Hand-waving. Finger-crossing. Rabbit’s-foot-rubbing. Skyward-gazing. Wood-knocking.
HR and People Ops pros rely on a lot of hyphen-heavy methods and superstitions when it comes to successfully supporting employees taking a leave of absence from work. That’s because, on top of the numerous initiatives you’re juggling at any one time, you’re also responsible for the administrative burdens associated with managing an employee’s leave of absence.
And these administrative burdens can be as cumbersome as they are hard to plan for.
What Does Dedicated Leave Management Software Do?
One thing it does is eliminate the need for procuring rabbit’s feet or looking to the heavens for faith and support. Dedicated leave management software like Tilt takes the guesswork and grunt work out of the leave of absence process entirely.
By integrating real-time data from your HRIS, Tilt delivers comprehensive leave plans to your employees for their specific leave scenario and is backed by an in-house team of leave law experts to ensure leave compliance (and provide guidance should an employee’s circumstances shift at any point of the leave journey).
Using Tilt’s dedicated leave software, you still retain visibility into every aspect of your employees’ leaves of absence, we just removed all the administrative work previously necessary to deliver consistent leave of absence support. Tilt manages all leave types in all states too, so there’s no leave scenario our software can’t tackle with proficiency and efficiency.
Having one platform to manage all of your leaves also helps tremendously with workforce planning. Managers will have limited access to Tilt so they’ll also be able to see the progress of their employee’s leave as well as any changes to leave dates. This means that your organization will be able to smartly fill in gaps or cross-train employees so that lulls in productivity are minimized and the risk of employee burnout is reduced.
Better workforce management through better leave of absence management gives your organization the capability and capacity to continue to delight your clients. In addition to that, when employees feel supported throughout their leave journey, they return to work more engaged and productive than if they felt their employer wasn’t able to support them in the way they felt they should have been.
Tilt also makes payroll a breeze by factoring in employee pay from outside sources like a state benefits program for example, and automatically calculates what your organization still owes the employee and adjusts to shifts in the leave. This means you can avoid under/overpayments and keep your payroll team grinning ear to ear.
Does Dedicated Leave Management Software Track FMLA Hours?
Accurately tracking FMLA hours manually in a spreadsheet is like trying to flatten ocean waves with an iron. The more you disturb the data over time and try to reconcile the information across multiple systems, the less confident you will be in the accuracy of the tracking.
Tilt automates FMLA tracking and provides real-time information for both you in HR as well as the employee. With one source of truth that accounts for FMLA hours usage up to the hour, Tilt provides the confidence and accuracy required to track FMLA in accordance with the law.
All you have to do is…well…nothing. Tilt does this for you automatically, and you can see it right in your HR dashboard.
Can Dedicated Leave Software Help With Intermittent Leaves?
Tilt can, and does, support and track intermittent leaves down to the hour (technically we can do this down to the minute…but that sounded too much like a brag. Well, now that we said it here in parentheses it still is sort of a brag. Let’s move on shall we?). No hand-waving is required either. If an employee needs to take leave intermittently, they can request hours or days (or minutes…) off directly in the platform.
Since Tilt keeps a real-time record of how much time your employee has used, there’s no ambiguity or guesswork as to whether or not your employee can or cannot take more intermittent time off. Tilt’s dedicated leave software automates your least favorite to-do while making it easy for your employees to get the support they need when they need it.
How Does LOA Software Support My Team And My Employees?
Today, when an employee has a question about their leave of absence process, whether it be about medical certifications, new leave laws they’re having to adhere to, confusing situations with a carrier, or queries about applying for state benefits, you or someone on your team is likely being looped in to help triage the request in as timely a manner as possible.
This can lead to a cold and confusing experience for your employees and a stressed-out People Ops team who has been overworked long before their inbox was being flooded with questions about the California EDD.
Exit late-night Google searches. Enter Tilt’s Customer Success Managers (AKA CSMs) and Leave Success Managers (AKA LSMs, AKA Empathy Warriors). Tilt understands that to effectively manage leaves of absence AND support your people with empathy, it requires both intuitive tech and human touch.
Tilt connects an Empathy Warrior to every one of your employees taking a leave of absence, so while our software guides them through a seamlessly supported leave experience, should questions arise, they have one human (no call centers, or a bank of employees who round-robin employee questions) with them the entire way through.
Why is that important? Well, a leave of absence journey is exactly that. A journey. A leave of absence could start off as a caregiving leave and end up as a bereavement leave. It happens more than you may think, and if it does, Tilt ensures your employees have a beating heart who have been familiar with their leave from the jump. If that weren’t enough, our LSMs will work with state departments and your carrier directly to help mitigate any roadblocks those entities may present.
Our CSMs are like Empathy Warriors but for People Ops (hey, that’s you). The timeliness factor of leave management is critical, and if you have a burning question you can’t be expected to wait five days for an answer. With Tilt, you won’t have to.
Making the Switch to Dedicated Leave Software
From a bandwidth, level of support, and compliance standpoint, making the switch to dedicated leave software like Tilt to manage your leaves of absence is a no-brainer. It saves your team time and your organization money and helps with workforce planning and meeting your larger organizational objectives.
Employees are supported the entire way while you’re still able to oversee everything being monitored and tracked and ensure payroll is accurate. With Tilt as your dedicated leave management software, you can ditch the spreadsheets, relieve yourself from Google searches, compliantly support your employees, and positively impact your bottom line in numerous ways.
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.
