--- title: Effective System Solutions – Tracking Absenteeism --- [![logo-optimized](https://blog.synerion.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-optimized.jpeg?width=185&height=69&name=logo-optimized.jpeg "logo-optimized")](https://www.synerion.com) - [Client Support](https://www.synerion.com/client-support/) - [Request a Demo](https://offers.synerion.com/request-a-demo) - [Contact Us](https://offers.synerion.com/ca-contact-us) - [FR](https://www.synerion.com/fr/our-people/) - [Products](https://www.synerion.com/agile/) - [Agile Workforce Suite](https://www.synerion.com/agile/) - [Enterprise Suite](https://www.synerion.com/enterprise-suite/) - [Solutions](https://www.synerion.com/workforce-management/) - [Workforce Management](https://www.synerion.com/workforce-management/) - [Time & Attendance](https://www.synerion.com/time-attendance/) - [Time Clocks](https://www.synerion.com/time-clocks/) - [Employee Scheduling](https://www.synerion.com/employee-scheduling/) - [Absence Management](https://www.synerion.com/absence-management/) - [Labour Costing](https://www.synerion.com/labour-costing/) - [Mobile & Tablet](https://www.synerion.com/mobile-tablet/) - [Reporting & Analytics](https://www.synerion.com/reporting-analytics/) - [Integrations](https://www.synerion.com/integrations/) - [Why Choose Us](https://www.synerion.com/why-choose-us/) - [Why Choose Us](https://www.synerion.com/why-choose-us/) - [Our People](https://www.synerion.com/our-people/) - [Blog](https://blog.synerion.com/) - [Products](https://www.synerion.com/agile/) - [Agile Workforce Suite](https://www.synerion.com/agile/) - [Enterprise Suite](https://www.synerion.com/enterprise-suite/) - [Solutions](https://www.synerion.com/workforce-management/) - [Workforce Management](https://www.synerion.com/workforce-management/) - [Time & Attendance](https://www.synerion.com/time-attendance/) - [Time Clocks](https://www.synerion.com/time-clocks/) - [Employee Scheduling](https://www.synerion.com/employee-scheduling/) - [Absence Management](https://www.synerion.com/absence-management/) - [Labour Costing](https://www.synerion.com/labour-costing/) - [Mobile & Tablet](https://www.synerion.com/mobile-tablet/) - [Reporting & Analytics](https://www.synerion.com/reporting-analytics/) - [Integrations](https://www.synerion.com/integrations/) - [Industries](https://www.synerion.com/manufacturing/) - [Why Choose Us](https://www.synerion.com/why-choose-us/) - [Our People](https://www.synerion.com/our-people/) - [Blog](https://blog.synerion.com/) - [Client Support](https://www.synerion.com/client-support/) - [Request a Demo](https://offers.synerion.com/request-a-demo) Menu ## Synerion Blog # Effective System Solutions – Tracking Absenteeism [Team Synerion](https://blog.synerion.com/author/team-synerion) Jul 4, 2011 4:47:00 AM Over many years, companies have struggled to define attendance issues within an organization. Having to deal with excessive absenteeism on a daily basis has become a great burden for organizations all around. With the use of automated **Time and Attendance systems** companies are now able to define and track absenteeism. Now companies are able to track their organizations absenteeism on a day to day basis to help them manage attendance more effectively within a large organization. Automation also enables companies to define attendance issues and provide qualitative information with quantitative data through the use of statistical reporting. **Managing attendance within a large or geographically-widespread organization:** The first step in gaining control of an organization’s workforce is being able to effectively [manage attendance](http://timetech.ca/products/absence-planning.html) within a large or geographically-widespread organization. Company policies and procedures are put into place to provide a fair and positive workplace environment. In order to achieve a productive workforce, management must take into consideration the organizations operational needs, to ensure that they have the right number of people with the right skills, when managing employee attendance. The ability to track labour hours and labour cost allows an organization to determine how much manpower is required at all operational times to have the company operating efficiently. Time and Labour Management software can calculate absence accruals and report on an ongoing basis, while taking into consideration company policies. Absence Planning software takes the occupational needs, as well as company policy and seamlessly allows a company to know at all times their scheduled attendance and absences. Whether you are a large organization, or a company with multiple locations around the world, monitoring your workforce can be very difficult. Now with the evolution of today’s technology, *Time and Attendance software* is moving through these barriers and allowing open communication between employees and management. By being able to operate through the use of the internet or a company’s internal intranet, managing attendance within a larger or geographically wide-spread organization is now possible. With Absence Planning software, it makes managing your absences easy. Employees simply log onto the software and request an absence and then an email will be sent to their supervisor for approval. Before giving final approval, managers can quickly see if their departmental or classification occupational requirements will be staffed to the appropriate efficient levels, with the absence of that employee. Taking into consideration the company’s policies, Absence Planning software also notifies managers if the employee has enough time in their absence current or forecasted balance before approving the request. Visual warnings of being understaffed or a negative employee accrual balance will appear making the decision to approve a request a very simple task. [Absence Planning Software](http://timetech.ca/products/absence-planning.html) allows a company to be able to view past information by seeing actual versus planned attendance on a yearly, monthly, weekly and daily view. To find out more about Absence Planning and automated Time & Attendance, visit our [website](http://www.timetech.ca). Follow us on [Twitter](http://twitter.com/#!/synerion)and join our [Linkedin group](http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2327963&trk=anet_ug_hm) for updates on Time & Attendance and the associated modules, including Absence Planning. 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