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Providing the tools needed to help become globally compliant. So you can manage your workforce, wherever they’re located, in one central system.

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Compliance capabilities you won’t find elsewhere

Country-specific regulations

Adhere to country-specific regulations and practices, such as accrual calculations and precise rounding – thanks to our country templates

Working hours restrictions

Cap maximum weekly working hours, ensure regular breaks, and accurately account for overtime, all to comply with the EU Working Time Directive

Timesheet submission

Employees fill in timesheets via desktop or app and submit them for approval. For those that work the same rota each week, working hours can be automatically filled in for the week or month ahead

Automated reporting

Create and schedule reports to automatically run on working hours, absence, annual leave and much more

Features

Facilitating compliance wherever you’re located

Though the EU Working Time Directive is universal across EU member states, some countries have interpreted and implemented the regulations slightly differently to others. Our country templates can be used to address these differences, and customise the software to work in the best way for your organisation.

Here’s what our customers love:

  • Utilise precise rounding tools for countries that use accruals systems
  • Import public holidays
  • Create user groups for employees located in different countries
  • Custom brand your edays system
  • Use language packs so that employees can use edays in their native language
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edays can be deployed globally, and expand as your organisation grows. Whether you have one or several locations around the world, you can adapt edays to work as you need it to in each country – making absence, leave and time management on a global scale truly possible.

What our customers love:

  • Customisable dashboards give you a snapshot of workforce attendance – including leave, sickness absence and working locations
  • Reporting tools that show you the bigger picture across the organisation, with the ability to drill down to the metrics that matter to you
  • Work with our implementation teams to deploy edays in one location, or several
  • Manage specific events for different locations, such as summer shutdowns or volunteering days
  • Integrate time, absence and leave data with other HR systems and payroll

 

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FEATURES

An objective, reliable and accessible system

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Manage compliance at scale

The EU Working Time Directive calls for the implementation of an objective, reliable and accessible system that enables the duration of time worked each day by each worker to be measured.

Here’s how edays provides such a system:

  • Record working hours via clocking in and out, or by submitting timesheets
  • Cap maximum weekly and monthly working hours to adhere to compliance regulations
  • Automate overtime accrual
  • Integrate with existing HR software
  • Handle country-specific regulations regarding accrual, precise rounding, and more
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Multiple locations in one system

Operating from different locations across Europe or elsewhere in the world? edays provides one platform to govern, track and report on employee time, absence, and leave.

Here’s some of the ways our global customers benefit:

  • Utilise country-specific templates, public holidays and languages
  • Create custom absence types and entitlement pots
  • Book leave in days or hours
  • Automate carryover and accruals to facilitate different rotas
  • Report on leave across users, teams and locations

TESTIMONIALS

Empowering large organisations to stay globally compliant

“When I started comparing options for a new system, I found that no one else had the level of automation that edays did. You can set up the templates per country, per person, per leave type… so edays was the solution that jumped out. From the offset I thought it was going to make our lives so much easier.

It’s made such a difference to us, I feel like edays has been there forever now! It is really intuitive and it’s great that managers are able to gain full visibility with the group calendars. We also have great rapport with the edays team and if we need something, they either help us with it, or look into getting new things developed to support us.”

Heather Wells

Senior HR Operations Specialist

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“The data-driven evidence edays gives us will lead to more nuanced decision making aimed at supporting our employees’ health and wellbeing and improve their overall experience of working for the firm.”

Julia Dalton

HR Business Partner

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“Our workload had practically grown overnight! We realised that we needed to be much smarter in the ways we worked, so as to manage the situation effectively. The edays system has made our department’s job much easier – as everything is done and recorded online we can access information at any time and download reports as needed.”

Ian Reece

HR Team Lead

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“I love the system, I find it really easy to use and it’s a brilliant tool that’s fit for purpose in more ways than one. You should be really proud of the flexibility that edays offers and bang your drum about it because it has made all the difference as far as an HR tool is concerned for me.”

Rachel Barnes

HR Manager

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Your Working Time Directive questions, answered

edays absence management software is different to other absence monitoring software providers because our system is purpose built to be as customisable as possible, allowing HR and people managers to use it in ways that suit their organisation’s unique requirements. Our absence system supports part-time and full-time employees, and leave and absence can be recorded in either days or hours. We can handle leave carryover, overtime tracking, clocking in and out, and we enable organisations adhere to the EU Working Time Directive, among many other features. We also cater to large and global organisations with several locations – be it in one country or multiple. edays absence management software users can be separated into groups, with different leave entitlements and rules set for each one, meaning you can manage employees in one country differently to another. This way, you can ensure you remain globally compliant according to varying regulations around the world. This flexibility and configurability makes edays absence management software the leading choice for absence, leave and time management software.

Yes. edays is built from the ground up to be globally capable for organisations that operate in different territories and countries. Our country templates and language packs mean that you can tailor your edays system to work in specific ways in different locations. Learn more about our global capability here.

Yes. All annual public holidays for specific countries can be imported in to the edays system, as well as any additional company grace days, volunteering days or other events. These can be applied to specific locations, departments or user groups within the system.

We have a number of integration options. We have some out-of-the-box solutions with our partners, or you can use an SFTP or our API for more bespoke options. An SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) is an easy way to feed data from one system to another, while our API unlocks plenty of options for how two systems talk to each other.

Yes, the edays time tracking module can integrate with clocking devices. The API endpoints have been created to work with physical hardware, so that you can still use these for access and entry, while feeding the data into edays. We can either connect with your existing hardware, or you can purchase the hardware through one of our partners.

Yes, edays has an API that can be used to connect with many of your other platforms or software solutions. This makes the edays solution even more flexible and helps it to work more seamlessly in your tech stack.

Yes! iCal feeds allow you to sync edays calendars with any web-based calendars such as Outlook, Gmail, and more. This means that when leave is approved in edays, it will automatically pull through to your calendar to help your employees better manage their time.

Yes. The unique flexibility of our system means we’ve helped complement and improve existing systems for our customers, including ERP systems, Payroll, and core HR systems. Learn more about our integrations here.

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