our proprietary platform and Empathy Warriors have been helping customers make leave not suck by eliminating administrative burdens, keeping companies compliant, and providing a truly positive and supportive leave of absence experience for their people.
