Absence management software that helps teams plan ahead and reduce disruption
Give employees a simpler way to request leave, track sick days, holiday time, maternity and paternity leave, and help managers maintain visibility of workforce availability through connected absence management software.
Managing leave shouldn't require spreadsheets and guesswork
Challenges often arise when absence information is spread across multiple systems, making it harder to manage absenteeism, allocate resources effectively, maintain compliance and understand the operational impact of employee leave.
It may be time to review your current approach if:
- Leave requests are managed through emails, spreadsheets or shared calendars
- Managers struggle to understand future workforce availability
- Holiday requests frequently create scheduling conflicts
- Employees need HR support to check balances or request leave
- Sickness and absence trends are difficult to monitor
- Payroll teams spend time resolving leave-related discrepancies
Leave management systems help organisations create more consistent processes around leave, absence and workforce availability while reducing administrative effort.
A smarter approach to absence management
Managing working time involves more than recording hours worked. Effective absence management helps organisations track, manage and optimise employee leave while understanding the impact of absenteeism on staffing levels, productivity and service delivery.
- Leave requests and approvals
- Workforce availability and planning
- Sickness and absence tracking
- Policies, compliance and entitlement management
- Reporting and absence analytics
Give employees and managers a clearer way to manage planned absence.
- Leave requests and approvals
- Holiday balances and accruals
- Self-service leave management
- Approval workflows
Reduce the time spent managing leave requests while helping employees understand exactly where they stand.
Understand workforce availability before absence creates operational disruption.
- Team and location calendars
- Future leave visibility
- Availability tracking
- Coverage awareness
- Resource allocation insights
- Operational workforce planning
Better visibility of workforce availability helps managers plan ahead, allocate resources more effectively, reduce coverage gaps and maintain operational efficiency when planned or unplanned absences occur.
Maintain a more consistent approach to planned and unplanned absence.
- Sickness absence management
- Long-term absence records
- Attendance history
- Absenteeism monitoring
- Absence trend analysis
- Real-time reporting and dashboards
Structured absence tracking helps organisations monitor absenteeism, identify absence patterns and improve reporting through actionable workforce analytics while reducing manual administration.
Apply absence policies consistently across teams and locations.
- Leave entitlements
- Absence workflows
- Policy administration
- Audit visibility
Consistent policy application helps improve fairness and support compliance with organisational policies, workplace regulations and leave entitlement requirements while reducing administrative risk.
Use absence data to support workforce decisions and continuous improvement.
- Absence reporting
- Workforce analytics
- Leave trend analysis
- Operational insights
Reporting and analytics help organisations identify trends, monitor absenteeism, support workforce planning and make more informed operational decisions.
“With ADP WorkForce Suite, we have better visibility over our large vacation banks. HR and payroll teams spend less time on admin, and employees have quicker turnaround and higher satisfaction with mobile time entry.”
- HR Director, ATS Automation
Why organisations choose ADP for absence management
Reduce payroll and scheduling surprises
Connect absence management with payroll, scheduling and workforce management processes to minimise manual updates and improve operational efficiency.
Improve workforce availability visibility
Help managers understand who is available to work and where additional coverage may be required.
Reduce leave administration
Automate requests, approvals and entitlement tracking to reduce manual effort.
Support absence compliance
Apply policies and processes consistently across teams and locations.
Improve the employee experience
Give employees greater visibility into leave requests, balances and approvals.
Gain actionable workforce insights
Use absence reporting and analytics to identify trends, manage absenteeism and support better workforce planning decisions.
Find the right absence management solution for your organisation
Absence management for UK organisations
ADP Time & Workforce
Manage leave, sickness, absenteeism and workforce availability within a connected workforce management environment that integrates absence data with scheduling, reporting and payroll processes.
Best for: organisations looking to improve day-to-day absence administration and manager visibility.
Absence management for global workforce operations
ADP WorkForce Suite
Support complex leave rules, absence policies, regulatory requirements and workforce planning needs across locations and countries through a centralised platform.
Best for: organisations operating internationally or managing highly regulated workforces.
How ADP's absence management supports different roles
Managers
- Approve leave requests more efficiently
- Understand workforce availability across teams
- Reduce scheduling conflicts caused by unexpected absence
Employees
- Request leave through self-service
- View balances and approvals
- Access absence information more easily
Operations leaders
- Monitor absence patterns and trends
- Improve workforce planning
- Reduce operational disruption
HR teams
- Maintain absence records
- Support policy administration
- Improve absence reporting and visibility
Explore related workforce solutions
Time and attendance software
Capture, validate and manage worked time through payroll-ready attendance processes.
Workforce analytics
Turn attendance, scheduling and workforce activity information into operational insights and workforce decisions.
Workforce planning software
Support forecasting, workforce demand and staffing requirements.
Employee scheduling software
Create schedules and manage workforce coverage more effectively.
Make leave management part of a more connected people strategy
Time and attendance data becomes even more valuable when it supports payroll, HR and talent processes across the organisation. ADP helps organisations bring these areas together through a connected people ecosystem.
Use approved leave and absence information to support payroll accuracy and payroll preparation.
Maintain employee records, absence information and HR processes through one connected system.
Support onboarding, employee development and workforce planning through better workforce visibility.
FAQs
How do organisations manage employee leave across multiple locations?
Managing leave across teams and locations becomes more difficult when requests are handled through emails, spreadsheets or separate systems. Absence management software provides a central process for requesting, approving and tracking leave, helping managers maintain visibility of workforce availability across the organisation.
Can absence management software help reduce payroll corrections?
Yes. Approved leave and absence information can be recorded consistently and shared with payroll processes, reducing manual updates and helping payroll teams work with more accurate attendance and absence data. This can reduce the time spent correcting absence-related payroll discrepancies.
How does ADP support organisations with complex leave policies?
ADP WorkForce Suite supports configurable absence rules, approval workflows, entitlements and policy requirements. This allows organisations to manage different employee groups, working patterns and absence policies through a consistent framework while maintaining visibility and control.
Can employees request and manage leave themselves?
Yes. Employees can request leave, review balances and access absence information through self-service tools, while managers can review, approve and track requests through a shared platform. This helps reduce administrative effort and improves transparency for everyone involved.
What's the difference between absence management and time and attendance software?
Time and attendance software focuses on capturing, validating and approving worked time. Absence management focuses on managing planned and unplanned time away from work, including leave requests, sickness absence, entitlements and workforce availability. Together, they provide a more complete view of employee working and non-working time.
Can absence management software help reduce employee burnout?
Absence management software helps organisations understand workforce availability, leave usage and absence trends more clearly. Better visibility allows managers to plan coverage more effectively, reduce disruption caused by unexpected absence and avoid placing additional pressure on the rest of the team.
What should organisations look for when choosing absence management software?
Look for software that supports leave requests, approvals, entitlement management, workforce availability, absence reporting, workforce analytics, payroll integration and compliance requirements. Organisations should also consider how effectively the platform can manage sick leave, holiday time, maternity leave, paternity leave and other planned or unplanned absences through a centralised system. Learn more on our guide to choosing WFM software.
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