There’s a reason why a leave of absence is described as “a journey.” It may start with a leave request, but from that moment on no two leaves have the same trajectory. They’re as unique and individual as the employee who requested it and the circumstances of the leave can change at a moment’s notice.
Whether a caregiver leave turns into a bereavement leave, or an employee moves states mid-leave, the way in which People Ops pros are able to effectively and efficiently support their employee through every twist and turn of the journey can strengthen or shatter the bond they have with their employer.
And while it’s intuitive to view a leave as “over” once the employee is set to reintegrate back into the workforce, an oft-overlooked, yet vital step on the path to a successful leave is that transition back into the workforce. It’s important to plan as much for this stage of a leave as it is any other so that the employee doesn’t return feeling overwhelmed, lost, or left behind.
Can Tech Really Improve Employee Productivity After Returning From Leave?
If it couldn’t this would have been the mother of all misleading headlines, but there’s no click bait here. Tilt’s modern leave management software does a tremendous amount of heavy lifting for HR and People Ops teams when it comes to administering a leave from start to finish.
Tilt’s platform makes providing your peeps with a consistent, empathetic, and simple solution to the complex world of leave transparent and easy for everyone. The impact Tilt has on their engagement and productivity when they return is woven into the fabric of their employee experience.
Tilt and the Employee Experience
Leaves of absence are a formative human experience in most employee’s lives, and by leveraging Tilt’s technology to provide comprehensive, easy-to-follow leave plans makes it plain as day to your employees that above all else their organization cares about them as humans.
A single leave requires a level of support that can tax the bandwidth of the most robust of People Ops teams, but from the jump Tilt educates employees on everything they need to know, everything they need to do, and when they need to do it to remove all confusion and ambiguity around a leave.
But don’t take this blog writer’s word for it, here’s what some employees using Tilt have had to say about it:
Tilt’s ability to make leave a positive experience for your employees demonstrates a level of appreciation that is felt concretely for each employee taking a leave of absence.
Appreciation can go quite a long way in the hearts and minds of your employee population. In fact, most humans attribute the feeling of being appreciated to a strong sense of worth, which is why 69% of employees say they’d work harder if they were better appreciated.
When an employee takes a leave of absence, give them a positive experience with Tilt. Let them know they’re appreciated, and watch them return to work more engaged and more productive.
Tilt Recap: Tilt gives your employees the gift of a positive employee experience when taking a leave of absence. Employees feel supported every step of the way and return more engaged and productive.
The Art of Workforce Planning And Leave Management
When an employee requests a leave of absence there is a natural tendency, and perhaps rightly so, to think predominantly about that employee, how their life may be impacted the a potentially major life event, and how they’ll be affected as a human being moving forward.
As an employer, however, the show must go on, and now it must go on with a gap in your workforce. Blindspots in your leave of absence management process can lead to mismanagement of your human talent now being asked to help cover the gap, missed deadlines, and unfulfilled promises to customers.
Tilt’s leave management software automates any updates to leaves (like start and stop dates, for example) in real-time, and provides an employee’s manager with on-demand access to their direct report’s leave journey. Tilt’s transparency gives you in People Ops, the employee, and the employee’s manager a single source of truth from which your organization can then strategically workforce plan.
With Tilt, an employee returns from a leave and recognizes immediately that their team has had the insights necessary to be properly staffed in their absence, that their colleagues aren’t suffering from burnout or have resentment toward them, and that a plan has been put in place to ensure their successful reboarding because yes, Tilt gives managers tips on how to do exactly that.
Tilt gives People Ops holistic access to every leave within your organization, and managers are able to see every leave currently happening on their team. Further, Tilt provides details about their specific leaves, tips on what to say and what not to say (which can absolutely impact an employee’s leave experience), and yes, guidance on how to handle an employee returning to work like thanking the team who stepped up in the employee’s absence and return to work best practices.
TIlt Recap: Tilt’s technology makes workforce planning a seamlessly transparent experience, giving people leaders and decision makers the information needed to properly workforce plan in an employee’s absence. This allows the business to power forward without burning out your remaining workforce and providing a soft spot to land for an employee’s return and be productive once again.
Tilt Elevates Employee Productivity When Returning From Leave
Planning for an employee’s return to leave can be an afterthought in the constant swirl of directions you’re being pulled in on a daily basis as a People Ops leader. Tilt’s technology gives you the foundation necessary to support your employees from request to reintegration, and elevates the employee experience in one of their most defining work moments.
You simply don’t have the bandwidth to support all employees in the way that’s necessary using traditional methods of managing a leave of absence. Those spreadsheets may have been familiar, or comforting even, but they’re holding you back from truly providing the employee experience that matters to your people.
With Tilt, your employee engagement and productivity won’t waver, transparency won’t get cloudy, and your bandwidth will be freed.
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.
