Making the return to work process simple
Online return to work forms allows managers to document sickness instances, improving the efficiency of the return to work process.
Ensuring an effective & efficient return to work process
Return to work forms
Create your own return to work forms to automatically be sent to an employee following an absence – or use one of our templates.
Fit notes & medical certificates
Securely store fit notes, medical certificates and other HR documents within edays, and control who has access to them.
Employee wellbeing
Send NHS guidance to absent employees (UK only), link to your EAP directly from edays, and log reasons for every unplanned absence.
Absence alerts & triggers
Set up absence triggers and receive alerts when these are met. Optional Bradford Factor scoring is also included.
RETURN TO WORK
Streamlining the return to work process
Custom-built back to work forms
The return to work process is an important aspect of absence management, helping to prioritise wellbeing and ensure employees are able to return to work smoothly. Our customisable return to work forms give you the flexibility to manage them however you require.
Here’s what it looks like:
- Customise your own return to work forms
- Alternatively, use one of our templates
- Send a return to work form to an employee who can then complete it, all within edays
- Safely secure fit notes and other documents in an employee’s records within the system
Identify staff support needs
A consistent return to work process helps managers identify any areas of concern within their team. edays is designed to make the absence journey as streamlined as possible.
Here’s how:
- Log every instance of absence, along with a reason for it
- Set up absence triggers to alert managers when several absences have occurred
- Check absence reasons to see if there are any recurring issues within teams
- Use return to work forms to capture why an employee was absent
- If enabled, use Bradford Factor scoring to monitor absence rates
TESTIMONIALS
Customers benefitting from an easy solution
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Find out more about return to work forms
Like short-term sickness absence, long-term sickness absence differs from organisation to organisation. If an employee has been absent from work for a lengthy amount of time, or they have a recurring illness that requires them to be off sick regularly, these situations will be discussed with the individual.
Reasonable working adjustments may be necessary, and the employer can seek medical guidance and certification from the appropriate healthcare providers to determine what is best for the employee and their role.
There is no set length of time that is considered to constitute short-term sickness absence. In the UK for example, ACAS considers short-term sickness absence to be less than a week, whereas the CIPD considers it to be less than four weeks.
For HR, it is largely up to the preference of an organisation as set out in its absence management policy, as to what is deemed to be short- or long-term sickness absence.
In the UK, statutory sick pay is a legal entitlement that employees have, paid for by their employer, for up to 28 weeks. Some organisations elect to provide full pay to an employee for a certain amount of time (for example for the first few days of sickness leave), before starting statutory sick pay.
Sickness tracking is important because it provides HR teams with an overall picture of how often absence is occurring in the workplace.
Sickness leave can affect productivity and output, add extra strain on individuals or teams that are having to cover, and be an expensive cost to an organisation. Therefore knowing exactly how sickness absence is impacting an organisation can help to empower HR and people managers to address any issues and provide additional employee support and ensure better resource planning.
Sick leave software such as edays is a system designed to quickly record and view all absences in an organisation as they occur, providing clarity on who is off work and when.
With edays, managers can use the Bradford Factor scoring system to calculate an absence rate on a individual, team or company-wide level.
Triggers can also be set up to alert managers when that trigger is met. For example, if an employee is absent on three occasions over a set period of time.
Sickness management refers to the process of managing sickness absences as they occur in the workplace.
Sickness absences should always be logged, along with a reason for the absence. By doing so, recurring absences can be quickly identified and proactive steps can be taken to offer additional support to the employee.
A clear absence management policy should also be in place as part of managing sickness. This will detail who an employee should inform if they are sick, the statutory sick pay they are entitled to, and what happens if they are sick for a longer period of time.
Sickness management also means people managers regularly checking in with an absent employee. It may be that reasonable adjustments can be made by the employer to facilitate the employee’s return to work, or their working environment or schedule going forward if they have a recurring health issue.
Yes, edays offer clocking in functionality. Employees can clock in and clock out of work via desktop or mobile app in just a few taps. Our refreshable, printable QR codes can be placed in different locations so that employees can ‘clock in’ to a certain area, task or activity. Visit our clock in app page to learn more.
Yes, with edays time & attendance software, employees are able to create online timesheets on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
These can then be sent for approval to managers, who can also run reports on working hours in their teams.
Overtime can also be tracked, and mandatory breaks can be enforced.
edays timesheet software also provides the ability to assign working hours to different projects and activities, for a clear picture on how time is spent in your organisation.
edays time & attendance software is a module that enables organisations to record employee working hours. The software consists of various elements – including the ability to clock in and out, either via desktop or mobile app. Refreshable, printable QR codes can also be placed in different locations and by scanning them, employees can clock in to a certain area or task.
Our time tracking software also includes the ability to create and submit online timesheets on a weekly or monthly basis. Timesheets can be submitted to line managers for approval, and reported on on a weekly or monthly basis. Projects, activities or tasks can be assigned to timesheets, so managers can see how much time has been spent on different work throughout a day, week or month.
The software also allows managers to enforce mandatory breaks, and overtime can be logged within the system too.
Find out more about our time & attendance software here.
Yes. If enabled, edays automatically calculates an ongoing Bradford Factor score for every employee, and if turned on, can display live scores on individual profiles. If you do not use the Bradford Factor, this feature can be turned off at the click of a button.
Try our Bradford Factor Calculator here.
Yes. edays allows you to track any type of planned (e.g. holidays, maternity leave, medical appointments, business trips, time off in lieu (TOIL), etc.) or unplanned absence (e.g. sickness, compassionate leave, unpaid leave, etc.) in a single system. You can also create custom absence types specific to your organisation, such as wellbeing leave, and define rules for how these are to be used and recorded.
Learn more about our absence management software.
The return to work process is made faster and more efficient with edays. A reason can be logged alongside an individual’s sickness absence, and for UK employees, relevant NHS guidance can be forwarded on to them to aid in their recovery (see more on our NHS Portal here).
You can automatically send a return to work form to an employee who is returning from sickness absence. This is then stored in the employee’s details in edays, alongside any doctor’s fit notes or medical certificates that may be required.
Before conducting return to work interviews, managers and HR can review the employee’s records and view any previous absences to be fully equipped ahead of the individual’s return.
edays supports all custom absence types, allowing you to add as many types as you like. You also have the ability to define rules for how these are to be used and managed.
Visit our leave management system page to find out more.
Yes. You can configure system alerts to trigger if specific absence conditions are exceeded and automatically notify specified individuals via email immediately.
Find out more about the edays sickness tracker.
Yes. As a cloud-based system, edays can be accessed 24/7 meaning employees always have access to their absence records and can check their entitlement through our annual leave tracker. And, authorised users can export specific absence data from the system at any time.
Yes. edays allows you to configure all absence types to be recorded in hours, days or half-days, with customisable settings for different working patterns (i.e. shift work, part-time employees, etc.)
Find out more about our staff holiday management features.
Yes. edays has the unique ability to manage and track employee long service awards.
We have many optional features which are frequently being added to, for example:
Employee Directory
Document Portal
Time Tracking
Mobile App
People Insights
Workflow Builder
Explore our features pages or chat to our sales team to see which may be right for you.
Yes! Our absence management mobile app lets you access edays from your phone or tablet anywhere, any time. Employees can request leave on the go with our app. Managers will receive a notification and they can log in and approve the request in just a few taps. Sickness absences can also be logged quickly, without the need to log in to your desktop.
The security of our customer’s data is our top priority. We are ISO 27001 certified and data is stored on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. All data is encrypted at all times, both at rest and in transit using the most modern encryption standard and algorithms. For more information, click here to head over to our Security Section.
edays supports more than 25 languages, including English (UK/US), Français, Español, Nederlands, Deutsch, Italiano, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Thai, Arabic, Serbian and more.
Please get in touch to discuss which languages you need.
As well as absence management edays offers a complete workforce management software platform; absence management is the foundation, but the platform extends well beyond it. Alongside absence tracking, Bradford Factor management and return to work workflows, edays includes time and attendance management (clocking in and out, online timesheets, project time tracking and EU Working Time Directive compliance), workforce scheduling (drag-and-drop rota management, skills-based shift assignment and fatigue management rules), leave management, core HR tools (employee directory, document management and workflow automation), a mobile app and People Insights analytics. Everything connects in one platform so absence, leave and time data are always in sync, and payroll always receives accurate, reconciled figures without manual intervention.
We focus on providing the best absence management, leave management and time and attendance solutions for your organisation. We’ll listen to your requirements and offer a best-in-class solution with more functionality compared to any other HR system providers. Our system is packed with features you won’t find anywhere else – helping you to manage absence, leave and time in more detailed, customisable ways that suit your organisation.
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Overtime and TOIL
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Time tracking
Effortlessly manage working hours with time tracking software.
Sickness tracking
Better understand unplanned absence and why it occurs.
Workflow builder
Take your absence management to the next level with fully customisable workflows.
Mobile app
An app to manage leave anywhere, any time.